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Harris Poll Survey: How Supply Chain Operations Impact Customer Satisfaction During Coronavirus and Beyond

Retail TouchPoints

The supply chain has faced fulfillment challenges from this influx of online orders, along with a myriad of crisis-related disruptions including: Long wait times at warehouse depots. Improve Supply Chains, Boost Customer Satisfaction. Reducing manufacturing expenses is key to passing cost savings along to customers.

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Customer Retention Strategies to Increase Your Repeat Sales and Profits

Ecommerce Guru

According to studies, repeat customers may account for more than 40% of a company’s income, and boosting customer retention rates by 5% can boost earnings by 25% to 95%. Also Read: Easy Rules to Write Product Descriptions That Sell What are the best customer retention strategies?

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Unlock Loyalty Throughout The Customer Lifecycle

Forrester eCommerce

Loyalty marketers have conventionally focused their efforts on customers post-purchase: increasing customer retention, enrichment, and advocacy. But brands and customers alike have faced unprecedented challenges over the last few years, including a pandemic, supply chain issues, and social […].

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Retailers Increasingly Turning to Third-Party Resources to Handle Fulfillment

Retail TouchPoints

But the 2023 survey showed that for approximately three in 10 respondents, omnichannel strategies also are being designed to create practical, bottom-line benefits: 31% of retailers cited improving customer retention as a key omnichannel objective, and 29% identified both reducing returns and making fulfillment services more cost-effective.

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How to Make Sense of the Complex Modern Grocery Retail Landscape 

Retail TouchPoints

First, supermarkets must determine exactly how much inventory to order so as not to waste food or purchase insufficient supplies. The challenge with ordering too much food is that shipping is expensive and often unreliable with supply chain troubles, and warehouse space is a very limited resource.

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Bed Bath & Beyond to Close 150 Stores, Cut 20% of Workforce

Retail TouchPoints

The retailer has begun shuttering 150 lower-producing Bed Bath & Beyond stores and plans to cut its workforce by approximately 20% across the corporate and supply chain divisions. The retailer plans to leverage its recently introduced cross-banner Welcome Rewards loyalty program to drive traffic, sales and customer retention.

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Inside Smart Commerce: The Future of Brick-and-Mortar is ‘Store as Media’

Retail TouchPoints

In fact, experts and practitioners across the retail spectrum largely agree that the store is a crucial vehicle for customer retention, engagement and loyalty. Even once-digital only brands like Warby Parker have doubled down on their store investments.

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