Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

Self-described on her Instagram account as a “19-year-old Robot living in LA,” Miquela (who was previously known as Lil Miquela but has since ditched the Lil) is one of the first known virtual influencers — a computer-generated human, essentially a digital character — that takes on all the tasks and tools of actual homo sapiens influencers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2021

Resale — the segment of the secondhand market that ThredUP defines as offerings with more curated assortments — is expected to account for more than half of that total, $47 billion , by 2025. Clark isn’t exaggerating: 33 million consumers bought secondhand apparel for the first time in 2020, according to the report. In 2020, 36.2

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 13, 2025

But what is behind the US consumers love for this Brazilian brand? The brand opened its first US store in 2019 with a flagship at 113 Prince Street in Manhattans SoHo district, right before retailers and consumers lives changed drastically. The carioca spirit, Barreto and Daniel Martinez, Farm Rios global retail director, replied.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2021

Driven by growing consumer concern over how their personal data is being collected and used, governments are enacting legislation, and tech companies are implementing platform changes, that will forever alter the relationship between consumers and advertisers. “A A new era of advertising is taking shape.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

To continue on a positive trajectory, the retail sector must focus on the growth being driven by consumers’ continued adoption of online shopping. In grocery ecommerce alone, online revenues are expected to account for more than 13% of total category sales by 2026. The numbers can be even higher in some cases.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2021

consumers starting their online searches on Amazon, it essentially functions as a product search engine — and a very popular one at that. consumers begin their product searches on Amazon, according to research by ChannelAdvisor and Dynata. The bonanza is an outgrowth of Amazon’s unique place in ecommerce and the marketplace sector.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 1, 2020

It’s been estimated that there are 48 trillion reward points worth $360 billion sleeping in customer accounts across the globe. In 2016, Business Insider reported that Starbucks had $1.2 Instead, this is more of a moment of focus on the consumer base that already exists. As the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Retailers can no longer ignore consumers’ demand for improved sustainability initiatives. The complexities of today’s retail waste require a commitment to sustainability, but those efforts will drive meaningful results that will attract the eyes of investors and consumers. That’s easier said than done, of course.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 29, 2022

Founded in 2016 by serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore , Beauty Pie was created as a one-stop destination for luxury beauty products at ‘warehouse prices ‘ The D2C brand claims it does not charge consumers for the ‘middleman’ or retailer mark-ups.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2023

Consumers are also becoming more exposed to self-checkout options, and they are in turn becoming more normalized and natural. The growing exposure of travelers to self-service options has led to consumers preferring them as they are much more convenient than previous models. Before relocating to Hunt Valley, Md.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2021

But for consumer brands, the ultimate measure of marketing success is in fostering a better relationship with the customer. Today’s brands are increasingly concentrating their energy and resources on top customers — the minority that account for the majority of revenues. That needs to change. Are existing customers sticking around?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

It means taking into account elements like native language SEO, providing images that are appropriate for a local market, and making sure your site is taking into account all the cultural nuances of the regions you’re trying to sell in. Created in 2016, Weglot was built to make website translation fast, simple and instant.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2021

It has taken online resale marketplace Retykle a long time to slowly shift Chinese consumers’ superstitious beliefs that buying secondhand clothing is bad luck, according to founder Sarah Garner. “We In our case], it was like converting one consumer at a time.”. The aspirational resale consumer. The conscious consumers.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 16, 2021

As the quality of living and workers’ wages reached new heights, Western brands spotted a golden opportunity and raced to set up shop in the East to reach China’s 1 billion consumers (and counting). Founded in 2012, lingerie label Neiwai (meaning ‘inside and outside’) is another direct-to-consumer label that began online.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

Today’s consumers rely on their smartphones for, well, just about everything, and Verizon recognizes just how important that connection is. Retail TouchPoints: Many consumers begin their purchasing process online but end up in brick-and-mortar stores. Our mission is to drive seamless omnichannel experiences.”

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

When Matilda first met Don in 2016, I had absolutely no interest in Stax, she told Inside Retail. When [Matilda], Til, came into the brand, she was disinterested in Instagram her account was private, Don said. Now Matilda has over 100,000 Instagram followers on her personal socials, almost double that of Dons personal account.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2020

A 2016 survey found that nearly 80% of impulse buys happen in-store. Consumers use the internet to conduct research, get recommendations from friends, family and influencers and compare prices before making a final decision. Some consumers don’t feel like they are spending real money. Pleasure is intrinsic to the purchase.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2023

Following its launch in Australia in 2016, Danish retail group Bestseller has firmly entrenched its presence in the retail market, with the company making strides in its sustainability and circularity initiatives. It] is regarded as one of the consistently top performing brands amongst our wholesale accounts,” Dahl-Thorup said.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 30, 2024

The platform creates a win-win-win solution – for retailers generating income from inventory that would otherwise go to waste and for consumers getting quality food at a reasonable price during the cost of living crisis. According to the company, food waste accounts for 10 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

“It’s interesting that TikTok has allowed a ‘capital C’ corporation to be involved, but I think it stems from the fact that Barnes & Noble was the very first retailer to identify that #BookTok was a driving factor in book sales ,” said Jessica Brigman, Senior Account Executive at The Walt Disney Co. ’s Merchandising the #BookTok Movement.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2024

IR: Was MCoBeauty available to US consumers via e-commerce prior to launching into Kroger Co stores? IR: What percentage of MCo Beauty’s sales revenue does e-commerce account for in comparison to brick-and-mortar retail? SS: Six per cent. Have you applied any lessons learned from that experience at MCoBeauty?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

His book, Winner Sells All, points to 2016 as the unofficial kickoff of this rivalry, when legacy retailer Walmart started moving into ecommerce and Amazon started investing in physical retail. Now he is digging into the evolution of both Amazon and Walmart, and the ongoing battle between the two companies to reign in the commerce realm.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

. “This case stemmed from Mitre 10 filing a complaint with the NZCC and relates to advertising in the market in 2014 to 2016. Many consumers are strongly motivated by price when making purchasing decisions,” Rawlings said. “In

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The return of the J Crew catalogue was a deliverable that Wadle promised in a LinkedIn post back in 2020 when she first announced that she would be taking the helm of the brand – but there was already wide consumer demand for its return. The theme is obvious, and maybe a surprise to no one, fashion consumers love to see clothes in print.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 25, 2022

They got a lot of attention really quickly, and they got some good accounts. All the while, General Pants was Ksubi’s biggest account, so when the second iteration of the brand ultimately went into administration in 2014, General Pants took over running the brand. In 2008, they actually went into administration.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Douang: When we first launched the business in 2016, we only had what we called ‘the resident format,’ which was internally focused or inside an already secure environment. Anybody who lives in the community can create an account, use our mobile app and get into the store. Their expectations are very aligned with the digital world.

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Inside Retail

JULY 16, 2024

Many direct-to-consumer brands have successfully built consumer awareness by cultivating the founder’s own social media presence. After several years of posting conspiracy theories and anti-Semitic commentary, Deere stepped back as the public face of the brand in 2016.

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Inside Retail

MAY 7, 2024

About one-in-five Chinese is over 60 and by World Bank definitions that makes it a ‘super-aged’ country, a situation partly deriving from the longstanding one-child policy that was abandoned only in 2016. Services are now estimated to account for up to 45 per cent of China’s household spending and it is growing.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 7, 2024

Since TikTok first came onto the scene in 2016, certain retailers have excelled at harnessing the power of the social media platform to go viral and sell products ranging from makeup to perfume to home decor. million fitness subscribers, accounting for almost half of the brand’s connected fitness subscriber base.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Since it debuted its first product, the Impossible Burger back in 2016, Impossible Foods has been on a mission to restore biodiversity and reduce the impact of climate change by transforming the global food system. In 2020, it released its second product, the Impossible Sausage Made From Plants, and it’s just getting started. “So

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Founded by Kirsten Kore and Costa Koulis in 2016 , Designerex has just received a cash injection from PixelForce , the company behind Kayla Itsines’ Sweat app, in exchange for an equity stake. Next on the list of innovations is a consumer-facing app, which PixelForce will help build.

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Retail Gazette

MAY 16, 2024

GlobalData associate analyst Jamel Boughedda explains that BookTok has “reignited many people’s passion for reading who may have not read for a while due to other commitments, especially among younger consumers who engage with TikTok the most” What makes BookTok special? “It ” Waterstones, which has 174.3k followers and 4.1m

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Because if this business doesn’t improve, if the consumer does weaken in the second half, one would have to expect that [Catch’s] performance gets a little worse before it gets better.” “We One former Catch employee, who wished to remain anonymous, said it was a repeat of Wesfarmers’ failed takeover of Homebase in 2016.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2023

After formally filing a request for the retail store in 2016, the global tech giant wanted to open the facility in 2020 but postponed the plans due to Covid-19 disruption. Even in semi-rural and rural markets, consumers increasingly prefer online purchases, driven by convenience, discounts, and a wide variety offered by e-commerce players.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2024

Asos said its first order came within 30 minutes of launching, and new shoppers account for 57 per cent of those buying its products via TikTok Shop. Madrid-based Carmen Muley started out hosting AliExpress’ first live stream in China in 2016 and now advises brands on live shopping strategy through her company Paragon Social Commerce.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 8, 2021

The retail industry in the US accounts for 18.7 % of total gross domestic product (GDP). Following data from SCORE research prove the point: Small retailers account for 98.6% per year on average between 2016-2021. between 2016-2021. Organizing a retail event in a physical store can be a good way to pull consumers.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2022

Retailers in Southeast Asia, like elsewhere, have accelerated their adoption of digital platforms as consumers have been forced online to meet their everyday needs. Although physical stores will continue to play a role, the rise of technology and e-commerce has shifted consumer behaviour and preferences. DTC is poised to grow.

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