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Australia’s best retailers at returns: Bed Threads, The Iconic, Oroton

Inside Retail

One minor downside is that The Iconics chatbot struggles to answer whether return labels can be printed at the post office, and the returns policy doesnt clarify this either. days, with the homeware sector leading at four days and the beauty industry trailing at an average of 13 days.

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Low Prices, Slow Deliveries: Amazon Beta Launches ‘Haul’ Ecommerce Site

Retail TouchPoints

Seeking to compete with ultra-low-price sites such as Shein and Temu , Amazon has introduced Amazon Haul , featuring maximum prices of $20 and one- to two-week shipping times. The majority of products offered are priced at $10 or less, with some as low as $1. It will be available to U.S.

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Unify Drop Ship and Marketplace for a Highly Flexible Go-to-Market Model — Don’t Get Stuck in ‘Either-Or’

Retail TouchPoints

In today’s Now Economy , customers are gravitating increasingly toward the “I see it, I want it, I’ve got it” retail model — while at the same time they’re more intent than ever on making purchases that support their personal values. The truth is, it’s not an “either-or” proposition. Brands produce inventory and absorb storage costs.

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How Dick’s Sporting Goods Fights Premium Sneaker Diversion with its Mobile App

Retail TouchPoints

After its introduction, Even with zero marketing, we were seeing upwards of 20% of app openings happening in a physical location, so we saw the potential of adding a store mode, said Matt Walker, Director of Product and Design, Mobile Apps at Dicks Sporting Goods. The apps store mode also has become a great save-the-sale tactic, said Walker.

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BJ’s Invests in Drop-Ship Fulfillment Program

Retail TouchPoints

BJ’s Wholesale Club will strengthen support for its drop-ship program with online order fulfillment and delivery accuracy solutions from CommerceHub. The retailer has enhanced several of its omnichannel offerings in recent years, including the launch of curbside pickup at all club stores in August 2020.

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Snuggle Hunny, Purebaby, Sheet Society top online sustainability perceptions

Inside Retail

Osthus also pointed out that Snuggle Hunny shows how it brings to life its pledge for diversity and inclusion, while its sustainability drop-down feature ensures shoppers accessibility to relevant sustainability information at a glance. If shoppers had one request?

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Sensing, Not Seeing, with Vision AI as Retail’s Crystal Ball for the Future

Retail TouchPoints

While 7-Eleven is at the forefront of inventive uses for vision AI in the convenience retail market, we are also observing interest and adoption of vision AI for supermarket retailers for resource reallocation, to mirror each store’s unique ebb and flow of operations and foot traffic throughout the day.