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

Retail TouchPoints

The ease of online shopping also gives consumers the ability to comparison shop more quickly, showing them more options in less time. This presents a dual shipping dilemma for businesses: how can they keep shipping costs on the business low, while also offering customer-friendly return policies?

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Cars, Wine, Trees — COVID-19 Proved Once and For All that You Can Sell Just About Anything Online

Retail TouchPoints

Propelled by new technologies and heightened consumer demand, some segments that had been slower to gain traction online finally moved into the digital fast lane — cars , adult beverages and even trees , to name just a few. Wine alone is $80 billion dollars of off-premise — that is, non-restaurant, non-bar — sales in the United States.

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What Should You Look for in an Ecommerce Platform?

Kibo

This year, Digital Commerce 360 found that more than 60% of the Top 1000 retailers use an ecommerce platform, and that 46% say it’s a top-three technology. Some are embedded in much larger supply chain offerings that include in-store technologies. . No wonder that there are so many different options to choose from.

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Shoppers’ In-Store and Online Expectations for 2019

Wiser

Both in-store and online retail is constantly changing as new trends and technologies are introduced to the market. Comparison shopping is a very popular trend that only appears to be growing. Lower shipping costs to help increase and help motivate online purchases. In-Store Preferences.

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4 Ways Businesses Can Use Shipping to Reduce Cart Abandonment

Retail TouchPoints

Also to blame are overly complex checkout processes, invalid discount codes, security concerns, questionable return policies, comparison shopping, etc. The list goes on, but one other barrier to purchasing seems to be a major sticking point for 63% of consumers : shipping costs. The True Cost of Shipping.

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Are You Marketing In-Store Pickup?

OrderDynamics

In fact, the expected ad exposure on the first page was simply a small line mentioning that ‘in-store pickup’, or ‘click and collect’ Most retailers offering free shipping on a minimum order, advertise this as a short text at the top of the website (first page). Put it right next to the free shipping line. Increases sales.

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The Art of Retail: Balancing Retail Brand Experience In-Store and Online

OrderDynamics

This includes adding convenient options such as click & collect, ship to/from store, returns in store, delivery options such as pick up lockers, deliver to home, and in-store. Recent breakthroughs and advancements in technologies have given retailers the opportunity to reinvent their business models. Beacon Me Up.

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