Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Labor shortages, stressed supply chains and a major emphasis on ecommerce have turned fulfillment into one of the biggest challenges retailers will face in the 2021 holiday season. With so much at stake, retailers must get fulfillment right or risk being left behind. Store-Based Fulfillment Is Key, but the Right Tools Must Be in Place.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. From early 2020 to mid-2021, the percentage of retail chains offering curbside pickup surged from a miniscule 7% to a staggering 51%. Nicholas offered six best practices: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

As part of the virtual Retail Innovation Conference, Retail TouchPoints presented the winners of the 2020 Retail Innovator Awards (RIA) last night on a livestream celebration across its social platforms. Then they can tap “Bring it to me,” which uses indoor beacons to inform the store associate about where the customer is within the store.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The retailer plans to shutter 400 to 450 stores worldwide in fiscal 2020, which ends in February 2021. 1, 2020, GameStop achieved net sales of $942 million , a 26.7% GameStop is accelerating store closure plans as part of its “de-densification” strategy. For the three months ended Aug. drop from the same period the previous year.

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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.”. Traditionally, the brick-and-mortar store delivered a fairly static and conventional experience to the customer. But let’s be real here. But the post must go on.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

A lot of these things would have been niche projects in in any other year besides 2020, but some of these are really truly scalable meaningful parts of our business for Q4,” said Brommers. However, this creates a new challenge in maintaining an optimal customer experience, particularly in touch-sensitive retailing segments like grocery.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

The service launched in July 2020 and initially served select cities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Canada before expanding to parts of the U.S. Uber also boosted its delivery capabilities in July 2020 through the acquisition of Postmates for more than $2.6 Uber Eats has since entered partnerships with multiple major U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Some of the key takeaways from the Q3 results include: Big box retailers such as Walmart and Target continued showcasing their omnichannel dominance with strong results, proving that their years of investment in leading-edge fulfillment strategies have paid off; Other retailers with strong omnichannel offerings in attractive categories, like Lowe’s.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2021

While some industry watchers predicted that the boon to online grocery would subside later in 2020, that never happened. What has emerged as a genuine concern, however, are the incontrovertible shortcomings in customer experience. Incentives for pickup or delivery during off-peak hours will smooth out fulfillment wrinkles.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2023

The idea of transforming malls into “mixed use” gathering spots has become popular, but an aerial view of these complexes provides an interesting perspective on another potential evolutionary path for the mall: as a fulfillment center. “ All those back-of-house loading docks are just perfect for fulfillment.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 20, 2021

They’re building new distribution warehouses, they’re bringing on more staff to fulfil online orders. Those are the initiatives that are driving that customer experience – click-and-collect, delivery to boot, virtual styling and reserve-in-store,” Ioakim added. They’re looking at a more omnichannel approach.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2021

Another retail holiday season has come and gone — and the 2020 season was unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Let’s review the biggest trends of the 2020 season — including takeaways for retailers to engage staff, delight customers and demonstrate resilience in the year ahead.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

The company operates more than 250 micro-fulfillment centers across the country, fulfilling orders for common items including cleaning and home products, over-the-counter medications, baby and pet products, food and drinks and alcohol. The funding will build upon the $1.15 delivery charge. The company acquired BevMo!

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2021

BJ’s Wholesale Club will strengthen support for its drop-ship program with online order fulfillment and delivery accuracy solutions from CommerceHub. The retailer has enhanced several of its omnichannel offerings in recent years, including the launch of curbside pickup at all club stores in August 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

For example, during the pandemic’s peak, Build-A-Bear Workshop successfully evolved its brick-and-mortar business to offer more flexible and efficient fulfillment services so it could capitalize on surging ecommerce demand. With a strong inventory management and fulfillment foundation in place, Build-A-Bear is ready to take its next steps.

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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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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Powering customer engagement on the day of service has required many virtual meetings to help strategise workflows that make sense for each client. . Some need to manage the logistics of holding cold items for pickup and ensuring that store attendants fulfil all parts of the order. For more information visit Localz.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Nike is a standout performer in the apparel market with the highest brand value of any mass apparel brand, approximately $110 billion, and in 2020 the global sneaker market was valued at approximately $79 billion , which is predicted to hit $120 billion by 2026.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

year-on-year through September 2020, boosting ecommerce’s share of its total sales from 33% in 2019 to 59% during this period. Q3 2020 net sales for all channels climbed 25.3% We launched the service in April 2020, after our website’s traffic had doubled and app installations had risen by 2.5X year-on-year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

After moving aggressively into direct sales in 2020 and 2021, Nike had to begin rekindling wholesale relationships with retailers including DSW and Macys in late 2023. The brand also has been dealing with the repercussions of its efforts to beef up its direct-to-consumer (DTC) channel.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

The pandemic put pressure on every retailer’s website, but GNC faced a unique obstacle: the company had rolled out a revamped ecommerce site in January 2020, just in time for social distancing and lockdowns to cause a massive shift toward online ordering.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

That’s why, when she joined True Classic in 2020 as the brand’s first employee, her mandate was to build and scale teams to ensure processes were cost-effective but always served the customer well. “I It has really allowed me to laser-focus in on those experiences and drive the team to exceed expectations,” she said.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In anticipation of customer demand for more and faster delivery options during the holidays, Bed Bath & Beyond has launched multiple options for same-day home delivery. Bed Bath & Beyond also has established a partnership with Instacart , allowing shoppers of both banners to use the websites and mobile apps of either delivery service.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

At the store level, the funds will go toward: Renovations to nearly one-third of its locations; Expansion of curbside pickup ; Piloting “micro fulfillment centers” within supercenters to speed up fulfillment of pickup and delivery orders ; and Deploying digitization, robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to make stores smarter.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

“ Our goals for growth in 2023 will look similar to the ones from 2022, with a major focus on meeting customers where they are: online, in-store, marketplaces, internationally, etc., ” said Andrew Sutton, Director of Fulfillment at Dr. Squatch, in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2025

According to Gartner, more than three-quarters of supply chain leaders are being asked to improve their customer experience (CX) strategies. A customer-centric approach to supply chain management is challenging; it requires a deep understanding of consumer expectations and behaviors, not just today but also for the foreseeable future.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The stress of the pandemic sparked a surge in the wine, beer and spirits market: a 2020 RAND Corporation study found that alcohol consumption among adults 30 and older increased by 14%. However, beginning in late 2020, many people started to re-evaluate their habits and explore no- and low-alcohol (NA) beverage options.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2024

That pace of advancement is only accelerating as retailers continue to find new ways to create the ultimate customer experience, leaving everyone asking, “What’s next?” The Warehouse and the Customer Experience: The Three Stages of Change The best way to understand where retail logistics is going is to first understand where it’s been.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2021

Lands’ End Marketplace had a soft launch in June 2020 to beta test the platform’s integrated systems. The retailer will leverage its website and drop shipping for order fulfillment to create a positive customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

grocery spend, both online and in person) to almost $80 billion in 2020 ( 8% of total spend). Some of these delivery startup companies that were getting huge valuations in 2019 and 2020 are now struggling to stay afloat. Now only 54% of shoppers are buying online, versus 59% in 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Top-line findings from a recent Sensormatic survey reveal that while in-store shopping is expected to rise through the holiday season, what consumers are looking for while they’re there is for retailers to provide insight into product availability and alternative fulfillment offerings.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

This follows on a huge bump in omnichannel fulfillment options spurred by the pandemic and ongoing product shortages. Research from Google indicates that this holiday season will be more omnichannel in nature than any before it, with 64% of consumers saying that they plan to shop both online and in-store.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2020

. — FILA needed to quickly move its website experience from a relatively static brand catalog to an appealing, efficient direct-to-consumer sales portal. Prior to the 2020 upgrades, visitors to the FILA site would find a “customer experience that was sorely lacking,” Trenson noted. “I sneaker collaboration.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

With this in mind, there are some key considerations to keep in mind as you begin initiating your Peak 2020 plan. Invaluable Customer Service. It’s critical that you have a scalable customer service operation in place that can effectively manage the spike in customer inquiries that is sure to come. The Brand Matters.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A pilot of the technology started in late 2020, with the partners gathering feedback from participating passengers including details on the experience, cost and the desire to have autonomous deliveries in airports. The entire system uses a suite of cloud tools to control robots deployed throughout different areas of the airport.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Taking advantage of the surge in online grocery generated by COVID-19, Farmstead plans to bring its dark store fulfillment model to a third market: Raleigh-Durham, N.C. Three-quarters of Farmstead customers are on its weekly recurring program, which provides them with a regular delivery slot and discounts on staple items.

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