Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

RFID-ticketed products are not yet required for drop-ship suppliers. That includes a large percentage of Nordstrom’s merchandise, such as apparel, accessories, home and gift products, baby gear, shoes and some cosmetics.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Tommy Hilfiger customers can generate a prepaid shipping label from tommy.thredup.com , fill any shippable box or bag with women’s and kids’ items from any brand and men’s products from Tommy Hilfiger, then ship the items to ThredUP to be resold. The second drop will reportedly feature one-of-a-kind Tommy Hilfiger archive pieces.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

while other apparel and electronics retailers will trumpet order-to-pickup service times of under five minutes. Specific robotic use cases will continue to be redefined as the cost of manufacturing drops and the reliability and capabilities of the technology improve.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

To help merchants, we threw away our roadmaps and shipped everything that could possibly be helpful.”. What we see now is the mix reverting to roughly where pre-COVID data would have suggested it should be at this point. “Demand for Shopify skyrocketed. It’s now clear that bet didn’t pay off ,” Lütke added. Now, we have to adjust.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

drop in 2020. “It’s It’s a different landscape this year than last year, which was different than the year before,” said Peter McCall, Senior Manager, Retail Consulting and Advanced Analytics at Sensormatic in an interview with RetailTouchPoints. At the end of the day, we view this as a successful season.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 27, 2024

“With so many things happening over the last two years — the pandemic, political pressures, social justice protests, geopolitical and supply chain challenges — everyone stayed at a perfect moderate level of anxiety,” said Ericka McCoy, Chief Marketing Officer at analyst firm Resonate in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 1, 2025

Clinton Cahn, CEO of The Reject Shop, noted that there has been a rise in demand for everyday essential items, whereas its discretionary range showed a drop-off in demand, which affected margins. Landlords are not coming to reality with where the market is at the moment.

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2022

It’s no surprise that the largest sports apparel brand in the world, Nike, has bridged the physical and digital divide. Those who already own an RTFKT CloneX avatar or the Nike Dunk Genesis Cryptokicks had first dibs at securing the digital hoodie via a private mint, making it an incredibly rare item to buy. 86 Ethereum (about $1700).

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Manufacturers and retailers of products that rely on touch as a selling point (think apparel, décor and furniture) have faced some of the highest hurdles erected by COVID-19. This was an immersive experience, and everybody was so excited at what they saw.”. It might have been one of our best Markets ever,” said Wecker.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 16, 2021

Paul Gould, Sheridan Group’s general manager, was on site at a cotton farm near Goondiwindi, Queensland, on Wednesday to witness two tonnes of cotton, from textiles and garments, being spread across the soil which is being prepared for the next crop in October. And fibres don’t have to be shipped offshore.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

“Inflation is driving up shopping prices as we head into the holiday season, a time when many people already feel pressured to go all out on gifts for family and friends,” said Colleen McCreary, consumer financial advocate and Chief People Officer at Credit Karma in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

Customers can try on and test apparel under these simulated conditions (no sales inventory is available on-site), and then purchases are shipped directly to their homes. Meanwhile, in the Nike app, shoppers can access early product drops and solicit styling advice from experts. The Lacek Group is an Ogilvy Experience company.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2021

This was rendered possible as retailers and brands offered low-cost shipping, unlimited holding periods and easy returns. As ecommerce matures into adulthood, consumers are taking for granted the ability to return and exchange items at will. Retailers like Zappos paved the way for bracketing to become an acceptable ordering method.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2024

And despite having trouble selling tenants on the idea of a multi-story mall, which was considered a crazy idea at the time, the company moved forward with its planned addition of a second level in the 1970s. ACCESS Pop-Up center courtyard at night. Some brands choose to stay for the duration, while others cycle at the midpoint. “It’s

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Retailers, particularly those in the apparel, footwear and soft goods verticals, have an opportunity to turn the lemons from COVID-19 into lemonade, according to Keith Jelinek and Richard Maicki, Managing Directors in the Performance Improvement Practice of Berkeley Research Group (BRG).

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 1, 2021

For example, there are eight curators at the Louvre, and they make sure that even though the collection is massive and overwhelming, everyone who goes there can find the right experience for them. The platform launched two months later with vetted sellers across a set of targeted categories including apparel, home, beauty and accessories.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 27, 2021

Mosaic Brands is seeing positive results from the implementation of a digital department store strategy across several of its core apparel brands, including Noni B, Rivers, Millers and Katies. Keeping costs down with drop-ship. It is working well across all brands as it is exciting our customers,” Evans told Inside Retail. “The

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Peter Sheldon, Senior Director of Commerce Strategy for Adobe , believes that the “pendulum swung in favor of digital” at the beginning of COVID-19, and it hasn’t swung back. At no point did the pendulum swing back [from digital],” Sheldon noted. “As We’ve been stuck at home, not at work or traveling. Consumers spent $10.8

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2024

Birchbox gave more consumers access to luxury beauty products at a fraction of the price, while BarkBox promised dog parents (and their furry counterparts) a new toy and treat combo every month. For example, many consumers associated memberships with access, either through unique benefits, physical locations or even product drops. “A

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Image courtesy Foot Locker) It all begins with a weekend-long activation at Foot Locker’s “Home Court” installation in Indianapolis during All-Star Weekend. At the same time, Foot Locker also unveiled its year-round brand platform, The Heart of Sneakers. “In

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2023

This year, 3D and AR adoption is expected to be one of the biggest trends for providing next-gen ecommerce experiences, especially for apparel and footwear brands looking to bring the physical world to digital shopping. Consumers expect convenient, interactive shopping experiences, from online to in-store and everything in between.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

For example, consumers shopping for apparel and accessories frequently use in-store and online returns and deem these options to be very important (55%). Due to the coronavirus, retailers saw a drop in returns abuse in the early part of 2020, driven primarily by the drop in transactions overall.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 12, 2022

We talked to four retailers about Omicron: Maxine Windram, director of specialty apparel store Brava Lingerie; Brittany Garbutt, owner and director of popular restaurant chain Pretzel Australia; Natasha Dwyer, founder of children’s clothing store Arthur Ave; and Avi Efrat, owner of Fantastic Framing. Am I putting my staff at risk?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2023

Three companies in the space — intimates brand ThirdLove , Shopify aggregator Win Brands Group and apparel brand U.S. took the stage at The Lead Summit in Manhattan in July 2023 to talk about how they are adapting their strategies to meet the new realities of DTC retail. I look at DTC ecommerce in three pillars,” added Nino.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the world of ecommerce, Google is a bit of an anomaly: while a relatively minor player in the marketplace landscape compared to giants like Amazon and eBay , it is at the same time central to the shopping journeys of millions of consumers every day. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Last week, the Detroit-based company launched Xpress Ship, a new feature that shortens the shipping time for verified items to three business days. Under the Xpress Ship program, products are sent to an authentication centre, where they go through a multi-step verification process.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 25, 2022

By providing a return QR code on a shipping label or box, or on a packing slip for use at a drop-off or collection, retailers can print a return label while also triggering an update to their order management system. Monitor the lifetime value of customers. Optimise post processing.

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Independent Retailer

APRIL 5, 2022

Businesses send products to Amazon fulfillment centers, and when a customer makes a purchase, Amazon handles all of the receiving, packing, shipping, customer service, and returns for those orders. Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service that helps businesses by providing access to Amazon’s logistics network.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Kelly Goetsch, Chief Product Officer at commercetools, reveals why he believes the decreasing importance of Black Friday-Cyber Monday (BFCM) is a good thing for the retail industry: “When ecommerce was first a ‘thing,’ a lot of retailers would post crazy bargains online to drive people online for the first time. But that 20% is not static.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2022

For the uninitiated, Kicks Crew is an e-commerce marketplace for sneakers, apparel and accessories, and it offers over 400,000 unique styles online and ships worldwide. Whether you’re in the United States or APAC, a Yeezy drop is going to create demand and will bind global styles together,” pointed out Yip. The big picture.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 17, 2022

For the uninitiated, Kicks Crew is an e-commerce marketplace for sneakers, apparel and accessories, and it offers over 400,000 unique styles online and ships worldwide. Whether you’re in the United States or APAC, a Yeezy drop is going to create demand and will bind global styles together,” pointed out Yip. The big picture.

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Wiser

APRIL 7, 2020

Alternatively, if you’re in the apparel or accessories industry, there is immense pressure to sell your items while they are still on-trend. Markdowns differ from sales and discounts because they tend to be permanent, whereas sales and discounts are temporary price drops that create urgency for customers to buy now.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2023

Retailers, particularly in tourist locations, were licking their chops, as well they might after so long when often the only sound they had been hearing in their stores was pins dropping. The only problem is that it is all happening at a much, much slower pace than expected. Take Singapore, for example. What can retailers expect?

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Small Biz Trends

JUNE 25, 2022

Take a look at the online businesses for sale in June. Trademarked Amazon US FBA Workout Apparel. This Trademarked Amazon US FBA Workout Apparel business generates 98% of its revenue from Amazon. As a drop-shipping operation, this Home Decor Ecommerce Business ships 98% of its orders directly from the supplier.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

DECEMBER 24, 2021

With consumers becoming more at ease with virtual space interactions, retail businesses have no choice but to ramp up their digital strategies and touchless technologies to meet the pent-up demand for seamless omnichannel operations. In 2022 consumers expect to see the option at checkout rather than find delight in it.

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

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