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Primark Doubles Down on Sustainability with Durability Standards, Studies and Repair Workshops

Retail TouchPoints

The initiatives include working with Wrap through its Textile 2030 agreement to establish an industrywide durability standard; commissioning independent research examining the relationship between price and consumer behavior on durability; and scaling up Primark’s free clothing repair workshops following a 12-month pilot.

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Becoming a Part of Our Customers’ Relationships

Retail TouchPoints

We are a company all about relationships because that’s what our customers are celebrating when they buy from us — all the relationships in their lives. The Pulse” has proven so successful that Jim and Chris are now entering their third year of letter writing, and it has been a major catalyst for personal connection with our customers.

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Build-A-Bear Expands Metaverse Pawprint with Tycoon Game Launch

Retail TouchPoints

Build-A-Bear also eagerly embraced metaverse opportunities, and its latest is a Roblox environment, Build-A-Bear Tycoon , with elements that connect to the retailer’s physical stores, including special codes for in-experience redemption through stores and marketing channels.

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Online/offline integration – is hybrid the new ‘channel’?

iVend

It seems to be the phrase on many retailers’ lips, and seen by many as the path to remaining relevant to customers, and successful in the post-pandemic world. Spring Fair’s thoughts on the practical implementation of the hybrid model include: Online brands running in-person workshops.

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Embracing Community, Data and Failure: Top Trends and Takeaways from AWNY

Retail TouchPoints

What better place than a defunct mall to explore the future of retail and customer engagement? It’s a lot more difficult now to just take a product, put it on the shelf, let it sit there and hope the customer picks it up and purchases it — a lot more of a brand needs to be built out of the store in addition to in the store. [In

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Forget Support — Optimize for Full Funnel Customer Success

FastSpring

With years of experience at managing customer success (CS), Jake Dipple knows how important it is to foster collaboration between businesses and their customers. In this episode of Growth Stage, host and CMO of FastSpring David Vogelpohl interviews Jake about his thoughts on: What Customer Success is at a high level.

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How the Customer Experience is Powering the Fastest Growing Brands

Kissmetrics

Stitch Labs is a purpose-built inventory management software to help brands improve customer experience and scale efficiency. When we talk about the future of retail, industry news is abuzz with the idea of brands creating experiences for their customers. Instead, they often put all of their eggs in the new customer acquisition basket.