Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The landscape of commerce and delivering customer experience changed dramatically over the past year, as millions of shoppers found health, safety, social distance and remote work taking center stage in their daily lives. So what are the customer experience and commerce trends that will continue, or become more fully realized, in 2021?

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Oz Hair & Beauty, H&M, and Lululemon stood out in October for dispatch and delivery experience in the Online CX Index , Australia’s first and only online retailer performance platform powered by real data. “Ensure your customer support team is empowered to take ownership and resolve issues promptly,” said Osthus.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

including new payment and checkout options, personalized styling facilitated by smart mirrors and upgraded delivery and return options. Throughout 2022 we will test a new frictionless and personalized shopping experience — from the fitting room to checkout,” said Alan Boehme, CTO at H&M Group in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Whether customers decide to shop online, use the mobile app or are face to face with an associate, Tractor Supply offers a number of tools that enable inventory visibility, seamless service and fast checkout. One significant enhancement we have made is the introduction of an express checkout process.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2023

It’s meant to be quite simple for a shopper, but as an ecommerce retailer, you know it’s not that easy — especially if the customer changes their mind and wants to return said magical shipment back to your shop. What happens next, by way of return experience, most certainly impacts whether they will purchase from your business again.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In a competitive e-commerce environment, customers are most likely to return to shop where they have had the best experience. Yet many retailers are falling short, explains Mareile Osthus, CEO and co-founder of Humii, a platform that essentially X-rays retailers’ online customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Clean, validated address data is an essential business asset that drives a smoother customer experience, reduces operational costs and minimizes errors. Incorrect address data leads to delivery delays, lost packages and unnecessary customer complaints all of which can damage a brands reputation.

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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. For example, many websites could quickly improve their CX by adjusting their site search functionality.

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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. In addition, customers loved the improvement of its live chat resolution times over the past few weeks.

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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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Dropit layers AI technology into existing fulfillment systems to empower merchants to use real-time data that powers dynamic decision-making to balance inventory, optimize sourcing and streamline returns.

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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. Checkout-free stores powered by computer vision AI eliminate checkout lines and scan purchases automatically. This boosts efficiency and allows staff to focus on high-value tasks.

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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. In addition, customers loved the improvement of its live chat resolution times over the past few weeks.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Walmart, Capital One End Contentious Credit Card Partnership (May 28, 2024) Retailers sought to take more control over their payment processes while expanding checkout options such as buy now, pay later (BNPL) , while Ebay debuted a Business Cash Advance offering that gives its sellers quick access to revenue-based loans. consumers wallet.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2021

These sensors are programmed to know when a product gets picked off a shelf, when it is returned or when it leaves the store. Hitachi’s automated shop technology uses lidar (light detection and ranging) sensors instead of relying on cameras and video. Using lidar allows for installations that are both compact and unobtrusive.

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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. The consequences of unchecked pricing dissatisfaction extend far beyond unhappy customers; they can undermine revenue and loyalty.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 1, 2025

With Valentines Day and Easter still weeks away, now is the perfect time to enhance the customer experience (CX) and invest in training your team for the year ahead. Simplify checkout: offer flexible payment options and guest checkout to reduce friction.

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Inside Retail

JULY 11, 2024

Understanding customer behaviour is pivotal to delivering exceptional customer experiences (CX) online. Identifying pain points: By closely monitoring user interactions, businesses can identify specific pain points that hinder the customer experience. It all starts with setting clear objectives.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Marketers used to rely on Facebook and Google to get good traffic volume from one source at a reasonable return,” says Michael Tutek, Preezie’s co-founder and CEO. Over time, that’s seen the return on investment come down significantly. But with Covid, brands started pushing more online, creating more competition and higher prices.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And process returns of stuff people don’t want! Each device can perform core transactional functions — such as the ability to accept card and cash payments and scan products for efficient checkouts — offline. Done right, the offline POS experience should be so smooth that associates may not even know when their device is offline.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2024

There’s a common myth amongst retailers that checkout is “untouchable,” a fragile system that can be thrown into disarray by even the slightest modifications. It’s why we’ve seen retailers invest significant time and money in efforts to upgrade and personalize every part of shoppers’ journeys – except for checkout.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Research shows that a lousy customer experience will deter 76 per cent of customers from returning to shop on your platform. So, it is critical to optimise service and customer experience online. They trust your business to fulfil their purchases on time and in full – and for returns to be convenient.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 19, 2024

Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns , shares with Inside Retail advice on getting started in the US market, some tips on cross-border shipping and logistics – including managing returns in a way that builds customer loyalty – and how to drive repeat business. Begin with baby steps, she advocates.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As COVID-19 restrictions continue to ease and more than half of Americans are now fully vaccinated, customers are steadily returning to in-store shopping as their confidence and comfort level with the physical shopping experience increases. IT glitches are more common throughout the retail industry than we think.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

It connects, on a centralised and measurable platform, several touchpoints and interactions a customer has with the brand or business: payments, rewards, inventory, delivery options, product return, supply chain, fulfilment options, and more. Here are four of the most common uses of unified commerce in customer journeys.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2022

Automation provides efficiency by consolidating your backend processes and therefore improves the customer experience. of online purchases were returned — up from 18.1% of online purchases were returned — up from 18.1% More repeat buyers and more loyal customers = good ROI!”. Cheryl Williams, Return Rabbit.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 5, 2025

With delivery reliability significantly impacting customer retention and lifetime value, this must be a key focus for retailers. For Rebel Sport, a key focus this year will be improving and personalising the online experience using CRO. billion delivery performance will directly influence repeat purchases.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2020

As the near-term impact of the pandemic on retail employment crystalizes, participants in a recent RetailWire discussion debated how long it will take for retail employment to return to pre-pandemic levels — if it ever does — and what that means to recruitment and career paths in retail in the years ahead. close over the next two years.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 24, 2023

The 11 th year of the CX Retail Exchange , 11-12 July 2023, will invite senior customer experience leaders in retail to the Hilton, Syon Park, to explore the biggest challenges and solutions in the industry. 5 stars!” To secure your place at the CX Retail Exchange 2023, request an invitation or visit our site.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As the world recovers from the pandemic and consumers return to the high street, retailers are eager to capitalize on the increased footfall by providing an exceptional in-store experience. An mPOS system converts any tablet or smartphone into a checkout point. Simplify Checkout and Boost Efficiency.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2022

Or a customer receives immediate, personalized product promotions and recommendations the moment they walk in a store, creating a truly customized experience. These are just a few examples of what 5G can do for the retail customer experience. Improved Customer Experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2022

We expect to see some pandemic-era commerce developments continue with some new twists, and we’re watching some emerging commerce trends that may go strong beyond 2022 — all with the goal of creating richer, more engaging customer experiences and stronger bonds between customers and brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Today, customer service is more than the way that employees interact with shoppers. Service extends to the product information you provide (perhaps through digital signage), the checkout offerings in your stores (many shoppers prefer self-checkout), and everything in between. Online retail has its warts.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This enables retailers to make data-driven decisions, improve forecasting accuracy, and enhance customer experiences, while also reducing costs and boosting profits. We all know that omnichannel is a challenge to manage against the product and customer objectives of your brand or business.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

Amid this significant shift to online, however, order fulfillment has been a drag on profit margins, according to The New Store Experience Imperatives in High-Touch Retail. The report also identified the need for retailers to create frictionless customer experiences across physical and digital touch points.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Grubhub now has 30 personalized recommendation carousels on its homepage, spotlighting merchants with delivery ETAs of 30 minutes or less, merchants featuring the customer’s favorite cuisine and more. Returning customers see recommendations based on their past order history, such as merchants that are similar to their recent orders.

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