Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2023

Retailers are adapting their store environments to meet consumers’ heightened demand for ease and convenience. Nearly half ( 46% ) of retailers surveyed in Retail TouchPoints’ Store Operations Survey noted that they provide mobile POS to associates — and an additional 31% plan to implement the technology this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2024

As consumers demand more flexible payment options, it is no surprise that the digital top-up card industry has had a strong year. As the industry evolves, it will be crucial for stakeholders to remain adaptable, leveraging data and partnerships to meet the changing needs of consumers in a digital-first economy.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2023

New research from Capterra finds that tip fatigue — exhaustion caused by the pressure to tip more money to a widening array of workers — is a serious problem affecting most consumers who use checkout tablets at restaurants and other businesses. This should give pause to any business that uses checkout tablets.

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Consumer Payment Services Point of Sale POS 200

Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Forrester just released a new report on mobile and new technology priorities for marketers, based on our latest global mobile executive survey. We found out that marketers: Fail to deliver on foundational mobile experiences. Consumers’ expectations of a brand’s mobile experience have never been higher.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

However, if customer service is excellent, 78% of consumers will do business with a company again, even after a mistake. Let’s take a look at how digital surveys could be the secret to collecting the insightful data and innovation leads you are looking for. How to Track a Customer’s Bad Shopping Experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2020

These consumer sentiments, along with the need to protect the health of both shoppers and store associates, means retailers need to be stringent about enforcing social distancing and other safety measures as they reopen. In fact, displaying an abundance of caution will be required to bring many consumers back into physical stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2020

COVID-19 has accelerated the contactless revolution: 84% of Americans ( 77% among global consumers) now expect to increase their use of touchless technologies to avoid physical contact for the remainder of the pandemic, with 55% ( 63% globally) planning to continue doing so afterward, according to a survey by Capgemini.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2020

Even though connecting with customers digitally has become critical since consumers and B2B buyers shifted more purchasing online during the pandemic, customers frequently report disappointing experiences with retail web sites and marketplaces as well as with brands’ e-Commerce sites. Forrester conducted three online surveys for the report.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Animals Around the Globe also plans to build a mobile app that will forge even closer connections with users and unlocking a potential new sales channel. We also do surveys on a monthly basis, and next year we’ll build an app that will have community-focused features. In terms of content, we’re constantly testing.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Strong consumer spending continues to be driven by net-new demand and not just higher prices, according to the research firm, with Adobe’s Digital Price Index showing that online prices have fallen consecutively for 12 months and were down 3.2% Mobile Shopping Will Overtake Desktop for the First Time Adobe anticipates that 51.2%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2020, more than any year since the advent of online and mobile commerce, consumers lost a sense of control. Culled from this agile, iterative survey data, here are six things we learned consumers want from retailers heading into 2021: 1. One in four consumers are shopping more with small brands. on average.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The problem is, consumers don’t seem to want them. A survey we recently conducted of 2,000 consumers found that the vast majority of shoppers (85%) were uninterested in using AI to help make purchasing decisions. And this problem will only become more intractable if consumers can’t shake their skepticism about AI.

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RTP blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

The seventh annual Retail TouchPoints Omnichannel Survey shows where retailers are succeeding in connecting with the consumer, as well as where they need to improve. Did anything from the survey catch your eye? The survey showed a 32 percentage point rise in 2018, reaching 84% of total respondents.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This is crucial considering a recent Publicis Sapient report on customer loyalty , based on a survey of over 8,000 consumers across six countries, revealed that 52% of global consumers report having slight to no brand loyalty overall.

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RTP blog

AUGUST 8, 2018

Last week, Retail TouchPoints unveiled its inaugural Personalization Benchmark Survey , revealing how retailers have reaped the benefits of personalization strategies as well as identifying where there is still room for improvement. With 66% of retailers crediting personalization strategies with increasing their sales, and 46%.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Unfortunately, unexpected situations can occur at any moment, like a global pandemic that reduces foot traffic to a trickle, or the shift of consumer demand online from offline channels. Consumers Want Digital Interactions. Though they’ve seen success, relationships built solely on in-person interactions aren’t scalable.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

According to the study, TV and movies no longer dominate the media landscape like they once did as consumers, especially younger ones, increasingly turn to new digital channels for more immersive entertainment experiences. ” This year’s survey encompasses the opinions and behaviors of 2,020 U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

True to form, Best Buy turned its eye to advertising’s newest tech-infused channel to reach this consumer segment — connected TV (CTV). CTV viewership is growing every year as more and more consumers “cut the cord,” and the vast majority of U.S. But just as the number of CTV viewers is climbing, so is the number of advertisers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Retailers certainly need to know what consumers want , but perhaps an even more important question is: How do I provide it to my shoppers? Jess Huang, Partner at McKinsey, said that by honing data governance and targeting practices, retailers can give consumers a better experience not just on their site but across the internet.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It started with COVID, and it hasn’t stopped — consumer shopping behaviors continue to rapidly shift even as the pandemic moves into the realm of memory. For brands and marketers, it’s hard, nigh impossible, to keep up with how and where consumers are shopping today, but media planning and buying platform Infillion tried.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 28, 2023

Impulse purchases are an important part of a consumer brand’s revenue growth management (RGM) strategy. These are tried and true tactics that get consumers to buy on impulse. Of course, this doesn’t mean impulse buying goes away altogether, but brands need to switch up how they target and message consumers to spur impulse buys.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2024

A historic pandemic with a double-whammy of supply chain and staffing issues as well as persistently high levels of inflation have up-ended a lot of industry norms and pushed consumers to increasing their scrutiny on where and how much they spend. consumers are increasingly looking for deals and overall experience when shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2022

One key finding from our report revealed that just 6% of consumers think online shopping experiences are always relevant — proof positive that retailers are still struggling to provide the relevant online shopping experiences their customers have come to expect. Mobile search optimization. Mobile commerce is the future of ecommerce.

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RTP blog

APRIL 25, 2017

But despite mobile’s meteoric growth as a sales catalyst, the actual number of transactions completed on mobile devices remains low: $60.2 Mobile casts a shadow that’s 30 times its size,” said Laura Naparstek, a Forrester researcher who spoke at the recent Forrester Consumer Marketing 2017 Forum.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2024

When shopping for technology, we know that many consumers like to do their own research and turn to Best Buy and CNET to help them explore, discover and get inspired by new and exciting technology,” said Jennie Weber, Chief Marketing Officer at Best Buy in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 26, 2023

In today’s ever-evolving ecommerce landscape, the battle for consumer attention and loyalty rages on. This insight takes center stage in our Baby Boomers & e-commerce: Understanding Generational Sentiment study, a survey of more than 1,000 consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

As consumers have turned to more sources to shop, retailers have diversified their commerce and marketing strategies. In fact, Retail TouchPoints has seen the number of channels used to conduct business grow year after year in its annual Omnichannel and Fulfillment Benchmark Survey.

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RTP blog

AUGUST 13, 2018

Dads Love Mobile With video consumption on mobile accelerating, mobile video ads present an opportunity for brands to connect with dads at every step of the purchase process. In fact, one-third of the men surveyed in our study noted they plan to watch mobile videos for shopping advice.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 10, 2021

COVID-19 may have forced retailers to offer contactless payment options, but the move toward sustained use is clear; in a global Mastercard survey, 74% of customers said they will continue to use contactless payments in the future. Maintaining payment terminals can be costly and time-consuming to purchase and maintain.

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Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 4, 2018

You’re an executive, an employer, or maybe an up-and-comer in your organization, but either way, you have surveyed the moment and you know that big things are poised to happen.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2020

That’s a question we’ve sought to explore in the CodeBroker Mobile Coupon Survey. Of the 1,204 respondents to the survey the largest segment were millennials. The Mobile Tipping Point. The millennial/mobile phone connection is driving a tipping point when it comes to coupon marketing. Mobile Assures Easy Access.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2023

As the online payments industry continues to evolve, new digital wallet solutions, such as mobile payment apps and e-wallet platforms, are becoming increasingly popular and reshaping the way consumers transact. 4 Pros of Digital Wallets Some of the advantages of digital wallet payment options include: 1.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Retail 274

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. They also need to support a more mobile-enabled workforce that might need smaller, roller-cart type stations, rather than so much emphasis on fixed till cash wraps.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 28, 2023

“For example, fitting room technology, where you can access inventory in real time and check out right through the platform has to somehow end up back at the point of sale, on the website, the mobile app and everywhere else. All transaction elements and devices need to know about that product and about the consumer.”

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Technology Consumer Mobile Operations 262

Wiser

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Pricing information is readily available for consumers at any time of day. To put this in perspective, 96 percent of Wiser survey participants stated that they plan on comparing prices before making purchase decisions. How can you remain competitive with the growing availably of information for consumers? Cleaning Supplies.

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Consumer Mobile Omnichannel Information 88

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The retailer has built, tested and optimized mobile-based technology to help associates feel equipped, informed and connected to serve customers across all channels. Why it Matters: In today’s highly competitive marketplace, many consumer brands and digitally native DTC brands are fighting to stand out and chart a path to sustainable growth.

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