Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This cutting-edge technology is capable of understanding and analyzing its environment, to support retailers by making the most of their resources and ultimately improving the overall experience for shoppers and employees. Likewise, the retail industry is in a unique place to transform with a mindfulness around privacy.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The Online CX Index, a partnership between Inside Retail and Humii, covers the entire website experience through checkout, delivery and even returns, evaluating eight key criteria based on up to 200 data points. Moreover, customers compliment Supres wide range of payment and flexible shipping options and authority to leave deliveries.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2021

Delek US Holdings will implement AI-powered self-checkout at more than 70 Delek DK convenience stores in Texas by late summer 2021, through a partnership with Mashgin. Mashgin’s autonomous self-checkout is 300% faster, frictionless, and social distance-friendly. Mobile wallet usage rose 60% to account for 9.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2022

While many holiday shoppers favor online experiences to avoid waiting in endless checkout lines or battling over parking spaces, many now face competition from a new challenger: automated bad bots. Price scraping, account takeover and gift card abuse are just some of the ways bad bots impact the retail industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2023

Using the Amazon “Just Walk Out” technology, Grubhub Campus has introduced cashierless checkout at convenience stores at Loyola University Maryland. Students, faculty and staff scan a QR code to enter the store, pick their items and leave, with the payment deducted from their student meal plan or other stored payment methods.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The Online CX Index, a partnership between Inside Retail and Humii, covers the entire website experience through checkout, delivery and even returns, evaluating eight key criteria based on up to 200 data points. Moreover, customers compliment Supres wide range of payment and flexible shipping options and authority to leave deliveries.

Payment Services 130

Payment Services Checkout Drop-Shipping Shipping 130

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

According to the latest data from the National Retail Federation (NRF), merchandise returns are projected to reach an astounding $890 billion in 2024, accounting for approximately 16.9% With the holiday season just concluded, the challenge of managing merchandise returns is a reality for many retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Catalysts plug-and-play design has helped streamline essential tasks, like cart-to-checkout integration and customer account management, which reduced development efforts. Enhancing Site Speed and Reliability Uplift started the transition to Catalyst in August and spent approximately 10 weeks of development time.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2025

While these have met with varying success, its clear that addressing the product returns problem will require a consistent, holistic, multi-pronged approach that takes into account virtually every aspect of the pre- and post-purchase process.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

All the ways they need to serve customers? Your POS system needs to account for that. Associate POS adoption depends on getting the user experience right. Customer and product information at their fingertips What are some of the functionalities and data that your POS system needs to serve up?

Payment Services 270

Payment Services Loss Prevention Fulfillment Shipping 270

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

No matter how fast the modern payment ecosystem is developing, the pursuit of the best customer experience isn’t going anywhere. To answer customers’ demands, business leaders must find the balance between adapting services to consumers’ digitally-driven shopping behaviors and staying true to the company’s strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The industry experimented with new approaches to how we do business in order to streamline the customer experience. As a result of these new approaches, customers now expect a secure, seamless shopping experience whether they are shopping in-person or online. It has been estimated that U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

commercetools Composable Commerce for B2B provides access to the company’s full API portfolio, with the goal of allowing users to create and customize experiences necessary for their specific business model rather than having to tailor them to an out-of-the-box solution.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2023

In addition to the fully automated carts, Schnucks will test a Lite version, with customers manually scanning items before placing them in the cart.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

Payments are a critical link between our brands and millions of URBN customers who expect checkouts to be as easy as trying on or adding items to a cart,” said Dave Hayne, CTO at URBN in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

For the enterprise solutions we have Pay with Venmo checkout, which is the integrated checkout button that you see as you’re checking out with large businesses such as the Grubhub s and Lyft s of the world. We actually have tens of millions of people who just have Venmo accounts. one in three Americans have a Venmo account.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2022

We expect to see some pandemic-era commerce developments continue with some new twists, and we’re watching some emerging commerce trends that may go strong beyond 2022 — all with the goal of creating richer, more engaging customer experiences and stronger bonds between customers and brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2023

Specifically, bot operators continue to siphon retailer profits with increasingly sophisticated automated threats — including account takeover, web and API scraping and more. According to the 2022 State of Bot Mitigation Report , nearly 70% of companies using anti-bot solutions lost revenue to bot-driven account fraud.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Others need to scale up contactless Click & Collect operations to account for multiple pick-up bays and timeframes. Usage of click & collect has been accelerated over the last year with several Localz customers seeing 200-300-per cent growth year on year. For more information visit Localz.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2023

Walmart has launched a new ecommerce site and customer experience designed specifically for small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and nonprofits. The aim of the Walmart Business platform is to “remove complexity in purchasing, lower costs and give our customers more opportunities to serve their customers and communities.”

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Payment Services Checkout Shipping Customer Experience 273

Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

Of course, physical retail has had to undergo a few changes since the first wave of Covid, particularly at entry, payment and checkout. Here are some of the ways that businesses have reconsidered safe and convenient ways for customers to shop and pay in person. The hidden productivity benefits of cash automation in the store.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Customer experience (CX) has long been a strategic focus for business-to-consumer (B2C) retailers who understand its role as a key driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and retention. Despite this understanding, many retailers still under-invest in their B2B customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This should be no surprise, as in-store retail is expected to account for the significant majority of $4.56 Today, customer service is more than the way that employees interact with shoppers. Insight #4: In-store experiences have a measurable impact on your retail organization, for better or worse. Online retail has its warts.

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Checkout Shopping Customer Experience Returns 332

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Grubhub now has 30 personalized recommendation carousels on its homepage, spotlighting merchants with delivery ETAs of 30 minutes or less, merchants featuring the customer’s favorite cuisine and more. Customers can request re-delivery of their order with no fees, or a full refund back to their account, without having to talk to an agent.

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Merchant Services Checkout Returns Supermarket 274

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Amazon will let Whole Foods customers “skip the checkout line” at two new Just Walk Out-enabled locations, in Washington, D.C. Customers do have to either scan their palm, a QR code from the Whole Foods or Amazon app or insert a credit or debit card upon entering and leaving the store, but that’s the only thing that is scanned.

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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. But what does that mean in practice for customers? No more lines at checkouts.

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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. However, by understanding how fraudsters target different age groups, merchants can tailor their fraud prevention programs to fit the risk profiles for their customer demographics.

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Merchant Services Accounting Payment Services Returns 292

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

First-party data is what your business owns, such as the data gathered through Google Analytics, account details and purchase histories, and utilizing it is privacy-centric. For example, we can look at an apparel company that prompts a customer to share their clothing sizes in their account details.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, what you generally find in most checkouts [in a sector like grocery] are your standard Visa and Mastercard. Lai: If you decrease the friction in the checkout process, allow the consumer to buy and shop the way they want to, allow for a rapid delivery experience, you’ll get habituation.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Checkout Consumer 361

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2023

Technology — specifically edge computing — provides the foundation for a better customer experience, real-time inventory management, enhanced security and loss prevention and in-store analytics. That could include customized digital signage and instant discount offers based on your purchase history.

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Payment Services Inventory Management Checkout Loss Prevention 246

Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2024

When opening an account on the Baby Registry, consumers can confirm where gifts should be shipped, track the baby’s expected arrival date, customize a welcome message for loved ones and start selecting products to add to their lists.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Research shows that a lousy customer experience will deter 76 per cent of customers from returning to shop on your platform. So, it is critical to optimise service and customer experience online. Furthermore, flags can be quickly raised for fraudulent returns with accounts tagged to prevent further incidents.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2023

Hot Topic has found that predictability — not necessarily speed — is among the most important aspects of the customer experience. The retailer has seen digital sales shift away from next-day deliveries, which now account for just 18.2% of orders, toward two -day or later windows, which account for 80%.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 17, 2022

Your online checkout is an opportunity to give customers what they want, there and then. Many payment providers prioritise security ahead of customer experience, by applying a less-than-perfect, slowed-down approach to combat fraud, blocking payments at the slightest sniff of inconsistency. Protecting shoppers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Now available free to Walgreens customers nationwide, the tool finds free third-party discount cards for thousands of medications and offers customers transparent pricing before they reach the checkout counter. This tool is just one facet of our evolving suite of pharmacy solutions,” he added.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Priorities may be changing, but retailers still need to provide a superior customer experience, added webinar panelist Caila Schwartz, Senior Industry Strategist at Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a critical component of successful digital and customer transformation. AI Leading The Transformation.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

Online shoppers have more options at their fingertips than ever and have developed a fickle tolerance for user experiences they consider clumsy, slow or just plain inconvenient. Passwords are at the heart of the issue and account for 30% of all abandoned online purchases.

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