Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Retail’s busiest returns period may be in the rearview mirror until next year, but rising ecommerce order volumes have caused returns management to become an aspect of ecommerce and omnichannel business that warrants a dedicated year-round strategy. Returns are a major cost of doing retail business of any kind, but especially online.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The company has successfully helped retailers like American Eagle Outfitters leverage RFID and computer vision-based inventory tracking technology to create a holistic, near-real-time view of inventory across stores to empower both associates and consumers. Hewett: Creating a positive omnichannel experience starts with inventory accuracy.

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UpSellIt

JULY 13, 2023

In today’s competitive landscape, embracing an omnichannel retail strategy has become essential for businesses to thrive. Read on to explore the key elements of an omnichannel retail strategy and how it can benefit your business. What is Omnichannel Retailing? What is Omnichannel Retailing?

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Ecommerce Platforms

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

If you're reading this blog post, you'll know that there are many challenges to running your own online store; one is handling the storing, packing, and shipping of your products. Whether you work alone or with staff, the fulfillment process is bound to take heaps of time away from other, more important, money-making tasks.

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Ecommerce Platforms

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The best fulfillment services for Shopify are designed to help ecommerce business owners deliver products to their customers quickly and efficiently. This means you need to plan how you’re going to store your goods, pick and pack them for delivery, ship them through the right providers, and so on. Shopify Fulfillment Network.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Best Buy is doubling down on its commitment to ecommerce with a new four-store pilot that will reduce the shoppable area so that these stores can better operate as fulfillment hubs. The shift will give these stores more space for staging in-store pickup and additional support for ship-from-store transactions.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

But consumers aren’t just buying items online and having them shipped to the house. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How have shifts in consumer behaviors and expectations impacted the way retailers invest in technology? In fact, 36% of retailers still tell us they’re planning to spend more [on technology] in 2022 than they did in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

Ready to grow even further, the company launched a digital transformation to swap out its legacy systems, advance customer knowledge through data and provide a truly omnichannel customer experience. If a customer walks into a store and says, ‘My hands are full, ship it to me,’ that’s one experience we have to offer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

The demand for grocery omnichannel ecommerce has been fueled by the pandemic, specifically consumers’ desire for convenience. To keep up with this demand and consumer expectations, grocers will have to invest in the right forward-looking technology to evolve omnichannel offerings to meet customer needs.

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ESW

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Brands maintain control over every aspect of their experience, from their data and the look and feel of their ecommerce sites to their content, catalogue, payments, fulfilment, and delivery and returns experience. Furthermore, Shopware relies on a global network of 1,600 sales, technology and solution partners, securing a stable ecosystem.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

stores, to distribution center-based fulfillment of large items like riding mowers, grills and furniture. The retailer’s legacy distribution model had stores operating as nodes in the fulfillment process. Lowe’s has converted eight of its regions, covering more than half its nearly 1,800 U.S.

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ROI Revolution

MAY 20, 2021

For consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands, in particular, this change in the way consumers shop necessitated a different approach: omnichannel. Director, GM of Omnichannel at BigCommerce. But the reassuring strength of an omnichannel sales approach is that it’s a risk mitigation strategy at its core. Integrate new technologies.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Consumers’ continued reliance on omnichannel fulfillment has created new opportunities for industry giants like Walmart to differentiate and gain market share. comparable sales growth and growing market share in grocery during Q4 2021, and much of this success can be attributed to its robust last mile and fulfillment strategy.

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365 Retail

MARCH 13, 2023

By building an omnichannel strategy, brands can diversify reach and expand their presence across different channels to communicate with audiences they may have previously failed to resonate with, as well as engage new customers. But what exactly is omnichannel and how can online retailers adapt to meet ever-changing consumer habits?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2020

The impact of digital technology on the retail industry has been nothing short of profound. Amid all the turmoil, one thing is clear: COVID-19 is simply a catalyst for adopting digital retailing technology. In recent years, bricks have morphed into clicks and taps as consumers have embraced the convenience of online shopping.

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Kibo

MARCH 17, 2023

90% of consumers view 2-3 day shipping as a baseline expectation. In response, leading companies are replacing their traditional fulfillment methods with flexible fulfillment strategies. The Role of Fulfillment in the Shopper Journey Historically, fulfillment was simply thought of as a means to deliver products to the customer.

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Dynamic Action

AUGUST 18, 2023

Retailers who want to keep up must implement an omnichannel approach. The omnichannel experience entails a customer-centric approach to create a unified shopping experience for customers. Brands can develop an omnichannel retail experience by implementing an AI-driven visual merchandising platform like EDITED.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A growing retail and ecommerce business can turn an efficient process into a multi-step nightmare with inaccurate purchasing, order fulfillment and returns processes. Hence the undeniable need for robust warehouse management technologies that are future-focused and effortlessly scalable. Sophisticated Automation. System Automation.

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Retalon

APRIL 21, 2021

Omnichannel order fulfillment that drives customer experience (and boosts profits). Although the trend towards omnichannel fulfillment is not new, the pandemic changed many retailers’ business models almost overnight, and these changes are not going away. What is omnichannel order fulfillment in retail?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Shipping delays and stockouts lead to frustration and disappointment, especially when logistical problems impact time-sensitive purchases, such as special occasion gifts, event tickets or prescription medications. Product substitution capabilities ensure they can respond to demand shifts, consumer trends and emerging technologies.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 25, 2022

Retailers save on shipping costs while leveraging their in-store inventories to fulfill customer orders, while shoppers get the products they want without having to wait for a delivery. Prior to this, online orders had been fulfilled from a central distribution center. Click-and-collect, a.k.a.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Open Air Shopping Centers Enable Easy Omnichannel Services. One thing that’s unlikely to change in 2022 is the importance of omnichannel offerings. That means open air shopping centers have become even more attractive due to how they can make curbside and BOPIS fulfillment easier to handle.

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Fabric Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

fabric’s Order Fulfillment Logic automates distributed order management for omnichannel retailers Our next-generation real-time order fulfillment logic is now generally available in fabric OMS. It helps minimize fulfillment lead times and maximize customer satisfaction with minimal effort.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Brands and retailers realize there is no one-size-fits-all strategy for stores — and design teams are rising to the challenge by thinking more creatively and thoughtfully about how they can innovate through new formats, technologies and collaboration methods. Technology is going to be central [to the store experience] — it has to be.

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OrderDynamics

AUGUST 14, 2018

Should You Use A Retail Ship-from-Store Strategy To Fulfill Online Orders? Should online orders be fulfilled using a retail ship-from-store strategy or rather from fulfillment centers? There are good reasons for both fulfillment methods. You are unlikely to ship every e-commerce order from the store.

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Fabric

MARCH 14, 2023

Businesses are often told to: Embrace digital transformation Expand into omnichannel retail And utilize technology to improve personalization By and large, these strategies can help to boost customer lifetime value and build brand loyalty with today’s increasingly discerning consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Ecommerce execution will lean more heavily on store-based fulfillment. Holiday hires will help retailers leverage their store-based omnichannel fulfillment capacity through buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS), curbside pickup, home delivery and ship-from-store services.

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OrderDynamics

APRIL 30, 2019

FAQ: Retail Ship-To-Store. Retail ship-to-store is an option merchants can use to provide in-store pickup services. In a basic form, retail ship-to-store resembles a full BOPIS (buy online pickup in-store) offering. BOSS is the short form for buy online ship-to-store (BOSS). BOPIS & Ship-To-Store – NOT the Same! .

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lateshipment

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

However, as for pain points, customers said they had several frustrations in the previous holiday season such as a lack of communication during the shipping process (57%), lost or damaged packages (51%), and delayed packages (49%). Here are a few tips for delivering a seamless order fulfillment process: 3.1:

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2023

stores and 12X digital revenue growth over the past few years — has required Snipes to reimagine the approach it took in Europe while powering operations with a strong technology stack. “ Generative AI Lets Copywriters Focus on the Human Element Technology has played a role in helping Snipes get its community-driven message across.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Levi’s used an eight-week “boot camp” to train 43 workers with no previous background in data and technology about AI. Many of these changes are recent: “Ship-from-store wasn’t economically viable [as recently as] two years ago,” said Ritter. The second-highest selection was virtual appointments with salespeople/stylists, at 34%.

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OrderDynamics

AUGUST 31, 2017

Omnichannel Retailing: Are You In Or Out? Retailers, you have to make a decision on omnichannel retailing. Prior to this weekend, I did not even realize that there was an ‘undecided’ or ‘partially-in’ category of omnichannel retailing. Here too, the shipping offer was between 3 to 10 days. Omnichannel Consistency Counts.

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OrderDynamics

JULY 9, 2019

FAQ: Retail Ship-from-Store. For this post, we answer frequently asked questions that have come from readers and Google search queries around Retail Ship-from Store. Retail ship-from-store is a smart way retail chains can fulfill customer orders. Q: Why is Retail Ship-from-Store Important?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 16, 2020

Just as consumers grew accustomed to two-day, next-day and even same-day shipping, the entire supply chain shifted. Now, with consumers demanding direct-to-consumer, in-store and curbside pickup, businesses must perfect omnichannel fulfillment to survive. What Is A Collaborative Robot? What Can Collaborative Robots Do?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

As consumers increasingly adopt hybrid and omnichannel experiences, retailers must adapt to meet changing consumer expectations. Leading retailers have addressed these challenges head-on by adopting new technology such as location infrastructure.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

and one of the most consequential has been the dispersion of individuals away from major city centers enabled by advances in remote work technologies and changing philosophies. Meeting Luxury Consumers Where They Are (Image courtesy Whitman Family Development) The COVID-19 pandemic brought about many changes in the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2020

Most of the closures are expected to be smaller, non- Zara branded locations, and the retailer also plans to open 450 new stores fitted with the latest sales integration technology. Staff members at the closed stores will be offered new roles with the company, such as handling fulfillment of ship-from-store orders.

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