Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2021

Isolation was a defining characteristic of 2020: with stores, workplaces, restaurants, gyms and travel hubs closed, people around the world turned to one of the few remaining channels available for community and connection — social media.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The global social commerce market is expected to reach $2.9 As a result, brands and retailers across categories are focused on bolstering their social commerce capabilities. While many companies have gone the route of traditional vendor partnerships, some brands are bringing social commerce tools in-house via acquisition.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2022

More than two-thirds of shoppers overall are already familiar with the metaverse, but the percentages for each generation vary widely, according to KPMG’s Go boldly, not blindly, into the metaverse Consumer Pulse Survey. billion in 2020, at a compound annual growth rate of 13% , according to data from Bloomberg.

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Wiser

APRIL 3, 2023

This is social commerce. What Is Social Commerce? Social commerce, also referred to as social shopping, allows brands to sell their products direct-to-consumers through social media platforms. With social shopping, those opportunities are minimized. billion dollars.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 16, 2024

Modern consumers, especially those within the Gen Z age bracket, are becoming increasingly interested in shopping methods that differ from the traditional e-commerce model of a direct-to-consumer website or shopping online via big-box retailers. However, TikTok Shop isn’t the only major player in the social commerce landscape.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

It has been a year since the pandemic rocked a fashion industry that was already feeling the pressure of trying to keep pace with consumer shifts toward digital, ethical sourcing and eco-friendly products. Here are some of the overarching themes of the changing consumer sentiment that will shape the fashion industry’s journey ahead.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

From the large spike of social platform users and increased time spent online to measurement fluctuations, everyone has developed new behaviors and preferences within the social space. 2020’s lockdowns forced brands to get creative with their digital presence as well as how they service their customers. The primary solution?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands have a unique advantage in that they own the entire customer experience — and perhaps most important, all the data that is generated along with it. million loss in Q3 2020. RECOMMENDED LISTENING: Riding the Social Commerce Wave. Instead, they will focus on scaling social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

While this figure is down $50 from 2019, given 2020’s overall uncertainty, such a slight decline would represent a significant victory. Adding to the overall shipping volume will be those consumers who would normally have purchased a gift in-store and brought it to the recipient themselves.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 14, 2021

ROI for online advertising benefited from the shift to ecommerce in 2020, as well as the increasingly granular targeting capabilities offered by the biggest players in the space, according to the Sidecar 2021 Benchmark Report. Targeting Makes Google Paid Ads Cost-Effective, but Privacy Concerns Loom.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2021

Covid-19 hit the reset button on consumer behaviour. But it is not just the initial seismic shifts in consumer behaviour that have thrown down the gauntlet for retail. But it is not just the initial seismic shifts in consumer behaviour that have thrown down the gauntlet for retail. The answer is deceptively simple.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

Duty-free retail meets live commerce. As of 2020, the Chinese government has significantly increased the annual limit for duty-free purchases by domestic travellers to Hainan island,allowing visitors up to RMB 100,000. billionin 2020, a year that saw 15.5 Second-life commerce. million domestic travellers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2021

Before they’ve even started, the 2020 2021 Olympic Games have already made history. NBC’s hybrid 2020/2021 logo. Organizers ultimately decided to stick with 2020 — Tokyo’s governor said an odd number was “out of the question.” shoppers still need a bit of a nudge. So how can retailers take advantage of this opportunity?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Dozens of furniture retailers are on TikTok, but the latest trend is that influencers are talking about brands, and consumers are tagging them, without brands even being on the platform or having an account. Influencer Marketing. His focus is on holistic approaches to projects with comprehensive phasing.

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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

JULY 22, 2022

The ecommerce boom of 2020 brought millions of new shoppers to digital platforms, and that growth trajectory continued into 2021. Prediction #1: Content will Become Central to Commerce. Other social platforms have successfully been running similar programs for a while, but they took things more slowly. Verdict: Spot on.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2021

Even if brands and retailers don’t have a physical store, they have an opportunity to create a seamless customer-focused experience that spans across their branded ecommerce sites, marketplaces and even social channels. That is why SharperImage.com re-platformed its ecommerce site on commercetools leading up to the 2020 holiday season.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 7, 2021

In the era of direct-to-consumer, social commerce, performance marketing and marketplace plays, you’d be forgiven for thinking that apps belong in 2011. However, according to Accenture’s 9th wave of Covid consumer research, two in three consumers continue to use brand apps for ordering.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2021

Back-to-school surveys across the retail sector point to a strong season, spurred by pent-up consumer demand. Jeff Orschell, EY’s Americas Consumer Retail Leaders, noted that global data as well as the firm’s consumer research point to demand remaining elevated, despite the uncertainties.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2021

After a sharp contraction in 2020, luxury is back in business, with Bain & Company forecasting that sales of personal luxury goods will finish out the year 29% higher than last year, at $324.3 Online sales of luxury goods are expected to jump 27% YoY in 2021, and that’s following a 50% YoY increase in 2020, according to Bain. “

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The reseller, which first announced the plans in late September 2020, has not issued a target price range or the number of shares to be made available. As of February 2020, shoppers were expressing increased interest in second-hand clothing: at the time, used items took up 14% of consumers’ closet space, according to a Poshmark study.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

Beauty invested heavily in bolstering its digital capabilities even further as more consumers shopped direct via the company’s online properties. While the investment amounts have been significant, they were what allowed the business to monitor, understand and respond to new consumer needs during its most crucial time as a business.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In pure COVID-19 nature, brands across the retail industry underwent a rapid transition to the digital-first space during 2020; and a lot of first-time online shoppers were activated. This, coupled with the rise of social commerce, has indicated major potential for retailers to adopt social advertising into their marketing mix.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Most social networks offer in-app shopping solutions now, including live video to meet shoppers’ demands. Livestream shopping has taken off in China, with the market growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 280% between 2017 and 2020 to reach an estimated $171 billion in 2020. Retailers Going Live.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

Pinterest ’s role in the world of social media is blurry — consumers use the platform very differently than they do Instagram or TikTok, for example. But following a series of major strategic moves, the role Pinterest hopes to play in the burgeoning realm of social commerce is crystal clear.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The social-commerce app matches women with a contributor sharing a similar body type who can guide them on the best styles to suit their physical characteristics. In the US, Statista reported that return deliveries cost US$550 billion in 2020, with this cost expected to swell globally into a $1 trillion issue.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2021

Another residual challenge that arose due to circumstances, was a new consumer mindset. While consumers have the option to refresh their wardrobes online, conditions like increased unemployment and lower incomes shifted consumers from impulse buying to planned purchases. According to Digital Commerce 360 , “consumers spent $861.12

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2021

As COVID-19 quickly spread in early 2020, the retail industry was among the first to be affected. But unlike hard-hit sectors such as airlines and live events, retail saw a more uneven impact — especially when it came to dramatically changed consumer behavior. With each technological advancement comes a shift in consumer behavior.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 21, 2021

Catalog feed uploads increased globally by more than 14X from March 2020 to March 2021, according to internal Pinterest data. According to Pinterest data, 97% of the top searches on the platform are unbranded and consist of two- to three-word queries, which means the majority of consumers are not typing a brand name into their searches.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2022

As social commerce becomes increasingly entrenched in mainland China, livestreaming has become a backbone to the influencer and ecommerce economy. Social commerce generated approximately $ 475 billion (U.S.) in revenue in 2020 and is expected to reach approximately $3.37 trillion by 2028. In the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2020

For the luxury category, the pandemic’s impact has been multi-faceted, raising the stakes for brands to have larger conversations around how the “luxury experience” is defined and created for an evolved consumer base. Trend 1: Evolving Consumer Priorities Could Depress Luxury Spending. trillion in current exchange rates.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Here are five concepts for global consumers to be on the lookout for…. Lifestyle commerce. Consumers elsewhere can expect omnipresent “super apps” to penetrate every part of life, as the delivery and ride-hailing service Grab is doing in Southeast Asia, by moving into financial services. Social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2022

The good news for retailers is that when designed and executed well, return policies can deliver benefits that include bolstering customer satisfaction, reducing waste, easing internal business demands and affording insights into consumer data. Consumers will be more likely to spend money with retailers that make their lives much easier.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2022

Having a solid retail platform also helps with growth, she added, commenting on the brand’s 2020 chainwide launch in Target stores. The approaching sunset of cookies and increased consumer concerns about privacy are pushing retailers to find new ways to personalize everything from product recommendations to communications preferences.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

It’s one of the most active communities on TikTok, all centered around the hashtag #BookTok — but don’t confuse it with social commerce. and consumers aged 10 to 19 still account for the biggest segment of its user base. Let’s back up a sec and take a look at how #BookTok has revolutionized book sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2021

Social commerce and livestream shopping in particular continues to pick up steam in the U.S., With its increased customer engagement, partnership opportunities and ample “social proof,” livestream shopping offers an attractive new strategy for today’s retailers. consumers via this channel? .

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

A retailX panel of social media and influencer experts had a candid conversation about how influencers are driving the maturity of social commerce, which is expected to reach $36.09 this year — a 35% increase over 2020 — according to Insider Intelligence. Tip 4: Use Authentic Storytelling to Drive Consumers Down-Funnel.

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