Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In the wake of COVID-19, returns are receiving serious (and necessary) attention for several key reasons: Retailers are spending more processing returns in stores. However, apparel and department stores are elevated. Normally, apparel returns are roughly 7.5% Most industries now have return rates close to normal levels.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Some of the most popular gift-giving categories are those experiencing the highest levels of inflation, including electronics , toys and apparel. Even outside of the holiday season, uptake in buy now, pay later (BNPL) services is exploding in the U.S., This is causing many Americans to stress this holiday season.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Mastercard SpendingPulse measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment, providing a wealth of insights to help merchants refine and optimize their holiday strategies. The return to offices and social events is inspiring consumers to level up their wardrobes and focus more on apparel and footwear.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It took Shopify merchants nearly 15 years to reach a cumulative GMV of $200 billion. I think a world without independent brands and independent merchants and local stores is a very boring world and a very boring landscape for commerce. It took just 16 months for them to double that figure. What stood out to you in the findings?

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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 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 The result is a much lower barrier of entry for merchants looking to capitalize on Google’s massive reach.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2020

However, unchecked abuse of returns policies can put a merchant out of business: 54% of the merchants surveyed in a study conducted on behalf of Forter indicated that they lost more than $5 million in revenue each year due to returns abuse. Processing legitimate returns can negatively impact a retailer’s bottom line.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

These models can be optimized for multiple objectives like driving more revenue per order, increasing long-term satisfaction, compelling the user to return more often to the website, incentivizing the customer to sign up for subscriptions or premium services and more. Chatbots for customer service. Personalized website presentation.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2023

The companies say bicycle tyres and tubes will be collected from bike stores and bicycle owners combined by Revolve Recycling, and shipped to Tyrecycle by Bingo Industries for conversion into new products made in Australia at Tyrecycle’s new Erskine Park facility. Scrap metal will be sent to Sims Metal for recycling. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2022

Sessions illustrate the increasingly complex nature of the customer experience, and how the lines between commerce, marketing, service, and even supply chain and fulfillment, continue to blur. It’s no wonder marketers and merchants are overwhelmed trying to capture consumers’ attention and convert them.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

RetailNext found that Black Friday store traffic dropped by 48% year over year, with jewelry (-53.5%), footwear (-52.8%) and apparel (-50.2%) seeing the most significant drops. Adobe reports that the percentage of retailers offering curbside services also increased year over year, from 15% in 2019 to 23% this year.

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Independent Retailer

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Bad actors are known to game the refunding process by either falsely claiming that they never received a shipped item, trying to return a stolen item, or “returning” an empty package, according to Lee. As a result, it is a delicate balance to have a customer-friendly policy while also protecting from abuse and fraud.

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Retail Times

MARCH 22, 2021

From finding the right vendors to crafting mutually-beneficial agreements with them, the pointers below should give you some ideas that you can apply in your supplier management processes. Also pay attention to the ads in these publications, as it’s common for suppliers to advertise their products and services in these magazines.

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365 Retail

APRIL 28, 2021

Fashion brands are pivoting to offer new, value-add delivery services and improved post-purchase experiences to enhance sales, encourage customer loyalty and protect margins, the latest data from parcelLab , the leading operations experience platform, reveals.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In fact, the best order fulfillment processes become sources of revenue, profit, and even customer loyalty.

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Store Growers

JUNE 9, 2023

Product Description: Take Advantage This is another important attribute that should be populated for all your products, otherwise Google Merchant Center will send you a warning. You can provide this type of information when writing the [ sale_price ] and [shipping] attributes, so there’s no need to repeat things twice.

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

Many categories were wildly up, most notably Apparel which was up 727% vs the same month last year. Um and shop for apparel. [3:41] Um and shop for apparel. [3:41] Apparel had the greatest comp month in the history of apparel since someone like invented the first fur to put on the naked guy. vs Q4 2020, up 39.1%

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Retail Prophet

JULY 18, 2022

If a single image has come to define the failure of global supply chains amid the Covid-19 crisis it’s that of the Ever Given – one of the world’s largest container ships – seized in a diagonal death grip inside the Suez Canal, heavy with more than twenty thousand units of cargo aboard. Slave laborers load cotton onto waiting ships.

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Retail Geek

MAY 28, 2021

Jason: [5:17] Yeah the crazy bald super buff guy that owns his own rocket ship and then buys the company James Bond works for like I think that’s the theme for like a James Bond movies. The more reasons Amazon has for people that join Prime the more money they make on this whole ecosystem of services around Prime and it’s.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 22, 2021

Installment Payments heat up – At least one company is acquired (Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, QuadPay, Sizzle) Yes (IPO’s). Jason : Made to Order apparel business > 9 figures. Amazon Shopify Competitor (shipping solution). Shipping (Shopify) – launch own DSP. Owned brands continue to grow. spac/ipo?

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Scot: [5:04] And then so then that was your primary thing so then you did you guys realize that you needed to build you look at all the software for shipping and inventory management and build your own and then you, tell the story of that. Matt: [4:59] Yeah it was a it was a lot of fun so. Pain management we really tried to rely on our.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Extraordinarily inexpensive apparel and you know inexpensive tchotchkes that you probably didn’t know you need but like if you start browsing the side it for a.m. You’re gonna end up making some ill-advised purchases and then it seems like everything drop ships from factories. on a Friday night you’re.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

it’s kind of like a multi-channel shipping solution so they’ve you and I have long. 8:09] There’s a lot of speculation that they’re going to come out with some kind of a Shopify killer or some kind of competitive offering to Shopify so this gives them a pretty interesting shipping kind of non Amazon shipping solution.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

5:15] Another hobby of I guess it was a shared one is we like to coin phrases, one of the ones that I coined was Zero friction addiction so when consumers have these low-friction experiences not only are they great. And this is where we. Jason: [11:03] We got on like The Today Show.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 28, 2021

3:16] Salesforce Effectiveness pricing products for fitting customer service. 4:15] Process and fifty percent of all of their comments positive or negative related to the supply chain that show up on time was it broken even more soberly pair because heavy bulky things people are entering your house. We could have done quite yet.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

So that was interesting and then the to me the most geeky coolest thing of all although controversial is during the pandemic, the Brazilian government launched a government-sponsored instant payment system so I got. The thing that has grown a ton is you know shoptalk offers this Meetup service.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 27, 2024

Global e-commerce logistics provider ShipBob recently released its Global State of Fulfillment Report, which suggests that 36 per cent of brands internationally will ship to new countries this year. It’s very important to create powerful partnerships in the market to make the whole process a lot easier.”

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Wiser

OCTOBER 2, 2020

What can be done to optimize shelf conditions such as availability, planogram compliance, display compliance, and more? Casey Berns, as I said, is the associate director of shopper insights and category advisory services at the Clorox company. 2: Planogram Compliance. Tom (continued): The next one is planogram compliance.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

We cover many of the tactical challenges (onboarding SKUs, product content, fulfillment, and curation), as well as the opportunities of this new “CircularCommerce” space. Matt: [18:53] No no that I left before any of those kind of process integration initiatives occurred. And we wound up. [29:43]

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Retail Geek

MAY 9, 2023

Scot: [4:43] Macy’s Woodberry Amazon and apparel. 18:58] Ratcheted back their service level a little bit like you’re seeing a lot of people starting to charge more for returns you’re starting to see delivery promises get stretched out a little bit and you know Amazon is kind of.

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Store Growers

JUNE 11, 2018

“I just got a mail from Google saying they’re suspending my Merchant Account got suspended!” I had tried to give some tips, but now her Google Merchant account got suspended. Grab our free Google Shopping checklist to guide you through the rest of the process so you can start selling on Google Shopping in no time!

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

million, FY Merchant Solutions revenue grew 116% to $2B Shopify Expands Its Checkout System to Facebook and Instagram. Fourth-Quarter Revenue Grows 94% on GMV Growth of 99% Full-Year 2020 Revenue Grows 86% on GMV Growth of 96% FY Subscription Solutions revenue grew 41% to $908.8 Amazon news: Amazon acquires Seltz, a Shopify competitor.

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I Love Fashion

JANUARY 19, 2023

Considering the process of wholesale clothing can be divided into 3 categories. Those are- Merchant Wholesalers Brokers or Agents Manufacturer’s Sales and Distribution Let’s have an overview of them. Merchant Wholesalers Merchant wholesalers are also called importers, exporters, supply houses, industrial distributors, etc.

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Store Growers

JUNE 24, 2023

Last Updated on July 3, 2023 Ecommerce merchants are no strangers to using Google Merchant Center. This powerful platform lets merchants manage, modify, and adjust their ecommerce shops across Google’s various services, such as Google Shopping, Ads, My Business, etc. First, log in to Google Merchant Center.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

3:26] And of particular note, and I know we’ll talk about this more, they’ve seen a significant uptick in use of Buy Now, Pay Later services, and they’ve seen deeper discounting than we saw last year. billion consumers are shaping shopping trends.

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Indigo 9 Digital

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

It was easy for Forever 21 to capture the hearts and minds of young consumers looking for trendy apparel. Shein is vertically integrated allowing it to go from design to shipping in as little as three days. Commenting on the growth of Shein TechCrunch wrote : “[Shein] manufactures in China as many apparel retailers do.

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