Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Customer profiles that are correct, current and enhanced with demographic and geographic data allow organizations to personalize communications, optimize marketing efforts and uncover new customer prospects. In this quest for data-driven precision, merchants must understand the power of the address and its immense strategic value.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

In an era of fierce competition to attract consumers’ tightening budgets, customer experience has become the key edge retailers can deploy to stand above the competition. Merchants on Shopify POS can now design the in-store experiences that reflect their brand best without having to sacrifice reliability.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Experts report that chargebacks will cost merchants over $100 billion in 2023, and false claims and abuse of the chargeback process are a growing threat to merchants. The hidden expenses of wasted time, expensive fees, penalties or additional losses of goods and services add up. Internet payments mean more purchases.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2022

Uber is expanding Uber Eats’ services with new features such as the ability to place orders when grocery stores aren’t open for later delivery, live tracking of orders from store to door and easier product replacements. The upgrades are aimed at benefiting retailers as well as customers. “By and Costco. billion in February 2021.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The first wave of ecommerce was mostly about price, while the second wave is all about the customer experience. Does your order fulfillment strategy live up to your customers’ expectations? Merchants are contending to meet a tectonic shift in online shopping behavior. Free shipping days are behind us.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Supply chain issues, inflation and other economic headwinds that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine are still present for merchants. Have a simple checkout process. Simple and easy checkout processes are needed to seal the deal. This can increase brand awareness, customer reach and sales.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2021

In another sign of the global growth of buy now, pay later services, Zip Co Ltd. Twisto holds a European Payment Institution license, enabling the provision of payment serves across all EU member states, subject to regulatory consents. More than one million customers and 14,000 merchants have transacted on the platform. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2023

based Amazon merchants at the end of January. Additionally, Amazon is adding a new feature to the Buy with Prime package that will enable merchants to display ratings and reviews from Amazon customers on their own online stores. But what we know is that it’s going to be a better customer experience for Prime members.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 7, 2024

If we can execute every single day and make the experience continually better for our consumers, our merchants, our Dashers and our CPG partners, that will ultimately build a business that will address more and more consumers’ needs. There are many merchants who use DoorDash as well as your competitors. Hannon : Certainly.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2021

Ecommerce fulfillment provider Deliverr has raised $170 million in new funding, bringing the total capital raised to more $240 million. Deliverr describes itself as “democratizing fulfillment” by enabling merchants of any size to provide a “Prime-like customer experience” with services like two-day and next-day delivery.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 29, 2022

Consider how returns are central to the customer experience and can create a competitive advantage, differentiate a brand and increase customer lifetime value. The popularity of online shopping has created enormous opportunities to reach new customers, but this has come at a cost. Turn Returns Upside Down.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

With more than 10 years of experience in digital marketing, ecommerce strategy and digital transformation, she has helped architect omnichannel strategies for hundreds of brands and retailers, including Michael Kors, Joann Fabrics , Converse and Billabong Brands. As a result, companies had to contemplate, ‘What is my omnichannel strategy?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2020

When retail historians compile the definitive chronicle of this era, they will recall something remarkable: as merchants across the nation responded to the COVID-19 outbreak by shifting more operations online, two years’ worth of e-Commerce growth got crammed into two weeks. How to explain that paradox? Touchless Delivery Abuse Risk.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

At our core, DoorDash is a merchant-focused company,” said Prabir Adarkar, President and COO of DoorDash in a statement. Our mission has always been to develop products and services that empower local merchants to succeed. The DoorDash Commerce Platform is designed to meet this need.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2022

There are an almost infinite number of answers, but the long and the short of it is that 5G will enable merchants to perform intricate digital tasks faster and on a much larger scale. “5G a retail store] with their own custom networks. 5G and mobile-edge compute can transform the business experience,” said Verizon’s Collins.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

What it didn’t have at that point was a streamlined, intuitive online checkout process — and that quickly became a major hindrance to the company’s DTC expansion plans. “We It was an involved, intense process. Once there’s a certain percentage of fraudulent orders, financial companies [can stop servicing you].”

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Simon Properties is partnering with Dropit to bring omnichannel inventory management and fulfillment capabilities to its facilities. Dropit layers AI technology into existing fulfillment systems to empower merchants to use real-time data that powers dynamic decision-making to balance inventory, optimize sourcing and streamline returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2024

Grubhub now has 30 personalized recommendation carousels on its homepage, spotlighting merchants with delivery ETAs of 30 minutes or less, merchants featuring the customer’s favorite cuisine and more. Additionally, Grubhub has added a Priority Delivery option that promises faster-than-standard delivery for $2.49

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

Above all, they must keep the customer experience top of mind, and Amazon sets the benchmark for customer experience and expectations when it comes to online shopping. Another factor driving the adoption of WMS in ecommerce is the growing trend for retailers to offload online order fulfillment to distribution partners.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 6, 2020

DoorDash is taking dark store fulfillment in a new direction with an online delivery service that sells products from its owned and operated local distribution centers. The company says “many more cities” will launch the service in the coming months, including San Diego, Baltimore, Denver, Sacramento and Concord, Calif.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2020

As the pandemic has driven the adoption of e-Commerce to a level retailers didn’t expect to see for a year or more, many are speeding up the development of digital products and services that were further ahead on their technology roadmaps. QFC Pilots Apple Pay, Google Pay And Other Touchless Payments.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The new offering is powered by Bolt’s Checkout Everywhere solution (originally called Tipser until it was acquired by Bolt in late 2021), which allows websites of all kinds to add transaction capabilities and sell products from participating merchants. “We’re Then the merchant takes over for fulfillment, logistics and so on.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

DoorDash has added tax-advantaged HSA and FSA accounts as payment options for on-demand delivery of more than 30,000 eligible products. To publicize the new option, the delivery service has added “HSA/FSA Eligible” labels under individual products on select merchants’ store pages. Additionally, through Nov.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Customers will now be able to earn Stitch Fix credit for “gently worn” apparel items they give back to the brand via ThredUp ’s Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) functionality. Earlier this month , Stitch Fix reimagined its brand and customer experience following several years of weak sales and a shrinking customer base.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Same goes for the services Alibaba is building to stay competitive: financing solutions, fulfillment services, AI tools to make the process of using the platform easier, localized warehousing to speed up delivery. Sounds familiar, right? That’s because Amazon, and now Walmart, have all done the same.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2024

Additionally, Reshop has partnered with the Narvar post-purchase platform and can be integrated into existing return operations platforms of the 1,400 Narvar merchants. “We With Reshop, customers can receive instant refunds — offering them greater flexibility, control and confidence to shop again right away.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2022

When it comes to embracing ethical commerce and moving corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies forward, Amazon Web Services (AWS) research shows that retailers and CPGs identify three primary hurdles to success. This category includes discount stores, mass merchants (“big box stores”) and businesses focused on specialty hardlines.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 24, 2024

This release will include additional features for the high-volume plan, designed to streamline fulfilment processes and offer comprehensive delivery options for organisations with high delivery volumes. Furthermore, post-purchase behaviour also underscores the importance of flexibility in fulfilment options.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TikTok Shop has today announced a new partnership with Royal Mail to help merchants of all sizes improve their delivery experience and thrive on the platform. By integrating the service into TikTok Shop, merchants of all sizes can save time and improve the delivery experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

Amazon is continuing to expand its last mile services beyond its own retail ecosystem with the addition of same-day delivery service from a number of leading retailers’ stores, including PacSun , GNC , SuperDry and Diesel. The service is free for U.S. Sur La Table and 100% Pure also will join this roster in the next few months.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Mastercard SpendingPulse measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment, providing a wealth of insights to help merchants refine and optimize their holiday strategies. Customer service, digital experience, personalization and other factors drive that emotional loyalty.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

That, of course, is the key to Wish’s business model — by connecting international consumers directly with manufacturers (most of them Chinese, although diversifying the company’s merchant base is one of the company’s key turnaround pillars), customers can get products for dirt cheap. Doubling down on merchants outside of China.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The point-of-sale (POS) system has always been the one truly indispensable technology for any merchant, large or small. But retailers’ needs can change, sometimes quite quickly, as they did during COVID-19 when many merchants began scheduling specific shopping appointments with customers, both virtually and in person.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Chris DiTullio, Chief Customer Officer, JOANN Stores Category: Marketing/Promotions DiTullio has led the implementation of a new product that allows merchants to simulate different promotion scenarios so that they can see the unit and margin impact, and make a more informed decision on promotion planning.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2023

Retailers have a vast amount of data about customer shopping behavior and purchase history. Generative AI can dramatically improve customer experiences and drive revenue by helping shoppers find the products that most match attributes of what they’re looking for today, not just what they have purchased in the past.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

Most buy now, pay later offers are interest- and fee-free, unless customers miss a payment. consumers say they have used a buy now, pay later service, according to a recent study from The Ascent, a Motley Fool service. BNPL fulfills a need that previously wasn’t being met,” said Sharp. In fact, 50% of U.S

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 8, 2023

So the questions retailers should be asking themselves are: How loyal are your customers? And how are you giving them a value-added product or service for being loyal to you? That [retailer-loyal customer] interchange has never been stronger. What are you doing to nurture them?

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