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Multi-Channel Retailing and the Buyer’s Journey: Opportunities and Challenges

BigCommerce

Most online sellers begin their journey from one sales channel, setting up shop through a website or marketplace. Buyers, on the other hand, have many touchpoints and paths to purchase, so it becomes necessary for retailers to branch out. According to the survey of American shoppers: 74% shopped at large retailers.

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Online or In-Store? Why Shoppers Embrace Multi-Channel Shopping

Wiser

The rise of eCommerce is also behind the prevalence of multi-channel shoppers: folks who buy from both online and in-store channels. . In fact, it’s a challenge to find someone who only shops from one channel. Multi-channel shopping is the name of the game today. . Online or in-store?

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Exclusive: New Research Highlights How Brands Can Capture Today’s Always-On Shopper

Retail TouchPoints

The ways customers move across channels at different points of the shopping journey. Then, 61% said their likely next step would be an online search or to visit an online retailer (only a small percentage said they’d go straight to a brick-and-mortar store or ask others for advice at this point).

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Sensory Enabling Technologies are Radically Reshaping the Future of Digital Retail

Retail TouchPoints

From 3D billboards to spatial scent to ChatGPT, meet the brands leading the next wave of multisensory retail innovations, and learn best practices to help strengthen your brand’s sensory presence in this new, multi-dimensional experience market. Read part one here , part two here and part three here.

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The Complete Omni-Channel Retail Report: What Brands Need to Know About Modern Consumer Shopping Habits

BigCommerce

It’s a complex process, and it’s why omni-channel selling is so important. There are no crystal balls, but there are strategies, and we’ve teamed up to bring you the most up-to-date statistics on when and how Americans shop online. What is omni-channel retail? Typically, omni-channel retailers aren’t startups.

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Retail Media: Everything You Need to Know

Retail TouchPoints

The kinds of media products a retailer can offer run the gamut from “on-site” advertising opportunities — such as ads and videos on its own website, app or even in its physical stores (an Amazon Sponsored Product ad is the most basic example of this) — to what is typically referred to as “off-site advertising.”

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How to Meet and Exceed Amazon-Driven Customer Expectations 

ESW

But as retailers and brands with DTC ecommerce channels know, meeting online customer expectations in an Amazon-dominated environment is challenging to say the least. While this was good news for brands that had or could set up ecommerce channels, it may have accelerated and intensified The Amazon Effect.

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