Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2022

Amazon is extending Prime benefits to ecommerce sites beyond Amazon.com through the Buy with Prime option. Retailers who utilize Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) will be able to add Buy with Prime to their own checkout process, which will allow Prime members shopping there to utilize Amazon Pay and benefit from two-day shipping and free returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2021

Amazon is well known for being one of the largest retailers in the world. What’s less well-known is that thousands of other retailers are using Amazon technology to power their businesses. Maybe you’ve heard about the cashierless Just Walk Out tech now being used by retailers like Hudson ? The Power of the Cloud.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 18, 2023

Retailers and brands were looking to compete with Amazon's two-day sale this year. Tune in to our key takeaways and analysis for Prime Day.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 29, 2019

US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin followed up in a CNBC interview loudly endorsing the antitrust scrutiny: he said that Amazon has not only “destroyed the retail industry in the US” but that it has also hurt competition. Last week, the DOJ announced an antitrust investigation of Big Tech.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Following the fall 2020 launch of its Amazon One contactless biometric palm reader in two Amazon Go stores, the retailer has rolled out the technology to a total of eight retail locations throughout the Seattle area, according to reporting in TechCrunch and other publications.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2021

The tool aims to solidify Feedvisor’s full-funnel Amazon Advertising solution by enabling brands and retailers to make data-informed decisions across their entire advertising program.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

If you’re looking to create a profitable, long term ecommerce business, then Amazon retail arbitrage is NOT the answer. This post will teach you what is retail arbitrage, how it works and why this business model is not worth the effort. On the surface, retail arbitrage sounds simple and easy.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 14, 2022

Our analysis of retailer activity on Amazon Prime Day 2022 reviewed 115 brand and retailer websites, spanning numerous categories. Here are this year’s key findings.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Walmart and Amazon have retained their No. 2 spots on the National Retail Federation’s 2022 list of the Top 50 Global Retailers , as determined by Kantar Retail. The hypermart channel has also stopped growing as retailers have responded to shopper needs for proximity and convenience.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2020

One of the more jaw-dropping retail statistics of the past few months is the more than 400% increase in Walmart shopping app downloads. Meanwhile, Amazon has had several pains to contend with. The pandemic has meant longer-than-usual delivery times, and they’ve moved back Amazon Prime Day to October.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Amazon is removing its cashierless Just Walk Out (JWO) technology from its Amazon Fresh supermarkets and will not deploy the solution in new locations scheduled to open later this year, according to multiple media reports. The company already had moved the JWO unit out of its retail group and into its AWS cloud computing division.

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RetailDive

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The e-commerce giant and others skeptical of the commission’s antitrust claims say the FTC has an uphill court battle, in part because Amazon’s behavior is just old-fashioned retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The National Retail Federation (NRF) is advocating for retail workers to be included among the early recipient groups for the COVID-19 vaccine. The NRF noted that the retail industry directly employs 32 million people and that vaccination would help keep them and the people they serve safe. The full NRF letter can be seen here.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2024

cities, Amazon is making its grocery delivery subscription available to all Prime members in the U.S. Our goal is to build a best-in-class grocery shopping experience — whether shopping in-store or online — where Amazon is the first choice for selection, value and convenience.” Following a pilot in three U.S.

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SellBrite

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Then they decided to start a side hustle with retail arbitrage on Amazon. They took $100, purchased items on clearance, and sold them on Amazon for a profit. All their free time—weekends, days off, before school, and after school—was spent scouring retail stores, searching for discounted merchandise they could flip.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Amazon will close its two Amazon Style stores, located in Glendale, Calif. The store closures are indicative of the caution (and somewhat mixed signals) Amazon has been sending around its brick-and-mortar retail strategy. and Columbus, Ohio, by Nov. 9, 2023, according to CNBC and other media outlets.

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RetailDive

AUGUST 17, 2023

Tens of thousands of retailers with the Amazon Pay checkout option can now offer buy now, pay later financing to shoppers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

With our Editor’s Perspectives column, you’ll get insights and opinions from the Retail TouchPoints editorial team as they dig into the latest trends in retail, marketing and tech. Amazon: Not a Monopoly but Acting Monopolistic? Indeed, retail is one of the least consolidated industries in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Our Editor’s Perspectives columns offer insights and opinions from the Retail TouchPoints editorial team as they dig into the latest trends in retail, marketing and tech. And with consumers increasingly expecting pretty much any digital surface to be shoppable, who better to serve as the test case than Amazon ?

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RTP blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Amazon is reportedly considering a plan to open as many as 3,000 new Amazon Go cashierless stores by 2021, with more than 50 locations in major markets by 2019, according to Bloomberg. But supermarket and convenience store retailers should be preparing now for how they are going to compete.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

There’s an analogy here to what is happening in retail, as retailer leaders have become increasing immersed in technology-driven innovation over the past decade. Retailers are being slowly pulled along with technology’s evolution without feeling any sense of impending doom. Many retailers are at this stage.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2024

However, Walmart’s biggest rival Amazon has been broadening some of its offers beyond the members of its ultra-popular Prime program. In November 2023 , Amazon Fresh expanded its grocery delivery services to non-Prime members, with plans to offer two-hour delivery from both Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods supermarkets.

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RetailDive

MAY 1, 2024

The e-commerce giant’s third-party services, advertising, subscriptions and cloud unit generated double-digit revenue increases in the period.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Amazon has opened a new Amazon Go store in the Tacoma suburb of Puyallup, Wash., 26, 2023, comes despite Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s February 2023 announcement that the retailer would halt expansion of its Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go store footprints. according to reporting in Supermarket News and other outlets.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

For several years now the term “retail media” has been buzzing around both retail and media circles. Whether you’re looking for a deeper understanding of the implications and applications of retail media or need a down-and-dirty explainer on what retail media actually is, you’ve landed in the right place.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2024

Alliance Retail Group (ARG) — a nonprofit self-negotiating ad group that helps independent grocers band together to remain competitive — has launched a retail media network (RMN) that will be powered by Swiftly. billion in retail sales. We are leveraging our consumers and our collective $16.5

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2024

Amazon ’s cashierless Just Walk Out technology has been deployed in more than 120 third-party locations, including airports, stadiums, university campuses, convenience stores and theme parks. Non-staff members can use credit cards, mobile wallets, QR codes or the Amazon One palm payment system to enter and shop at the checkout-free stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

Amazon has announced plans to host a Big Spring Sale in North America from March 20-25 that will feature product discounts available to all customers — not just Prime members as its summer and fall sales events typically do. Amazon set the standard for membership sales events with the launch of its Prime Day summer sale in 2015.

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RTP blog

APRIL 5, 2017

Amazon is taking yet another great leap (and causing great trepidation) within the retail industry, by inviting some of the world’s biggest CPG brands to its headquarters in May. The retailer is attempting to convince these brands to abandon their traditional channel partners and sell direct to consumers on Amazon instead.

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RetailMinded

MARCH 17, 2021

The latest data from Statista suggests that Amazon may account for 50% of the entire e-commerce retail market this year. If you’re an independent retailer looking to make a buck or two in this status quo, online shopping is the name of the game. Once on Amazon, your product will go up against millions more like it.

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RTP blog

APRIL 10, 2017

By Devika Girish, MobStac Unless you have been living under a rock, you’d agree that Amazon shook up the retail world last December by introducing Amazon Go — a physical grocery store that features a checkout-free shopping experience facilitated by a smartphone app. Will Amazon Go Result In Beacons Being Doomed?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2023

grocery retailer from Amazon , with Costco following closely behind in second place, according to the sixth annual Dunnhumby Retailer Preference Index (RPI). Amazon fell to third, while Wegmans took the fourth spot for the third year in a row. Grocery RPI there has been a fierce battle among the top retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It might sound strange to say this about a place where some 80% of transactions actually take place, but brick-and-mortar stores represent an underutilized resource, according to Sarah Jarvis, co-author of the second edition of Omnichannel Retail: How to Build Winning Stores in a Digital World. And we asked, “Do you watch TV with your phone?”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

Amazon is continuing to expand its last mile services beyond its own retail ecosystem with the addition of same-day delivery service from a number of leading retailers’ stores, including PacSun , GNC , SuperDry and Diesel. Amazon said it plans to expand to additional retailers and cities around the country in the months ahead.

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ROI Revolution

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Over half of product searches have moved to Amazon , social networks have captured decor and clothing searches, and music searches have migrated to Spotify. Amazon Business Outperforms Amazon. Amazon Business accounted for 5.7% of all Amazon revenue in 2019, 1.3% over the same period. The post Feb.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

Image courtesy Whole Foods) Amazon -owned Whole Foods Market has unveiled a new, smaller-format store concept that, at about one-quarter of the size of the chain’s typical store, is designed to serve urban neighborhoods. The company also has recently rolled out the Amazon One palm-based payment tech chainwide in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2023

“Omnichannel” has been an aspiration for brands for many years now, but while it used to refer to the merging of a retailer’s brick-and-mortar and ecommerce operations, it now means something very different. This was evident at Prosper Show in Las Vegas, March 13-15, 2023, an event originally developed for Amazon sellers.

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