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Preparing for the Rise in Online Retail Returns

Retail TouchPoints

How online retailers handle merchandising, use technology and approach return policies can mean the difference between waste and wins. It is clear that the best way to avoid returns, especially for online retailers, is by using technology to improve accuracy and personalize the experience.

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Sensory Enabling Technologies are Radically Reshaping the Future of Digital Retail

Retail TouchPoints

Today, it is possible to stimulate all consumer senses online. Sensory Enabling Technologies (SETs) enable consumers to feel textures, smell and even perceive the taste of a product. We’ll also investigate how senses available online can be used to trigger perceptions via the absent ones. virtual reality).

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Clean Data, Clean Planet: How Online Retailers can use Data Analytics to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Retail TouchPoints

The acceleration of the digital economy has led to technological innovation in many aspects of retail operations. New tools make data available to retailers like never before and are the linchpin to improving efficiencies, reducing waste, saving energy and assessing overall carbon footprint.

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The Cost of Living Crisis: How Online Retailers Can Weather The Storm

Frooition

The cost of living crisis caused by rising energy costs and the subsequent squeeze on household budgets will hit online retail businesses hard this winter. 10 Tips To Help Online Retail Businesses Survive The Cost of Living Crisis.

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Internal Warehouse vs. 3PL: How to Reach the Best Decision for Your Business

Retail TouchPoints

In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. In contrast, 3PL services oversee the order fulfillment cycle on behalf of the company. Many successful online retailers are choosing to outsource their operations to 3PL provider.

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Harnessing Technology to Help Retail Battle Against COVID-19

Retail TouchPoints

The impact of digital technology on the retail industry has been nothing short of profound. In recent years, bricks have morphed into clicks and taps as consumers have embraced the convenience of online shopping. Still, nothing could have fully prepared retailers — both online and in the physical world — for COVID-19.

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Brightpearl Launches ‘Growth Hacking’ Podcast For Online Retailers 

RetailMinded

Each guest on the show has been recognized as being one of the fastest growing online businesses in the world, having made the cut for Brightpearl’s ‘ Lightning 50 ,’ a definitive list of the fastest growing e-commerce companies across the nation. But the one thing that busy entrepreneurial e-commerce businesses don’t have is time.