Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The Ikea AI Assistant also lets shoppers explore the retailer’s catalog and check for item availability across different Ikea locations, as well as get inspiration from real-life home transformation stories within the Ikea global community and tips from furnishings experts. “The

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RetailDive

MARCH 24, 2021

The social media platform has seen 80% growth in engagement with shoppable items over the past year.

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Social Media 120

Fastr

DECEMBER 22, 2023

From product categories to gift-finder quizzes, price ranges to digital catalogs, ecommerce gift guides are intended to simplify the holiday shopping process for those looking to purchase special somethings for everyone on their list. They're certainly common, but they're most definitely not all made equal.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2021

The Yahoo Shops marketplace will feature a personalized digital storefront. Users go through a brief onboarding where they indicate their tastes and preferences and are then presented with their “own digital mall” featuring brands that align with their interests.

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RetailDive

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The first time the retailer foregoes a print catalog comes as Pinterest sees greater interest for children's furnishings amid distance learning.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 7, 2023

The design itself is meant to evoke a modern and digital feel with the inclusion of interactive screens that will let users browse its catalog and book styling appointments. The storefront also will serve as a focal point for Ralph Lauren’s Web3 push, playing host to a series of “innovative and immersive moments.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Lily AI and Pimberly have partnered with the goal of providing global brands with the ability to streamline product data and digital asset management. The Lily AI/Pimberly partnership can help retailers gain more accurate and robust product data within their centralized product catalog to power all downstream systems.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

The solution features built-in catalog services and automated marketing campaigns as well as flexible fulfillment solutions that allow retailers to choose the model that works best for their stores. Canseco’s Market , Harps Foods and Price Chopper have joined the 600+ retail banners using Instacart Storefront to support their ecommerce sites.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2021

Bed Bath & Beyond Mexico will deploy Algonomy FIND to offer shoppers algorithmically personalized commerce search experiences on its digital store. FIND uses Algonomy’s real-time streaming catalog to help ensure that any changes are indexed in real time and product attributes are always up to date.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2023

Harnessing Constructor’s AI-based platform for product search and discovery has helped the retailer realize double-digit growth in search conversion. Home24 serves seven European markets and Brazil with a product catalog and curated marketplace that together offer more than 200,000 SKUs , spanning furniture, tabletop accessories and more.

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Fastr

AUGUST 10, 2023

What does digital experience mean to you? When you’re browsing an online catalog or comparing brands, what leaps out to you most? Is it the speed with which pages load? Is it a search functionality that lets you find the product or the information you’re l ooking for with ease?

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Fastr

AUGUST 10, 2023

What does digital experience mean to you? When you’re browsing an online catalog or comparing brands, what leaps out to you most? Is it the speed with which pages load? Is it a search functionality that lets you find the product or the information you’re l ooking for with ease?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2023

Wayfair has launched the Digital Design Studio, a patent-pending technology that aims to bring the best of online and in-store shopping together. The Studio is a kiosk that allows customers to create and interact with a variety of design layouts and experience products in a digital, fully 3D room with photorealistic quality.

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Salsify

OCTOBER 2, 2017

How can businesses make the most of their digital shelf to boost their own sales? Internet sales continue to surge. The National Retail Federation predicts sales will nearly triple by the end of 2017 in the year-over-year growth rate. What steps can be taken to improve merchandising and support sales enablement?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2024

Just as with the acceleration of digital in the dawn of ecommerce, and again during the early days of COVID when companies that took a “wait and see approach” were left far behind, we’re again at a pivotal moment. Streamline product catalog management. Automate conversational commerce.

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GetElastic

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Has your digital merchandising team ever delayed a launch while waiting for developers to make edits and publish updates? Empower your digital merchandising team to benefit from the speed of a Composable Commerce approach. Ready to empower your digital merchandising team? You are not alone. Elastic Path and Builder.io

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

One way for brick-and-mortar stores to stay ahead of the competition is to expand into digital product. The real opportunity lies in using your digital product strategy as a way of improving the customer experience (CX) and finding new growth opportunities. Skin Rocks took a similar approach.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2023

For example, a retailer looking to use the technology for generating descriptions in ecommerce product catalogs would train the model on relevant product information and metatags specific to its brand and items they sell. Automated catalog and product descriptions.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

I have very vivid memories about Service Merchandise , a now-defunct business with a unique ordering process focused on catalog inventory. the first of what evolved into a chain of catalog showrooms that opened in 1960 in downtown Nashville. During the 1970s and 1980s, Service Merchandise was a leading catalog-showroom retailer.

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ItemMaster

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Decades ago, printed catalogs were the favored child. Companies large and small would spend a solid chunk of their advertising budgets on these thick catalogs; despite being costly, there was simply no other way of getting your information out to the public. They are more affordable.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2024

Instacart offers insights on consumer shopping behavior from its catalog of more than 1.4 This means that CPG advertisers that work with Instacart can now activate Google Shopping ads powered by Instacart’s first-party data and closed-loop insights to reach consumers searching for products on Google.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

The heart of our digital connection with the customer is through the 7-Eleven app — it’s a key driver that allows us to give our customers the convenience they want anytime, anywhere,” said Yaqub Baiani, VP of Product Management at 7-Eleven in a statement. 7-Eleven has increasingly been branding its offerings to consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2024

Navigating digital transformation in 2024’s B2B ecommerce landscape hinges on a deeper comprehension of AI, omnichannel strategies and social commerce. Here we’ll take a look at these trending technologies and how they will shape B2B businesses’ ability to deliver a frictionless experience with their digitally native buyers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The catalog-powered shopping Lens let Snapchatters “try out” furniture in their own settings and share those AR-enhanced pictures and videos with friends on the social platform. The new Snapchat Lens was developed by CGTrader and featured Fatboy’s latest line of outdoor furniture.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2022

That was certainly true for Healey Brothers Auto Group , which was the first automobile dealer to try out Pinterest’s Catalogs feature. Catalogs allows merchants of all kinds to upload their active inventory directly to Pinterest and turn those ecommerce listings into dynamic Product Pins, making them more shoppable. With Healey Bros.,

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Forrester eCommerce

MARCH 28, 2019

More than 400 digitally-native, direct-to-consumer (DTC) disruptor brands have burst on the scene, brands going beyond the online ordering offered by traditional catalog or eCommerce retailer models.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

stores, the retailer is incorporating a suite of digital tools designed to provide a more personalized shopper experience. As luxury fashion brand AMIRI prepares to expand its brick-and-mortar footprint from its four U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2023

For example, Preis noted that TikTok is especially powerful for product discovery and to see what’s trending in specific categories, while Instagram is key for building partnerships with digital content creators who provide a “gateway to their following” so Anthropologie can create more authenticity around the brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

David’s Bridal has already reached more than 16 million consumers through a new shoppable video campaign on TikTok , created in partnership with its digital agency January Digital and digital advertising platform KERV Interactive. Our Dream Makers (our amazing employees) also have a passion for TikTok.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2021

The Elastic Suite platform streamlines the wholesale buying process for both brands and retail buyers, offering a digital year-round transactional platform for use by Emerald’s customers. Key client brands include Patagonia , The North Face , Timberland , Vans and Puma.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

design:retail , a trusted voice for retail designers in the brick-and-mortar space, will be migrating its content to an all-digital format as part of Retail TouchPoints. For future design:retail updates and access to the publication’s full catalog in the coming months, subscribe to Retail TouchPoints.

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Salsify

APRIL 19, 2022

Salsify Open Catalog empowers open collaboration between brands and retailers to help extend their reach on the digital shelf and combat “walled gardens.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 23, 2022

The next step for the 112-year-old floral and gift brand is offering its partner florists updated features within its new MercuryOnline (MOL) platform, powered by Shopify , which FTD CTO Matt Powell describes as “ how digital commerce interfaces with store operations.”. How FTD is Easing Digital Adoption for Florists.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Our operational advantage is built around our dynamic grocery catalog — which is one of the largest in the industry and includes 1.4 And within Ads Manager, they can use Instacart’s digital marketing tools to grow their brand. And good data is the foundation for good AI solutions for retailers,” Sharma added.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 6, 2018

To help CIOs get this right, my very impressive CIO-team colleague, Jeffrey Hammond, has created a collection of reports that catalog the best practices that successful CIOs and digital leaders are […].

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2022

We want Twitter Shops to be the home for merchants on Twitter where they can intentionally curate a catalog of products for their Twitter audience and build upon the product discussions already happening on our service, by giving shoppers a point of action where a conversation can become a purchase.”.

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ItemMaster

OCTOBER 8, 2018

While the printed catalogs of old are still in use by many sales representatives today, more and more people are interested in digital shelf systems that allow interactivity with the products being sold. Here are three reasons why all sales representatives should have a digital catalog.

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