Retail Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

Retailers face mounting expenses throughout supply chains, from manufacturing to shipping fees. In order to counteract the rising costs of their products, a lot of online stores use transport strategies like free shipping levels or membership programs that encourage larger, less frequent orders.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2025

Smaller carriers, in particular, will face working capital pressures, making it essential for retailers to build flexible, multi-carrier shipping strategies to mitigate risk and maintain delivery consistency. However, because it also adds complexity to inventory management, it makes transparency and proactive communication critical.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 17, 2025

One of the most promising is a challenge that has bedeviled merchandisers, marketers and inventory managers for decades, if not centuries demand forecasting. These mismatches also create the need for either markdowns or additional shipping costs to get the products to where they are more likely to be sold.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

headquarters to support design thinking for all employees, with a focus on facilitating cross-functional team collaboration across engineering, product management and design departments. Sam’s Club will develop a design studio at its Bentonville, Ark. Through the studio, Sam’s Club hopes to become known as a design-led organization.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And in many cases, traditional product information management (PIM) systems are one of the main culprits. Consider, for example, a drugstore chain that has a new OTC drug coming to market in time for allergy season, and the products release is tied to a national advertising campaign. What if youre not ready to replace a legacy PIM?

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Moreover, customers compliment Supres wide range of payment and flexible shipping options and authority to leave deliveries. However, Osthus said that Humii found an inconsistency as the company advertises free shipping on first orders over $30, its checkout requires spending at least $50.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 10, 2022

Building a winning strategy through product catalogue selection, pricing, inventory management and great customer service. Defending a winning position by optimising product content and advertising to maintain visibility. Product feed management solutions can help optimise, test and deliver this data. Bringing it all together.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 8, 2023

CTV’s flexibility, accessibility and pricing make it a better deal for consumers, and its advanced advertising capabilities make it better for brands. Reliably connecting the dots between views and action is now a reality for CTV.” These are companies that cut their teeth buying media on social media platforms and search.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Moreover, customers compliment Supres wide range of payment and flexible shipping options and authority to leave deliveries. However, Osthus said that Humii found an inconsistency as the company advertises free shipping on first orders over $30, its checkout requires spending at least $50.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But as ecommerce has become a more prominent contributor to retailers’ bottom lines, and the cost of doing business online gets more expensive (think rising shipping costs and increasing returns), the mere existence of an ecommerce operation is no longer enough — retailers now have to find a way to make money online.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Advertising 101 Advertising strategies should be aligned with inventory levels and sales strategies. It is not possible to have a good sales strategy without a solid advertising strategy and vice versa, but oftentimes these teams operate in silos. Perform your advertising research now. What still needs to ship?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

As the company’s Senior Director and General Manager of Omnichannel, Sharon Gee has been at the center of the massive shifts taking place in ecommerce over the last year and a half. At the end of the day, the channels are all blurring — Google used to be an advertising platform, now they have Buy on Google, which makes them a marketplace.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The retailer also is currently seeking third-party solution providers in areas including payment processors, order management and shipping and fulfillment. The Michaels Marketplace will be invite-only and aimed at “high-volume sellers of components, tools or craft materials,” according to an announcement on the company’s website.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2022

Google’s broader company mission is to make the world’s information available and useful for everybody,” said Matt Madrigal, VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. Bottom line: more traffic = better results for advertisers. These include: Inventory Tracking tool.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Discrepanciessuch as a promotion advertised online but absent in-storecan cause confusion and undercut brand trust. Centralised Data and Inventory Management To deliver a smooth omnichannel experience, retailers must integrate data from e-commerce platforms, physical stores, and distribution centres into a single source of truth.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 26, 2024

Thanks to rapid innovations in supply chain management, AI technology and digital marketing, e-commerce is increasingly playing an integral role in the lives of everyday Aussies. In present-day e-commerce, same-day fulfilment and free shipping are often part and parcel, not perks of the experience. You will be with Dropshipzone.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Pricing (MSRP) and Minimum Advertised Pricing (MAP) aren’t enforced by Amazon. It’s up to the brand or its agency to manage what your pricing policies will be and how you prevent being undercut by resellers on Amazon. Make it a point to manage your own catalog of products. Keep things tidy.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2023

In the second episode of our video series from Shopline, we discuss how artificial intelligence can be used to take the guesswork out of digital advertising, how common mistakes can have a negative impact on conversion and why connecting data in the backend is key. Firstly, it reduces the decision-making around how much to bid.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Over the last 20 years of holiday shipping, we’ve seen how the most successful online retailers prepare for a stellar holiday selling season. Social media advertising and how to leverage it. An easy way to start is with the ad manager available through most platforms. There are more than 3.6 What is content marketing?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

This week, the social media platform introduced a sweeping set of new tools and advertising products — including product links , live shopping and even a full-service commerce solution — all aimed at expanding TikTok’s reach from culture and creation into commerce. “The ” It’s All About the Money, Which in Ecommerce Means Advertising.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The deal comes at an interesting time, according to advertising firm Spinach’s general manager and media director Ben Willee, with cost of living pressures forcing many Australians to weigh up each expense’s total value. They are under enormous pressure to increase revenue, [and] advertising is clearly in their sights.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 4, 2021

Merchants can then set the price for items based on their condition and manage pricing, advertising and sales using their existing processes. Shoppers can collect their unwanted apparel and either ship it directly to Farfetch or have it picked up for free. by the end of 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We’re indifferent on where the shopping journey ends, where that transaction takes place ,” said Matt Madrigal, VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “It Product Sales May Not Matter, but Advertising Sales Matter a Lot. Advertising is, of course, the crux of all of this.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

We use data to gain consumer insights, test market reception and decide when and where we’re going to advertise. We’ve relied on legacy ERPs to track and manage goods. The truth is, most business analysts, replenishment managers, advertising coordinators, brand directors and logistics executives have always had an inherent hunch.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

AI Tools to Create and Manage Product Imagery Google is the latest in a raft of digital platforms to roll out generative AI tools to help merchants with their product imagery. Amazon announced its own generative AI image tool last week and Meta made its suite of image tools available to all advertisers in October.

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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.

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Inside Retail

JULY 5, 2024

It moved into a larger warehouse in 2014 and by 2018, it was shipping 30,000 parcels per day. Booktopia touted its predictive sales algorithm as a competitive advantage that allowed the business to manage stock levels and allocate advertising spend by monitoring and forecasting product demand in real time.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 28, 2024

Google is no longer the world’s default search platform, and it’s no wonder this fact has raised Google’s competitive hackles, since as go users, so go advertisers. A Search Salvo with Gen AI Ammo Google isn’t taking this lying down, however, and generative AI is key to how it’s fighting back. New AI Overviews results page.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

From paid online advertising to email campaigns, digital marketing is a sophisticated, rapidly changing area of expertise that most wholesale brands have only observed from afar. A tech stack is the ecosystem of hardware and software platforms needed to manage the DTC order fulfillment process from end to end. Building a Tech Stack.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

TikTok has made it frighteningly easy to buy — it’s literally a swipe and the product is on its way to you,” said Lee Parkhurst, Senior Brand Manager at Educational Insights , the first toy brand to test out TikTok Shop. and managed by the U.S. reads the company announcement. The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This can done be through an automated agreement lifecycle management tool, which ensures both parties have the most up-to-date information. If the demand spikes in one geographic region, will the shipping couriers be able to deliver the products within the designated delivery timeline?

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 27, 2025

While its not too late for retailers and brands to explore AI use across various functions, John Harmon Coresights managing director of technology research cautioned, it is clear that the leaders in this space like Target and Walmart, which have already implemented GenAI company knowledge bases, are strongly ahead of the curve.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2023

Reis: Amazon is such a monster to manage, and you really need to understand all the capabilities to optimize your brand. But we help brands control that Buy Box by helping them with the overall brand account, including brand messaging, because we know brands don’t have the resources to manage everything.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2022

Helen Marsh, Gift Flick co-founder & CMO, says the aim is to remove the anxiety of ‘shopping before the shipping window cut-off date’ and replace that with a positive, creative new way for consumers to reveal physical gifts through a personalised digital experience. An end to order deadlines for online gift shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

The global economy is still full of risk, although inflation has leveled off,” said Rob Garf, VP and General Manager of Consumer Goods at Salesforce at a briefing earlier this week. Consumers cite value as their top reason for using these apps, at 58% , far outstripping the second-most-popular reason, fast shipping, at 28%.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2021

If I order, for example, 100 radios from the factory and ship them to Los Angeles, they get checked in at Amazon’s warehouse. When I sell one, Amazon is pulling the item from the warehouse shelf and taking care of inventory management, taxes, paperwork — it takes logistics completely off of my business plan.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2020

But why would Amazon be better than IKEA at shipping furniture around? If you order four AA batteries Amazon charges you $2.16 , but it costs them at least $4 to ship it to you. Amazon’s margins in advertising are about 83% , so it’s essentially a license to print money. But they know everything about us.

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