Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2025

According to Gartner, more than three-quarters of supply chain leaders are being asked to improve their customer experience (CX) strategies. A customer-centric approach to supply chain management is challenging; it requires a deep understanding of consumer expectations and behaviors, not just today but also for the foreseeable future.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry is no stranger to challenges. AI image recognition FMCG is a technology that transforms how brands manage shelves, track inventory, and understand their consumer behavior. Enhancing Shelf Management with AI Shelf management is critical for retail success. Lets explore.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The number of returns is growing and managing them is critically important to maintaining margins and customer satisfaction. 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.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

In the highly competitive world of retail and ecommerce, brands must deliver personalized and relevant customer experiences to stay ahead. The ability to strategically allocate limited content customization budgets can be the difference between gaining a competitive edge and falling behind.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

With the sector continuing to experience accelerated growth, major retailers are looking for ways to maintain and build trust while dramatically improving customer experience and orchestrating cohesive customer journeys. Consumers are only one click away from retailers at all times.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2025

In spite of their different areas of expertise, these executives were all focused on the need to constantly seek out new ways to update and optimize the consumer shopping experience. The digital and human workforce are now going to work together in harmony to create that compelling consumer experience, Dickson said.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 4, 2025

Thats where journey management comes in. Retailers that take a journey management approach can bridge the gap between data and action, ensuring insights lead to real improvements in efficiency and customer experience and drive bottom-line results. What is Journey Management? AI alone isnt enough.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2024

Today, nearly two-thirds of adult consumers globally use digital payments, and by 2027, digital revenue is predicted to exceed $14.9 Successful retailers have found that 80% of value creation comes from existing customers, achieved by consistently providing a unique and seamless customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

In the not-so-distant past, customer experience (CX) was a straight line — a predictable journey from point A (the customer’s question) to point B (the company’s answer). However, as retail landscapes evolved and consumer demands became more sophisticated, this linear approach showed limitations.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

But the ease and personalization found on consumer-facing ecommerce sites, especially robust marketplaces like Amazon and Walmart , are simply too good to ignore. As a result, B2B buyers are increasingly demand B2C-level experiences for their business needs, a need that is driving organizations to level up their digital experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (MoCRA) introduces significant regulatory changes for the cosmetics industry, aimed at enhancing consumer safety and product transparency. By understanding and implementing these standards, cosmetic manufacturers and retailers can navigate compliance effectively and strengthen consumer trust.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Retail’s busiest returns period may be in the rearview mirror until next year, but rising ecommerce order volumes have caused returns management to become an aspect of ecommerce and omnichannel business that warrants a dedicated year-round strategy. Image courtesy Ryder According to Ryder’s 2023 ecommerce consumer study of 1,077 U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For retailers and consumer businesses, a surge in data breaches presents difficult challenges. This data, which includes sensitive customer information like credit card details, is stored across a number of environments and is accessible through millions of point-of-sales and IoT devices. million last year. million and $3.48

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Inside Retail

APRIL 3, 2025

Global geopolitics are making Australia look like an attractive market, but retailers are continuing to grapple with huge shifts in consumer behaviour as well as technological change. These evolving consumer expectations are a key driver behind the changes happening in retail. This is what consumers crave.

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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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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 24, 2024

As the Black Friday 2024 shopping frenzy approaches, Australian retailers are gearing up for their biggest challenge yet – managing skyrocketing demand while staying efficient. Why automation is non-negotiable Australian consumers expect fast deliveries, error-free orders, and seamless shopping journeys. The key to thriving?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Despite these evolutionary changes, humans still process images 60,000 times faster than text, and nearly 90% of information transmitted to the brain is visual , according to Lilly Hsueh, VP of Customer Success Management at digital asset management solution Cloudinary.

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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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Inside Retail

JUNE 12, 2024

A recurring theme at Day two of NRF’s Retail’s Big Show Asia in Singapore on Wednesday was clearly the understanding among retailers of the need to deliver a great customer experience to succeed. We are not in the business of selling bottles, we are in the business of selling experiences,” Boidevezi told delegates.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Similarly, creating a meaningful customer experience begins with a map a tool to visualize the entire journey, from initial awareness to post-purchase interactions. Customer journey mapping (CJM) is widely used in retail to analyze and plan touch points before, during and after purchase.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Innovations like biometrics and tap-to-pay have transformed how, when and where consumers shop. During the holiday rush the security and ease of the payments experience can be as crucial as product price or availability. How can retailers update their payments systems to meet rapidly changing consumer behavior during peak demand?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This has never been more apparent than now, as consumers look to elevate their in-store shopping experiences and expect the same versatility and ease that they have obtained with modern omnichannel retail. Vision AI is becoming more central to creating that retail experience consumers desire.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In the words of Paula Mitchell, Digital General Manager, We wanted consumers to think of Freedom not as your mums brand but as your best friends brand. Not only are they leaders in AI technology, but they also understand retail and the importance of a seamless customer experience.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 26, 2025

We have strong relationships with landlords, marketing agencies and industry talents, and we pride ourselves on ensuring that having a localised strategy was the most important thing for G-Star, Good Products & Co managing director, Helder Borges, told Inside Retail.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

1WorldSync’s 2024 Consumer Product Content Benchmark report revealed that 64% of shoppers have scanned a QR code on a product while shopping in-store. With a quick click on a smartphone, these customers have accessed hidden content, exclusive deals and lightning-fast checkouts. The result?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Between the tariff tug-of-war, flailing markets, insanely high egg prices and general twitchiness (as one strategist put it), consumers have gotten a bit hard to nail down lately. Here’s what some of the leading minds in retail say consumers need now. One thing is clear its not AI.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 31, 2024

David’s Bridal has introduced Adored by David’s , a resale program that will be managed by Arrive Recommerce. Arrive Recommerce will be responsible for receiving and inspecting inventory, assigning value and shipping items directly to customers. Additionally, the retailer plans to introduce storied and vintage items into its ecosystem.

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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 18, 2024

For example, apps with both associate-facing and customer-facing user interfaces [UIs] allow associates to support the customer’s own research and also facilitate transactions, including endless aisle capabilities and ship-from-store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

This means it will either remain uncollected or improperly managed, ending up in landfill or causing toxic leakage. Linerless labels offer flexibility and simplicity in sizing, where multiple sizes can be transported and managed on one roll, reducing labor and replacements. Consumer benefits. Across the globe in 2024, 31.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 18, 2025

These devices, like smart doorbells, thermostats, lighting and more, present an exciting opportunity for retailers, but understanding consumers motivations and proactively addressing potential concerns will be vital to make the most of this dynamic market.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2024

The customer experience is paramount to the success of today’s retailers. This includes enhancing in-store inventory, delivery services and even the personalization of customer service. However, when it’s time to check out, how do payment options factor into that customer experience?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2025

John Ferdinand, who heads the anti-counterfeiting team at intellectual property (IP) management firm Marks & Clerk , said that in the European Union (EU) alone, the apparel industry loses approximately 12 billion ( $12.48 Difficult, but not impossible.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Consumers now spend an average of 8 hours a day online, and as a result, “there’s extremely high expectations of the content consumers choose to engage with online,” said Rema Vasan, Head of North America Business Marketing at TikTok. By identifying consumer priorities, [marketers] can activate against that in a data-driven way.”

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Indeed, 30% of consumers said they buy from online marketplaces a few times a month, while another 20% buy from them a few times a week, according to Bizrate Insights. However, 70% of consumers prefer shopping with specialized marketplaces over their mass counterparts, according to Boston Consulting Group.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 28, 2025

In Australia, Coles and Woolies are the leaders in the space, offering suppliers a vast suite of options to target consumers email, web, social, and every sort of in-store advertising you can think of. Big retailers have created stand-alone divisions to manage their media operations. Woolworths has Cartology. Coles has Coles 360.

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