Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2023

(Source: Pinterest) Launched on May 17, 2023, the five-day campaign kicked off with a livestream shopping event from the Banana Republic store on Folsom Street in San Francisco, where creators Lauren Chan , Charlotte Bridgeman and Igee Okafor highlighted Banana Republic’s top picks for wedding guest apparel this season.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2023

A combination of video stream, entertainment and real-time group chat, livestream shopping is a part of the much broader social commerce industry, which is currently $492 billion in size and expected to grow 3X as fast as traditional ecommerce, according to Jill Standish, Global Lead for Accenture’s Retail Industry Practice.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

. • Target’s Black History Month collection: In its sixth year, Target’s largest-ever exclusive collection of products from Black designers and businesses features apparel, accessories and more. The initiative is part of the retailer’s Black Beyond Measure campaign, which celebrates Black life throughout the year.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This respondent pool was surveyed from June to July 2022, and focused on holiday gifting plans, including where they were going to shop, who they were going to buy gifts for and how much they were planning to spend. Overall, 85% of respondents plan to spend up to $500 on five or more gifts for babies.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. YOY growth this holiday season, whereas department stores will only see a 0.3%

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

That’s why Feldman expects that shopping for apparel and footwear will extend into the start of the school year. They want to always be in tune with what’s trending: Their parents may want to capitalize on timely deals and sales, but Gen Alpha wants what’s trending right now.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2024

The company also teamed up with Lululemon in September 2023 to become the apparel brand’s exclusive digital fitness content provider. branding refresh — which debuted in May 2023 as the company faced a product recall of 2.1 “We collectively recognize the way people engage with fitness is constantly changing.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Weddings have always been a reason people come to Pinterest — they can find inspiration from more than 2 billion wedding ideas on our platform and start to plan all the elements for their big day,” said Sara Pollack, Global Head of Consumer Marketing at Pinterest in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2022

The company’s wholesale business is still thriving, but now it’s only part of an omnichannel strategy that includes ecommerce , social commerce and marketplaces. New extensions via licensing into categories such as footwear, medical scrubs, pet apparel and children’s fill out the expanded product offering customers can find online.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

The world’s largest retailer shared expansive plans for the future of retail at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024), focusing on adaptive retail strategies that encompass realms of customers, workforce and society. It’s essentially a ‘Virtual Try-On’ service that becomes a social experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2021

More and more, that means rethinking product development and expanding their sizing and assortment planning to represent a wider range of sizes and body shapes. this year alone, representing approximately 21% of the total women’s apparel market. Challenge 2: Planning and Allocation. billion in the U.S. Challenge 3: Pricing.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Accessibility Moved into the Mainstream The fight for inclusion by people with disabilities saw some key victories in 2023, as retailers and brands began to recognize the buying power of this sector: Market Reports World has forecast an annual CAGR of 5.74% for adaptive apparel from now through 2030. Adam Blair 5.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2024

During the Retail Strategy & Planning Series webinar, “Returnuary: The New Make-or-Break for Holiday Success?” Additionally, visual UGC, particularly with apparel sales, is vital. Listen to the full webinar on-demand to learn how you can perfect your Returnuary plans. But don’t throw in the towel just yet.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2024

Sports fans deserve a place to gather, celebrate their passions and foster new ones, and Fanatics Fest NYC aims to do just that,” said Lance Fensterman, CEO of Fanatics Events in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

This includes highlighting deals on airfare and providing tips to plan key destinations during popular breaks from school. For example, a micro-influencer in the apparel space may design their clothing or attend fashion school.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2021

How MeUndies plans to use its latest funding round. In the apparel space, marketing traditionally focused on the product with the brand often taking a back seat,” Shokrian explained. The capital infusion from Provenance will help the brand expand its core competencies across product design , production and distribution.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2022

The brand was even able to sell 100,000 units by offering digital apparel for avatars inside of Zepeto. When asked by CNBC Closing Bell co-anchor Sara Eisen whether Ralph Lauren plans to release its own line of NFTs, Louvet noted that while they are having conversations internally, they “don’t just want to follow the trend.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2021

But a report from Payoneer shows that demand for livestreaming has increased dramatically during the first half of 2020, encouraging brands across apparel, cosmetics and even auto to test the model. Through a survey of 475 consumers, Influence Central also found that only 19% of U.S. consumers have tuned into a livestreaming event.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Most apparel is still sold offline, over 65% of it — there’s still a massive market out there of people who are not even buying clothes online because they want to feel the product and try it on.”. “That’s why we have more aggressively pursued our own brick-and-mortar retail locations. Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

Brands must begin to wrap their heads around these immersive virtual spaces and plan their corporate metaverse strategy or run the risk of falling behind.”. Ralph Lauren CEO Patrice Louvet revealed how the luxury brand sold 100,000 units by offering digital apparel for avatars inside of Zepeto, a South Korean metaverse.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With shoppers often buying sweets, custom-made apparel, accessories and jewellery, White Day offers e-commerce platforms a huge opportunity to fulfil consumers’ needs. The share of respondents in the Statista survey who said they were planning to spend more was the highest in India, at 76 per cent. The show goes on.

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Mass Relators

JULY 15, 2024

As parents weigh prices, they plan to make room for both necessities and a few indulgences, representing an opportunity for retailers to take some anxiety out of the shopping season. Eight in 10 surveyed parents plan to enroll their children in extracurriculars, spending an average of $582 per child.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this episode we cover: Amazon Q4 Earnings Walmart Q4 Earnings US Department of Commerce Q4 e-commerce data Discussion of Temu and other Social Commerce News Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. on a Friday night you’re.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

We also briefly discuss e-commerce in Brazil, around Jason’s recent trip to São Paulo. In this episode we recap everything you may have missed if you couldn’t make it to Las Vegas. Progression and then this last one that we’ll talk about at the end called platforms. [19:11] Meta did a keynote and they talked a lot about. [42:31]

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

Yes Shein exceeds $30B in annual sales, disrupting apparel industry Yes Adoption of BNPL services slows down to less than 15% CAGR in 2022. Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 8, 2022

and The Meta was like a track keynote from Benjy Shalimar who’s like the VP of Commerce which you know big roll it. Jason: [20:22] Installment plan yeah okay. Scot: [20:25] Yeah like something like 80% of peloton’s had an affirm plan and so but also I think it was by far our firms biggest Merchant.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

12:35] Look it was an early social commerce player as far as leveraging Pinterest and things that you could do with. Order management system warehouse management system all the way down to the call center and the warehouse it was, um pretty pioneering on the web services side as far as. [12:35]

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Retail Geek

APRIL 9, 2021

– Dept Stores private label apparel. Um are we leaning heavily into it and we’ve seen Walmart due to two pilots where they had Commerce events on Tik-Tok now, and. [30:54] E-commerce isn’t particularly good at and so the hypothesis is that this social commerce. Why is Amazon different?

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Retail Geek

MARCH 31, 2021

Jason: [0:48] I know this was a bad week to plan a vacation in the canal. Jason: [2:07] Yeah and the plan B is not ideal it’s a so long way around. Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners Jason hope you’re having a good week and you have no blockages like the Suez Canal.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

However, apparel isn’t the only category interested in AR. “We’re The effort is mainly experiential, featuring just 15 items, but it reached more than 1.5 million engagements in its first week. Snap launched its AR try-on technology with Gucci in June, letting shoppers see how shoes would look on them using two kinds of lenses.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 20, 2022

Checked out on Tick Tock in huge quantities yet but it’s super interesting the Amazons kind of approach to social commerce, is get content creators and influencers and sellers. Scot: [29:26] Nursing did in their warnings they both talked about apparel any more color on that.

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Retail Geek

JULY 26, 2023

And yeah the they also are doing well you know we haven’t talked a lot about them lately but they’ve expanded from a apparel retailer to a broad set of categories including consumer electronics and they’ve launched a third-party Marketplace on the US. Jason: [13:19] They started out selling wedding dresses.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 25, 2021

Jason: [38:39] Yeah yeah and I’ll be honest outside of this Prime day data and they were the only ones I saw that called out Apparel in a positive or negative way but outside of this Prime day data I would say. For apparel already happening in October I don’t know. As with all of these Trends there’s an argument.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We also discuss the latest news (and controversies) around Facebook and TikTok pulling back from some social commerce initiatives (and pressing forward with others). Right I go out of the inventory that’s getting unpacked right now is Home Improvement and apparel that had a like a nice Spike.

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

You know at least three and maybe four of them are all like cumulatively what I would call Commerce right like you taught you know. [25:10] 25:10] What big trends am I talking a lot with with clients about it since its creators as micro influencers its video driven Commerce its. Social commerce and the the sleeper is.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 10, 2025

Jason [14:50] Our digital 50% of apparel is digital but. You know less than 8% of groceries are digital so it’s still it totally makes sense that grocery e-commerce is growing faster than anything else I don’t think it’s gifts. So I thought that was interesting traditional Trends we’ve talked about for.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Yes Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. For 2023, live streaming commerce, still not meaningful in the US. 56:16] And, you know, Xi’an is really largely focused on apparel.

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