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Building Loyalty Without Breaking the Bottom Line: the Dual Shipping Dilemma for Ecommerce Merchants

Retail TouchPoints

Online shopping is now easier than ever before, enabling consumers to purchase everything from socks to a dining room table from a computer at their home to a mobile phone in an airport terminal. While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers.

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How To Calculate Shipping Costs

Ecommerce Platforms

Shipping doesn't have to be free. However, studies have shown that 91% of ecommerce customers rethink their purchases from online stores when they realize that the shipping wasn't priced well or it wasn't fast enough. What's more, about 43% of those consumers go right to marketplaces as alternatives.

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Scaling Up Sales in Enterprises: Weighing Discounts Against Free Shipping

Wiser

When it comes to online retail, pricing strategies can make or break a business’s success. Among these strategies, two stand out as particularly effective tools for driving conversions: discounts and free shipping. On the other hand, free shipping has emerged as a potent marketing strategy in the era of eCommerce.

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Alibaba Supply Chain Exec Recommends Futureproofing with AI, Blockchain and Crowdsourcing

Retail TouchPoints

In 2020 he joined Alibaba, where he is now tasked with developing the company’s strategy and building platform-level solutions around international shipping, logistics, cross-border trade and global expansion. Retail TouchPoints: The supply chain has been a huge topic of conversation since the pandemic struck.

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Six Things the Consumer of 2021 Really Wants

Retail TouchPoints

In 2020, more than any year since the advent of online and mobile commerce, consumers lost a sense of control. Online shopping became a refuge, not because of overwhelming convenience, but because contactless commerce was necessary. One in four consumers are shopping more with small brands.

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Clean Data, Clean Planet: How Online Retailers can use Data Analytics to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Retail TouchPoints

The acceleration of the digital economy has led to technological innovation in many aspects of retail operations. New tools make data available to retailers like never before and are the linchpin to improving efficiencies, reducing waste, saving energy and assessing overall carbon footprint. Making the Warehouse Energy Efficient.

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How Brands can Deliver More Value to Shoppers in 2023

Retail TouchPoints

Although there are signs that inflation is easing, higher prices and an uncertain economy continue to impact consumer behavior. Although many customers are “brand loyal,” given the economic environment, stressed consumers nowadays will most often make retailer and product choices with price as the main factor.