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The Login Effect: The Role of Customer Authentication Psychology in Retail Success 

Retail TouchPoints

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. Consider offering incentives, such as a 5% discount, to encourage customers to adopt more secure login methods.

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How Retail Returns Influence Customer Retention

Retail TouchPoints

A technology partner can calculate the optimal return rate based on your average number of returns, and they can also manage the backend APIs for your website to offer return shipping protection as part of the purchase flow. Making it convenient for customers to make purchases and returns keeps them loyal to a brand.

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Why soft skills matter more than ever in an age of AI-driven retail

Inside Retail

They became store managers and customer happiness assistants. Think about your favourite manager or that colleague everyone loves working with. Its their ability to navigate complex human interactions, interpret subtle customer emotions, or show empathy in challenging situations. But those retail workers? Those scribes?

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What’s in store for retailers in the battle for survival, success and supremacy?

Inside Retail

With delivery reliability significantly impacting customer retention and lifetime value, this must be a key focus for retailers. Likewise, omni-optimisation is a key focus in its mission to provide a seamless customer experience regardless of the channel used to shop, according to Celine Sommacal, e-commerce operations manager.

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How Ecommerce Retailers Can Prepare Now for Back-to-School 2022

Retail TouchPoints

Regardless of your customers’ age demographic, it’s a smart idea to offer digital wallet payment options at checkout. Digital wallets address both issues by storing card data for shoppers and by shielding it from retailers at checkout. Customers who can pay easily without security fears are more likely to complete checkout.

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7 Biggest Traps That Ecommerce Platforms Don’t Tell Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

A successful ecommerce website exceeds customer expectations when purchasing online, making the experience trustworthy, seamless and easy overall. Difficulty in Platform Management. An ecommerce CMS (content management system) allows you to access the backend of your site and make changes and updates seamlessly.

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Salesforce Predicts Just 1% YoY Online Sales Growth for U.S. Holiday Season

Retail TouchPoints

To maximize both sales and profitability this holiday season, both retailers and brands will need to focus on customer retention and loyalty: “A lot of switching happened over the past few years, and now consumers are looking for value and quality,” said Garf. In fact, 74% of associates’ time is on non-checkout functions.

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