Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2022

Collective Cannabis has partnered with AI and robotics startup Wings to utilize the solution provider’s EXO Delivery System to streamline logistics and deliver an enhanced customer experience. The shop will operate with eight budtenders and dedicated stations for both mobile and online orders. which is set to open in Q1 2022.

Customer Experience 278

Customer Experience Customer Operations Mobile 278

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

When customers place ecommerce orders, the last thing they want is an unhappy surprise. 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. In other instances, customers might expect an upgrade for their trouble.

Shipping Costs 250

Shipping Costs Customer Experience Supplies Improvements 250

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

Instant access to highly-skilled personnel with niche experience. Flexibility in your company’s response to market trends and customer demands. Access to real-time traffic and weather data generates more accurate travel estimates, so technicians know how long their travel will take — and customers will know when to expect help.

Customer Experience 335

Customer Experience Customer Travel Technology 335

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 20, 2022

The Home Depot has tapped two technology veterans for high-level positions, naming of Matt Carey as EVP of Customer Experience, a newly created role, and Fahim Siddiqui as EVP and CIO. Before that Carey worked for 20 years at Walmart with roles including SVP and CTO. “In

Customer Experience 279

Customer Experience Customer Supplies Technology 279

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Customers aren’t analyzing their behaviors within retail locations, but every retailer should be, and they should be learning from it every step along the way. It’s imperative customers are safe, comfortable and are offered privacy as they move about. Shoppers of the experience were 1.5X Shoppers of the experience were 1.5X

Customer Experience 294

Customer Experience Customer Apparel Technology 294

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The landscape of commerce and delivering customer experience changed dramatically over the past year, as millions of shoppers found health, safety, social distance and remote work taking center stage in their daily lives. So what are the customer experience and commerce trends that will continue, or become more fully realized, in 2021?

Customer Experience 296

Customer Experience Customer Omnichannel Social Media 296

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2024

Best Buy Canada has partnered with Bell Canada to operate 165 stores in malls and smaller and mid-sized communities across the country. Best Buy and Bell will invest in an updated store experience and expanded product assortment, customer experience and training.

Operations 247

Operations Consumer Electronics Telecommunications Electronics 247

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

While many holiday shoppers favor online experiences to avoid waiting in endless checkout lines or battling over parking spaces, many now face competition from a new challenger: automated bad bots. The bot operators then resell the goods at a higher margin to make a profit. A Roadmap to a Bad Bot-Free Holiday Shopping Experience.

Customer Experience 271

Customer Experience Customer Gifts Management 271

lateshipment

AUGUST 1, 2022

In the always-on retail environment, the convenience of a seamless experience is the key to winning more customers. According to Linnworks research , over 80% of shoppers are looking for a frictionless, cross-device ecommerce experience. Of course, customers can’t place orders if there’s no product to sell.

Customer Experience 147

Customer Experience Payment Services Customer Shipping Costs 147

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

How can companies deliver personalized ads at scale, search for new customers and conquer new markets, launch effective marketing campaigns and optimize products and brand experience? In short, how can businesses connect with their customers? I will share a customer case example that answers these questions.

POS 244

POS Customer Experience Customer Technology 244

Forrester eCommerce

DECEMBER 15, 2019

These next-generation, digital operations platforms […]. But, a new generation of products promise to re-invent ERP by providing high innovation, easy ability to adapt to your business needs, and AI embedded in every major business process.

Operations 195

Operations Customer Experience Customer 195

Forrester eCommerce

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A great digital experience starts with the basics: a strategy for omnichannel engagement; great design; personalized, yet trustworthy, experiences; and, of course, the technology and operations to support it. But to differentiate your company’s digital presence, you will also need to be creative in your approaches and solutions.

Customer Experience 370

Customer Experience Omnichannel Customer Operations 370

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2023

In fact, results from Retail TouchPoints’ latest Store Design & Experience Survey revealed that 58% of respondents plan to remodel and/or renovate a minimum of 11% of their store footprint through 2024. Leap is helping these brands rise to the occasion by leveraging its strategic relationships with operators.

Operations 322

Operations Omnichannel Customer Experience Consumer 322

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Inkga Group, owner and operator of 482 Ikea stores and ecommerce in 31 countries, will adopt a solution from Made4net to power fulfillment centers and store operations worldwide. The deployment follows the purchase of Made4net by Ingka Investments , the group’s investment arm.

Fulfillment 286

Fulfillment Operations Order Fulfillment Omnichannel 286

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 11, 2021

Many retailers are getting the concept of customer journeys wrong, or, rather, they have great customer journeys mapped out — they just end after the “purchase” moment. The problem is that once you have won that customer, their loyalty isn’t locked in — you need to draw them back again and again. Refund Versus Exchange.

Customer Experience 193

Customer Experience Customer Customer Retention Books 193

lateshipment

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Because it realizes that a poor delivery experience means a dissatisfied customer less inclined to purchase in the future. The Post-Purchase Experience Gap. The time starting from when the retailer ships a package to when it is in the hands of the customer defines the customer’s post-purchase experience.

Customer Experience 260

Customer Experience Management Shipping Costs Customer 260

lateshipment

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

While your company’s products and sales efforts will ultimately be most directly responsible for generating and maintaining business, the on-site experience you provide also plays a key role in attracting and intriguing customers. Here's What You Need to Do to Piece Together a Better On-Site eCommerce Customer Experience.

Customer Experience 219

Customer Experience Improvements eCommerce Customer 219

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

The ecommerce site closed on March 2, and the company expects to wind down its brick-and-mortar operations by late June 2023. Nordstrom’s Canadian operations employ approximately 2,500 people. “We We want to thank our team for their performance and dedication in serving customers in Canada. in a statement.

Operations 282

Operations Department Stores eCommerce Supplies 282

iVend

MARCH 17, 2023

Ask any retailer and they’ll tell you that an enhanced customer experience is at the top of their ‘must do’ list. Improving customer experience is the key to winning new customers, keeping existing ones happy and bumping up revenue and profit. iVend helps retailers analyse data for an enhanced customer experience.

Customer Experience 98

Customer Experience Improvements Customer Retail 98

Fabric

MARCH 28, 2023

Furthermore, losing control of the customer experience can attract bad actor sellers and expose businesses to financial, legal, and operational risks. Their marketplace has attracted bad actor sellers and their carefully-planned expansion into the long tail has eroded the customer experience and negatively impacted the brand.

Customer Experience 130

Customer Experience Customer eCommerce eCommerce Platforms 130

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

While autonomous stores and technological innovation are high on the retail agenda, the infrastructure and operational efforts that enable them aren’t often given the same broad attention. These operations may struggle to adapt to the unique needs of automated checkout systems and smart stores.

Payment Services 217

Payment Services Operations Banking Technology 217

Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 31, 2023

Customer obsession starts with deeply understanding your customers’ needs and flows through to aligning your business operations to serve them profitably.

Customer 369

Customer Operations Customer Experience 369

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

Inventory needs to be carefully sorted between the front and backroom, and each store needs to have a clear view of inventory to ensure customers aren’t disappointed by an out-of-stock. “At Having RFID-tagged items also drives efficiency and a great customer experience on a moment-by-moment basis.

Operations 252

Operations Customer Supplies Technology 252

Groove

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This was the case for one of our clients, so our team created a custom eCommerce integration to help the company modernize their website and upgrade the user experience. eCommerce Integration: Improving B2B Operations. Operating in this manner caused frustrations for the sales team. The Solution.

B2B 221

B2B Operations BigCommerce eCommerce 221

RTP blog

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Brands are facing more complexity than ever with the growing needs of customers and the multiplying number of sales channels. As a result, consumers are expecting customized products marketed with relevance via their preferred medium. By Agnes Law, Schawk! In APAC, e-Commerce sales have tripled from $600 Billion USD in 2014 to $1.8

Customer Experience 195

Customer Experience Customer eCommerce Retail 195

365 Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There is no denying that modern retail technology – and digitisation of the retail sector – is transforming everything about what shoppers want and how a retail organisation operates. Store associates are at the coalface of the bricks and mortar customer experience journey and play a key part in the digitisation of retail.

Customer Experience 85

Customer Experience Customer Retail Technology 85

iVend

JUNE 15, 2022

Customers took to social media to vent their frustration about price differentials of up to 40%, and the confusion of some items being more expensive online than in-store, and vice versa. For a retailer that has enjoyed an enviably strong reputation with the shopping public, this retail customer experience was a big blow to its reputation.

Customer Experience 98

Customer Experience Customer Retail Channel 98

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2023

But it’s how those stores operate that allows them to effectively serve as fulfillment hubs. One reason is that there didn’t seem to be a pressing need for online pre-ordering given the level of convenience its stores already provided: “Our average customer is in and out of the store in eight minutes,” said Mikos.

Payment Services 237

Payment Services Operations Omnichannel Fulfillment 237

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2023

Sustainability has become more important than ever in the retail industry, and within the supply chain, retailers now have access to technology that provides them with a 360-degree picture of their inventories and customer preferences. There is also a significant intersection of sustainability with customer preference data.

Supplies 236

Supplies Operations Shipping Costs Customer 236

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

We have built a strong online presence and as we expand into in-person retail, Tulip’s solution will let us conduct reliable outreach to customers, allowing us to send merchandise via the digital catalog and pre-sell using Tulip’s remote pay solution,” said Greg Moss, VP of Operations at AMIRI in a statement. “We

Operations 257

Operations Fashion Books Customer Experience 257

Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Where should you focus your efforts in 2022 to deliver the best possible customer experience and better organizational performance? Start with these five areas.

Operations 370

Operations Marketing Customer Experience Customer 370

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2023

Shopping center operators are facing a new call to action: Evolve and elevate your experiences or lose your customers forever. We’re pivoting away from being a real estate company and leaning into being an experience company,” said Stephen Yalof, CEO of Tanger Outlets in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

Food and Beverages 304

Food and Beverages Operations Consumer Omnichannel 304

lateshipment

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Picture this : You’re a retailer based in Chicago, dealing in apparel and your loyal customer John has ordered a tux for his high-school reunion from your store. And a bad experience is nothing but a chance for your customer to put a full-stop to you and start shopping with your competitor. Last-mile operations are complex.

Customer Experience 233

Customer Experience Shipping Costs Customer Shipping 233

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2024

“Over the past several months, Joann has made meaningful business improvements through the execution of our Focus, Simplify and Grow cost reduction initiative,” said Chris DiTullio, Chief Customer Officer and co-lead of the Interim Office of the CEO in a statement. “We

Operations 237

Operations Improvements Information Other 237

GetElastic

APRIL 23, 2019

Imagine a customer service experience where the business representative is always available, friendly and equipped to handle any inquiry you send their way. They have quickly taken over customer service functions for a growing number of businesses. The B2C Experience.

Customer Experience 155

Customer Experience Payment Services Customer B2B 155

RTP blog

MARCH 2, 2018

By Paul Millette, Carousel Industries For arguably anyone in retail, the conversation of “delivering the ultimate customer experience” is as prolific as discussions about inventory management, supply chain operations and P&L statements. 1 driver in bolstering the customer experience.

Customer Experience 150

Customer Experience Customer Supplies Point of Sale 150