Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2025

Given that different cannabis products can produce a wide range of effects among consumers, one of the biggest challenges facing cannabis retailers is matching the right product with the right customer.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

consumers abandon a purchase and stop accessing an online service because they can’t remember their passwords 4.76 Passkeys, another passwordless authentication method, leverage biometrics or a PIN to let consumers confirm a purchase with just a tap or a quick selfie.   times per day on average.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2024

LS&Co) has shared details of its progress in becoming a DTC-first business, a big part of which has been improving the retailer’s ecommerce experience. Our ecommerce channel is a key pillar of our DTC-first strategy, and we are committed to meeting our consumers wherever they shop and exceeding their expectations on all our channels.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For retailers and consumer businesses, a surge in data breaches presents difficult challenges. As a result, the retail and consumer industries have become an attractive target for cybercriminals, with research revealing that in 2023, retail and wholesale accounted for 11% of cybersecurity incidents. million last year. million and $3.48

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For consumers, grocery shopping has become a multi-location event, with shoppers visiting an average of 5.2 This grocery hopping trend has become especially prevalent thanks to consumer-friendly technology like curbside pickup, home delivery and online ordering. stores to cross every item off their lists.

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Groove

DECEMBER 7, 2024

With the prevalence of social media, businesses are constantly feeding unique and engaging content to their audiences through a variety of channels and consumers are beginning to expect this from brands. Establish Trust To help establish consumer trust, we recommend positioning your brand as an industry expert.

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Groove

JANUARY 13, 2025

Unlike B2C eCommerce, which targets consumers, B2B eCommerce connects wholesalers with retailers, manufacturers, or other business clients via online platforms. This improves conversion rates and minimizes cart abandonment. This improves initial conversion rates.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

With the sector continuing to experience accelerated growth, major retailers are looking for ways to maintain and build trust while dramatically improving customer experience and orchestrating cohesive customer journeys. Consumers are only one click away from retailers at all times.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As a 2024 winner of Retail TouchPoints Brand Experience Awards , the retailer was recognized for the latest improvements to its mobile app, which aims to both be a digital companion for customers and to help streamline shoppers phygital experience. RTP: How do you use consumer and associate feedback to best prioritize your tech investments?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2024

With the growth in ecommerce and higher consumer expectations for convenience, it is essential for retailers to make returns processes as efficient as outbound fulfillment. Thats important given that the same report also revealed that96%of consumers would shop again with a retailer based on a good returns experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

Retailers need to continue to focus on enhancing the digital product discovery experience, especially as more and more channels arise for consumers to discover and purchase their products. The Technology Advantage: Improving Pre-Purchase Experiences 1. Leveraging generative AI for smarter, focused product reviews.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

To meet the evolving needs of consumers worldwide, both now and in the future, we are investing in our operations, said Weinberg. This includes improved operational capabilities with the expansion of our distribution centers in the U.S.,

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 26, 2024

Learn about the potential of predictive AI — and, now, generative AI — in enhancing loyalty programs and strategies.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Consumers now prefer digital payment options, with cash usage declining in all major economies. Payments Orchestration Adding a payment orchestration layer is another effective way to improve ecommerce payment processing resilience. Automated smart logic can route transactions to a secondary processor when needed.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

1WorldSync’s 2024 Consumer Product Content Benchmark report revealed that 64% of shoppers have scanned a QR code on a product while shopping in-store. This discrepancy highlights an opportunity for retailers to better connect eco-conscious consumers with relevant product details. The result?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Under ideal circumstances, reducing rampant returns is best accomplished through improving the issues that are most frequently leading to them. While returns can’t always be prevented, they can be leveraged to improve profit margins and even generate revenue.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The new fee structure, which aims to provide both shoppers and sellers with clear, upfront price transparency, also will cover Posh Protect , Posh Authenticate (when applicable), 24/7 customer support and continuous improvements to the platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It also allows us to continue investing in improving your shopping experience with new shopping tools like style chat, image search and others coming soon.” ThredUp’s laudable ambition in handling both ends of the equation is designed to make the process of selling and buying secondhand as easy as buying new for consumers and brands.

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Groove

DECEMBER 12, 2024

To improve BigCommerce rankings, remove any unnecessary copies of the same material or slight variations on the same page. Youll also want to use caching techniques to improve the user experience. Long-tail keywords can improve SEO optimization for BigCommerce. AMP content loads almost instantly, which reduces bounce rates.

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Groove

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Central to the conversation is the power of effective data management and structured cataloging, which Matt explains can dramatically improve brand visibility and ad performance. With the right data structure, you’re not just advertising products—you’re curating targeted experiences that meet consumers where they are, in-store or online."

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 17, 2024

In particular, generative AI is revolutionizing the shopping landscape to create more personalized and memorable experiences for consumers. Farfetch uses a generative AI tool called Phrasee to improve its email marketing campaigns. Many brands are already using generative AI to work on personalized campaigns.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Discussing what will be motivating consumers two years from now, Buzasi called 2026 “the year of redirection,” predicting that people will be looking for coping mechanisms to deal with what she termed “the great exhaustion,” a lingering hangover from COVID-19, political division and culture wars.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In an era when online shopping is not just a convenience but a way of life, a new menace is plaguing consumers and retailers alike: porch piracy. The situation is particularly dire for younger generations, with over half of Gen Z consumers reporting that they have experienced porch piracy in the last 12 months.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

At the same time, consumer expectations for personalized, omnichannel shopping experiences continue to rise. For example, multimodal AI can help retailers optimize inventory by analyzing sales patterns alongside supplier communications and consumer feedback. AI will enhance safety and content moderation.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The answer is simple: by using Digital PR to engage with editorial sections of key media while also improving online visibility. Thats especially important when todays media-savvy consumer understands the difference between paid-for promotions and editorial reviews. So how can a new and revolutionary beauty brand get noticed?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Because while they may feel they are communicating something weighty, it doesn’t mean consumers will hear it, let alone act. Additionally, consumers still have pandemic-related and sustainability concerns, ranging from reluctance to shop in crowded stores to environmental issues around the use of cardboard and plastic-heavy displays.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

From the retailer’s point of view, it’s great that consumers are buying earlier,” said Meitiner in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. And had the Democrats won, there was concern about social unrest and what that might mean, but now we know that things are going to be calm, which may improve the mood of the country a bit.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Three more supermarket chains will connect their electronic shelf label (ESL) hardware to the Carrot Tags pick-to-light functionality from Instacart , making it easier for Instacart pickers — and eventually for consumers themselves — to find the products on their shopping list.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 1, 2025

According to PwC, businesses that reduce friction for consumers and empower all employees to make things right whether through returns, price adjustments or other policies bring higher customer satisfaction and more forgiveness. How can Retailers Improve Post-Purchase Using an Order Management System (OMS)?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

But retail organizations are gathering more data about their customers their behaviors, preferences and expectations than ever before, which can help guide retailers as they seek to improve the customer journey. As a result, the new store designs have the Beauty Studios off to the side.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2025

Think about apparel, furniture, grocery and even more niche segments like home improvement, crafting or office supplies its easy to name multiple major retail banners serving each of these categories. Most product categories have several pillar retailers that rule the vertical. billion in the U.S. Here’s how Davids plans to do it.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2024

Walmart has been working on a number of different ways to improve sustainability, from the supply chain to its stores, including: In July 2023 Walmart and PepsiCo invested $120 million to support regenerative agriculture practices on more than 2 million acres of farmland in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2024

A recent study of more than 4,700 consumers from Bread Financial indicates payment choices — including retail store credit cards, bank branded credit cards and buy now, pay later (BNPL) — at checkout have become a major factor in pleasing shoppers and closing a sale. Long gone are the days where retailers can only say, “Cash or card?”;

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2025

Key priorities include enhancements to its brick-and-mortar stores, using AI to improve search, social and data-driven personalization, innovation in its owned private label brands, a dramatic expansion of its Target Plus marketplace and a doubling of the value generated by its in-house Roundel media company.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

” Aligning with the Demands of Today’s Consumers “Some of the language that I continue to hear when I go to many of [my go-to-market appointments] are things like, ‘What will our adjacencies be?’” Consumers are finding inspiration everywhere, and they’re more eclectic in their fashion choices. ” Hyman added.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 16, 2023

Does your brand employ a loyalty services provider in addition to a loyalty technology provider? If not, you should consider it. Brands continue to increase spend on loyalty technology and programs, but they often don’t tie their loyalty initiatives to broader corporate goals, negatively impacting their success. Services providers help here.

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