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Navigating the new normal in retail shipping: Insights from Shippit’s new report

Inside Retail

As economic pressures persist and competition increases, customer expectations for shipping and delivery grow. Shippit’s latest State of Shipping Report for 2024 offers a comprehensive look into current trends and challenges facing retailers, shedding light on how businesses can adapt and thrive in this dynamic environment.

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CommentSold Moves into DTC Sales with Popshoplive Acquisition

Retail TouchPoints

The deal coincides with the wide launch of CommentSold’s drop shipping capabilities, creating an end-to-end platform for direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales. “I These sites will automatically feature seller-curated drop ship items as ecommerce listings. CS has stood out in the live commerce sector in the U.S.

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The Secret Behind Quick-Turn Merch: A Strong Partner

Retail TouchPoints

How do these brands turn around these drops so quickly? This versatility is a key tool in appealing to your target customers and creating items they actually want, so it’s important to find a company that offers an extensive product line. The success of any pop culture-related merch drop is not just production speed.

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Real-Time Inventory and Search Integration: The Backbone of Next-Level Ecommerce

Retail TouchPoints

Although inventory visibility already plays a central role in meeting demand, maintaining service levels, and streamlining operations, its the combination of real-time inventory visibility and advanced search functionality thats reshaping your customer experience by delivering on transparency, control, confidence and reliability.

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How Sephora Turned Order Fulfillment into a Loyalty-Builder

Retail TouchPoints

I eventually realized in 2018 that there was a critical opportunity around convenience , and I wanted to advance that strategy. I raised my hand, said I believed there was a role there, and we have been chipping away at our omnichannel experience since.” The retailer even ran a flash shipping program as early as 2015.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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Google Ads Tips: Target The Right Customer At The Right Point In The Shopper Journey

Retail TouchPoints

However, other retailers proved they could fight back in paid search, where the retail giant’s beauty impressions fell by 20% between the start of 2018 and the end of 2019. Most retailers can’t compete with the company in terms of absolute selection, price or free shipping options, so they have to focus on other sales drivers.

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