Retail TouchPoints
JANUARY 29, 2024
Store-based fulfillment of customer orders got an enormous boost during the COVID pandemic, when both curbside pickup and delivery offerings became survival tactics for so many retailers. While just 45% of 2022 survey respondents outsourced deliveries to courier services, 57% did so in 2023.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 6, 2024
While some are charging customers fees to simultaneously slow and offset rising costs resulting from elevated return rates, others are adopting returnless refund policies. This approach — where customers are refunded without being required to return an unwanted item — has its place, but it’s not a blanket solution.
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Retail TouchPoints
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
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.
lateshipment
AUGUST 1, 2022
The challenge for retailers is that they’re busier than ever merchandising products, processing payments, delivering orders and juggling a multitude of other daily tasks. The benefits of automation are clear for the business as a whole, and automation can also transform the customer experience even when the customer isn’t directly involved.
Retail TouchPoints
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs.
Retail TouchPoints
MARCH 11, 2021
The dramatic increase in ecommerce volume triggered by the pandemic increased many retailers’ topline revenues, but many are finding it difficult to contain the costs of new types of order fulfillment such as BOPIS, ship-from-store and curbside pickup, according to a report from Incisiv , commissioned by Manhattan Associates Inc.
Retail TouchPoints
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
GoodwillFinds — the online ecommerce platform of the 120 -year-old nonprofit Goodwill — has teamed up with return assurance platform Seel to better “compete with other digital resale websites” by offering returns. The partnership aims to enhance the customer experience on GoodwillFinds.com, which launched in October 2022.
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