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The New Retail Frontier: Where Sustainability Meets Customer Loyalty

Retail TouchPoints

These include: Digital enablement: As digitization becomes more widespread, retailers should ensure they have the proper digital tools to anticipate and understand their customers’ needs. Do we have the right user experience? Do we have the right customer experience? Do our physical and digital platforms match?

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Product Substitution: How Savvy Retailers and Manufacturers can Build Supply Chain Resiliency, Reduce Costs and Improve Customer Experiences

Retail TouchPoints

The letdown customers experience when their orders don’t arrive on time, or at all, results in uncertainty and distrust that’s difficult — if not impossible — to remedy. Retailers can expect that customers will turn to other vendors; once this happens, they’ve lost both the sale and the customer’s trust and loyalty.

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The hybrid customer experience may be the key to your eCommerce success

GetElastic

Why a Hybrid Customer Experience is Essential for Today’s Consumer. As it turns out, based on a 2019 study , many customers actually prefer a hybrid experience over one that is entirely online or in-person. What exactly is a hybrid customer experience? Hybrid Customer Experience Example 1: Carvana.

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The hybrid customer experience may be the key to your eCommerce success

GetElastic

Why a Hybrid Customer Experience is Essential for Today’s Consumer. As it turns out, based on a 2019 study , many customers actually prefer a hybrid experience over one that is entirely online or in-person. What exactly is a hybrid customer experience? Hybrid Customer Experience Example 1: Carvana.

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Discount disbelief, returns charge debate, and customer loyalty at a premium. Consumer expectations for 2023

365 Retail

3) Customers will demand more in return for their loyalty. Shoppers will travel back to physical retail spaces as postage charges rise and retailers such as H&M are set to introduce additional costs. Customers will want to take advantage of the retailer channel that offers the best price for the product they want.

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How to Evolve and Personalize in the Digital Marketplace Economy 

Retail TouchPoints

Digital marketplaces help you provide the personalization customers have come to expect, and in today’s crowded ecommerce space, the customer experience has never been more important. Automation helps ensure a seamless customer experience. Global ecommerce sales are projected to exceed $7 trillion by 2025.

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Retail’s Future is Phygital

Retail TouchPoints

The shoe brand, known for donating a pair of shoes to a child in need for each pair sold, provided VR headsets to enable shoppers to join TOMS employees and partners as they travel to communities around the world, measuring and outfitting children with new shoes.

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