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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

Retail TouchPoints

Online shopping is now easier than ever before, enabling consumers to purchase everything from socks to a dining room table from a computer at their home to a mobile phone in an airport terminal. The ease of online shopping also gives consumers the ability to comparison shop more quickly, showing them more options in less time.

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After Summer Sale Comes Amazon Prime Day — Retailers Must Prepare

Retail TouchPoints

They have plenty of room to offer great discounts, and will be more confident about their shipping guarantees as well. After the summer sale, it will be time for retailers to regroup and determine what their best move should be in October, when the spotlight is on for early holiday shopping.

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What Should You Look for in an Ecommerce Platform?

Kibo

Native Personalization Capabilities Built-In Order Management API-First, Microservices Architecture Admin Tools and Settings Advanced Catalog Management Mobile-centricity SEO Friendliness 24/7 Support Pre-Integrated Payment Gateways Speed Easy-To-Use UI. Perhaps you only offer online shopping now, but plan to open stores in the future.

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Amazon Prime Day 2020 Prep (Part 4): Prime Day Digital Advertising Strategies

ROI Revolution

And now it’s been pushed back again to give time for the marketplace giant to get all its shipping and fulfillment ducks in a row, including the hiring of more than 175,000 new workers. Prime Day shoppers will look outside of Amazon to comparison shop. Then, it got postponed to August. Then September. 7 in 10 U.S.

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4 Ways Businesses Can Use Shipping to Reduce Cart Abandonment

Retail TouchPoints

Nearly 70% of carts end up abandoned online, and about 85% of mobile shoppers exhibit this behavior. While it’s easy to rationalize cart abandonment as a standard practice, it is much more than a modern-day version of window shopping. The True Cost of Shipping. Negotiate shipping rates. trillion in lost sales annually.

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An Overview of how the BOPIS Retail Strategy is Transforming the Industry (2021)

Retalon

Instead of only shipping to customers’ homes, retailers let online customers shop from their local and online store’s inventory and pick up their orders from their closest brick-and-mortar location the same day. A retail fulfillment process that is known as BOPIS — Buy Online, Pickup In-Store. What is BOPIS?

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Ecommerce Glossary

AcquireConvert

Comparison shopping engines: websites that allow shoppers to browse the same product sold by multiple retailers, e.g., Google Shopping. Mobile commerce (m-commerce): the use of cellphones, smartphones, and tablets to buy and sell products and services online. It may be managed in-house or through a third-party service.