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NOT Your Dad’s Supply Chain: 4 Trends Every Retail Exec Should Know for 2024

Retail TouchPoints

These four emerging trends elevate the urgency for supply chain execs to move distributed order management (DOM) to the top of their lists. #1: Retail associates are looking to find that lost sale, that ‘retail shopping cart abandonment,’ and triage at the register. In 2024, it won’t be your dad’s supply chain. More fluid.

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How a Reactive Omnichannel Strategy can Help you Capitalize on Reactive Buying Trends

Retail TouchPoints

Flexibility and timeliness are absolutely key when it comes to responding to fast-moving buying trends, as retailers must balance longer-term buying choices with customers’ shorter-term impulse decisions. Provide a Brilliant User Experience Speed is key when capitalizing on short-term buying trends.

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Generation Z: Between the Worlds of Digital and Analog

Retail TouchPoints

Constant interaction with friends on Instagram and TikTok is part of Generation Z’s lives, so there is no question that these social media channels influence what digital natives put in their shopping carts. These are all qualities of ecommerce, so why not connect the online shopping experience with the POS?

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Opinion: An Unvarnished Review of the Smart Cart Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

The Editors’ Perspectives column offers insights and opinions from the Retail TouchPoints editorial team as they dig into the latest trends in retail, marketing and tech. Smart shopping carts are [an easy way for] retailers to dip their toes into [autonomous checkout].

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19 Shopify Pros and Cons To Understand the Good and Bad

Ecommerce Platforms

You can, for example, browse collections for: Trending themes Minimalist styles Small catalogs Large catalogs Themes to sell in person. When looking at Shopify pros and cons, it’s obvious that the Shopify POS product is one of the main outliers. Luckily, there’s a free product (paid for the Pro version) called Shopify POS.

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Shopify vs 3DCart (Jan 2021): Which Should You Use?

Ecommerce Platforms

A blog also allows you to tell stories to facilitate (soft) sell – something that is emerging as a major ecommerce trend, as discussed in my post: 10 Eye-Opening ecommerce Trends for 2015. We all have budgets we need to consider when it comes to making decisions about expenses like online shopping.

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Digital Wallets: What’s Good for the Payments Industry is Good for Retailers…Right?

Retail TouchPoints

While these payment options do offer convenience to consumers, and increased conversion rates to retailers, here are four pros and four cons to consider before embracing this evolving trend. 4 Pros of Digital Wallets Some of the advantages of digital wallet payment options include: 1.