Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

There are many reasons why consumers choose the products they buy and the brands they buy them from. However, according to the latest research from Marigold’s recently published Relationship Marketing Trends: Brand Rankings Report , there are things consumers look for beyond price that drive purchase decisions. That’s called loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2025

One of the core values of Dick Schulze, Founder of Best Buy , was learning from challenge and change a prescient insight from a retail leader in the 80s who realized even then that in retail, especially in consumer electronics retail, there would be constant change.

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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. As data privacy becomes an increasing priority for both retailers and consumers, RFID stands out as a secure option that safeguards shoppers’ data. To combat this risk, retailers can encrypt their RFID tags.

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Hyken

JANUARY 14, 2025

What role does storytelling play in creating memorable customer experiences? Why is meeting or exceeding customer expectations important in the hospitality industry? How do personal interactions complement technology in creating a seamless customer service experience? Hospitality is more than a job.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Because while they may feel they are communicating something weighty, it doesn’t mean consumers will hear it, let alone act. Additionally, consumers still have pandemic-related and sustainability concerns, ranging from reluctance to shop in crowded stores to environmental issues around the use of cardboard and plastic-heavy displays.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Albertsons Media Collective will integrate rewards app Fetch into its retail media network (RMN) offerings, using Fetch Points to incentivize consumers to try products, add more to shopping carts and maintain relationships with their favorite brands. The Albertsons RMN expanded its onsite offerings by partnering with Criteo in January 2024.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 16, 2025

As digital experiences have evolved over the past few years, personalization and emotional connection have become central to customer engagement strategy for companies. Customer Experience Index (CX Index ) rankings , only 3% of companies are currently customer-obsessed and put their customers needs front and center.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2024

A historic pandemic with a double-whammy of supply chain and staffing issues as well as persistently high levels of inflation have up-ended a lot of industry norms and pushed consumers to increasing their scrutiny on where and how much they spend. consumers are increasingly looking for deals and overall experience when shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Gen Z is undoubtedly revolutionizing the consumer landscape. How can brands develop successful consumer promotions that actually draw in the often-elusive Gen Z shopper? This might include custom merchandise or personalized experiences that make the winner feel special and valued by your brand.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Rather than actively seeking out products, younger consumers more frequently discover them through engaging, immersive content on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram. How do you create experiences that spark consumer interest before they know they want (or need) your product?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Earlier this year, Google added compelling new features to Google Wallet to help consumers get more out of their mobile wallet passes. With this update , developers can send wallet notifications, letting consumers receive notifications about any updates to cards or passes stored in their mobile wallet.

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Inside Retail

JULY 28, 2024

Australian-founded health and wellness brand Kic has launched a Kic Concierge service which includes a hotline and quiz and optimises the customer experience journey and product offering with application programming interface (API) technology. Every time I go back there, I tend to reach out to make those purchases,” he said.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2024

Four in five Australian consumers are cutting down on something to save money as the cost of living crisis bites – and more than half of consumers in the country are looking for the best value when they shop. This highlights the value of knowledgeable staff and how they bolster customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2024

With the growth in ecommerce and higher consumer expectations for convenience, it is essential for retailers to make returns processes as efficient as outbound fulfillment. Similarly, in this era of workforce shortage, automation can help lessen the need for customer service agent intervention.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

“AEO protects its brands and cannot allow bad actors like Amazon to confuse and deceive consumers” by steering them towards substandard imitations, “piggyback[ing] off the goodwill, success and popularity of the Aerie marks.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2024

Organizations have been forced to navigate increased competition, accelerate digital transformation initiatives and adapt to changes in consumer preferences and behaviors. Automating manual processes can increase productivity, reduce costs and improve the customer experience. What lies ahead? What’s the Solution?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

But consumers are demanding in other ways, too. According to a study by UC Today , 90% of consumers expect to have an omnichannel retail experience when we shop. Digital channels are alive with opportunities to dazzle consumers. Keep the experience going when the event ends.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Through the remainder of 2024 and into 2025, Kay Jewelers plans to enhance its retail store design and customer experience. Love is beautiful and magical but can be messy and unpredictable — it’s a winding path with twists and turns unique to each customer’s story,” said Bill Brace, President of Kay Jewelers in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2024

In today’s increasingly globalized market, multilingual support is no longer a luxury but a necessity for online retailers to deliver exceptional customer experiences (CX), successfully serve and grow their customer bases, increase sales and thrive in a competitive landscape. The true differentiator is CX.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Certain categories seem to work best with social commerce: Consumer packaged goods (CPG), fashion, beauty, and health and wellness. Cultivating KOCs (key opinion consumers, a.k.a. In addition, South Korean consumers are known for their quick adoption of new technologies.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 26, 2024

For consumers, grocery shopping has become a multi-location event, with shoppers visiting an average of 5.2 This grocery hopping trend has become especially prevalent thanks to consumer-friendly technology like curbside pickup, home delivery and online ordering. When customers visit the store to redeem their prizes (e.g.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

Speaking to merchants in Australia, it’s clear that the retail landscape is more competitive than ever, intensified by the influx of global e-commerce players and price-conscious consumers. The good news is that they’re also seeing customers returning to physical stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A well-designed store can create a memorable brand experience that strengthens customer loyalty. This is crucial considering a recent Publicis Sapient report on customer loyalty , based on a survey of over 8,000 consumers across six countries, revealed that 52% of global consumers report having slight to no brand loyalty overall.

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Inside Retail

JULY 31, 2024

Innovative, tech-driven e-commerce strategies can help optimise retail business models, and businesses that engage staff in this pursuit are best placed to improve theenhanced customer experience and simultaneously encourage talent retention. They’re doing a great job selling to consumers quickly and cheaply,” Kore said.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2025

Given that different cannabis products can produce a wide range of effects among consumers, one of the biggest challenges facing cannabis retailers is matching the right product with the right customer.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gen AI, with its vast potential for enhancing efficiency and personalizing customer experiences, also comes with ethical considerations. Retailers can use AI training to equip their employees with the tools needed to make sure that integrated AI is used in ways that respect and enhance the customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 1, 2024

The Psychology of Immersive Shopping Experiential retail strategies are rooted in psychological principles about how consumers engage with spaces. Behavioral psychology: Understanding consumer behavior is crucial to crafting effective marketing strategies and designing engaging retail experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2024

They’ve been shaped/scarred by not one but two global economic traumas — the Great Recession of 2008-2009 and the COVID pandemic — and they’ve grown up with social media playing an increasingly large (and loud) role in shaping culture, including how these consumers shop, research and purchase products and services.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2024

Investment and advisory firm Hilco Consumer-Retail (HCR) has acquired the operations for Hanes Outlet and Maidenform stores. HCR now plans to amp up the brand’s brick-and-mortar performance with the deployment of its RevUp store management platform and promised that new store experiences will be rolling out in the coming weeks.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Consumers now prefer digital payment options, with cash usage declining in all major economies. Retailers understand that a great customer experience must be provided 24 x 7 x 365 and that any failure will create revenue loss, customer dissatisfaction and damage to brand reputation.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 18, 2024

In an Australian retail environment defined by heightened competition and consumers tightening their wallets, acquiring new customers – and keeping them – is proving a critical challenge for many retailers. Strategising the channel mix to acquire new customers is important to brands and a key to success.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Offering excellent customer service is a business basic at any time of the year, but it’s particularly vital during the holiday season. Unfortunately, the nature of holiday shopping also makes customer service issues more problematic. We’re getting to the point where EX puts a cap on how good your CX can be,” said Walker.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 18, 2024

Consumer confidence is down, but retail rents are on the rise, and by June 30, it’s tipped that over 10,000 retail companies will enter external administration. No doubt consumer confidence is down, driven by the cost-of-living crisis, impacting discretionary spending.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

Marking a “fundamental shift” in the retailer’s current store design, the new Elevate model aims to improve the customer experience and drive store growth via: Premium brand showroom areas featuring brands such as Weber, Traeger, Big Green Egg, Craftsman, DeWalt, Milwaukee, Ego and Stihl; Customer service enhancements aligned with new and evolving (..)

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Inside Retail

MAY 12, 2024

“Our focus on customer experience and simplification of the business continues. However, a May 9 disclosure stated that Bennelong Funds Management Group has ceased to be a substantial shareholder of the company. Baby Bunting previously reported a 7.7 per cent comparable store sales decline in the fiscal second half.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Three more supermarket chains will connect their electronic shelf label (ESL) hardware to the Carrot Tags pick-to-light functionality from Instacart , making it easier for Instacart pickers — and eventually for consumers themselves — to find the products on their shopping list.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

What’s old is new again, but this time around the focus is squarely on the value proposition for stores and consumers instead of the distribution centre (DC). Each time a unit of inventory isn’t actually where the Order Management System (OMS) or store system expects it to be, retailers risk diminishing their customer experience.

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