Inside Retail

JUNE 4, 2024

Harnessing the expertise of platforms such as Startshipit, together with our simple, reliable shipping solutions, can unlock significant opportunities.” Today, the brand is shipped to more than 190 countries and has a loyal following of fashionistas, thought leaders, and celebrities.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Gift cards are shaping up to be a holiday hero this season, as consumers and retailers continue to grapple with supply and shipping issues. Combine that with concerns about shipping delays for those products that are in stock and it should come as no big surprise that gift cards are looking pretty good to shoppers this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To say everyone is worn out is probably an understatement, and by all accounts marketers in particular are feeling the pressure — a staggering 70% of marketing executives said the pandemic has left them “completely exhausted,” according to a new report from Accenture Interactive. Forget About Personalization, Focus on Relevancy.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From the moment a purchase is confirmed to when it arrives at the customer’s doorstep, Klaviyo ’s intelligent marketing automation tools track progress and inform customers where their eagerly anticipated purchase is at. With Klaviyo, you can: Automate insightful shipping notifications that are triggered by real-time events.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Sales-to-inventory forecasting not only determines sales numbers but also informs other business decisions, ranging from hiring and resource management to marketing decisions and inventory and shipping procedures. Navigating the Dynamic and Evolving Shipping Industry.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

For retailers selling products online across multiple markets on- and off-shore, selecting shipping partners can be a significant pain point in time, cost and convenience. We save our customers time, trouble and money on all their shipping needs,” explains Nicholas Woodward, country manager for Pack & Send Australia. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

After several years of declines and a host of executive switch-ups (particularly in the CEO role), Wish began a major overhaul of its business (still underway) and launched a marketing blitz to “reintroduce” itself to consumers in August 2022. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 6, 2021

The platform allows small businesses and online retailers to choose a preferred carrier, print shipping labels and track packages from a centralised service, and enables easy integration of a businesses online operations. Pitney Bowes has today launched its online parcel delivery platform, SendPro Online, in Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. The company must have a warehouse to keep its inventory, and a logistics team to manage the goods for storing, ordering and shipping directly to stores/distributors or customers. Each option has its benefits and disadvantages.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

After all, they will be the ones to bring to life in-store pickup, ship-from-store fulfillment, the endless aisle and other omnichannel experiences. It’s also important to examine reject rates for ship-from-store and buy online, pick up in-store purchases. You’re Losing Money on Every Order Due to High Shipping Costs.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 10, 2022

Technology company Shippit has teamed up with Uber to launch one-hour shipping in Australia. According to Future of Delivery Report 2022, in the next five years, Asia Pacific will be the largest regional parcels market by value, accounting for around 42 per cent of a global market.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Meanwhile, for merchants that had already built their businesses online before the pandemic, a larger addressable market buoyed most, but created scalability challenges for all (including Amazon). 57% of BOXpoll respondents opting for free shipping consider delivery in five days to be either ‘fast’ or ‘acceptable.’ on average.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

As the United Kingdom hastened to exit from the European Union, restricting access to the European single market that accounted for 50% of imported goods, supply chain disruption was inevitable for UK businesses dependent on EU suppliers. Import and Export — a Brexit Conundrum.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In 2019 , the total market share of online U.S. Without proper identification of the individuals behind transactions or new account openings, it’s difficult for retailers to tell the difference between good customers and bad actors, and therefore easier for fraudulent activity to slip through. The Harmful Impact of Digital Fraud.

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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. Scammers gather financial account information and government program ID numbers to take over accounts, divert funds and commit identity fraud. K eep bots out of your customers’ accounts and checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

“With COVID and recent market dynamics, tracking variable costs in real time becomes even more important. “Shopper behavior is also less predictable today, requiring more creative experimentation in merchandising and marketing. . Mejuri uses the real-time tracking to swiftly, and fluidly, pivot strategies.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

Chinese Shopping Apps’ Market Share Increasing Value-seeking consumers are choosing deep-discount Chinese shopping apps like Temu, Shein and, increasingly, TikTok. Overall, Salesforce predicted that Chinese shopping apps will account for just over one in five ( 21% ) purchases this holiday season.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And in today’s day and age, shopping online has never been easier — with targeted ads, free shipping, free returns, stores built into Instagram or TikTok, logins saved on your browser and payment information saved on your devices. Shopping is one of life’s simple pleasures. Krishna Vishnubhotla is VP of Product Strategy at Zimperium.

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Cisco Retail

JUNE 3, 2021

Accounts for ~25% of Total Coherent Ports Deployed Worldwide. Combining Acacia DSPs with Cisco’s internally developed designs, more than 650,000 coherent ports have been shipped, which accounts for approximately 25 percent of the total coherent ports deployed worldwide based on Cignal AI market reports.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Great Omnichannel Experiences Win Customers Consumers expect great omnichannel experiences — from fast shipping to buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS): 83% of consumers search elsewhere if they can’t find fast shipping options. 92% of consumers shop elsewhere to save on shipping , leading to cart abandonment.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Inability to scale: What happens if you just executed a successful marketing campaign and demand for your product skyrockets? By concentrating less on logistics, businesses should focus on what they do best — designing, marketing and selling — in order to grow the business. Outsourcing Fulfillment.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Add this product surplus to heightened consumer concern about shipping times and product availability, and you have all the makings of a secondhand-heavy holiday season. Collectively, that would account for approximately $69.2 faster than offline resale and accounting for the majority of all resale by 2026. billion this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. This is both more complex and more top-of-mind due to ESG [environmental, social and governance]; no one likes to ship air.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Brands can delve into historical sales data, market trends and consumer insights to predict their seasonal demand patterns while factoring in changes based on promotions and actual sales. This can include critical insights gathered from metrics such as pick accuracy, on-time shipping, on-time in-full and delivery success rates.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 7, 2024

Our 2024 report features C-level executives with decades of leadership experience, alongside start-up founders and digital specialists with a wide range of skills, from marketing to logistics. This experience led to a role in sales and account management, helping retailers solve fulfilment challenges, sparking my passion for the industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

Consumers have started taking sustainability into account when deciding what to buy and where to buy it. Much of this impact comes from shipping and warehousing, as well as from operating all those computer servers to facilitate all of those sales. Mitigating Returns.

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Inside Retail

MAY 22, 2022

Likewise, creating a freight account with one or two carriers may be sufficient to meet your shipping needs. But what happens as business increases, and you require greater market exposure and better carrier rates? Sure, when you start out, selling your wares on one or two marketplaces, like eBay and Amazon, may be enough.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

However, not having an ecommerce channel today will almost certainly guarantee losing market share and revenue. Good warehousekeeping leads to better customer service through improved inventory management, faster receiving, put-away, picking and shipping times, savings in labor costs and reducing expensive errors.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Heartbroken by the disappearance of her cat, Filipino IT specialist and blogger Sophie* decided to use her Facebook Ads account to appeal to anyone in her local area who might have seen it. First, the bank account linked to her card was emptied of around $600. Typically she would spend PHP500-1000 per campaign (US$10-20).

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2022

These homebound tendencies ignited a fervor for redecorating and DIY home improvement that, by all accounts, is continuing strong into 2022. Gen X homeowners are also 21% more likely than the average consumer to receive marketing messages in the mail and 30% more likely to use coupons — so don’t abandon your direct mail flyers yet.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 9, 2021

Traditionally this is achieved through daily reporting but, as many retailers are finding out, the introduction of new ways of doing business such as click and collect, ship from store, and endless aisle are making it difficult for reporting software to keep up.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

From the increased market share of digitally native brands to decisions from companies like GlobeWest and Homebodii to dial up D2C strategies, shoppers are becoming increasingly accustomed to purchasing products directly from brands. In the US, for example, eMarketer reports that D2C sales now account for 33% of Nike’s revenue. .

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Drawing on their combined firsthand experience in digital and consumer goods, Co-founders Jana Bobosikova, Ricky Chan and Brendon Garner knew that traditionally, brands followed a linear, hierarchical path in which products were developed, sold and then marketed to a community.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2024

Systems have been streamlined over the years allowing for faster shipping times and happier customers and our stronger presence on social media means that we can truly engage with our community. Our major wholesale accounts are managed in-house. We stand out because we know what we stand for… good quality shoes.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 21, 2023

According to the National Retail Federation, the major retail body in the US, Scope 3 emissions can account for up to 98 per cent of a retailer’s greenhouse gas emissions , and are far more difficult to manage because, unlike Scope 1 and 2, they are outside of a retailer’s direct control.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In the end, Kerrits closed out 2020 with growth in both its wholesale and DTC channels, with the latter increasing by an impressive 150% , according to Sara Florin, Senior Director of Branding and Marketing at Kerrits in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. The company launched its DTC site on Shopify , and then Florin joined in late 2018.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 9, 2021

Amazon’s aggressive launches and marketing in categories such as batteries, baby food and bedding can create stiff competition for the leading brands in those spaces. The canned format is not only heavy, which drives up shipping costs, but they also dent easily, driving up customer complaints and replacement costs.

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