Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Streaming TV platform Roku has introduced Roku Ads Manager, a self-service solution for purchasing CTV advertising. The new solution enables Shopify merchants to launch shoppable ads that allow consumers to check out onscreen using their Roku remote.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Brian Schwalb, Attorney General for the District of Columbia, has filed a lawsuit accusing Amazon of failing to provide its advertised fastest delivery service to two D.C. And we’re always transparent with customers during the shopping journey and checkout process about when, exactly, they can expect their orders to arrive.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2024

This is the first part of our two-part series, “ From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out: A Look at Autonomous Retail Experiences.” In part one we go beyond the headlines to uncover the reality of the self-checkout situation. Plus, despite all the vocal naysayers, many consumers actually like the technology.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Privacy and data regulations – such as Apple’s App Tracking Transparency Framework – have severely limited the data that brands and advertisers can collect on users of these channels. Brands seeking to break away from the Google-Meta duopoly in the digital advertising market need to be agile and adaptable to match today’s digital landscape.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Retailers including Walmart are stretching the boundaries of retail media by providing access to non-endemic advertisers and additional in-store opportunities. 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.

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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. YDs one-page checkout also streamlines the process, removing the hassle for customers to place an order.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Critical milestones in the journey are no longer confined to a traditional retailers ecommerce site or checkout cart. By keeping users engaged with the ability to shop directly within the platform, these features have led to increased ad impressions, new revenue streams from product sales and valuable data insights for targeted advertising.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2025

For this reason, there have been major investments in exciting retail activations from some of the biggest grocers in the world, with a particular focus on bringing the online and in-store shopping experiences together in one seamless checkout. grocers are valued at $8.5 But how are grocers actually bridging the online with the offline?

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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. YDs one-page checkout also streamlines the process, removing the hassle for customers to place an order.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

A shift toward a new dynamic for Instagram and Facebook Shops will require companies to enable in-app checkout in order to offer a Shop on both sites. via both Meta’s Commerce Manager and Shopify will only be allowed if checkout on Facebook and Instagram is enabled. The change will first be tested in the U.S., Outside of the U.S.

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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. a moment he still recalls.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2024

Macy’s has partnered with Rokt to provide shoppers with post-purchase offers via non-endemic ads delivered during the checkout and transaction experience. Macy’s Media Network has seen increased customer engagement since launching our partnership with Rokt,” said Michael Krans, VP of Macy’s Media Network in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 25, 2024

NBCUniversal has unveiled a series of new capabilities aimed at “bringing television advertising into the performance marketing future” and enhancing TV-enabled commerce opportunities as it readies for the kickoff of the Summer Olympics on July 26, 2024. NBCU’s new Virtual Concessions ad format.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Food delivery platform Grubhub is expanding its advertising capabilities to create a full-fledged commerce media network in partnership with Koddi. We’re excited to expand the services we provide our partners to include greater advertising capabilities.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2024

This month Retail TouchPoints has been exploring the state of autonomous checkout experiences in our series From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out. But there is a more middle-of-the-road area of self-checkout that is currently growing by leaps and bounds — smart carts. by the end of 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

Add the increasing CPC costs at all sorts of paid advertisement channels and harsher competition to that, and you get a not-so-rosy outlook for the market altogether. Advertising. Advertising automation is vital if you want to maximize ROAS and stay competitive. in 2019 to 14.9% at the peak of the pandemic. Eyal Reich, StoreYa.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

The move follows a similar trajectory at Google , which has been continuously adding more features to make itself central to the online shopping experience, including the recent debut of a new checkout flow. Certainly having more sellers and more products on its shopping platform should boost traffic and therefore advertising audiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s no secret that retailers and brands have become obsessed with driving conversion in their quest to recover the more than half of shoppers who abandon checkout before completing their purchase. Maximizing that combination of factors can be accomplished at checkout, as long as it’s not stripped of all its goodness.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2024

Having spent a whopping $3 billion on online advertising in the U.S. in 2023, China’s Temu is hoping that its online advertising blitz can help it establish a foothold in what is traditionally Amazon’s territory. advertising campaigns, signaling that this trans-Pacific ecommerce battle is only just beginning.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2024

After successfully rolling out in-store displays that bring dynamic brand advertising to in-store shoppers, Hy-Vee has forged a new partnership with Fluent, Inc. Post-Purchase Offers Enrich the Online Grocery Shopping Experience Hy-Vee’s retail media network, RedMedia , also has become a significant growth channel for the retailer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2023

Walmart already offers a number of in-store activations for advertisers, including TV walls, self-checkout ads and integrated marketing opportunities, and now the retailer is beta testing the addition of product demos and ad placements on Walmart Radio , the retailer’s in-store audio feed.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Federal Court proceedings have been initiated against Dell Australia by The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for allegedly making false or misleading representations about the cost of add-on monitors at checkout. A “strikethrough” figure was placed next to the monitor’s price representing a significant saving.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One variation of Bolt’s Checkout Everywhere function on The Independent ‘s site. When they close the checkout, they’re back on the article if they want to continue shopping or reading or doing something else.”. In the advertising world it’s all a gray zone. IndyBest’s centralized shopping section.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Ship2Me selections can be added to a cart alongside any Giant Pickup or Giant Delivers orders in a single seamless checkout process. “At Shops as a combination marketplace and advertising solution that offers each seller a personalized storefront. The service will be available to Giant customers in Washington, D.C.,

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

At checkout, QuickChek Rewards members can scan the barcode within the app to earn perks on food and beverages. We are learning a tremendous amount about our own customers, including things we weren’t even aware that we didn’t know,” said Eric Rush, Digital Marketing and Advertising Manager at QuickChek in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2023

If you think those “sponsored” products on Amazon are an innocuous little niche of advertising, think again. digital advertising channel after paid search and paid social campaigns. Thus, retail media is poised to become the newest competitive battleground in digital advertising. But what, exactly, is the playing field?

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2022

Viewers will be able to press “OK” on their remote when they see a product they like in a shoppable ad and proceed to checkout on their TV. From there, tapping “OK” on the Walmart checkout page places the order. Payment details will be pre-populated from Roku Pay , Roku’s payments platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Social commerce channels are a boon for brands because they marry authentic connection with the convenience of native checkout features to create powerful shopping experiences. Having grown up as internet natives, Gen Z is said to be more desensitized to traditional advertising. after deploying both of these tactics.

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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

MAY 18, 2023

Pay-per-click advertising (PPC) is among the most cost-effective ways to boost sales online, by allowing brands to efficiently reach the right consumers at the right time. Make Sure Your Product Feed is 100% Accurate A product feed is a file that contains a list of products a brand wants to advertise on Google.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And there’s more to come — at Advertising Week NY CMO Kristin Patrick teased big plans on the horizon, including turning the Roblox Shimmerville experience into a broader IP that will expand well beyond the metaverse with content and physical products.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

One of the most common complaints customers have is waiting too long in checkout lines. Instead of the typical time-consuming payment process in stores, facial recognition technology can identify the customer and automatically charge their account for a fast, secure self-service checkout experience. It has been estimated that U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Don’t advertise what you don’t have: Align holiday advertising with inventory. Get the most out of your advertising real estate and don’t disappoint customers. Do it BEFORE checkout: Everything to do with product availability and shipping should be clearly and effectively communicated before the checkout process starts.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Targeted advertising: You can use data to target promotions effectively, enhancing campaign ROI. Loss prevention: AI combats retail shrinkage also, by integrating computer vision and motion analytics at self-checkouts, detecting suspicious activities and ultimately reducing theft.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Just like Amazon’s AWS, Walmart now offers a portfolio of cloud-based third-party services through its Commerce Technologies division, including checkout experiences , omni-retail fulfillment capabilities such as curbside pickup and BOPIS and retail intelligence offerings for inventory forecasting , pricing and personalization.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The move continues a push by Amazon to expand its reach (and in the process often turn friends into enemies) through its Buy with Prime offering, which allows partners to offer Amazon checkout outside of Amazon’s own ecosystem.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2023

The power lies in creating a content and advertising ecosystem that helps consumers instantly turn their inspiration into action — something that very few platforms have been able to monetize successfully. Deep linking, which takes users from products straight to a retailer’s checkout, represented 40% of Pinterest’s shopping revenue.

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