Retail TouchPoints

MAY 30, 2024

To compete today, retailers must develop new and innovative ways to engage their customers and generate more loyalty. Fortunately, the shift toward diverse checkout options and digital receipts has fostered new touch points for retailers looking to make a memorable impact. Developing a feedback loop.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

With a quick click on a smartphone, these customers have accessed hidden content, exclusive deals and lightning-fast checkouts. Three standout examples demonstrate the versatility and potential of this technology: Ikea tackles the challenge of checking out large furniture items with a QR-based mobile checkout option. The result?

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

In an era of fierce competition to attract consumers’ tightening budgets, customer experience has become the key edge retailers can deploy to stand above the competition. Merchants on Shopify POS can now design the in-store experiences that reflect their brand best without having to sacrifice reliability.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It’s early days for this experience, and we’ll continue to listen to customers as we refine and expand it in the weeks and months to come.” Amazon Haul has its own search, cart and checkout separate from Amazon’s. The majority of products offered are priced at $10 or less, with some as low as $1.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2024

These benefits lead to smoother operations and enhanced customer experiences, which in turn drive sales and satisfaction. Technologies such as frictionless checkout systems or ‘Just Walk Out technology’ take a different approach.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

Campus foodservice leader Sodexo will open nearly 100 Food Hive markets on college campuses by 2026, beginning with the approximately 30 locations opening during the 2024-2025 academic year. The modern flow of the store, including self-checkout, will enhance efficiency and convenience for everyone.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2024

This is the first part of our two-part series, “ From Self-Checkout to Just Walk Out: A Look at Autonomous Retail Experiences.” In part one we go beyond the headlines to uncover the reality of the self-checkout situation. Plus, despite all the vocal naysayers, many consumers actually like the technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

We believe we will enhance the customer experience with a lighter-touch remodel , including customer-facing physical asset updates , planogram optimizations and expansions across the store. This initiative is aimed at our mature stores that are not yet old enough to be part of the full remodel pipeline.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Customer profiles that are correct, current and enhanced with demographic and geographic data allow organizations to personalize communications, optimize marketing efforts and uncover new customer prospects. Address verification and auto-completion tools provide a solution by confirming customer addresses in real time.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2025

At their very core, brick-and-mortar stores are meant to be the physical manifestation of a brand a distillation of its promise and the experience it aims to create for shoppers and associates alike. As a result, they are collaborating with different teams and functions, especially operations ( 72% ), marketing ( 65% ) and IT ( 57% ).

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2022

No one wants to waste their time, and if a customer runs into a problem as a web page loads or during the checkout process, there are many opportunities to spend money elsewhere. Adding to the challenge, you may need to watch different things in different regions or markets. People don’t like slow. Components come and go.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

What it didn’t have at that point was a streamlined, intuitive online checkout process — and that quickly became a major hindrance to the company’s DTC expansion plans. “We We were attracted because of their fraud offering and then we saw their checkout solution.” That’s about creating a delightful experience for shoppers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Customer experience (CX) optimization is a necessity for ecommerce retailers and other online businesses that want to convert visitors, drive sales and cultivate customer loyalty. The costs of a poor search experience go beyond lost sales and loyalty opportunities.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

If your customers have to deal with an annoying login process at the end of their shopping journey, they’ll just abandon their cart. This explains why guest checkout is so critical for retailers these days. Before Descope, he served as VP of Product Strategy at Palo Alto Networks which he joined via the acquisition of Demisto.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This cutting-edge technology is capable of understanding and analyzing its environment, to support retailers by making the most of their resources and ultimately improving the overall experience for shoppers and employees. Likewise, the retail industry is in a unique place to transform with a mindfulness around privacy.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

For retailers, self-checkout is something of a double-edged sword. There’s no doubt the technology can bring tremendous benefits, such as allowing more customers to pay at the same time, thus reducing wait times without having to staff additional cashier stations. It’s a rigorous, complicated and lengthy process.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The Online CX Index, a partnership between Inside Retail and Humii, covers the entire website experience through checkout, delivery and even returns, evaluating eight key criteria based on up to 200 data points. Moreover, customers compliment Supres wide range of payment and flexible shipping options and authority to leave deliveries.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

A QR code also is available for those preferring a touchless experience. Customers will receive a printout of the digital coupons that are loaded to their loyalty card for reference as they shop. Savings are automatically applied at checkout when shoppers scan their loyalty card or enter their phone number.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2025

Initially focused on providing an easy way for athletes (Dicks name for its customers) to learn more about products via an in-store barcode scanning feature, the app has continued to incorporate new features that remove friction from the checkout process, such as like autocomplete address suggestions.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 29, 2023

Many brands are getting so caught up with trends like AI or the latest social media platform, they’re overlooking the importance of the customer experience, contends an expert in experiential retail. link] That means making your website navigation as easy as possible, and the checkout as simple as possible.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Its an ever-present internal conflict for many ecommerce and marketing teams that are striving to maximize both time-on-site and conversion rate metrics and its one that standing desk and office furniture manufacturer Uplift Desk has evidently addressed since implementing BigCommerce s Catalyst storefront technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Pacsun remains committed to bridging the gap between the virtual and physical worlds, offering users an experience that reflects the spirit and creativity of collaboration, demonstrating its forward-thinking approach and ability to adapt, the company shared in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For retailers, offering alternative delivery options like these can be a way to mitigate the impact of porch piracy on their bottom line and customer relationships. Sam Jarvis is the CEO and Founder of HubBox , a market leader in ecommerce software for local pickup.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

The Online CX Index, a partnership between Inside Retail and Humii, covers the entire website experience through checkout, delivery and even returns, evaluating eight key criteria based on up to 200 data points. Moreover, customers compliment Supres wide range of payment and flexible shipping options and authority to leave deliveries.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Full-fledged fingerprinting around the internet is depreciating, and marketers and customers alike will soon notice, particularly in the retail and ecommerce space. With today’s emphasis on privacy, third-party cookie deprecation will inevitably impact your brand, marketing strategy and customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

However, retail marketers often lack the data they need to develop and execute more empathetic messaging. This data deficit makes it difficult for marketing to keep pace with a rapidly changing environment. Last year the top priority was engaging customers in real time. The use of AI by marketers globally has increased by 186%.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Nike Plans to Cut $2 Billion in Costs, Layoffs Imminent as Strategy Pivot Continues (January 2, 2024) Increasing competition in the sneaker market and global macroeconomic headwinds pushed Nike to make major cost cuts, using tactics such as simplifying its product assortment and making greater use of automation and technology.

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Inside Retail

JULY 26, 2021

Whether responding to a transactional survey, sharing an experience in a group chat (or Zoom), leaving a public Google review, or streaming a live unboxing of your product on TikTok – customers are advocating for or detracting from your brand in new and countless ways. Customer journey disruption is here to stay.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Retailers are using AI in various ways to improve customer experiences, streamline operations, and gain valuable insights from data. AI algorithms in retail pricing software from Retail Express can take in pricing data, customer demand cues, and competitor pricing to dynamically determine the best prices.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The new year is here; however, the market challenges of 2022 didn’t evaporate with the turning of the calendar. The good news is that retailers can use this time of market instability to double down on their online stores. Create a Seamless, Positive Experience for Online Customers Make it easy for buyers to understand the products.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Called “ The Benemart ,” the grocery-inspired virtual store allows visitors to shop holiday sets and bestsellers, virtually try on products, shop with friends and play games, with a chance to win discounts at checkout. Developed in partnership with Obsess , the virtual store is available in four countries including the U.S.,

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Direct-to-brand shopping is gaining momentum Marketplaces like Amazon and Ebay still lead (46 per cent of shoppers use them regularly), but more consumers are turning to brand websites for exclusivity, better pricing (54 per cent), and personalised experiences. Streamlining checkout flows with guest checkout and one-click payment options.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Critical milestones in the journey are no longer confined to a traditional retailers ecommerce site or checkout cart. Were in the early stages of what you might call the Great Shopping Migration: almost 60% of online customers recently polled confirmed that they were likely to use social media platforms to shop.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The solution provider offers a range of technologies in the Hitachi Automated Shop that aim to combine frictionless purchasing, advanced tracking technology and intelligent analytics to help both shoppers and retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

According to the findings, dissatisfaction with pricing has surged to become the leading source of complaints, outstripping concerns such as stock availability, customer service and checkout processes. Avoid surprises at checkout by maintaining transparency throughout the customer journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

From contactless payment to fully automated checkout, innovations showed promise for streamlining and improving the customer experience. The “frictionless” label applies to a number of different technologies; many of them associated with the checkout process. Improving Customer Experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2022

AMP for email has continued to improve functionality, providing email marketers with a slew of personalization and interactivity capabilities — adding loads of features to the inbox. AMP for email allows marketers to send surveys and collect data, too. For example, now customers can take a survey directly from an email.

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