Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

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 at the time. TikTok also has added a number of social shopping features over the past year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2021

As social commerce adoption continues to pick up its pace, more retailers are offering shoppable content on platforms like Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok. During an investor meeting in January , the brand’s parent company American Eagle Outfitters said it plans to close 200 to 250 of the 880 current American Eagle locations in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

With this acquisition, Pinterest is setting the stage for an expanded social commerce strategy and product offering. Although Pinterest plans to sunset THE YES site and app once the transaction closes, the goal is to implement a more integrated and evolved shopping vision.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

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. Roaming checkout enables employees to take payments from shoppers from anywhere inside the store. Social Shopping (Livestream). App Utilization.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Index reveals that 33% offer help via SMS, 63% send cart abandonment reminders and 64% offer customer service assistance during checkout, including live chat, phone, email and click-to-call, which can convert an ordinary experience into a pleasant and helpful one that a customer will remember. Tip 3: Optimize navigation and search.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The TalkShopLive integration with Walmart includes a connection through the retailer’s commerce API, so all brands with products distributed by Walmart can also create shoppable content by using its platform. Walmart has planned more than 30 holiday-themed live shopping events for the 2021 season.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

and Secure checkout: TikTok has partnered with third-party payment platforms to facilitate transactions on TikTok Shop and to ensure a quick, smooth and secure checkout process. Previously, TikTok had only shared the availability of FBT in the U.K. ; The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S. and managed by the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

At the very least, the form it takes is very different from its counterparts: “Pinterest is not social media, although we are grouped in that category,” said Dan Lurie, Head of Product, Shopping at Pinterest. “We’ve We’ve used different terms over time — at one point we talked about being personal media, not social media.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 8, 2022

Among the brands already planning drops using the new feature are Dior , Fossil , Jeff Staple , Home Depot , The LEGO Group and Union Los Angeles. cation 15 minutes before and at the time of the drop, alerting them to visit the merchant’s website for whatever coveted product has just arrived.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

The final shopping lists that are created and shared by teachers will present “information that could reflect schools’ reopening plans and affect how much consumers actually spend,” the NRF reported in a press release. For many parents, this uncertainty is creating stress. New Realities Influencing Back-To-School Activity.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

The world’s largest retailer shared expansive plans for the future of retail at the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2024), focusing on adaptive retail strategies that encompass realms of customers, workforce and society. It’s essentially a ‘Virtual Try-On’ service that becomes a social experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

His platform Flip — described as a “shopping social network” — already has more than 1,000 brands participating, including E.l.f. Now Flip is planning an “aggressive” expansion beyond the beauty category in the coming months that is likely to enlarge both its brand portfolio and its user base. “I

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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. Dig into their predictions and start putting your seasonal plan in place!

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 8, 2024

TikTok also offers seamless shopping feature integrations on the platform, which allows users to buy products immediately through shoppable ads and in-app checkout. However, by carefully planning one’s approach to TikTok, business owners can avoid some common missteps.

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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

MARCH 15, 2022

Where do you plan to use that content? You might not even want to run it on social media. Maybe you want to use that content on your website to increase conversions on your checkout page.”. When brands put effort into the planning of their campaign, they have such an easier time working with content creators,” Dulay noted.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

Where does that leave retailers today, especially as they develop their holiday plans and finalize their budgets for 2023? The best practices employed by the “leading-edge” and “innovative” brands quickly became the standards for every company to compete against.

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Inside Retail

MAY 2, 2021

Retail brands quickly realised that it was no longer business as usual after the pandemic set in, and marketing plans, execution, creative, and channels had to be re-thought wholescale. Covid-19 hit the reset button on consumer behaviour. DoubleVerify found that content consumption has doubled during the pandemic.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

A survey by Accenture found that 75% of consumers say they’ll do at least some of their holiday shopping online, up from 65% in 2019, while 43% plan to shop online exclusively. in stores as key; and 39% of shoppers said a lack of social distancing would cause them to have a bad shopping experience.

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365 Retail

OCTOBER 27, 2022

We are now into Q4, the most significant selling period for many eCommerce businesses – AKA “the money quarter” As Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas all approach, maximising your success during this period is essential but that requires careful planning and navigation.

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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. Photo credit: Pinterest Watkins and the broader Pinterest team plan to continually leverage this user and brand performance data to further refine ad offerings.

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365 Retail

AUGUST 4, 2024

Our latest research reveals that retailers are responding to this demand: nearly four in ten (39%) plan to invest more in targeting consumers to improve engagement. Social media has also become a particular focus with a third (33%) saying they would invest in these channels to build authentic connections and communities.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Shopify urges merchants to take three key steps to ensure that not only are they adopting an omnichannel approach, but also so they become more nimble and adaptable to the current environment: Set up a contingency plan. Social media has turned into a hugely important driver of sales,” says Johnson.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2021

COVID has accelerated ecommerce by two to three years, and across all demographics consumers plan to shop online more than they did before the pandemic. Accelerated Ecommerce: 21+ Trends and Transitions That Will Shape the Industry in 2021.

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Retail Smart Guys

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Aside from seamless entering of sales and customer checkouts, point-of-sale (POS) systems can produce information to analyze customer data, develop inventory, track shopper trends, and hassle-free data migration. Utilize Social Commerce. People spend so much time browsing their social media accounts like Facebook and Instagram.

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Retail Assist

JANUARY 17, 2023

Quick commerce, social commerce, marketplaces, greenwashing of brands, a resurgence in physical retail and a rebalancing of ecommerce were key themes during the year. We’re still seeing retailers planning to launch their own to broaden their product offering, reach and discovery. Supply Chain Resilience.

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Retail Next

APRIL 1, 2021

Social commerce. This was a fascinating early look into deep metrics that helped to justify marketing spend, physical store design, layout, space planning, visual merchandising changes and more. . . Virtual try on is also a relevant and compelling use of this technology that benefits and supports the customer experience.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We also discuss the latest news (and controversies) around Facebook and TikTok pulling back from some social commerce initiatives (and pressing forward with others). 31:44] Social commerce still has a bunch of avenues like live streaming does not appear to be a high volume one in the US and then later in the month.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

We also briefly discuss e-commerce in Brazil, around Jason’s recent trip to São Paulo. In this episode we recap everything you may have missed if you couldn’t make it to Las Vegas. Progression and then this last one that we’ll talk about at the end called platforms. [19:11]

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this episode we cover: Amazon Q4 Earnings Walmart Q4 Earnings US Department of Commerce Q4 e-commerce data Discussion of Temu and other Social Commerce News Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. 38:37] Selfish piece of.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 8, 2022

Scot: [5:36] Yes I was tracking a lot of the social media and it was interesting a long this so you had shoptalk which is like you know it was like one. and The Meta was like a track keynote from Benjy Shalimar who’s like the VP of Commerce which you know big roll it. Jason: [20:22] Installment plan yeah okay.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 9, 2021

Four percent of your total e-commerce site but now you’re partly headless so you know so I would say. [13:02] Um are we leaning heavily into it and we’ve seen Walmart due to two pilots where they had Commerce events on Tik-Tok now, and. [30:54] 32:46] The digital disruption of Commerce means. Um weather is not is. [32:09]

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Retail Geek

MARCH 31, 2021

Jason: [0:48] I know this was a bad week to plan a vacation in the canal. Jason: [2:07] Yeah and the plan B is not ideal it’s a so long way around. Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners Jason hope you’re having a good week and you have no blockages like the Suez Canal.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Yes Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. For 2023, live streaming commerce, still not meaningful in the US. Jason: [23:17] Yeah, I think there is video commerce, right?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Additionally, the checkout process must remain consistent whether consumers are shopping in-store, online or using the retailers app. According to a recent Vertex survey, 77% of consumers plan to shop more online or a mix of online and in-store, so this surplus of product is likely to be shipped to multiple addresses, even within one order.

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