Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

After years of lockdowns and digital-driven behaviors, consumers’ actions have shown how crucial the store experience is to how they shop and interact with brands. That’s only going to further accelerate the expectations of consumers and technology adoption within retail environments. customer experience).

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 11, 2022

“At Designer Brands, we have truly taken control of our destiny as we have transformed into a brand builder, marrying our world-class design and sourcing capabilities to our industry leading direct-to-consumer infrastructure,” said Rawlins. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2023

Ebay ’s spending spree is continuing with the acquisition of Certilogo , a provider of digital IDs and authentication tools for apparel and fashion goods. All three investments are aimed at helping enhance the Ebay experience and build customer trust. ”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Providing Access to First-Party Data With so much competition over the holidays, its essential for mid-market brands to reduce wasted ad spend by targeting consumers who are most likely to convert. consumers starting as early as June. RMNs provide access to high-converting audience segments through first-party data.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Dick’s Sporting Goods , one of the largest sporting goods retailers, recently unveiled its House of Sports store with a running track, rock wall, batting cages and outdoor turf field. Omnichannel solutions that leverage intelligent displays, QR codes and consumer profiles can provide extreme personalization.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

. “Partnering with Starbucks is part of our commitment to invest in meaningful ways to thank our clients for choosing to do business with us,” said Shikha Narula, Head of Consumer and Small Business Product Strategy and Transformation at Bank of America in a statement.

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VMS

JULY 27, 2021

J UST AS AMERICANS, bored and anxious during pandemic lockdown, collectively revisited their love affair with outdoor activities and sports, Dick’s Sporting Goods (Coraopolis, Pa.) introduced its new House of Sport concept, focused on multi-sport experiences, better shopper engagement and elevated customer service.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2024

What these retailers are all excited about is getting in front of an incremental consumer. DoorDash has over 37 million monthly active consumers and something like 17 million of them are DashPass subscribers. Over 20% of our consumers are now shopping across multiple categories, and that number continues to increase year over year.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A key reason for the challenge is that consumers’ frequent starting points for online shopping are Amazon and Google. These two sites are where the majority of shoppers’ journeys start for 57% of retailers, so getting prospective customers from there to the retailer’s site can be a bigger challenge than sealing the sale.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2021

Now more than ever, retailers are looking for solutions to create more seamless in-person and digital customer experiences. But while blending of in-store and online provides consumers with significantly more flexible shopping, it also creates operational challenges. Providing Various Payments Technologies.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2022

And 64% of all consumers have purchased a virtual good or taken part in a virtual experience or service in the past year.”. Katie Thomas, Lead, and Tanya Moryoussef, Manager, Consumer Practice, Kearney Consumer Institute : “ Splurges aside, inflation is definitely a concern among consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2021

Buoyed by a return to growth in Q4 2020, Adidas has unveiled a new growth strategy that will transform the company into a direct-to-consumer-led business with an emphasis on sustainability. That growth will be driven by a focus on increasing consumer touch points in markets it refers to as “Key Cities.” billion ) over that same period.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

While August retail sales numbers were a bit mixed, we believe the consumer is resilient and is in good shape as we head into the holiday season,” said Matthew Shay, President and CEO of NRF. unadjusted year-over-year; and Sporting goods stores: Down 5.7%. The NRF’s numbers were also up 8.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 15, 2021

Results in other categories included: Sporting goods stores: Up 23.5% Although there have been some recent issues related to vaccines, consumer confidence remains high and an optimistic outlook for the future continues to grow. For instance, clothing and accessory store sales were up 18.3% unadjusted YoY.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

More than 300 companies , including Patagonia , The Gap , DICK’S Sporting Goods and Walmart committed to removing some of the logistical barriers that often keep workers from voting. Patagonia and Target, that had executed voter engagement programs during the 2018 election cycle with employees, consumers or both.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Sporting Goods & Fitness: As consumers strive to prioritize personal health and wellness, retailers such as DICK’S Sporting Goods are seeing growth opportunities. stores across its portfolio, including DICK’S Sporting Goods outlets, Golf Galaxy and DICK’S Sporting Goods Warehouse Sale outlets.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Augmenting staff with technology reduces labor costs, allows employees to focus on revenue-generating activities and results in great customer experiences, with access to information at the point of decision and the human-to-human personal touch when customers request it. distribution strategy.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

And as COVID-19 volatility continues to put retailers and consumers in a frustrating holding pattern, more retail brands are turning to appointments to minimize store traffic and keep social distancing guidelines in place. consumer health concerns still loom, according to survey data from Shopkick.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Solo Stove has a vast retail partner network that includes marketplaces like Amazon and retailers with significant brick-and-mortar reach such as Ace Hardware , Best Buy and Dick’s Sporting Goods. Through that analysis, she found that Solo Stove customers were actually “way more diverse” than she initially thought.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2020

For example, Adidas and DICK’S Sporting Goods brought gamification to Snapchat, launching a video game that enables users to purchase directly through the app. They’re turning to solutions that allow consumers to connect loyalty programs with any payment card and collect points or rewards at checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the retail sector in dramatic ways over the last year — from fluctuating product demand and availability and rapidly changing consumer behaviors and expectations to ever-evolving health and safety requirements. The other dimension to consider in all this is employees.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This has created significant opportunity for outdoor and sporting goods brands alike. . “I I think that long term this has been great, because you’ve probably reached a new consumer that wasn’t really interacting with you in the past.”. You can build community around that.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Left with little choice, consumers have largely resigned themselves to waiting additional days or even weeks for their orders, but what they’ve become less willing to tolerate is a lack of information about order status. Analyst firm Forrester has chided those brands that have delayed overhauling their digital operations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2024

In Deckers’ financial results, President and CEO Dave Powers reaffirmed that HOKA was one of its “most admired and well-positioned brands in the marketplace,” with a “robust innovation product pipeline designed to win with global consumers.” As in any community-driven store, the goal is to build relationships and foster loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

That means brick-and-mortar is still going strong, and not just because consumers are eager to get out of the house again. In-store experimentation experiences are opportunities to entertain, energize and inspire customers while connecting emotionally with them. When these consumers feel catered to, it creates more loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2021

“There are great big box aggregators, both offline and online, but what we’re building is a premium brand direct model and an experience that doesn’t exist in the world of sporting goods right now ,” said Devin. “At At Wilson, we believe sport makes better people.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

On Amazon alone, the bag has garnered more than 5,000 five-star reviews and was named the best beach bag and tote by Travel + Leisure and Good Morning America. Now, Bogg Founder and CEO Kim Vaccarella is bringing the bag to even more consumers thanks to a new partnership with Target.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2023

Our consumers are incredibly engaged with our brand, and UA Rewards will enable a deeper connection, delivering the value and benefits they’ve been craving,” said Stephanie Linnartz, President and CEO of Under Armour in a statement. “UA Currently available only online, Under Armour plans to roll out UA Rewards to its stores later this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 15, 2024

Let’s delve into what those brands are doing to stay prominent in the minds of consumers, and what brand marketers can do to gain a competitive edge. Brands need to focus on providing great customer experiences in stores and on responding in a timely and personal manner to users when they have feedback. retail brands.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 24, 2022

E-commerce skyrocketed when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, as more consumers realised its ease and convenience. Whilst we love the convenience and real-time availability of the online experience, whenever there has been an easing of lockdowns, people have flooded back to the physical retail environment.

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Retail Focus

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As sporting goods retailer INTERSPORT has found, using digital at the shelf edge to help customers enhances both customer experience and improves efficiency of in-store operations.

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365 Retail

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

INTERSPORT , the global sporting goods retailer, has reported a 50% reduction in product data processing time, partnering with leading (AI) artificial intelligence platform Unifai , an Akeneo company. We chose Unifai to automate the categorisation of all our new products, which saved us from costly and time-consuming development.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 22, 2022

The sports industry is one of the most cutthroat in both India and the rest of the world. The Indian sporting goods market is a sizable business that offers a wide variety of athletic items, including footwear, workout gear, athleisure and sports gear,” he added. Wooing customers. The Asics factor.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 27, 2024

They have long since been a very important part of American consumer society and while they’ve had their ups and downs, they remain a popular retail destination.” While malls remain a popular retail destination, the malls that we experienced in the 50s, 80s, or even the early aughts, highly differ from the mall shopping experience of today.

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I Vend

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Consumers continue to spend on essentials such as food, personal care, and basic clothing, but reduce their outlay on items such as furniture, home electronics, sporting goods and accessories. Retaining existing customers – strengthening relationships, making them feel valued and enhancing the customer experience.

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VMS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Centered around the theme “Rethink Retail,” the conference opened with keynote speaker and digital anthropologist Brian Solis, who shared how the emerging customer experience economy is transforming retail design. Among his insights were keys to surviving what he called “digital Darwinism.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

But as with many innovations, voice offers both an opportunity and a threat — there is a risk that the voice intermediary will take the retailer’s place in the customer relationship, thus becoming a gatekeeper that influences consumers on where to shop, and not necessarily with you! The pandemic brought many examples to the fore.

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