Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

Albertsons Companies will launch cart-based smart checkout technology later this year at select supermarkets throughout the country, in partnership with Veeve Smart Carts. Grocers such as Kroger adopted Caper AI technology in January 2021 for the launch of its KroGO-branded smart carts. in a statement. “Our

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

In 2021, 20.8% of online purchases were returned — up from 18.1% Returns in ecommerce are inevitable, but utilizing an automated returns solution makes it simple to turn them into a positive experience. Cheryl Williams, Return Rabbit. in 2019 to 14.9% at the peak of the pandemic. But then it fell to 12.2%

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

On the one hand, retail sales trended upward in August 2021 , with specific economic stimulus measures apparently to credit. We know, based on our State of the In-Store Experience 2021 Report , that there remains strong consumer demand for brick-and-mortar retail experiences. trillion in retail sales in 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 23, 2022

The 2022 back-to-school (BTS) season could be the most “normal” since the start of the pandemic, with even more demand than the record-setting BTS 2021 season for clothing, classroom supplies and new technology. Regardless of your customers’ age demographic, it’s a smart idea to offer digital wallet payment options at checkout.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

It connects, on a centralised and measurable platform, several touchpoints and interactions a customer has with the brand or business: payments, rewards, inventory, delivery options, product return, supply chain, fulfilment options, and more. Buy online, return in-store. They should be in all retailers’ playbooks. Endless aisle.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2020

These are our predictions for retail in 2021. Accepting that this “cocooning” is a permanent shift is an important first step for success in 2021. The brands that will stand out in 2021 are the ones that take steps to properly unify their online and in-store experiences. Consumer Behavior has Changed for Good.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As the world recovers from the pandemic and consumers return to the high street, retailers are eager to capitalize on the increased footfall by providing an exceptional in-store experience. An mPOS system converts any tablet or smartphone into a checkout point. Simplify Checkout and Boost Efficiency.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2024

The retailer will still offer its free-to-join Target Circle loyalty program and plans to enhance it by providing its 100 million+ members with access to automatic deals applied at checkout. Walmart debuted its Walmart+ program in September 2020, followed by Kroger ’s Boost program in November 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2021

This includes adjusting store hours to fit peak shopping times, reallocating inventory to different locations to increase sell-through, and adjusting planograms to remove bottlenecks that lead to longer checkout lines and wait times. Which impulse items are people buying at checkout? What to Expect from AI in Retail Over the Next Year.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Account takeover fraud, which is driven by impostor scams, increased by 50%, with no signs of slowing down in 2021. The 2021 Javelin Identity Fraud Study includes findings on identity fraud scam approaches that criminals use on each generation: Baby Boomers. K eep bots out of your customers’ accounts and checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Outfits like GoPuff, Gorillas and 1520 took the grocery market by storm in 2021, offering a limited menu of consumables, delivered to your door in an incredible 30 minutes or less (and commanding multi-billion dollar valuations in the process.) So what changes should we expect to see in 2022? Here’s my take: 1.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One variation of Bolt’s Checkout Everywhere function on The Independent ‘s site. A pop-up PDP (Product Detail Page) opens where they can add items to their cart and then either return to reading or check out. “So We see this [new integration] as a way to go a bit deeper with our most engaged readers.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The audience of people with disabilities is larger than most people think ,” said Geoff Freed, Director of Perkins Access Consulting during a session at the 2021 Retail Innovation Conference. “It For example, an easily navigable checkout page does little good when the product pages are frustrating for people with certain disabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Have a simple checkout process. Powerful marketing initiatives and detailed product pages don’t mean anything if the buyer bails because the checkout process is too complicated. Simple and easy checkout processes are needed to seal the deal. In fact, that’s the reason one out of every five shoppers abandon their carts.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Powered by Trigo, the store is based on a hybrid model, where customers can either choose to go through a conventional checkout process, or have a frictionless experience using the latest camera and sensor technology. If they opt for the autonomous checkout, customers need to use the Rewe app to register at the entrance to the store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2023

Even more impressive, eMarketer expects it to nearly double, from $31 billion in 2021 to more than $61 billion by the end of 2024, when it will account for almost 20% of digital advertising spend. Currently, Amazon dominates the space with almost 78% of retail media ad revenue in 2021, trailed by Walmart at a significantly lower rate of 5.4%.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2021

ecommerce is expected to continue in 2021, according to eMarketer , which also projects that digital sales in the U.S. Ideally, of course, omnichannel retailers will find ways to provide a seamless experience no matter what touch point a shopper uses or where they are in their purchase journey. It’s true that double-digit growth in U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This perpetuates Amazon’s market dominance, allowing the company to make increasingly untenable demands on its merchants and costing consumers more at checkout across California. Attorney General Karl Racine in 2021, and dismissed in March 2022 , failed to establish any wrongdoing. In the U.S.,

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2021

With the 2021 holiday shopping season a few months away, it’s clear retailers need to find new and exciting ways to attract shoppers and create an impactful experience that keeps customers engaged. Although shoppers are currently flocking back to brick-and-mortar stores, research shows that 43% of U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

Available to retailers that also sell on the Amazon Marketplace, the expanded seller offering will see Amazon associates pick up and deliver online orders from retailers’ stores to Prime members who select the option at checkout. Now, Amazon is increasingly making its logistics services available outside of its own ecosystem.

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Inside Retail

MAY 25, 2022

The importance of an easy checkout process and a reassuring returns process are consistent themes dating back to last year’s State of Ecommerce Report. You get through most of the checkout process for a purchase you’re excited to make and then you’re suddenly hit with sticker shock for the cost of shipping.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2022

billion on Cyber Monday 2020 , while Singles Day in November 2021 in China drove $139 billion in sales for two of that country’s major online shopping platforms. That includes frictionless payments and checkout and fast shipping options. Consider that in the U.S., ecommerce merchants pulled in $10.8 ATO fraud against U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2022

Jane , a DTC home décor and fashion retailer, explained how its unique approach to live shopping and social commerce has resulted in massive returns at the 2022 Retail Innovation Conference & Expo. Additionally, any links that bring a shopper to your site should include a clear path to purchase that makes checkout as smooth as possible.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 29, 2022

One of the ways in which retailers can more accurately monitor and therefore predict how consumer behaviour will change is having access to accurate data about what’s impacting the sale and return of their products. . Trying before buying’ will play a big part in contributing towards the growing volume of returns in 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

This entertains the customers and establishes a brand connection during the checkout downtime or while the product is being gift-wrapped. It’s better to think of these solutions as marketing tools and measure “return on objective” (ROO) rather than ROI. Tyler Wells is the North American Sales Manager for MicroTouch.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2023

The New Retail Environment During the pandemic, retailers added face mask requirements, set up social distancing rules for checkout lines and increased cleaning protocols for employee and customer safety. The Bureau of Labor Statistics data from September 2021 indicated that the “quit rate” among food service workers reached 6.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2022

Home discount retailer Big Lots is returning to expansion mode after more than a decade of flat store growth, with plans to open as many as 500 new stores in the next six to seven years. At the investor meeting, Big Lots also provided an update on results for Q4 of fiscal 2021. Big Lots currently operates 1,431 stores across the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2022

What’s more, according to the 2021 Achieving Customer Amazement Survey Report from Shep Hyken, 75% of Americans are more likely to be loyal to a company that delivers personalized customer service, while 83% would switch brands because of a bad experience. More online orders mean higher return rates, and thus more customer interactions.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2021

In the last 12 months alone, the industry has seen household names across the globe forced into administration (with a number never to return) including Debenhams, Arcadia Group, JC Penny and Century 21. There’s no doubt that Covid-19 has brought about lasting changes to retail worldwide. This picture may not be as rosy as it first appears.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

She recently implemented a solution to unify and organize customer data, including not just online and in-store purchases but also returns and call center activity. I also have initiatives such as utilizing RFID at the checkout. You place your merchandise at the checkout and in half a minute the order total shows up on the screen.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Fast forward to October 2021, and Australia’s largest online fashion retailer The Iconic is leading the way on resale, partnering with AirRobe on the Circular Wardrobe, an initiative that allows customers to resell, rent, or recycle their preloved items with one click. Tapping into gen Z spending power.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 4, 2021

As such, look for ways to reinvent shopping experiences — perhaps a no-lane, no-touch checkout option; refill stations to replenish commonly used goods such as shampoo or cleaning spray (sustainability sells, after all, to the tune of $150 billion by 2021 ); or omnichannel experiences that blur the digital and physical realms.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Forrester predicts retailers, which are already facing operational and supply chain challenges, will react to the uncertainty in 2023 by shifting to managing rising costs by rolling back offers such as free returns or delivery, and investing in optimization technologies such as order management systems.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

spent an average of 50 minutes on mobile devices, according to eMarketer; jump to 2021 , and that number has more than quadrupled, to 3 hours 46 minutes. There’s no time to waste, because consumers are already there. In 2010 , adults in the U.S. Certainly there are some beta moments, but that has been our North Star.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Sainsbury’s has removed Amazon’s ‘Just Walk Out’ technology from its checkout-free Holborn Circus store, returning the location to a more traditional checkout setup. A Sainsburys spokesperson told GroceryGazette : SmartShop Pick & Go is no longer available in our Holborn Circus store.

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A1 Retail

AUGUST 24, 2021

Freedom Day and the easing of covid-19 restrictions has boosted online fashion order volumes, the latest data from True Fit, a personalisation platform for apparel and footwear retailers, reveals, as UK shoppers dress to impress as their social lives expand and kit out their wardrobes for the return to the office.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The agenda for the virtual 2021 Retail Innovation Conference , taking place Nov. Easton Town Center CEO Jennifer Peterson of Steiner + Associates will discuss the innovative solutions they’ve implemented throughout the customer journey, such as centralized pickup and return locations and using AR to improve brand and product discovery.

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