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The Secret Behind Quick-Turn Merch: A Strong Partner

Retail TouchPoints

This versatility is a key tool in appealing to your target customers and creating items they actually want, so it’s important to find a company that offers an extensive product line. While you may not be shipping products worldwide, the benefit of an international company is its extensive network of suppliers, sourcing and tools.

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How Retailers Can Control Costs Even As Return Rates Climb

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Conversely, 73% of consumers responding to a survey by Returnly said they would not shop with a brand again after a poor returns experience. Under these conditions, returns could quickly become a logistical nightmare, a customer experience risk and, most of all, a drain on profits. Normally, apparel returns are roughly 7.5%

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How Rent the Runway Boosted Talent, Sustainability and CX by Moving to the Cloud

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“In the middle of the night, we actually don’t need all the services that power, for example, our fulfillment centers, but we do need that tech running in the middle of the day when we’re taking orders and shipping products,” explained Steinberg. “In It All Comes Back to Customer Experience.

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How to Launch a Marketplace to be the Disruptor, not the Disrupted

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The Marketplace Maturity Model (MMM) is the industry standard assessment of marketplace capabilities and details five levels of sophistication of digital commerce and marketplaces. An example is selling third-party services, such as electrical work, in addition to a third-party product such as a ceiling fan.

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Why Product Packaging Design is Important to Ecommerce Success

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Specifically, both use unique, custom-made product packaging design as a tangible representation of what they each stand for. Both brands have managed to create the expectation of exceptional customer experience and quality—with their packaging. Carry the online customer experience into the real world.

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Khronos Group Goal: ‘Create One 3D Model That Works for Everyone’

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One reason was that with in-person interactions and travel severely restricted, creating and shipping product samples internationally became if not impossible then cost-prohibitive. But as with many other elements of ecommerce, they got a big boost from COVID-19. That’s what everyone wants.”.

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Why Curacao ‘Zags’ When Other Retailers ‘Zig’ — and How This Drives its Success

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Curacao also can ship products as large as refrigerators, and offers money transfer services that tie back into the retailer’s emphasis on credit and mutual trust. “People come to our stores and buy their flower arrangement and we make sure it’s delivered in Mexico, wherever it is that their family or their mother lives.

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