Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As data privacy becomes an increasing priority for both retailers and consumers, RFID stands out as a secure option that safeguards shoppers’ data. Unlike other technologies that may capture detailed consumer behavior and personal data, RFID technology is straightforward and privacy-conscious.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Playful as it seems, it is profound and applicable, especially for today’s retail marketers. Because while they may feel they are communicating something weighty, it doesn’t mean consumers will hear it, let alone act. Today’s marketers can slice up demographics and reach audiences with uncanny precision.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Discussing what will be motivating consumers two years from now, Buzasi called 2026 “the year of redirection,” predicting that people will be looking for coping mechanisms to deal with what she termed “the great exhaustion,” a lingering hangover from COVID-19, political division and culture wars.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Full-fledged fingerprinting around the internet is depreciating, and marketers and customers alike will soon notice, particularly in the retail and ecommerce space. With today’s emphasis on privacy, third-party cookie deprecation will inevitably impact your brand, marketing strategy and customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Health-focused online grocer Thrive Market plans to launch a retail media network powered by Instacart ’s Carrot Ads solution. Thrive Market will use Carrot Ads to help connect brands with its more than 1.5 million members through sponsored product and display ads on its own website and app.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Australian consumers are expected to spend a record $6.7 The American-inspired shopping event hasn’t always been embraced by Australian retailers and consumers, but with the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and cost-of-trading crisis, there seems to have been a shift in attitude. That marks an increase of 5.5

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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? And they’re great at spotting inauthentic marketing – which can turn them off to a brand immediately. Mondelez International, Nestle, Unilever and more.

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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.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Makeup artist turned brand founder Hilary Holmes is challenging traditional beauty marketing tactics that leverage and profit from consumer insecurity through her cosmetics company Holme Beauty. The post How Holme Beauty is disrupting traditional makeup marketing tactics appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

” Aligning with the Demands of Today’s Consumers “Some of the language that I continue to hear when I go to many of [my go-to-market appointments] are things like, ‘What will our adjacencies be?’” Consumers are finding inspiration everywhere, and they’re more eclectic in their fashion choices. ” Hyman added.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Capitalising on this momentum and the resurgence of nostalgic trends, Mattel is now setting its sights on more ambitious goals for the Asia Pacific market. Paul Faulkner, senior VP and MD at Mattel Asia Pacific, spoke with Inside Retail about the company’s vision to conquer the burgeoning market.

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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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The FMCG subscription box market in Australia has shown strong growth over the past few years, driven by increasing consumer demand for convenience and personalisation, the continued rise of e-commerce, and sustainable practices. FMCG subscription box offers encompass a variety of sectors. What’s behind the growth?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With retail sales bouncing around as the UK economy chugs along, marketers in the sector are seeking the best way to keep their customers happy and prevent them from spending their money in another store. But consumers are demanding in other ways, too. But consumers are demanding in other ways, too.

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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

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. for every $1 spent on influencer marketing, one study found. Regardless, influencers pay dividends: businesses are making an average of $5.79

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2024

As The Wall Street Journal noted, consumers are making 8% more trips to different retailers as inflation impacts household budgets. The Journal also reported that consumers are traveling to cheaper zip codes to shop and are joining loyalty programs to take advantage of promotions in greater numbers, according to retail analysts.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

While events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday are still expected to attract crowds and drive online traffic, competition for consumers’ carefully guarded share of wallet will be fiercer than ever. These networks enable targeted marketing, allowing retailers to deliver personalized offers that boost conversion rates.

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Retail Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The influencer marketing industry was priced at £21 billion in 2024 and is projected to rise to £25 billion pounds by the close of 2024. Consumers commonly invest in the product recommendations of their chosen influencer; others are turned away by what they deem inauthentic content. When every post is an ad, consumer trust takes a hit.

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Retail Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Now, securing sought after products at the best price is becoming increasingly chaotic for consumers, with prices fluctuating during a number of weeks across the Golden Quarter. Forget deal or no deal, it’s more like deal or disappointment for consumers, leaving much to be desired in terms of results for retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For mid-market companies that may not have the budgets and resources to compete with larger, multinational brands, data is the key to success. Heres how RMNs are helping mid-market brands stand out, inspire shoppers and, ultimately, get in the basket during the busy holiday shopping season and beyond.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Still-potent economic uncertainty is encouraging consumers to be savvier as they browse and buy. But while there may be more price comparing and deal hunting this holiday season, consumers will still expect stellar experiences as they browse and buy across channels. trillion — a soft 3% growth rate over the same period in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Online sales saw an even bigger bump, with Adobe Analytics reporting a new milestone for ecommerce on Black Friday as consumers spent a record $10.8 That is more than double what consumers spent just a few years ago in 2017, when Black Friday drove a little over $5 billion in online spend. retail sales (excluding automotive) up 3.4%

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

That is why Carters, the baby and childrens retailer behind Carters, OshKosh BGosh, Little Planet and Skip Hop , recently implemented a fresh direction and approach that spans marketing, product development and even store design. Reimagined marketing creative and campaigns that authentically demonstrate the new realities of modern parenthood.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This seamless, integrated customer experience has redefined Australian consumers’ expectations, making it harder for traditional retailers to compete with their slower and more costly fulfilment methods. Shein: Dominating the fast-fashion market Shein has become a major player in Australian fashion, particularly among younger consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In addition to the compressed retail rush, Salesforce reports that 43% of consumers are carrying more debt than last year, making the fight for attention even more intense. Nearly 70% of marketing spend has gone to these channels. Search engine marketing Search is still a critical tool driving traffic to online stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 21, 2024

Here’s how to establish that winning balance of value, quality and convenience to emerge as a Value Wars leader: Amplifying What Matters Most for Your Customers Walmart’s bettergoods addresses consumers’ perceived value, which often mixes price and quality. For marketers, it’s become more important than ever for grocers to predict the future.

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Inside Retail

JULY 10, 2024

JB Hi-Fi’s subsidiary The Good Guys is facing legal action from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for alleged deceptive misrepresentations around its ‘StoreCash’ promotions. The post ACCC sues The Good Guys over dodgy promotions appeared first on Inside Retail Australia.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Webjet is facing legal proceedings for allegedly misrepresenting the minimum price of airfares on its app, email marketing, and social media posts. The ACCC also alleges that Webjet breached consumer law by sending a booking confirmation message after taking payment from customers, but the company failed to book the flight with the airline.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 26, 2024

Today’s competitive retail environment has brands facing a dual challenge — creating cohesive omnichannel experiences and engaging with spend-conscious consumers who thoroughly research their purchases. This simple action instantly delivers up-to-date and accurate information directly from the brand, ensuring a reliable consumer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We seek to create a customer experience inside our locations where you can touch, feel and smell the products, where there are experiences from a sensory perspective that excite consumers. Our marketing and operations teams have already done a lot to build out our logistics and operations, so we can go anywhere.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Marketers today have very little time to capture a consumer’s attention, which exasperates the need to reach that right customer with a hyper-relevant message in their precise moment of need. Modern consumers expect personalized ads that best address their needs. Think big with your ideas.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

Value-seeking consumers trading down, strategically waiting for discounts and choosing low-cost Chinese shopping apps will soften holiday sales growth to 2% year over year (YoY) both in the U.S. billion global consumers on retail sites. and globally, according to the Salesforce Shopping Index , which analyzes data from more than 1.5

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It’s essential (though tough) work, especially because consumers’ demand for visual assets in digital ecosystems is only continuing to rise. This results in relentless demand for creating engaging content across an increasing number of marketing and ecommerce channels in this digital-first economy.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2024

over 2023 despite continued concern about a consumer pullback. The upcoming presidential election also may impact consumer confidence (and therefore spending); however, the NRF acknowledged that it is nearly impossible to measure the actual effect of the election on current or future spending. This would equate to between $979.5

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