Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In today’s hyper-competitive ecommerce landscape, data isn’t just a buzzword. However, as stringent consumer privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA make collecting customer data more difficult, brands are having to adapt their data collection strategies to adhere to new standards.

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Social Media Consumer Information Marketing 258

365 Retail

JANUARY 18, 2024

The world of customer data is rapidly changing, and companies are responding with diverse strategies to stay ahead in this dynamic environment. The data foundation is behind the wall, and all the marketing and analytics tools get power from the foundation. Customer data should always be two things: reliable and repeatable.

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Customer Data Customer Multi-channel Events 62

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2021

As technology and digital continues to infiltrate consumers’ lives, the need for human interaction and emotional connection is more important than ever. If you’re not careful, technology can disrupt the customer journey in a negative way. RTP: How has the pandemic impacted consumer behavior and the need for human connection the most?

Customer Data 257

Customer Data Customer White Paper Technology 257

Digital Doughnut

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The arrival into the third decade of the 2000s has been anything but smooth sailing for businesses and their customer experience (CX) departments.

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Customer Experience Customer Customer Data Consumer 115

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Accenture’s AI.Retail platform — which helps retailers better utilize data and artificial intelligence to optimize common operations such as customer acquisition, pricing and promotions, assortment and supply chain — can now be deployed on Google Cloud.

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Merchant Services Supplies Retail Customer Data 264

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2023

Retailers have access to troves of data: data about their customers, their products and their business. But despite earnest proclamations that consumers expect seamless brand experiences, these data and the insights they generate are resting in disparate systems and used by siloed teams.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2024

Removing cookies will wreak havoc on marketers, as they won’t have access to third-party data that many companies rely on to target consumers with personalized ads. pop-up, giving you the option to enable that site to remember your data or not. Conversational commerce.

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Small Business Retail Recommendation Consumer Customer Data 236

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Some say that in the new era of retail, data is gold. For others, data is oil. Whatever valuable commodity data represents, it’s key for retailers in their quest to drive innovation and differentiation in vital areas including marketing, customer experience and product development.

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Consumer Customer Experience eCommerce Technology 254

365 Retail

JUNE 7, 2023

Amperity , the leading enterprise customer data platform (CDP) for consumer brands, has announced Forever 21 has selected Amperity to ‘maximise the value’ of its omnichannel customer data. With Amperity, Forever 21 will be able to provide more relevant, personalised customer experiences.

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Customer Experience Customer Customer Data Customer Loyalty 70

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

Consumers are becoming increasingly mindful about sustainability when it comes to shopping habits, and luxury retail is responding by investing in sustainable initiatives that will protect the environment while still allowing them to continue delivering luxurious items. Sustainability can be highly data-driven.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Signifyd data shows that there was a 35% increase in false claims that an item never arrived in 2022 in Europe, and a 68% increase in false claims about the condition of a product. For retailers with overseas customers, the returns process can be more complex, with potentially more loopholes for returns fraud.

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Payment Services Shipping Costs Payments Shipping 232

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2024

The Saks Media Network will leverage the company’s first-party customer data and traffic of over 435 million annual site visits to connect brands with consumers on Saks.com through sponsored product ads and on-site display banners. To learn more about retail media, check out our full guide here.

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Retail Customer Data Customer Experience eCommerce 224

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

Within the world of B2B and B2C commerce, where understanding consumer behavior is key, this change has spurred a quest for innovative solutions. It’s not merely about substituting cookie-based tracking with another data-centric method. Many retailers grapple with insufficient product data.

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Social Media B2C B2B Customer Data 268

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2023

Tanger Outlets will deploy a customer engagement platform from Coniq to better empower its retail partners to deliver personalized and contextual offers to consumers. As Tanger continues its transformation, we believe omni experiences and customer data are critical to serve our retailers and guests alike.”

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Customer Customer Experience Customer Data Improvements 272

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

Since the pandemic, seven in 10 consumers have used mobile devices and apps for shopping, and it’s not just millennials and Gen Z; Gen X and baby boomers are 68% and 56% more likely, respectively, to use their mobile device to make purchases than they were a few years ago. Take E.l.f. Skin Rocks took a similar approach.

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Improvements Retail Mobile Customer Experience 222

365 Retail

AUGUST 16, 2023

Amperity , the leading enterprise customer data platform (CDP) for consumer brands has been selected by beauty giant Shiseido Americas Corporation as the foundation of its first-party data strategy, to help create connected and personalised digital customer experiences across all of its brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gen AI, with its vast potential for enhancing efficiency and personalizing customer experiences, also comes with ethical considerations. The role of such a committee — consisting of individuals from different departments and backgrounds — extends from supply chain management to customer interaction.

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Retail Customer Experience Technology Customer Data 314

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

New to this year’s event is the Consumer Product Showcase , offering SMB brands the opportunity to show off innovative customer-facing products. Growth is likely to continue in 2023, fed by the ongoing deprecation of third-party cookies that has made first-party customer data a highly valuable asset for brands and retailers.

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Consumer Food and Beverages Beauty and Health Toys 260

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2024

In today’s increasingly globalized market, multilingual support is no longer a luxury but a necessity for online retailers to deliver exceptional customer experiences (CX), successfully serve and grow their customer bases, increase sales and thrive in a competitive landscape. The true differentiator is CX.

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Retail Customer Experience Customer Retention Technology 282

365 Retail

APRIL 3, 2024

However, for many consumer brands, the divide between expectations and reality looms large. Retailers envisioning a seamless, magical customer experience must recognise that AI’s effectiveness depends on high-quality underlying data. In other words, when it comes to AI for marketing, better data = better results.

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Customer Outdoor Customer Data Customer Experience 72

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 16, 2024

Leaning into Social Engagement (Even When it’s a ‘Horror Show’) Perhaps most important for creating a Gen Z strategy, these people also are “massive content creators and consumers” and they tend to trust people who are personalities on social platforms over more traditional authority figures like political leaders, Pearson noted.

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Customer Data Customer Experience Fashion Customer 254

retailnext

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In today’s world, collecting data and basing decisions on the calculated data is critical to success, especially in the retail market. Identifying purchase patterns and creating a customer database offers an array of other benefits including: Identifying opportunities. Recognizing potential threats.

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Customer Data Improvements Customer Social Media 88

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Understanding consumer behaviors will be key to building (or rebuilding) a successful retail business in a post-pandemic world. However, retail marketers often lack the data they need to develop and execute more empathetic messaging. This data deficit makes it difficult for marketing to keep pace with a rapidly changing environment.

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Webinar Consumer Payments Marketing 253

Forrester eCommerce

JULY 3, 2018

On paper, customer experience (CX) is about people creating memorable experiences for other people. But in reality, resonating with consumers is complex and messy. Customers approach your brand with unique emotional profiles, tendencies, and preferences that shape how they feel about your CX.

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Consumer Customer Experience Customer Other 170

GetElastic

JANUARY 13, 2019

The success of industry disruptors such as Airbnb, Amazon and Tesla can be attributed to many factors, but these companies all have one thing in common — a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience, rather than just selling a product. As a result, customer expectations as a whole are evolving.

Customer Experience 150

Customer Experience Customer Multichannel Social Media 150

GetElastic

JANUARY 14, 2019

The success of industry disruptors such as Airbnb, Amazon and Tesla can be attributed to many factors, but these companies all have one thing in common — a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience, rather than just selling a product. As a result, customer expectations as a whole are evolving.

Customer Experience 136

Customer Experience Customer Multichannel Social Media 136

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2024

Google’s move, along with increased privacy regulations (particularly in the EU), have put a premium on zero- and first-party data. Zero-party data is information consumers intentionally share with a brand, e.g. when taking a quiz, while first-party data is collected by the brand from interactions with its own customers.

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Recommendation Consumer Information Customer 281

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2020

Numerous industry experts have commented that COVID-19 has accelerated many existing retail trends, most notably consumers’ embrace of digital commerce. But what do those who are directly involved in decision-making — marketers on one side, consumers on the other — really think about this shift? 12 webinar.

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GetElastic

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Why a Hybrid Customer Experience is Essential for Today’s Consumer. After all, that’s where the customers are, right? While yes, many consumers today do prefer shop online as it can be more accessible and cater to personal preferences, it’s not the end of the brick-and-mortar store. There are 2.14 Source ).

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Customer Experience Customer eCommerce Vend 139

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2022

With so much activity online at the height of the pandemic — during which many people gladly took to shopping online for convenience and peace of mind — retailers have a windfall of customer data that can be leveraged to deliver better and more engaging shopping experiences. The Gen Z Factor. Mobile search optimization.

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Mobile Customer Data Recommendation Fashion 314

GetElastic

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Why a Hybrid Customer Experience is Essential for Today’s Consumer. After all, that’s where the customers are, right? While yes, many consumers today do prefer shop online as it can be more accessible and cater to personal preferences, it’s not the end of the brick-and-mortar store. There are 2.14 Source ).

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Customer Experience Customer eCommerce Vend 139

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Looking for even more data and insights to power your approach ? Offering excellent customer service is a business basic at any time of the year, but it’s particularly vital during the holiday season. Walker advises retailers to start small, because gift-giving consumers are often shopping at retailers that are unfamiliar to them.

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Multi-channel Customer Experience Mobile Improvements 314

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 8, 2024

One of the biggest reasons, according to data from Contentsquare , is that while merchants are investing in paid advertising to drive more traffic to their sites, their experiences are riddled with experience gaps that ultimately create frustration for shoppers. Additionally, overall ecommerce conversions decreased by 5.5%.

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Merchant Services eCommerce Channel Mobile 212

GetElastic

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Better customer experience means targeting people, not buyers. The success of industry disruptors such as Airbnb, Amazon and Tesla can be attributed to many factors, but these companies all have one thing in common — a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience, rather than just selling a product.

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Customer Experience Customer Multichannel Social Media 78

Optimizely

JULY 1, 2019

They are competing against other brands for online dollars, trying to cut through the noise made by marketers everywhere, and are often left blind to who their customers are and what will make for solid customer experience. Once you have the right view, customer analytics can be powerful. And that can be answered.

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Customer Data Recommendation Customer Experience Marketing 150

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2023

consumers have at least one email account, with the average addresses per person totaling 2.5. Yet despite the proliferation of this channel, the average consumer receives an average of 121 emails with at least 56.6% In fact, in 2022, 55% of businesses texted their customers , according to Simple Texting.

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Small Business Retail Marketing Retail Social Media 213

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

Economic headwinds are likely to blow harder when consumers’ savings from the pandemic dwindle, which a Charles Schwab analyst believes could happen by Q3. Retailers definitely see the advantages of operating their own media networks, leveraging their rich first-party customer data and multiple touch points.

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