Retail TouchPoints

MAY 11, 2021

It’s becoming increasingly clear that returns have costs that go well beyond the financial. 5 billion pounds of returned goods end up in landfills and 15 million metric tons of carbon dioxide are emitted in the transportation of returns, according to research conducted by reverse logistics solution provider Optoro.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Is that even possible coming out of a year like 2020? One futurist we know said, “2020 was so weird I didn’t even get a chance to be wrong.”. Shoppers will return to some degree after the pandemic, but malls need to reinvent themselves. CSR accountability will be a point of competitive differentiation and a matter of law.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2021

Returns in the retail industry have always posed a challenge. A report from Statista estimated 2020 return delivery costs at $550 million, up 64% since 2017. In addition, the past decade has seen returns baked into the business model of several direct-to-consumer starts-ups, including Warby Parker, Stitch Fix and Zappos.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2025

Not only do these technologies improve throughput in most cases; they also enable greater flexibility in meeting expectations related to fast shipping and free returns. In 2020, global ecommerce sales reached $4.2 For starters, consumers appetite for digital commerce is skyrocketing. Just two years later, online sales jumped to $5.7

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

With the stakes for getting returns right continuing to rise, retailers have to focus on multiple elements including the customer’s return experience and streamlining reverse logistics systems (sometimes with the help of third parties). More Online Sales Means More Returns. The big driver? Retailers across the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

Consumer-friendly and flexible return policies can be the difference between getting a new customer and losing a sale. According to proprietary research conducted by Forter, 23% of shoppers will abandon their carts if returns options are poor. Returns Abuse And Customer Expectations. This is amplified in some industries.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2020 my beloved local Fairway went under, and for five years the store space has languished, sitting dark and empty alongside several other shuttered chains: Modells , Subway (although somehow the Kohls has survived). That said, 180 million U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2020

To understand the threat landscape for the upcoming 2020 holiday season, it is important to understand the creative ways criminals target the convenient ecommerce features that were designed to benefit customers during the pandemic. Besides curbside pickup, thieves have also gotten clever about using account takeovers to re-route deliveries.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2020

1, 2020, rising from $18.2 Same-day services, including order pickups, drive-ups and its Shipt subsidiary, grew 273% and accounted for approximately six percentage points of total company comp sales growth. e-Commerce sales nearly doubled, soaring 97% for the period ending July 31, 2020. Target achieved a record-setting 24.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

drop in 2020. “It’s 22, a 10% increase over last year, and retailers need to prepare themselves for the share of shoppers who prefer to make their returns at a brick-and-mortar store. The rise in traffic compared to 2020 showed that shoppers are starting to return to stores. 21, 2021, through Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Macy’s Q4 and full-year 2020 results show signs of a turnaround for the department store, hard hit, like many of its counterparts, by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Polaris strategy proved to be a critical enabler of our performance in 2020, allowing us to adapt and innovate with agility during the pandemic,” said Gennette.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In 2020, consumers spent approximately $630 billion on online shopping, and merchants lost $12 billion to fraud. Account takeover fraud, which is driven by impostor scams, increased by 50%, with no signs of slowing down in 2021. K eep bots out of your customers’ accounts and checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2022

With the pandemic ushering a wave of traditionally brick-and-mortar merchants online since 2020, the chances of being targeted by scammers is at an all-time high. In 2020, retailers lost $17.5B, with a report projecting an 18% increase in losses last year. Return Fraud.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2024

Now, starting June 6, ShopShops’ dedicated Century 21 NYC hosts also will share livestreams on Century 21’s TikTok account. The TikTok Shop launch marks another milestone for the storied off-price retailer, which filed for bankruptcy and shuttered all of its stores in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Additionally, Liquidity Services , which operates a B2B ecommerce marketplace for surplus business and government goods, has launched a new consumer-facing omnichannel marketplace called AllSurplus Deals for returned and overstock goods.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2021

The move, which will include products sold both in-store and online, is part of an effort to rebuild JCPenney in 2021 as the basis for returning to solid growth in 2022. Shashoua also is Chief Investment Officer at Simon , which acquired Forever 21 in partnership with Brookfield Property Partners and ABG in February 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2020

plans to shrink its store footprint by 350 locations as the retailer works to return to profitable growth in 2021, according to CNBC. for Q2 2020, which ended Aug. for Q2 2020, which ended Aug. Gap plans to complete 75% of its initial store closures by January 2022. Ecommerce was a bright spot overall for Gap: sales were up 95%.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2021

Fulfillment was a key driver during the ecommerce-driven final quarter of 2020. Amazon in particular invested more than $60 billion in shipping alone in 2020, helping it maintain blazing fast delivery times, but O’Shea believes its lack of a significant physical store footprint will cause it to lag behind the competition to some degree.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2024

Members must claim their points on their account dashboard by May 18.) Messi also has become a member of Lowe’s Home Team , joining NFL and NBA athletes who have helped the home improvement retailer enhance communities around the country since 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2022

Frisk, who has been with the company since 2017 and at the helm since 2020, will stay on as an advisor through Sept. The company underwent several rounds of jobs cuts and a $200 million dollar restructuring in 2018, followed by an SEC investigation into its accounting practices in 2019. Browne has held the role of COO since 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

On the surface, 2020 wasn’t a great year for globalization. For example, international online sales conducted through cross-border ecommerce solution eShopWorld (ESW) increased 82% year-over-year in 2020. When the pandemic first emerged on the global stage in March 2020, initial uncertainty caused a dip in international online sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2021

ecommerce share in 2020, up from 23.7% Buy now, pay later (BNPL) also thrived over the past year, rising nearly 78% to account for 1.6% Digital wallet usage is expected to account for 40.5% Mobile wallets surged 60% to account for 9.6% in 2020 due to demand for contactless payment methods. of ecommerce spend.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

compared to the same period in 2020 and 3.4% However, the brand has yet to return to profitability despite its growth. members accounted for half its sales in the country in the first half of fiscal 2021. Claire’s has filed for an IPO that would value the company at $100 million. Claire’s reported a net loss of $144.3

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2024

Neiman Marcus filed for bankruptcy in 2020, and later shed nearly $4 billion in debt and began a transformation effort in early 2023. In Forbes , Kestenbaum wrote: “It could be that [Amazon] is expecting a return by selling services to the combined company and the investment locks the business in.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

billion online in 2020, and many sellers experienced substantial growth in key categories, such as home goods, health and beauty. In the US, for example, eMarketer reports that D2C sales now account for 33% of Nike’s revenue. . According to one recent survey from ShipStation, 66% of consumers prefer contactless returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2020, more than any year since the advent of online and mobile commerce, consumers lost a sense of control. BOPIS (buy online, pick up in-store) took off in 2020, led by curbside pick-up (BOPAC) increasing 208% by the beginning of May. on average.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

Retail rode strong into Q2 2021 as shoppers returned to stores even as digital sales remained elevated. in Q2 2021 while its digital comparable sales grew 10% , building on the 195% growth achieved in 2020. comparable sales growth during the quarter thanks to shoppers returning to the outdoors — well above the 0.2%

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With COVID-19 case counts declining and vaccination efforts underway, eager consumers and retailers are both looking hopefully toward a future return to normal. 2020 put a new spin on the old adage, “You don’t know what you have until it’s gone.” Businesses must also account for generational preferences.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The mass store closures prompted by COVID-19 in spring 2020 could have spelled disaster for equestrian specialty brand Kerrits , which had operated as a wholesale-only business for over 25 years. The growth from April (2020) was exponential for overall revenue for the business and revenue from email.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Apparel and beauty companies accounted for 80.1% in 2020; A total of 13.7% of individual loans in 2021 saw at least some portion of the order returned, up from 12.2% in 2020; and Lenders’ profit margins fell to just over 1% of the amount of the loan in 2021, down from nearly 1.3% in 2020; A total of 13.7%

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

Buoyed by a return to growth in Q4 2020, Adidas has unveiled a new growth strategy that will transform the company into a direct-to-consumer-led business with an emphasis on sustainability. For its part, Adidas expects that DTC will account for half of total net sales and generate more than 80% of targeted topline growth by 2025.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 20, 2021

TW: Previous to administration [in 2020], we had 26 stores and nowadays we have 10. Some of the accounts we once had, we might have lost touch with because we had a team transition throughout that administration as well. The post The return of Tigerlily: An in-depth interview with the new CEO appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 26, 2024

That was a 19% increase compared to November 2020. But this is only one side of the story; the ecommerce boom also led to a significant increase in return rates, which adds considerable logistical and cost implications, and eats into the bottom line. The move to more automated campaigns has changed the marketing landscape.

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Inside Retail

JULY 27, 2023

Co-founder Martin Hosking returned to the business in March to lead it back to growth. Since his return, Hosking’s short-term goal has been to reduce its cost base and become profitable “as soon as possible.” Standard accounts are subject to a monthly account fee, while Premium and Pro accounts are not.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2021

A year of quick pivots for the retail industry, 2020 required brands to rapidly adjust their spaces to account for social distancing and the safety measures of consumers, staff and everyone in between. In order to lean into creating safer environments, we saw the rise of flexible fulfillment and contactless payments.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2021

This focus helped the retailer successfully navigate through its pivot to ecommerce, its return to omnichannel and its preparation for the future. We saw more than double the app downloads in 2020 , which reinforces the shift to online shopping.”. Hiring is just one part of Ulta’s commitment to diversity.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2022

Fraudsters are getting more sophisticated and are using a variety of tactics, such as identity theft, chargeback fraud , “silent” fraud, account takeovers and “pharming,” complicating organizations’ ability to detect these incidents. Forter’s Fraud Attack Index found that BOPIS fraud attacks increased by 55% in 2020.

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