Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Brands quickly realized their sites and user experiences needed upgrades to address friction within the customer journey. Creating a Seamless User Experience. Reducing user flow and overall friction has been key in acquiring new customers and maintaining positive engagement for social commerce brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

No matter how fast the modern payment ecosystem is developing, the pursuit of the best customer experience isn’t going anywhere. To answer customers’ demands, business leaders must find the balance between adapting services to consumers’ digitally-driven shopping behaviors and staying true to the company’s strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Here are four ways retailers can level up their store experience to boost customer engagement, brand affinity, and brand loyalty: Integrate Technology to Enhance the Customer Experience Successful retailers seamlessly blend technology into their physical spaces while keeping a personalized, human feel.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s no secret that retailers and brands have become obsessed with driving conversion in their quest to recover the more than half of shoppers who abandon checkout before completing their purchase. Maximizing that combination of factors can be accomplished at checkout, as long as it’s not stripped of all its goodness.

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Hyken

MAY 28, 2021

But now, shopping is a constant experience. So what can retailers do to make sure the customer experience in eCommerce is positive and engaging for customers? What can they do to win loyal customers in this effortless economy?? . Create seamless customer journeys? . Commerce is ‘an always-on’ experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2023

To do it, Forever 21 is: Making significant investments to align its digital and physical channels ; Enabling fast, frictionless checkout ; Meeting Gen Z where they are, on social media, to drive discovery ; and Listening to its customers to evolve its brand in line with their expectations. Why is 43 seconds important?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One variation of Bolt’s Checkout Everywhere function on The Independent ‘s site. Social Commerce Meets Affiliate Marketing. When they close the checkout, they’re back on the article if they want to continue shopping or reading or doing something else.”. IndyBest’s centralized shopping section.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2022

The report shows that investment into resolving these issues results in better customer experiences and higher sales volume. For each of these experiences, it identifies specific situational problems that customers face and asks how smart retailers can apply fixes to smooth out the weaker elements of their offering.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Tailored Customer Experiences Online, retailers would be wise to go beyond the typical “for Mom/brother/sister/partner” edits by implementing recommendation mechanisms specific to whom the shopper says they’re buying for.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

In today’s challenging business landscape, where profit margins are shrinking, supply chains are slow and uncertain, labor shortages are prevalent and inflation is a concern, it is crucial for retailers and brands to differentiate between understanding customer habits and fostering customer loyalty in order to succeed.

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Inside Retail

JULY 24, 2024

Elevating the customer experience, going global and tapping into marketplaces were the common threads connecting the keynotes on day one of Online Retailer, Australia’s largest e-commerce conference and expo in Sydney. So absolutely tracking and confirmation emails need to be in foreign languages,” Li said.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

For the enterprise solutions we have Pay with Venmo checkout, which is the integrated checkout button that you see as you’re checking out with large businesses such as the Grubhub s and Lyft s of the world. People really are converting at checkout because it’s seamless and easy. Example of a Venmo business profile.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 4, 2024

According to Airwallex’s report, this was one of the biggest influencing factors to purchase, with 93 per cent of consumers claiming that this impacts their decision to follow through at the checkout. Consumers in Australia’s key markets of China, Hong Kong and Singapore were especially inclined to use social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

Pinterest ’s role in the world of social media is blurry — consumers use the platform very differently than they do Instagram or TikTok, for example. But following a series of major strategic moves, the role Pinterest hopes to play in the burgeoning realm of social commerce is crystal clear.

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2022

In fact, 60 per cent of 18-25-year-olds have discovered and purchased products on social media sites. To stand out, features like shoppable media and social commerce make the path to purchase easier, no matter where a consumer discovers a product. Consideration phase. Purchase phase.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2024

TikTok also is facilitating these transactions within its platform — it quite literally owns the checkout. To do so, they must create experiences that cater to these expectations, and that means integrating the checkout within the content. And through commerce media, retailers can improve the consumer experience even further.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Priorities may be changing, but retailers still need to provide a superior customer experience, added webinar panelist Caila Schwartz, Senior Industry Strategist at Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Successful retail marketers are embedding their brands within the platforms and devices that are most popular with their customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Casper has a “Nap Appointment” experience you book and pay to test drive the mattress you’re considering — pajamas, sleeping bags and snacks included. Self-Checkout/Roaming Checkout. Versions of self-checkout are already in play for grocery, big box and a variety of other stores, mostly to reduce wait times at registers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It allows brands to create a game-like experience in a real-life setting, enhancing customer engagement and the overall shopping experience. Above all else, retailers must have a solid tech foundation in order to enable a gamified customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Not only that, but the site is siloed from the rest of Amazon.com with a separate cart and checkout. Still designated as being in beta, Haul is available only on the Amazon app, and currently can only be found if you actively search for it. Amazon is clearly keeping Haul at arm’s length from its core offering, and with good reason.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2021

If you don’t have checkout that’s really fast, if you don’t have great customer service just in case anything goes wrong and if your logistics and operations aren’t sound, then people are not going to be happy and/or they’ll just not shop with you again. “If

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 27, 2022

First, look to enhance your customer experience by optimising your website and develop a frictionless checkout experience that is fast and easy, as 50% of American shoppers are less likely to buy something if the checkout process takes longer than 30 seconds. Secondly, social commerce is increasingly critical.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2024

The method by which scammers obtain profits from consumers is as alarming, as they skim and store personal and payment details at multiple steps of the supposed customer experience when people create an account or attempt to pay for the items they believe they will receive.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Powering our commerce API with TalkShopLive will provide customers with a seamless checkout experience anywhere online while being entertained,” said Casey Schlaybaugh, VP of Brand at Walmart in a statement. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

I 100% believe that in five years, people are not going to go to a website that has a list of products and search it and add to cart and checkout,” said Agha, Founder and CEO of Flip in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. This is just simply not how the world is going to buy online.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

Some recent additions include: Vimeo has launched a series of new interactive video features for its enterprise users, including clickable hotspots, custom overlays to place interactive content and information right on videos, and an “add to cart” button that can be integrated into the video experience; In addition to a host of other new features designed (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

This is the seventh year of the Index , and while the company noted that top-performers “aggressively” rolled out optimized content, frictionless checkout and other cross-channel capabilities, there was a sizeable gap between industry leaders and their peers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

To attract a new generation of shoppers, retailers are looking to redefine go-to-market strategies and reimagine the customer experience inside their physical store locations. To accomplish this, operational models need to be adapted quickly.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

These same product details also are carried over into product pages in the Klarna app with a panel outlining information designed to help customers make confident purchasing decisions, including: whether other retailers are offering a better price, faster and cheaper delivery options or different sizes and colors.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

Not Just Digital-First but Mobile-First Gen Z consumers (and probably a fair number of older shoppers) are looking for more streamlined, integrated mobile experiences, particularly in the area of checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2022

Melissa Minkow, Director, Retail Strategy, CI&T : “Though ecommerce and mobile commerce sales will continue to grow, brick-and-mortar will still play a key role in holiday, especially when it comes to omnichannel strategy. Further digitizing the in-store side would maximize speed and convenience while empowering the customer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2020

We tweaked our search and checkout capabilities and have increased our retention rate. You have to make sure you are offering frictionless checkout. A lot of people will lose steam after two or three steps at checkout. You have to do the important housekeeping on your web site. We thought it was good, but we were wrong.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2023

Deep linking, which takes users from products straight to a retailer’s checkout, represented 40% of Pinterest’s shopping revenue. For example, the retailers that have uploaded or integrated their products into Pinterest have seen a 90% lift in product “saves” through the platform and a 30%+ lift in attributed conversions.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lionesque Group CEO Melissa Gonzalez and MG2 Design Principal Justin Hill will reveal how retailers can rethink the checkout experience while maintaining fluidity between high-touch customer service and self-service capabilities during an interactive roundtable discussion on Nov. 17 from 1:20 to 2:10 p.m.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 5, 2021

“Over the past year, brands have been able to test and tweak different services that combine the in-store and online experience, such as BOPIS, virtual styling and shopping appointments, and QR codes for further browsing and checkout,” Lanier explained. “At Developers Ride the Digital Wave to Maintain Shopper Engagement.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2021

The 15 sessions, now available on demand, encompass critical areas of the retail enterprise, including: customer loyalty strategies; visual tech developments such as AR and 3D modeling; fulfillment and delivery management; the power of social networks; fast-growing Buy Now, Pay Later services; and the all-important customer experience.

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