Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2021

Additional results for the 2020 holiday season are coming in, and the outlook is rosy despite the unprecedented challenges: Adobe Analytics pegged year-over-year online shopping growth at 32.2% , totaling $188.2 Sheldon noted that late-season shipping delays further discouraged December sales. billion , while the NRF measured 8.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s the question every retailer wants the answer to: what do consumers (and more specifically, those likely to buy their products) really want? The day kicked off with a keynote presentation by Jeff Orschell, EY Americas Practice Leader: “Bottom line for retailers is that change is still happening, consumer behavior is still changing.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2020

On one hand, personal safety and security are still top-of-mind for consumers, driving changes in everything from online shopping to brick-and-mortar store layouts and delivery models. A starting point in approaching retailing in the time of coronavirus is to understand that it’s currently a tale of two consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Gift cards are shaping up to be a holiday hero this season, as consumers and retailers continue to grapple with supply and shipping issues. Combine that with concerns about shipping delays for those products that are in stock and it should come as no big surprise that gift cards are looking pretty good to shoppers this year.

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Retail Focus

AUGUST 4, 2021

Claire Webb from Advanced Supply Chain Group looks at why playing a waiting game won’t help retailers beat soaring shipping costs. Many retailers are looking to protect margins against rapidly rising shipping costs. The factors have triggered a long-running period of disruption and caused shipping costs to escalate.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

” Aligning with the Demands of Today’s Consumers “Some of the language that I continue to hear when I go to many of [my go-to-market appointments] are things like, ‘What will our adjacencies be?’” Consumers are finding inspiration everywhere, and they’re more eclectic in their fashion choices. ” Hyman added.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2021

Preliminary holiday 2020 results have proven unsurprising so far: analysts expect modest year-over-year growth fueled by a massive increase in ecommerce activity across a longer-than-usual season. 24, 2020), or 2.4% However, the larger story of holiday 2020 is still being written. 11 through Dec. during the traditional Nov.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Black Friday Weekend vs. Spring 2020. The worst of the pandemic — the very bottom of the retail traffic journey — occurred the week of April 12, 2020, when year-over-year traffic was down 83%. That means seven out of the nine days were within range of the pre-Black Friday 2020 trend. But first, a little recent history.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

trillion in 2020, while U.S. Additionally, total order count was up almost 10.45% from holiday 2020 levels, according to data from Klaviyo. As a result, Cyber Week 2021 accounted for 23% of total ecommerce spend, down slightly from 24% in 2020. Shipping cutoffs with USPS, UPS, FedEx and others all happened around Dec.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2021

The consumer buying behaviors retail marketers all once knew to be true experienced a seismic shift. He wants brands to take the time to study consumer behaviors and insights in real time, and use that data to personalize their marketing efforts specifically to Frugal Freddie’s needs. Socially-Conscious Sally. Newly-Online Nelly.

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Inside Retail

MAY 17, 2021

In 2020, Salvos Stores launched Australia’s first online op shop, listing thousands of unique second-hand items online from hundreds of its stores across Australia. Since launching, Salvos Stores has shipped more than 50,000 individual orders using ShipStation from over 300 locations around Australia.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Why automation is non-negotiable Australian consumers expect fast deliveries, error-free orders, and seamless shopping journeys. Case study: Subo Products’ Black Friday win Subo, an Australian e-commerce retailer, struggled with shipping large volumes of orders until it turned to ShipStation’s automation tools in 2020.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2022

drop in 2020. “It’s The other complicating factor is you’ve got consumers who are incredibly aware of the supply chain, inventory and shipping challenges that are out there. The rise in traffic compared to 2020 showed that shoppers are starting to return to stores. compared to 2019 for the six weeks from Nov.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2021

The wide range is due to uncertainty regarding how consumers will shop post-pandemic — potentially impacting the performance of Prime Day 2021, which has returned to a Q2 date. In 2020, Prime Day was delayed until October. As a result of the explosion in retail revenues, shipping costs year-over-year increased over $6 billion to $17.2

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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. Merchants love it because it bolsters sales, avoids shipping and helps move inventory out of stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2021

And increasingly, consumers are reselling those items rather than leaving them to gather dust or putting them out on the curb — particularly as a growing number of digital resale platforms make that process easier than ever before. Shifting Consumer Sentiment Lifts Secondhand Stigma. billion items. ‘Tis the Season for Secondhand.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The keys to the locks were changed on December 31, 2020, when the transition period ended and the UK left the EU single market and customs union. Unprecedented demand due to changing consumer behaviour as a result of the pandemic tipped chip manufacturers into disarray. Import and Export — a Brexit Conundrum.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Ask any retailer or consumer and they’ll agree on this point: ecommerce returns are a problem — albeit for diametrically opposed reasons. Meanwhile, more than three in four (78%) consumers say they’ve had an inconvenient online returns experience recently, per Pitney Bowes latest BOXpoll survey. consumers love the USPS.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The trend is being fueled in part by the popularity of social media unboxing and haul trends, but also by an increased desire from consumers for experiences following the forced isolation of the COVID years. In fact, marketing agency Empower said its seen a 90% increase in consumer interest in the advent calendar category since 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2024

In today’s market landscape, ethical, political and environmental considerations increasingly sway consumer purchasing decisions, particularly when it comes to packaging. From exaggerated health claims to misleading descriptions of ingredients, deceptive labeling erodes consumer trust and undermines brand credibility.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2021

consumer now pays for four different video streaming subscriptions. Blue Apron, Freshly and HelloFresh are among the businesses that saw a flood of new customers in 2020; and. Subscription is a great model because it builds a relationship between the consumer and vendor — or the service provider in some cases. The average U.S.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 29, 2021

And, due to improvements made in Booktopia’s distribution centre in Lidcome , Sydney, the business was able to ship 45 per cent more product during the quarter, from 1.44 The continued rise in online shopping has delivered online bookseller Booktopia another strong period, with third quarter underlying EBITDA up 267 per cent to $4.2

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Whole Foods delivered three times as many orders in 2020 as it did in 2019, causing the costs associated with equipment and technology to rise. However, grocery margins are tight, and retailers are limited in how many costs they can pass along to consumers: prices rose 3.7% Orders placed through Amazon Prime will include a $9.95

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

Now more than ever, it’s critical to understand the latest consumer expectations — and be ready to adapt. Direct-to-consumer selling. Around the world, direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands are becoming mainstream — and they’re causing a major shift in where, when and how shopping is done. Australians spent an unprecedented $50.46

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

While 2020 saw brick-and-mortar retail businesses buckle under the strain of social distancing and stay-at-home orders, the number of purchases being made online skyrocketed. A study by Inside Retail found that the ANZ e-commerce market experienced five years worth of growth in just six months from March 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2020

Here are the top five ways retail will evolve in 2020: Loyalty Breaks With Tradition. Leading retailers recognize the need to build dynamic relationships that extend far beyond traditional loyalty programs heading into 2020. Adidas’s “Run Genie” technology lets consumers attach pods to shoes before going on a short run.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

Over a four-week period, Build-A-Bear turned its store locations into micro-fulfillment centers so it could maintain store operations, keep associates working and create a bright spot for consumers navigating uncertainty and stress. Creating Joy Amid Uncertainty. We love the feedback that says ‘Hey, I was able to do this.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2024

But Bookshop.org, which was founded as a “bulwark against the erosion of book culture by Amazon,” is hoping to lure a few of those consumers its way with its own anti-Prime Day promo. But I knew it wasn’t true, because I pay extra money every month for clean energy and organic produce. “But

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The 2020 holiday season will be dominated by uncertainty, a sharp contrast to the relatively steady growth in spending and ecommerce traffic that retailers enjoyed over the past several years. Just because consumers are looking to spend less doesn’t mean they are cutting out spending completely.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Today’s retail supply chains have evolved into complex global webs of infrastructure, vehicles and people that move products from raw material to end consumer. It is a crucial step that can make or break the consumer experience and therefore a company’s reputation and future sales. Today’s consumers expect fast, free deliveries.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2024

After a little more than a year in his role as EVP and Chief Consumer Officer, Jim Dausch has stepped down from his post at Under Armour , according to an SEC filing from the company. The appointment comes with Under Armour’s acquisition of Unless Collective , a zero-plastic regenerative fashion brand that Liedtke co-founded in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2022

There’s no question that strategic promotions and discounts motivate consumers to buy a product. There are numerous types of enrollment incentives, but the most common are discounts, free shipping and a gift with purchase. As a result, consumers save money when they subscribe to multiple products.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

With rising gas prices, food shortages, skyrocketing interest rates and ever-present inflation, consumers are worried and that means retailers are worried, too. We’re already seeing online shopping demand level off , with consumers finding a new balance between digital and physical channels. Loyalty Shifts to Value.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2021

Shapaker shared recommendations for what retailers and sellers need to do in order to consolidate the gains made last year, and how the industry (mostly) dodged the “shipageddon” bullet that had been predicted for holiday 2020. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): We’ve seen tremendous overall ecommerce growth in 2020. In Q2 2020, boom, the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Supply chain challenges are nothing new, but they are newly in the spotlight as massive consumer delays and shortages affect the shopping public. Many brands were out of stock and out of luck during the 2020 holiday season. As ecommerce continues to accelerate, so do consumer delivery expectations. The Bullwhip Effect.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Following the early 2020 launch of its clothing rental service in France, ba & sh has expanded Borrow on Ba-sh.com to the U.S. Consumers can directly search the Borrow collection or discover items available for rental browsing the website. Those available for rental in the selected size and color will display a “Borrow” button.

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