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Safety is too important to rely on ‘off the shelf’ products. When sourcing safety solutions, consultation is key

Retail Technology Review

The boom in online retail in recent years has undoubtedly boosted warehouse and logistics operation in the UK while the circumstances of 2020 continue to fuel further growth within the industry as consumers steer clear of the high street; opting instead for online shopping and delivery. By David Thomas, General Manager, ZoneSafe - Proximity Warning & Alert Systems.

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Consumers Weigh Travel Industry Uncertainty With Growing Desire For Adventure

Forrester eCommerce

Stay-at-home orders and pervasive consumer fears have devastated the travel industry, which, after setting profit records a few months ago, has been reporting losses around $18 billion a week since March.

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Consumer Partners: Who They Are And Why You Should Care

Forrester eCommerce

Partnering with consumers, however, is less mature and less industrialized, even if the practice is actually very widespread. First of all, what is a consumer partner, or […]. Business-to-business partnerships are a long and well-established way for businesses to grow.

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Consumers Crave Authenticity, And CMOs Can Deliver

Forrester eCommerce

As the age of misinformation and slew of dubious corporate claims threaten consumers’ trust in brands, consumers are desperate for authenticity. In our new report, The Algorithm Of Authenticity, we synthesize consumer data, industry case […].

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Retail Reimagined: What It Means To Be An Innovative Retailer

Speaker: DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist

Join DeAnna McIntosh, Retail Growth Strategist, for this idea-sparking session on how to multiply and diversify your revenue (and impact) with zero ad spend, how to create disruption in your industry, and how to reimagine and innovate the retail business model.

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Slowing Growth For US Tech Budgets In 2020 And 2021, Varying By Industry

Forrester eCommerce

age of the customer business technology (BT) consumer spending growth coronavirus industry growth market growth US tech marketEven before the threat of coronavirus, the US economy was poised for a slowdown in 2020.

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Keyword Crash Course: What Consumers Are Searching for in the Food and Beverage Industry | Salsify

Salsify

Consumers are no longer craving the same old, same old from the food and beverage industry. Innovation and Trends

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2018 Continues To Be Tumultuous Year In Smartphone Industry

Forrester eCommerce

2018 brought no calm to the smartphone industry, and Apple’s Q1 2019 earnings are an indication that this trend will continue this year. consumer mobile devices enterprise mobile devicesAfter years of consistent double-digit growth rates, a slowdown in smartphone sales that started in 2017 continued in 2018. Some reasons behind this include: Slowing Down of Major Economies. In 2018, many of […].

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The TV Industry is Stumbling Toward Customer Centricity

Forrester eCommerce

The theme was “It’s Consumer First in TV Land,” which I really hoped the conference would pay off. Well, we know that consumer attitudes about advertising are not […]. I’ve just returned from a few days in the sun, having once again participated in Beet.TV’s s annual BeetRetreat. Wonderfully, we returned to Puerto Rico this year*.) advertising advertising agencies marketing & strategy media media buying omnichannel advertising television tv video

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Post-Pandemic Travel: Consumers Seek Variety And Adventure Within Safe Circles

Forrester eCommerce

Our data over the course of 2020 revealed the internal consumer tension between desire and fear. On the one hand, consumers expressed an ongoing appetite for adventure and variety of experience.

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The Connected, Empowered Consumer Will Improve Population Health

Forrester eCommerce

Creating connected, empowered, consumers in healthcare will address three major industry pain points: containing chronic care costs, keeping individuals healthy, and decreasing healthcare inequalities.

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Industry Shake-Up: 2023 Commerce Trends To Rock Your World

Speaker: Ashlee Aldridge - Reach Partners LLC | Bill Mirabito - Chameleon Collective | Ronak Shah - PSA Retail & CPG, Amazon Web Services | Wayne Teigen - Pivotree

Join this exclusive conversation with our expert panelists and learn how you can thrive as an e-commerce retailer - even when faced with adverse market challenges. Don't miss out; register today!

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Electronics Industry Trends, Stats, & Metrics

ROI Revolution

Published November 30, 2021 The electronics sector is one of the many industries that witnessed significant growth online in 2020 with the pandemic and that has continued to see growth in 2021. Computers and consumer electronics represent 22% of all retail ecommerce sales.

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Survey: 87% of Consumers Doubt Influencers Use Products They Promote

Retail TouchPoints

Desire Company CEO Eric Sheinkop discussed the survey results with Retail TouchPoints : Retail TouchPoints (RTP): What’s the significance of the fact that so many consumers doubt influencers even use the products they’re recommending?

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Convenience Store Industry Trends

Korona

According to many metrics, the convenience store industry has seen significant growth in the last couple years. Nonetheless, an increase of consumer products and evolving shopper behavioral patterns has shown that customers are eager to buy the products they want from the stores they prefer.

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Can AR-Enabled Personalisation Improve Sustainability in the Fashion Industry?

Digital Doughnut

Apparel and footwear account for a whopping 46% of returns, which - although a convenient option for consumers - is a growing trend that’s significantly impacting the environment.

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Survey: Consumers Want Easy Access to Apparel Sustainability Info

Retail TouchPoints

The apparel industry’s enormous global environmental impact has made it a primary focus of sustainability efforts, and consumers — or at least a significant portion of them — want to do their part. I think we really need to prioritize consumers’ demand for effortless information.

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#RICE22 Speakers Reaffirm The Retail Industry’s Commitment To Sustainability

Retail TouchPoints

Business Intelligence Consumer Trends Fulfillment & Last Mile Inventory & Merchandising News Briefs

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5 Hacks to Attract Gen-Z Consumers

Kissmetrics

If you are still focused on millennials, it’s time to start paying attention to a new generation of consumers. If you want to sell to this unique generation, your company needs to learn who they are and how they interact with brands in your industry. Article sponsored by PayPal.

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Consumer confidence improves marginally in second quarter

TalkingRetail

UK consumers emerged from the second quarter of the year in a cautious but slightly more positive mood, following a record decline in consumer confidence in the first quarter of the year, new research reveals.

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Technology trends in the retail industry for 2023

iVend

But we’re also seeing exciting technology trends * in the retail industry. iVend Retail Management Suite iVend are leaders in innovation in the retail industry. Five key technology trends in the retail industry for 2023.

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Consumer spending falls

TalkingRetail

Consumer spending fell 7.2% This story continues at Consumer spending falls. Industry News barclaycard consumer confidence consumer research convenience storesin March compared to the same period in 2019, as lockdown continued, new research reveals.

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UK consumer confidence grows

TalkingRetail

UK consumer confidence has increased in the past two weeks, new research reveals. GfK’s long-running Consumer Confidence Index increased six points to -30 for June, with all five measures of confidence up in the month. This story continues at UK consumer confidence grows.

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How to Take Your Brand Direct to Consumer

BigCommerce

Thinking of dipping your toes into the direct to consumer waters? In fact, according to IAB’s popular new study, The Rise of the 21st Century Brand Economy, the future of retail growth comes from direct consumer relationships. If your brand wants to win the direct to consumer game, you can’t just efficiently fill orders, you need to expertly fulfill the modern expectations of customers who place those orders. Why brands are going direct to consumer. Direct to Consume

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10 Consumer Trends Shaping the Future of Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Seismic shifts in consumer trends accelerated by the pandemic will have long-lasting implications for the retail industry at large. Future Commerce partnered with Method + Mode to conduct broad consumer research over a period of three months ending in January 2021.

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Factors That Affect the Retail Industry Nowadays

RetailMinded

Success in the retail business isn’t as simple as providing consumers with the opportunity to buy your products. You may have already thought about your ideal customers and consumers, what they’re looking for, and their preference on how to shop.

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SheerID Is The First Solution To Allow Brands To Verify 100s Of Consumer Communities For Exclusive Offers Based On Their Profession Or Industry

SheerID

For professionals in specific industries, marketers can offer something extra like discounts, VIP levels of access, or personalized experiences. Press Releases Uncategorized

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The Post-Pandemic Fashion Industry Makeover

Retail TouchPoints

It has been a year since the pandemic rocked a fashion industry that was already feeling the pressure of trying to keep pace with consumer shifts toward digital, ethical sourcing and eco-friendly products.

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It’s Time For The Retail Industry To Challenge The Tech Titans

Forrester eCommerce

For years, retailers have been told that they must engage with the titans as that is where consumers are spending more time. Consumers however actually engage less with ads […]. Four technology companies – Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google), and Facebook – have a collective market capitalization of more than $3 trillion. That’s 15% of US GDP. retail amazon ecommerce online retail

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The Effect Of COVID-19 On US Consumers? Financial Well-Being

Forrester eCommerce

Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, our research showed that US consumers were facing multiple financial challenges and were worried about their financial situation. To see how the pandemic was impacting consumer finances and behaviors, we surveyed 1,122 US online adults in April 10–15, 2020 and found that US consumers: Are already feeling the impact of […].

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NRF Big Show to Spotlight Innovative Consumer Products and Workforce Solutions

Retail TouchPoints

Everyone in the retail industry knows January means two things: lots of holiday returns and the venerable NRF Big Show , running Jan. New to this year’s event is the Consumer Product Showcase , offering SMB brands the opportunity to show off innovative customer-facing products.

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Impact of Coronavirus on the eCommerce Industry – Positive or Negative?

Elsner

It has already stirred the travel and tourism industry, sports industry, and many more. Is it bothering the eCommerce Industry too? Let’s see the highlights on the situation of the eCommerce industry. will definitely affect the eCommerce industry. COVID-19.

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Consumer confidence rises to highest level in five years

TalkingRetail

Shopper confidence has risen to its highest level in the last five years, driven by the further easing of lockdown restrictions, a sharp decline in Covid-19 cases and the rapid rollout of the vaccination programme, says industry analyst IGD.

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Consumer spending grows

TalkingRetail

Consumer spending grew 0.4% This story continues at Consumer spending grows. Industry News barclaycard consumer confidence convenience storesin April compared to the same period in 2019 – the first growth recorded this year, new research reveals.

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Promotional Effectiveness Metrics & Email Capture Benchmarks Across 10 Ecommerce Industries [2018 Report]

BigCommerce

It is when the most amount of consumers are shopping online – giving us a wealth of data to sort through for almost all industries. These 2 aspects give us a perfect storm of perfect promotional execution and potential engagement volume to understand how promotions affect conversion for 10 different industries: Arts and Entertainment. For the Furniture industry, 0.63% of on-site visitors did NOT interact with a promotion but ultimately still resulted in a sale.

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The TV Industry’s Latest Hill To Climb: How To Avoid The Sins of Digital Advertising’s Past

Forrester eCommerce

There is so much opportunity for a TV/video advertising industry which finds itself in flux – an explosion of new content, new data sources, new consumer viewing patterns. I’ve recently returned from Beet.TV’s s latest BeetRetreat and I’m feeling…Optimistic? Pessimistic? Ambivalent?

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Covid-19 changing consumers technology demands

TalkingRetail

More than 20% of consumers, around 13 million adults, would like to have the ability to place orders online for delivery from their local c-store, new research reveals. This story continues at Covid-19 changing consumers technology demands.

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UK consumer confidence remains stable

TalkingRetail

Consumer confidence remained steady at -9 in June, new research reveals. GfK’s long-running Consumer Confidence Index shows four measures of confidence rose in June in comparison to the figures for May and one measure was down.

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Direct to Consumer Marketing: The Complete Guide

Ecommerce Platforms

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) marketing is quickly becoming the choice route for CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) brands and manufacturers to gain entry into the market directly rather than via a middleman structure. What is Direct-to-Consumer Marketing (D2C)?

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Direct to Consumer Marketing: The Complete Guide

Ecommerce Platforms

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) marketing is quickly becoming the choice route for CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) brands and manufacturers to gain entry into the market directly rather than via a middleman structure. What is Direct-to-Consumer Marketing (D2C)?

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Italian fashion industry begins road to recovery with 18% increase in consumer purchases

Retail Technology Review

The last three months have seen a dramatic drop in purchases from Italian fashion retailers online, but the country’s fashion brands seem to be over the worst. That’s according to new data from ccinsight.org, the daily Covid-19 Commerce tracker from data technology firm Emarsys. Critical Issues Internet Retailing

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Consumer spending falls in February

TalkingRetail

Consumer spending fell 13.8% This story continues at Consumer spending falls in February. Industry News barclaycard consumer research consumer spending convenience stores coronavirus

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Consumer-Centric Strategies for a Successful Q4

ChannelAdvisor

In the presentation, they shared several statistics from ChannelAdvisor’s recent consumer survey that yielded insights into the various stages consumers walk through before completing a purchase. The research also indicated consumers are shopping online more frequently than ever before.