Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2025

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. For starters, consumers appetite for digital commerce is skyrocketing. In 2020, global ecommerce sales reached $4.2

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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.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 2, 2025

To visually see those ingredients is a really important part of the consumer journey. To be able to see it, to be able to smell it, to be able to taste all of these amazing flavours, Christelle Young, managing director of T2, told Inside Retail. Expanding the T2 experience The QVB store is also a response to shifting consumer demands.

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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? Finally, many retailers operate in a siloed manner.

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Retail Focus

MARCH 25, 2025

Inflation has an impact on nearly every aspect of the economy, including raw material costs, wages, transportation, and, ultimately, the prices consumers pay for goods and services. Rising costs and shifts in consumer behaviors have a significant impact on the retail industry.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For retailers and consumer businesses, a surge in data breaches presents difficult challenges. As a result, the retail and consumer industries have become an attractive target for cybercriminals, with research revealing that in 2023, retail and wholesale accounted for 11% of cybersecurity incidents. million last year. million and $3.48

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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 7, 2025

Effectively managing returns fraud is crucial for controlling an organization’s costs. According to a Gartner survey, 39% of retailers identified cost management the mitigation and control of volatile or uncontrollable supply chain costs as one of the top three internal obstacles to achieving their supply chain goals and objectives.

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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

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

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

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 6, 2025

While policymakers often champion tariffs as a mechanism to protect domestic industries, their ripple effects are far-reaching, inflating costs, disrupting supply chains and, ultimately, burdening consumers. Price-sensitive products suffered a drop in demand as consumers struggled to shoulder the rising cost of tariff-stricken goods.

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Retail Minded

MARCH 20, 2025

Thus, it highlights the urgent need for strong risk management strategies. Effective risk management involves identifying these threats, implementing preventive measures, and staying ahead of emerging vulnerabilities. Learning about these threats is the first step in developing strong risk management strategies.

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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. Consumers want to be part of an in-store experience that allows them a personalized, agile and enjoyable shopping experience in store.

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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. But where does that leave your marketing strategies for the humble shop floor?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2025

Walmart Data Ventures the business unit within Walmart that harnesses the retailers vast data resources to offer insights to its suppliers is launching a new service that will allow brands to get feedback on their products via in-home tests with everyday consumers.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 2, 2025

Last week, consumer-activist group The Peoples Union USA called for a 24-hour buying blackout of all non-essential goods on February 28, particularly from big-box retailers like Walmart , Target and Amazon. This is not the first time consumers have used boycotts as a means of protest in the US.

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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. This discrepancy highlights an opportunity for retailers to better connect eco-conscious consumers with relevant product details. The result?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

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

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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

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For decades, household name brands have topped the consumer market. Theyve dominated shelf space at retailers around the world while owning consumer mindshare thanks to massive marketing budgets, established reputations and widespread recognition. All of that is changing. Have you tried their Chili Lime Tortilla Chips?)

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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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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

While retailers have had their heads down trying to decipher which Generative AI technology will increase operational efficiency, it has become apparent that consumers, too, have an appetite for AI. Since the launch of Alexa in 2014 consumers have warmed up to the idea of interacting with smart appliances.

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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. Ebay’s May 2024 Recommerce Report documented the growth of secondhand goods purchases, revealing that 70% of surveyed consumers planned to buy “pre-loved” items this year. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Fraud has plagued retailers for quite some time, but the issue is now getting its time in the spotlight due to the increased use of AI within the industry, as well as consumers’ general awareness of the trend. This is a more straightforward use case for AI implementation, and one that consumers have come to know and crave.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

To me this illustrates both how powerful gen AI-based solutions can be, but also the preparatory and ongoing work required to make them truly useful to both consumers and retailers. This can be a lucrative opportunity for retail brands, but I imagine there are also challenges with having to manage this influx of new channels and influencers.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2025

has filed for Chapter 11, citing steadily rising operating costs and changing consumer habits as the reasons for its current financial difficulties.The storied San Francisco company has operated in the city for 174 years, since founder Anton Roman opened the first store on Montgomery Street in 1855. is not going away. Restructuring Books Inc.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 9, 2025

A Robust Portfolio of Fashion Brands With a range of offerings including formal fashion from Brooks Brothers, casual apparel for younger consumers from Aropostale, outdoor apparel and gear from Eddie Bauer and everyday fashion for the whole family from JCPenney, Catalyst Brands will boast expansive reach across multiple market and customer segments.

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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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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 1, 2024

While the UWU’s strike is advocating for workers’ rights, it could give consumers another reason to question if a supermarket duopoly is benefitting them. According to Ritchie, Woolworths has found itself in a “toxic trifecta” if the aforementioned events are viewed from a reputation management perspective.

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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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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The strategic partnership includes the management of marketing initiatives, sales operations, and distribution channels for Movado Group’s extensive brand portfolio. Together we aim to strengthen our presence in the region offering consumers our world-renowned brands.”

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