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

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 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

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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Promotions Consumer Marketing Advertising 262

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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Payment Services Merchant Services Customer Experience Consumer 339

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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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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Consumer Marketing Promotions Customer Experience 270

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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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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Payment Services Customer Experience Consumer Supermarket 261

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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Payment Services Customer Experience Consumer Fashion 274

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

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

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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Advertising Customer Experience Finance Apparel 284

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Although inventory visibility already plays a central role in meeting demand, maintaining service levels, and streamlining operations, its the combination of real-time inventory visibility and advanced search functionality thats reshaping your customer experience by delivering on transparency, control, confidence and reliability.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2024

In today’s digital-first marketplace, consumer expectations for flawless shopping experiences, whether in-store or online, have reached unprecedented heights and are putting pressure on retailers to provide an “always on” business model.

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Payment Services Customer Experience Inventory Management Consumer 271

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 20, 2024

Inflation rates remain unpredictable , consumer confidence is fluctuating and supply chain disruptions , including the geopolitical environment, continue to affect inventory levels and pricing. Meanwhile, consumers themselves are pulling back on spending slightly in Q3, as Morningstar notes. Enhancing the customer experience.

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Marketing Merchant Services Payment Services Advertising 251

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2024

This gap between intention and execution is not only creating frustrating customer experiences but also squandering valuable opportunities to enhance engagement. To harness QR codes’ full potential, retailers must refrain from hasty adoption and instead develop a comprehensive, customer-centric approach to QR technology.

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Payment Services Customer Experience Inventory Management Promotions 255

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

We believe we will enhance the customer experience with a lighter-touch remodel , including customer-facing physical asset updates , planogram optimizations and expansions across the store. This initiative is aimed at our mature stores that are not yet old enough to be part of the full remodel pipeline.

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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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Customer Experience Supply Chain Management Promotions Advertising 339

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But designing a successful retail experience doesn’t simply involve placing stores and restaurants next to the stadium. It’s essential to harness consumer and market insights to craft an experience, and the right mix of uses, to entice locals to visit the stadium district for shopping, dining and a place to live or work.

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Department Stores Customer Experience Shopping Consumer 253

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

MAY 2, 2024

A recent Coresight Research consumer survey revealed that nearly three in five ( 56.9% ) of surveyed consumers are members of at least one loyalty program, and more than half spend more with retailers once they join their loyalty program — a net 39.5% As a whole, loyalty programs are quite popular. higher spend overall.

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Payment Services Consumer Promotions Customer Experience 283

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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Payment Services Consumer Jewelry Marketing 317

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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Customer Experience Shipping Inventory Management Management 288

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In an era when online shopping is not just a convenience but a way of life, a new menace is plaguing consumers and retailers alike: porch piracy. The situation is particularly dire for younger generations, with over half of Gen Z consumers reporting that they have experienced porch piracy in the last 12 months.

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Fulfillment Consumer Customer Experience Checkout 260

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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Outdoor Customer Experience Shopping Consumer 310

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 5, 2024

About two-thirds of companies plan to invest more in AI in the next six months, and 60% of commerce leaders recognize the value of AI in boosting customer experience to provide a competitive advantage. Tools like visual search enable consumers to use images for searching. Data selection, cleaning and preprocessing are crucial.

Customer Experience 282

Customer Experience Fulfillment Marketing Advertising 282

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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Retail TouchPoints’ 2024 Store Design & Experience Survey found that these teams are struggling to navigate the rising cost of materials ( 57% , up from 38% in 2023); adapt experiences to new consumer expectations (also 57% , up from 42% in 2023); and react to tighter store design budgets ( 47% , up from 38% in 2023).

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Customer Experience Consumer Shopping Marketing 264

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 18, 2024

Globally, consumers are downloading more apps than ever before, yet retention of those new app customers is an ongoing issue. In fact, most consumers use an app only once or twice before deciding to delete it or not. Use it to make a good app experience even better, not make a poor app experience okay.

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Consumer Customer Experience Marketing Returns 312

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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Consumer Customer Experience Management Planning 261

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 12, 2024

Particularly in a competitive industry like retail, where mobile phones already account for 75% of retail site visits and were used to make 70% of online shopping orders last year , adopting a mobile specific approach to your advertising and digital customer experience (DCX) could make all the difference in setting yourself apart from the crowd.

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Advertising Planning Consumer Marketing 281

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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Fast Fashion Customer Experience Fashion Fulfillment 279

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Some of the biggest changes over the past six decades have revolved around what brick-and-mortar retail means to customers, as well as a lot of customers going the digital route for shopping. We look at ourselves as the antithesis of online shopping. If you know exactly what you want, why would you go beyond Amazon ?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2024

Ryan Kelly, VP of Marketing at FedEx, refers to himself as a “supply chain geek with a contrarian streak” who loves to talk “fulfillment, returns and consumer shopping behaviors with anyone who will listen.” When polled, 94% of consumers said they expect brands to tell them when their delivery will be before they even have to ask.

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Merchant Services Returns Shipping Fulfillment 283