Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

As a result of changing consumer behaviors and spending patterns, many retailers are focused on right-sizing their store footprints, especially in shopping malls. For their part, more mall operators are looking to diversify their tenant mix and incorporate additional brands that resonate with younger audiences.

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Operations Omnichannel Customer Experience Consumer 334

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2022

After a 23-year career with Amazon , Dave Clark, CEO of the Worldwide Consumer, has resigned, effective July 1. Clark stepped into the role in early 2021 following the departure of Jeff Wilke ; he had most recently served as SVP of Worldwide Operations.

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Consumer Fulfillment Supplies Operations 288

lateshipment

AUGUST 1, 2022

The benefits of automation are clear for the business as a whole, and automation can also transform the customer experience even when the customer isn’t directly involved. Shopping and checkout experiences can be managed directly by the customer, but that’s only half of the overall order experience.

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Customer Experience Payment Services Customer Shipping Costs 147

Kibo

MARCH 17, 2023

90% of consumers view 2-3 day shipping as a baseline expectation. In response, leading companies are replacing their traditional fulfillment methods with flexible fulfillment strategies. The Role of Fulfillment in the Shopper Journey Historically, fulfillment was simply thought of as a means to deliver products to the customer.

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Fulfillment Operations Shipping Costs Merchant Services 62

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

While people have been shopping online for decades, it’s important to recognize that warehouses, as we know them, are still operating and organized to replenish the stock in brick-and-mortar stores. Many warehouse operations are looking to technology to upgrade every facet of their daily operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. Nicholas believes that to make store fulfillment a truly profitable initiative, retailers need to find new ways for their tech, operations and design teams to collaborate.

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Fulfillment Vend Operations Technology 298

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2023

Shopping center operators are facing a new call to action: Evolve and elevate your experiences or lose your customers forever. Tanger Outlets has responded to this message with urgency as it aims to engage and acquire a younger demographic of consumers. Now, we’re studying this much younger consumer.

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Food and Beverages Operations Consumer Omnichannel 306

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

That assumption seems to be confirmed by research published by Cotton Incorporated via their Consumer Response Surveys. The Second Wave research results from April 27, 2020 showed that 73% of respondents expect this pandemic experience to change the way they shop in the future. BOPIS Fulfillment Options.

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Fulfillment Payment Services Outdoor eCommerce 305

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The landscape of commerce and delivering customer experience changed dramatically over the past year, as millions of shoppers found health, safety, social distance and remote work taking center stage in their daily lives. More than one-third of consumers now shop online each week, up from 28% pre-pandemic.

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Customer Experience Customer Omnichannel Social Media 323

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2023

But it’s how those stores operate that allows them to effectively serve as fulfillment hubs. Fast, efficient store fulfillment also made advances in Walgreens’ delivery services possible. “We Customers also can schedule deliveries for a specific time, which is particularly helpful with pharmacy items.

Payment Services 246

Payment Services Operations Omnichannel Fulfillment 246

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

This surging demand has exposed fulfilment inefficiencies and sent retailers scrambling to power their delivery operations. The heaviest investment will take place in order fulfillment, such as last-mile delivery. In such cases, the addition of drivers and fleets may even exacerbate fulfillment issues.

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Operations Fulfillment Order Fulfillment Technology 191

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But supply chain pressures and ongoing uncertainty surrounding the pandemic means that consumers are focusing less on how immersive and entertaining in-store shopping experiences are and more on how safe and efficient they are. RTP: It seems like consumer priorities fall into two main buckets: ease/convenience and health/safety.

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Consumer Supplies Fulfillment Technology 264

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This is excepting, of course, the professionals tasked with maintaining and operating those supply chains.) Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How are the increasing demands for fast fulfillment affecting supply chains? What you offer [in terms of fast fulfillment], and to whom, is very important.

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Supplies Shipping Costs Fulfillment Customer Experience 306

Groove

APRIL 1, 2022

Introduction Because you’re reading this eBook, you’re likely an eCommerce retailer selling consumer packaged goods online, or you own a brick-and-mortar store and want to transition to eCommerce. What are Consumer Packaged Goods? First, let’s define what you’re trying to sell — consumer packaged goods. increased $63 billion.

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Merchant Services Consumer Shipping Costs Drop Ship 195

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2024

In today’s market landscape, ethical, political and environmental considerations increasingly sway consumer purchasing decisions, particularly when it comes to packaging. From exaggerated health claims to misleading descriptions of ingredients, deceptive labeling erodes consumer trust and undermines brand credibility.

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Consumer Shipping Costs Shipping Supplies 162

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In reality, Black Friday has seen a steady decline for years now as retailers started promotions earlier and earlier and consumers grew tired of the chaos. All eyes have shifted to e-Commerce as, according to a recent Forrester survey, 42% of consumers do not plan to return to stores after stay-at-home orders are lifted. [1].

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eCommerce Operations Fulfillment Customer Loyalty 241

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The resulting lockdowns and shelter-in-place orders have caused a shift in buying behavior among American consumers. Varying product availability has been a key reason for these changing buying decisions, prompting consumers to choose between need and preference. Improve Supply Chains, Boost Customer Satisfaction.

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Supplies Shipping Costs Operations Customer 246

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2024

As stores try to balance protecting profit margins while delivering a unified customer experience, the escalating cost of returns has reached a breaking point. However, with consumer sentiment low and economic concerns still front of mind, this approach could backfire. Immersive experiences. Agile fulfillment.

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Fulfillment Technology Apparel Clothing 278

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With COVID-19 case counts declining and vaccination efforts underway, eager consumers and retailers are both looking hopefully toward a future return to normal. The pandemic has forever altered consumer behavior, and this year in particular consumers find themselves in a kind of limbo — hope is on the horizon, but “normal” isn’t here yet.

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Consumer Omnichannel Events Customer Experience 347

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With Salesforce’s 2023 holiday predictions forecasting that BOPIS (buying items online for in-store or curbside pickup) will influence $28 billion in incremental sales during the holiday season, retailers seeking to capitalize on this revenue opportunity need to ensure their store operations and inventory management practices are up to par.

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Omnichannel Shipping Costs Operations Fulfillment 278

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

Rather than chasing the obvious trends everyone else is pursuing, we dig deep into the human psyche to uncover the unmet consumer needs yet to be served by brands. Like the fulfillment of seeing a great movie, going to an engaging place can give us a sense of escapism and therapeutic benefits that help us face the world with renewed energy.

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Consumer Leisure Customer Books 130

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In response to evolving consumer behavior, many retailers are pivoting from malls and large-format stores in city centers to neighborhood locations that aim to serve the work-from-home population. Not surprisingly, many have found the data points to residential enclaves in and around cities where consumers live.

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Consumer Food and Beverages Retail Apparel 264

365 Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There is no denying that modern retail technology – and digitisation of the retail sector – is transforming everything about what shoppers want and how a retail organisation operates. Store associates are at the coalface of the bricks and mortar customer experience journey and play a key part in the digitisation of retail.

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Customer Experience Customer Retail Technology 86

Ecommerce Platforms

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Whether you work alone or with staff, the fulfillment process is bound to take heaps of time away from other, more important, money-making tasks. Fortunately, plenty of third-party solutions can handle the entire fulfillment process for you. With that said, here we're going to look at how to choose an ecommerce fulfillment service.

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Fulfillment Merchant Services Shipping Costs eCommerce 104

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

The demand for grocery omnichannel ecommerce has been fueled by the pandemic, specifically consumers’ desire for convenience. To keep up with this demand and consumer expectations, grocers will have to invest in the right forward-looking technology to evolve omnichannel offerings to meet customer needs.

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Payment Services Shipping Costs Omnichannel Fulfillment 264

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

by storm, rising to the top of the app charts and garnering millions of fans, until consumers began to realize the cost of those ultra-low prices — long delivery times and often poor quality products. As an operating partner at one of Wish’s longest-running investors, GGV Capital , Yan has long had an insider’s view of the business.

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Shipping Costs Consumer Supplies Shipping 338

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, challenges are inevitable, despite the resilient consumer spending we’ve seen earlier in the year. For example, purchase confusion can arise (and does) when a customer sees unfamiliar names or references on bank statements. It is also vital that brands pay attention to today’s evolving consumer behaviors.

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Shipping Costs Payment Services Banking Retail 277

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty.

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Payment Services Operations Fulfillment Supplies 246

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

With the bustling holiday shopping season nearing, many brands have spent the last several months assessing their operational strengths and weaknesses, particularly in logistics and fulfillment. It’s what they do with this data, however, that can positively impact their logistics operations. 1: Demand forecasting.

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Fulfillment Shipping Costs Supplies Operations 310

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2021

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, items that consumers shopped for reflected the stay-at-home sentiment, such as household essentials, electronics and entertainment and health, beauty and wellness products. Here’s a look at three ways retailers can make effective changes for better logistics operations.

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Operations Drop Ship Beauty and Health Supplies 191

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But in the midst of today’s current supply chain issues, inflation and fluctuating consumer demand, many retailers are finding themselves in the opposite scenario, with an excess of stock. Better Inventory Forecasting = Happier Customers. Take Back Control With Tech-Enabled, End-to-End Supply Chain Management.

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Fulfillment Retail Supplies Operations 310

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2023

Generative AI is set to revolutionize ecommerce, enabling a more interactive and personalized shopping experience, which is integral to both attracting and retaining customers. In the crowded landscape of ecommerce, a positive customer experience across every aspect of an order has become intrinsic to online success.

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eCommerce Order Fulfillment Fulfillment Multi-channel 244

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Keeping your warehouse operations in-house or outsourcing them to a third-party logistics (3PL) company? In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. In contrast, 3PL services oversee the order fulfillment cycle on behalf of the company.

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Shipping Costs Order Fulfillment Fulfillment Shipping 331

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Understanding consumer behaviors will be key to building (or rebuilding) a successful retail business in a post-pandemic world. Data will fuel the shift to digital, according to expert contributors to the recent Retail TouchPoints (RTP) webinar, Analyzing The Shift To Digital From 7,000 Marketers And 1B Consumers Worldwide.

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Webinar Consumer Payments Marketing 289

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2020

In 2018, Ernst & Young (EY) launched an ambitious project called FutureConsumer.Now , to model scenarios that would challenge present thinking about future consumers. Orschell discussed the differences and overlaps among these consumer segments as well as other recent research. The affordability-first group is not brand-loyal.

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Consumer eCommerce Omnichannel Fulfillment 279

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2022

Amazon has named 17-year company veteran Doug Herrington to the renamed role of CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores, filling the position left vacant by former CEO of the Worldwide Consumer Dave Clark. Since 2015, Herrington has served as Amazon’s SVP of the North America Consumer.

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Fulfillment Operations Customer Experience Consumer 278

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After years of lockdowns and digital-driven behaviors, consumers’ actions have shown how crucial the store experience is to how they shop and interact with brands. That’s only going to further accelerate the expectations of consumers and technology adoption within retail environments. customer experience).

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Sporting Goods Technology Omnichannel Operations 323