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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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Whether it was inspiration from this “summer of sport” or keeping up with the ever-changing weather, the increasing unpredictability of consumers’ shopping habits was on display this summer. The cost-of-living crisis is undoubtedly driving buying decisions, so simplifying the consumer journey is essential for closing the sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The non-alcoholic beverage (NA) market is projected to reach $176.7 Big name alcoholic beverage players such as Anheuser-Busch and Diageo will be fighting to get a piece of this pie by bringing new products to market, especially with U.S. a more suburban area where consumers live and shop. “We billion in 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

That assumption seems to be confirmed by research published by Cotton Incorporated via their Consumer Response Surveys. This same survey also showed that since the pandemic began, 55% of consumers placed a buy online, pick up in store (BOPIS) order, with 25% doing so for the first time. BOPIS Fulfillment Options.

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UpSellIt

JULY 13, 2023

In today’s competitive landscape, embracing an omnichannel retail strategy has become essential for businesses to thrive. Read on to explore the key elements of an omnichannel retail strategy and how it can benefit your business. What is Omnichannel Retailing? What is Omnichannel Retailing?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 5, 2021

So how can brands give customers support in a way that fulfills their need for instant gratification, and also feels personal and tailored to them? With conversational commerce solutions, brands can unlock a seamless omnichannel experience, win lasting customer loyalty and drive revenue. Modern consumers live on their mobile devices.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

While consumers still make plenty of online purchases, analysts expect ecommerce sales to grow more moderately in the near term compared to the past few years. Meanwhile, consumers return to brick-and-mortar stores and seek omnichannel experiences. 59% of consumers expect BOPIS as a shopping option.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

While the name Burton is almost synonymous with the snowboards the company began making in 1977, Burton has diversified over the years into new categories — including surfboards, apparel, goggles/optics and other sports gear — as well as expanding beyond manufacturing into direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail, both physical and digital.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

Meeting Luxury Consumers Where They Are (Image courtesy Whitman Family Development) The COVID-19 pandemic brought about many changes in the U.S., Meeting Luxury Consumers Where They Are (Image courtesy Whitman Family Development) The COVID-19 pandemic brought about many changes in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s the question every retailer wants the answer to: what do consumers (and more specifically, those likely to buy their products) really want? The day kicked off with a keynote presentation by Jeff Orschell, EY Americas Practice Leader: “Bottom line for retailers is that change is still happening, consumer behavior is still changing.

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RTP blog

JULY 17, 2017

By Peter Zaballos, SPS Commerce The Digital Consumer Age Of Retail The retail industry has entered a new era – the Digital Consumer Age of Retail. Consumers’ proficient use of digital channels has revolutionized the retail industry and technology has changed the way people shop today.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2023

GNC has partnered with autonomous delivery system Zipline to begin offering fully electric drone delivery in select markets in the U.S. “Drone delivery is an innovative way to make our fulfillment, distribution and delivery processes more efficient, more effective and faster, ultimately benefiting our consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With the start of another year in the new normal, retailers are still questioning how to best engage with consumers in the post-pandemic world. In the past two years, consumers’ expectations and preferences have vastly changed. If one thing has become clear during the last two years, it’s that consumers value options for convenience.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

Blue Yonder has introduced three SaaS-based Commerce microservices, with the goal of helping retailers navigate global supply chain disruptions, demand forecasting and omnichannel ordering habits. It focuses on planning and positioning secondary and tertiary assets.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In the coming weeks, Books-A-Million will roll out the service nationwide, beginning in the Southeast and Midwest markets. As retail and consumer preferences continue to evolve, we’re thrilled to be bringing our customers this added convenience and serve them in new ways.” Orders placed before 3 p.m.

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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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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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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2021

When describing the essence of modern direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands, words like “digitally native,” “quirky,” “edgy” and “creative” are often used. First, consumers working from home have been prioritizing comfort and casualwear,” Shokrian added. Why the pandemic gave MeUndies a competitive advantage.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2021

Allowing consumers to customize their orders creates apersonalized retail customer experience and ultimately delights customers as they get to design products that suit their needs. Customers expect a seamless omnichannel shopping experience that enables them to buy anywhere and pick up anywhere with the least cost and hassle.

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ROI Revolution

MAY 20, 2021

For consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, in particular, this change in the way consumers shop necessitated a different approach: omnichannel. Director, GM of Omnichannel at BigCommerce. But the reassuring strength of an omnichannel sales approach is that it’s a risk mitigation strategy at its core.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2023

“Omnichannel” has been an aspiration for brands for many years now, but while it used to refer to the merging of a retailer’s brick-and-mortar and ecommerce operations, it now means something very different. Sellers’ relationship with Amazon feels akin to the love-hate dynamic between gamblers and their favorite casino.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The holiday season has always been prime time for retailers to roll out new marketing campaigns, events and experiences that draw people to their stores — and keep them there. Despite these reservations, 47% of consumers plan to shop in-store this holiday season, an 8% increase from 2020.

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Fabric

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In this blog post, we’ve compiled a list of key takeaways from this insightful discussion, focusing on how retailers can navigate the instant gratification economy, deliver true omnichannel experiences, and leverage innovative solutions like real-time inventory, order management and fulfillment, and dropshipping. 5 Key Takeaways 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2022

The event, which combines three previously separate shows, has been designed to provide a broad view of industry and consumer trends, as well as deep dives into role-specific topics and technologies. Ecommerce executives need to be concerned with what happens when shoppers visit a brick-and-mortar store to check out an item in person.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s why Touchland’s four -person marketing team (including Lisbona herself) leans into a powerful combination of brand values and creative storytelling to guide social content creation. After all, as consumers venture across social platforms, that voice is what creates continuity as they consume your content.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

According to a recent survey , 38% of retailers are worried about meeting consumers’ fast delivery expectations. And although omnichannel fulfillment is growing in importance, they still want to drive offline sales and bring people into the store, while also minimizing the impact of shipping costs on their bottom line.

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ROI Revolution

JUNE 6, 2022

Direct to consumer (D2C or DTC) refers to brands that bypass third-party retailers and wholesalers to sell products directly to customers. As an online-centric business type, D2C has experienced tremendous growth over the course of the coronavirus pandemic as consumers have reduced their in-store shopping. of all D2C sales.

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365 Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

According to Harvard Business Review, 73% of all consumers now use multiple channels during their purchase journey. But what exactly is omnichannel and how can online retailers adapt to meet ever-changing consumer habits? But what exactly is omnichannel and how can online retailers adapt to meet ever-changing consumer habits?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. Walmart has used stores to fulfill pickup and delivery orders for years,” said Dunn. The retailer reported 5.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

2021 was a critical year for the direct-to-consumer (DTC) space. With consumers’ rapid shift to ecommerce channels, DTC players had to navigate surges in demand and effectively compete against a broader landscape that included their startup peers but also omnichannel behemoths.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Instacart already powers the ecommerce and fulfillment experience for hundreds of retailers across North America. Now the online grocery marketplace has launched a suite of technologies to help its partners continue their digital transformation with new fulfillment , advertising and insights capabilities.

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Dynamic Action

AUGUST 18, 2023

Retailers who want to keep up must implement an omnichannel approach. The omnichannel experience entails a customer-centric approach to create a unified shopping experience for customers. Brands can develop an omnichannel retail experience by implementing an AI-driven visual merchandising platform like EDITED.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Technological innovations have optimized and enhanced almost all areas of the retail organization, from marketing to fulfillment, but the process of bringing products to market has been markedly slower to advance. MakerSights launched in 2015.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Consumer expectations of retailers have been transformed by their experiences buying from Amazon and other innovative retailers that are able to provide fast, efficient omnichannel experiences. In tandem, consumer expectations have grown. A fast, flexible and responsive fulfilment process. Embrace the Need for Speed .

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