Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 19, 2021

December 31, 2020 marked the end of the Brexit transition period, and whilst many took a sigh of relief, in reality the Brexit effect had only just begun. Many retailers are already experiencing increased tariffs and supply chain snags , putting customer satisfaction at jeopardy. The shockwaves presented by Brexit are now imminent.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

But in 2020 Marks & Spencer opened up its website to outside apparel brands. In a small pilot that took place in October of 2020, where Marks & Spencer sold womenswear brand Nobody’s Child on its website, Marks & Spencer found that close to 10% of customers who bought the brand were new to Marks & Spencer womenswear.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If you do subscribe to our retail trends newsletter to get the latest retail insights & trends delivered to your inbox 5. To remedy this Amazon has a number of non-core retail businesses with healthy margins including its advertising and cloud computing businesses. You need a way to make the model work.”

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Shein, another ultra fast fashion retailer, adds between 500 to 2,000 new items on its website every day. Shein is vertically integrated allowing it to go from design to shipping in as little as three days. Commenting on the growth of Shein TechCrunch wrote : “[Shein] manufactures in China as many apparel retailers do.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JANUARY 17, 2023

If you do subscribe to our retail trends newsletter to get the latest retail insights & trends delivered to your inbox. For example, as of October 2020 Shein’s app had been downloaded 229 million times, while H&M’s app had been downloaded 124 million times and Zara’s app 91 million times.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JUNE 19, 2023

Back in 2020 Best Buy highlighted the important link between stores and eCommerce. Our stores played a pivotal role in the fulfillment of these sales [in the fourth quarter of 2020] as almost two-thirds of our online revenue was either picked up in-store or curbside, shipped from a store or delivered by a store employee. “Our

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Then Amazon comes onto the scene and shows the retail industry there are other ways to make money including by having a lucrative cloud business or through advertising sales. In addition to getting more of your wallet, a service business like this has better margins than Amazon’s retail business and is less capital intensive.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 30, 2022

New Retail is an initiative aimed at connecting online and offline retail and digitizing stores to provide a better customer experience. While online shopping definitely accelerated in 2020, saying physical retail is more or less obsolete is not true,” said Nishtha Mehta, a China-based corporate innovation coach. “In

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Rangeme

APRIL 27, 2021

CPG sales growth in 2020. Big Food lost $12B in sales to small CPGs and private label in 2020, IRI says. July 30, 2020. Amid surging popularity, small brands are embracing e-commerce as their first step to connect with global consumers and retail buyers to fuel growth. July 30, 2020. 1 De Socio, Mike.

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Rangeme

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This trend analysis can give U.S. and global consumer packaged goods (CPG) suppliers and retailers clarity on adapting to and satisfying consumers’ evolving needs. Overarching Retail Trends. October 14, 2020. , The online retailer with the lowest prices is … Chain Store Age. Retail Brew. Retail Dive.

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Indigo 9 Digital

APRIL 21, 2022

The logistics of shipping and handling of books is also easier than with other categories. Imagine starting an eCommerce business where you had to sell and then ship bulky furniture of varying sizes, that would be challenging right out of the gate. Flipkart is the largest eCommerce retailer in India with a 31.9%

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Rangeme

APRIL 12, 2022

In 2020, the industry saw sales of pet products top $100 billion in sales for the first time—and it just keeps growing. And in 2021, Barkbox saw their revenue jump by 130% between April and September, compared to the same time frame in 2020.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JUNE 9, 2022

Fast shipping. If you do subscribe to our retail trends newsletter to get the latest retail insights & trends delivered to your inbox. This vision is on display in Burberry’s first “social retail store” in Shenzhen China which opened in 2020. Do you like this content?

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Indigo 9 Digital

APRIL 27, 2022

By Tricia McKinnon Target is one of several retailers experiencing unprecedented growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. growth in 2020. For such a large retailer that is a remarkable growth rate but is that success all due to the pandemic or is it several years in the making? Its eCommerce sales were up 20.8% Same day services.

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Rangeme

AUGUST 23, 2022

For its seafood, GIANT has transitioned to shipping products from suppliers in reusable plastic crates. We now have over sixty items shipping in the reusable crates,” says Flower. Kellogg has reduced the thickness in some bag-in-box retail packages by 17% to reduce plastic packaging by 214,000 lbs. In the U.S.,

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Rangeme

MAY 9, 2022

She teamed up with retired cheesemonger, Raymond Cotteret, in 2020 and got to work on a business plan that would make their dreams come true. We are excited to figure out what ‘normal’ feels like (since we opened in March 2020), double our kitchen size, add events to our service offerings, and grow our team this year.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JUNE 13, 2022

Or in the process of trying to turn the ship around many companies make a number of missteps as they desperately try to improve operations. But Tim Hortons, which started working on a turnaround plan in 2020, has been successful in improving its business. In 2021 Tim Hortons had same store sales growth of 10.8% Quality improvements.

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Rangeme

APRIL 8, 2021

Welcome to consumer technology in the age of COVID, where tech gadgets of all kinds became an essential part of the way we lived, worked, learned, entertained and pretty much performed every other activity during 2020.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 6, 2023

But Zara like many retailers is doubling down on its digital business. In 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when consumers were forced to shift a large share of their spending online, Zara’s digital sales were up 77% representing a third of all sales. Five years ago this would have been impossible.”

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Rangeme

MARCH 8, 2022

Karpan: I joined RangeMe back in 2020 after hearing about the discovery platform from one of our product suppliers. We needed to find suppliers that sourced their own ingredients or made everything in-house, ship items quickly, and work around the supply chain issues. J&J Family. You should see my office right now.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2020 as a thank you for working during the pandemic Shake Shack paid its hourly employees holiday bonuses of $250-$400 and it shelled out an additional $6 million in wages. If you do subscribe to our retail trends newsletter to get the latest retail insights & trends delivered to your inbox.

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Inside Retail

JULY 6, 2021

The unprecedented disruptions of 2020 unravelled retail assumptions and exemplified retailers’ resilience in the face of drastically changed customer demands. So, what’s in store for retail in 2021 and beyond? Twenty-twenty changed the retail industry forever. Personalisation is the new black.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 20, 2022

That means that as customers return to stores, retailers have a chance to differentiate themselves with low-cost, low-hassle return policies. The bottom line is that as we emerge from the chaos of 2020 and 2021, both retailers and consumers are eager to get back to normal. In fact, according to Forrester, over a third of U.S.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 9, 2023

By Tricia McKinnon 2020 is the year when the eCommerce narrative shifted in a major way. Before everyone was focused solely on Amazon but as retailers were forced to shift sales online during the COVID-19 pandemic a number of retailers came to the forefront with their eCommerce savvy and Walmart is one of those retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 13, 2021

Nothing about 2020 was normal — in fact, for many retailers, the phrase ‘hindsight is 2020’ is one they should reconsider using. . While many customers will have purchases shipped directly to their homes this year, brick-and-mortar stores have rolled out their own solutions that may impact the way we approach the 2021 holidays.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 22, 2022

JD.com is the second largest eCommerce retailer in China behind Alibaba. billion up 28% over 2020. Selling groceries generate frequent and repeat business and are one of the keys to the success of retailers like Walmart. Omni-channel retailing is alive and well in China. Fast shipping is the way to go.

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Indigo 9 Digital

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

While the shift towards selling luxury goods online took place before 2020, the pandemic cemented a new way forward. Commissions typically range from 25%-33% depending on whether in addition to providing eCommerce functionality Farfetch manages shipping, returns or other services. It’s a test and learn approach.”.

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Indigo 9 Digital

JULY 21, 2023

An innovative idea and a slick website might get customers excited but many founders eventually realize it’s actually pretty hard and expensive to acquire customers when you don’t have any retail stores. And when your customers demand free shipping or when return costs add up a promising business can be put into jeopardy pretty quickly.

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Rangeme

JULY 12, 2022

goods exports in 2020. consumer packaged goods (CPG) suppliers and retailers need to know about selling to Canadians? Let’s examine Canada’s demographics and retail trends to see why more U.S. These cities outperformed their respective provinces’ year-over-year retail sales and they lie relatively close to the U.S.

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Independent Retailer

APRIL 1, 2021

Retail experts are expecting a huge boom in brick-and-mortar sales come the spring and summer months since the vaccine rollouts are making consumers more comfortable to shop in person. Now is the time to get ready to fully reopen and for brick-and-mortar retail to come back to life. Post-Pandemic Retail Trends.

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Rangeme

APRIL 25, 2022

As climate change and retail’s war on plastic make global headlines, these companies are taking action to protect the environment. Amazon uses machine learning and computer vision to optimize the amount of packaging it uses for the products it ships. April 6, 2020. October 16, 2020. December 11, 2020. and Ireland.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MARCH 17, 2022

During Amazon Prime Day in 2020 third party sellers generated $3.5 If an organization decides to enter Amazon’s FBA program they send their inventory to Amazon then Amazon manages storage of the inventory within its facilities, shipping and customer service (including returns). billion in sales. Do you like this content?

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