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As Consumer Demand for Inclusion Rises, Retailers Must Tackle Legacy Issues and Attitudes

Retail TouchPoints

But it’s still true that only a small fraction of the fashion retail market has put tactical plans into place to support this significant consumer base. As Marci noted, it’s “not just a one-off, box-ticking exercise. billion in the U.S. this year alone, representing approximately 21% of the total women’s apparel market.

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Gen Z, in Their Own Words: What They Really Want from Brands and Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

In addition, Aerie is partnering with companies like Wondermind , which is a platform and community of sorts that provides access to mental fitness exercises, resources and content. With fashion being the biggest perpetrator of waste, retailers like Forever 21 are focused on taking action.

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The Age of ‘Pixel x Frame’: Social Experiential Design

Retail TouchPoints

This exercise is a critical foundation to the experience design phase. Doing so builds upon the digital purchase behavior consumers have adopted, while still offering a fulfillment center vs. a store filled with merchandise that may or may not sell. Key Principles of Social Experiential Design.

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Exclusive Q&A: ‘We’re Asking a Lot More From Our Supply Chains’

Retail TouchPoints

For products like fashion and durable goods, we also do have our struggles, particularly with anything that has a level of manufacturing complexity, like automobiles and electronics. I ask my students to do a basic exercise of mapping the supply chain of a simple product as far upstream and downstream as they can.

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9 Provocative Retail Predictions for 2021

Steve Dennis

Just about everything—from how school and work get done, to how we exercise and attend industry conferences—is moving to some form of physical and digital hybrid. More must become hybrids: part places to buy things, part showrooms, part inspiration source, part service hub, part brand billboard, part fulfillment center.

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Heralding the new age of the chatbot

365 Retail

We’ve seen plenty of dynamic use cases of robots in modern day retail, from Amazon introducing automated retail through their digital Amazon Fresh grocery stores and robot-powered micro-fulfilment, to a whole host of organisations investing in chatbots to provide assistance to online shoppers. Breaking down the CX advantages.

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Late to the e-commerce party: What Marshalls, At Home and others got wrong

Steve Dennis

Several years later, I witnessed the same (and growing) phenomenon in the luxury fashion business. This is merely a recognition of increasingly high online customer acquisition costs, downward pricing pressures and growing fulfillment costs, often attributed to online return rates in excess of 30%.

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