Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2023

Women’s activewear and lifestyle brand Sweaty Betty has rolled out the mobile POS from NewStore in 73 stores across the UK and Ireland. With NewStore , the brand has unified its direct offline and online channels to helps drive operational efficiency and improve the customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The use of AI in ecommerce has uncovered numerous lessons about how modern businesses should operate and engage with their customers. Data Quality is Critical Successfully selling products online requires that companies produce, consume and make sense of a massive amount of data. Multiply that by the 33.4

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 3, 2023

The days of third-party data are over. The cookieless future has settled and users worldwide demand their data be kept private. 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?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2022

Bluecore has launched Bluecore Mobile, a tool designed to replace blast messaging with personalized communications on mobile devices. The solution aims to enable retailers to activate their data so they can put the right messages and recommendations in front of each individual shopper through text.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 9, 2024

Best Buy is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to leverage generative AI technology for new customer service tools. As early as late summer, Best Buy customers in the U.S. The self-service tool will be available on BestBuy.com, on the Best Buy mobile app and when customers call the retailer’s customer service line.

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Forrester attended the International Motor Show Germany, rebranded as IAA MOBILITY. It took place in Munich between 7-12 September 2021. The event was staged as a hybrid event. It managed to attract 400,000 ‘real’ visitors, making it one of the largest trade fairs since the pandemic started.

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Groove

JANUARY 31, 2022

This payment processing system gives businesses the opportunity to expand their mobile sales tremendously. What Is Mobile Express Checkout? Mobile express checkout is PayPal’s mobile version of their express checkout service. Drive Conversions & Mobile Sales. Data Encryption. Email Payment Confirmation.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2022

Brands are facing a customer data conundrum. While 49% of consumers say they’re frustrated by receiving irrelevant content and offers from brands, 45% say they aren’t comfortable sharing their personal data in exchange for more personalized experiences. Zero-Party vs. First-Party Data. So how can the two coexist?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2020

Australia-based Stateside Sports has partnered with Emarsys to harness the solution provider’s fully integrated customer data platform to fuel its future expansion. Stateside Sports is aiming to double its customer database and retail presence within the next two years.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2023

Retailers have access to troves of data: data about their customers, their products and their business. But despite earnest proclamations that consumers expect seamless brand experiences, these data and the insights they generate are resting in disparate systems and used by siloed teams.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2022

DTC frozen food delivery service Yelloh (known as Schwan’s Home Delivery until earlier this year) has tapped Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver a slate of technology-enabled personalized experiences for both its customers and employees.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2022

The Home Depot will roll out more than 125,000 new hdPhones to associates in order to improve both the worker and customer experience at its stores. The mobile devices support communications throughout the entire store and in the parking lots, via both text messaging and walkie-talkie communications. stores by the end of 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Global downloads of mobile shopping apps were up 16% year-over-year in the first half of 2022 while the number of sessions was up 29% , according to data from the It’s Not Luck, It’s Skill: Make Every Marketing Dollar Count This Holiday Season report by data.ai. Mobile Retailing Requires a ‘Mindset Shift’.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2022

The importance of winning loyal customers depends on one-to-one customer personalization and engagement based on customers’ behavior and intent. As the benefits of personalization become more apparent, the rise in data privacy concerns and their impact on organizations are beginning to take center stage.

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Forrester eCommerce

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Having worked in and with the automotive industry for around 25 years, the challenges that OEMs face given their size and structures often inhibit the business agility needed to provide lasting customer value in an age of digital disruption.

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Groove

JUNE 15, 2022

The new way of purchasing goods and services is through Mobile Payments whether you are shopping online or in-store. As millions of users start to use mobile payments each year, it is projected that 4.8 billion people will be completing transactions through mobile payments by 2025. What Are Mobile Payments?

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RTP blog

JANUARY 17, 2018

More and more retailers are creating new kinds of shopping experiences — mostly by converging the physical space with digital tools and technologies — to win over customers. Today’s connected, empowered and tech-savvy customers want the best of both worlds — online shopping customization and personalization with in-store services.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2023

Convenience retailer Kum & Go has debuted a new mobile app touting personalized features along with its new “&Rewards” loyalty program. The new app will display information relevant to each customer, including shopping recommendations based on past activity and the ability to designate a favorite Kum & Go location.

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BigCommerce

APRIL 3, 2018

By the time you read this, everything we’ve learned about mobile SEO could be wrong. This is because the existing paradigm is based on a desktop-first world, and Google is about to catapult us into a mobile-first world with a major update on how they crawl, render and rank the web. Google’s Mobile-First Index.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2023

Right now, retailers are selfishly positioning their customer journey to benefit their marketing efforts, not the end consumer. While data sourcing customer information can be a key part of any marketing strategy, it could also be the reason you’re losing revenue. Here’s why.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2022

Destination retailer Event Network — which operates gift shops for aquariums, zoos, museums, science centers, botanical gardens and other cultural attractions — has upgraded to a mobile point-of-service (POS) system and adopted a new cloud infrastructure as it continues its digital transformation.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Pottery Barn has introduced a new mobile app for iOS that allows users to get free real-time help from a Design Crew associate as well as make in-store, in-home or virtual appointments for design consultations.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In order to do this, retailers need to leverage valuable consumer data to create a more targeted marketing strategy. With innovative technology and data solutions, retail stores can deliver highly targeted offers to engage customers. Reward Your Most Loyal Customers. The global loyalty management market stood at $2.47

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 8, 2021

Mobile World Congress 2021 (MWC21) took place between June 28 and July 1, 2021, after Mobile World Congress 2020 got canceled due to the pandemic. This was the first time attendees could get a sense of the global state of and the major trends in the telecommunications and technology sectors in the previous 18 months. […].

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Bad Bots Are Affecting Your Company More Than You Might Think Every online customer touchpoint – including websites, mobile apps, and APIs – is being attacked by bots. Interrupting good customer traffic, committing fraud, and stealing information – just ad fraud alone is set to exceed $3.3 What are these bad bots doing?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2022

Unsurprisingly, then, location data is widely recognized as a valuable tool for unlocking growth. With it, businesses can gain insights into the offline habits of their customers and figure out where competitors and partners are located to optimize decisions like site selection. Use Location Data to Better Understand your Audience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2024

Google has begun using the zero-party data of customers’ thumbs-up/thumbs-down style ratings and brand preferences to better personalize its shopping experience, helping consumers find the exact products they want among the 45 billion listed by the search engine. Google Style Picking Tool The style ratings, currently available to U.S.

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Optimizely

APRIL 3, 2017

Mobile apps provide marketers with a unique opportunity to creatively supplement the omnichannel shopping experience. And according to eMarketer, shoppers are downloading more retail apps than ever before, with 25% of customers reporting that they had between six and ten retail apps on their smartphone.

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Kissmetrics

JUNE 8, 2021

A few years ago, Google launched its mobile-friendliness update and made page load speed one of its mobile search engine ranking factors. Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP. What Are Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)? In simple terms, Accelerated Mobile Pages is an open-source project designed to optimize faster mobile pages.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2023

AirDroid Business aims to provide a safe, efficient and fast Mobile Device Management(MDM) solution for attended or unattended Android devices. Location tracker and geofencing: The platform can help retailers manage the location of all devices and wipe the data remotely in case of theft to avoid data leakage.

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Kissmetrics

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Optimizing mobile ads is a tactic in almost every business owner’s toolbox. But is that all mobile ads are good for? Is that even what mobile ads are best for ? If you’re using your mobile ads to sell, sell, sell, you may be wasting a lot of your ad spend, to be honest. Mobile ads themselves aren’t a waste of money.

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Digital Doughnut

JANUARY 29, 2024

UK’s retail landscape is evolving rapidly, with Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) at the forefront, helping retailers to intimately understand their customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2023

has appointed Massimo (Max) Magni as its new Chief Customer and Digital Officer. In his new role at Macy’s, Magni will guide the strategic long-term vision and growth of Macy’s digital business, focusing on customer-centric strategies that leverage data and analytics to enhance the consumer journey across touch points.

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RTP blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Geographic information system (GIS) data already is used extensively by retailers for everything from site selection to reporting and business intelligence. Retailers can uncover new dimensions in their analysis of customers and competitors, craft more relevant offers and ultimately increase both sales and revenue.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2021

Data capture solution provider Anyline , which specializes in barcode and optical character recognition technology for mobile devices, has entered the U.S. retail market. The combined price tag and barcode inventory scanner also can empower associates for shelf stocking and other inventory purposes.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

That is why global innovation agency Outform is reimagining the store mannequin by combining 3D-like hologram tech, dynamic content and real-time data into one robust experience. “In This gives consumers a level of control over the experience, allowing them to customize the display based on their wants and needs.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2021

According to McKinsey , 75% of consumers tried a new shopping behavior due to economic pressure, store closings and changing priorities, and the data we are seeing internally shows 50% of shoppers now intend to shop both in-store and online. Consumer habits changed drastically last year as people went online to shop. It’s already beginning.

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