Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2021

It was the kind of “-geddon” that could be seen coming from a mile away — a perfect storm combining an ecommerce boom; retailers, fulfillment centers and shipping providers that were already stretched thin by a global pandemic; and the historically hectic holiday season looming. Retailers across the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2021

In fact, the impacts of the most unique holiday in decades are still being felt: retailers should plan for continued shipping delays in the short term, and also continue to refine their omnichannel operations as they prepare for the rest of 2021. Contactless Services Can Soothe the Bite of Remote Returns. 11 through Dec.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Customer who sell their luxury products to Fashionphile have the option of receiving payment in the form of a Neiman Marcus gift card and receive a 10% discount on the gift card value. Now, NMG has acquired a minority stake in Fashionphile and plans to open Fashionphile Selling Studios in an additional nine stores over the next nine months.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 24, 2024

ShipStation, a global leading provider of shipping software solutions, has announced its continued investment in the Australian market. These enhancements include the introduction of checkout rates, shipping strategies, auto-split, ODBC support and custom labels.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

A recent report from the payments and shopping service Klarna found that 34% of shoppers actually plan to spend more on gifts this year than last year, with Gen Z ( 57% ) and millennials ( 53% ) more likely than other age groups to expand their budgets. Stressed Consumers Spread Out Spending with BNPL. said Pandya. “

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We’re indifferent on where the shopping journey ends, where that transaction takes place ,” said Matt Madrigal, VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “It That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7 million sellers or even Walmart’s nearly 69,000.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. But that need not be the case with careful planning and the deployment of the right technology. “Up The average rate of customer retention in e-commerce is around 38 per cent.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

For most retailers selling online, returns generate their greatest customer service challenges and inevitably drain profitability. But that need not be the case with careful planning and the deployment of the right technology. “Up The average rate of customer retention in e-commerce is around 38 per cent.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

And] with all this digitization, there are so many more small- and medium-sized merchants around the world that need to source to sell. Enter Qalara, which two years on from its launch features more than 1,000 producers selling over 150,000 ready-to-ship and made-to-order products, primarily in the home and lifestyle category.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2024

The result — a suite of data insights tools called Walmart Luminate — is now being used regularly by Walmart merchants and suppliers under the banner of the company’s Data Ventures division. RTP: Do your suppliers pay for this service, or is this just part of having a relationship with Walmart?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

By creating narrower product assortments and limiting inventory levels — especially for product shipments headed to brick-and-mortar stores —merchants would gain the ability to react more quickly to changing consumer trends, and even potentially reduce their need for markdowns. What can the retailer learn from and improve?

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Small Biz Trends

APRIL 15, 2021

Besides having a brick-and-mortar shop, going online to offer your products and services comes with lots of opportunities for your business. An eCommerce platform is a software application that helps businesses sell products and services online. This means users don’t have to buy web hosting or install software anywhere.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

RetailNext found that Black Friday store traffic dropped by 48% year over year, with jewelry (-53.5%), footwear (-52.8%) and apparel (-50.2%) seeing the most significant drops. Adobe reports that the percentage of retailers offering curbside services also increased year over year, from 15% in 2019 to 23% this year.

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Retail Gazette

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Retail Gazette caught up with chief product officer Mauricio Monico on how it plans to compete with its Chinese rivals. The San Francisco-based platform shipped its vast array of discounted products straight from their factories. “[The Where does that leave Wish? Wish chief product officer Mauricio Monico.

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Independent Retailer

JANUARY 17, 2023

The wholesale product manufacturer creates, packages, and ships the product out to your customer for you, making this a low maintenance business model. When a retail customer orders an item, the dropshipping company blind ships the item to the customer. Why You Should Drop Ship. Why You Should Drop Ship.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 28, 2022

This means not just looking at the cost of the product and the number of units you’re selling, but also being clear on your costs around freight and logistics, tariffs, shipping to customers, warehousing and merchant fees. Know your Return on Advertising Spend (ROAS). What’s the lifetime value of your customers?

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Why should retailers care about their Order Fulfillment Process? Order fulfillment may seem like a fairly straightforward process and according to the generic “high-level” definition, it is. In fact, the best order fulfillment processes become sources of revenue, profit, and even customer loyalty.

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Retail Minded

AUGUST 27, 2022

Of course, this level of demand could not be maintained – and in 2022, they have dropped. Among them, a global supply chain crisis – rife with driver shortages and lengthy shipping. final nail in the coffin for retailers – while other reports describe merchants being overstocked. service they provide.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2025

that, together, process millions of returns every month. Those boxes will then be shipped back to the retailers where the products originated, in the never-ending ebb and flow of goods sold-shipped-returned-resold that is commerce today. Merchants are realizing this and adapting. Still, its a costly problem for merchants.

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Hyken

JUNE 17, 2022

According to data from TechRepublic , people are becoming increasingly concerned about what happens when they share their contact and/or financial information with online merchants: . Provide safe and secure browsing and checkout process in your online store, no matter what device your customers use to shop. Now you know .

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Store Growers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

To be completely transparent I’ve long wanted to start my own online store and document the whole process. Because I have too many projects that never got off the ground, my main goal for those first days was to ship something. Shipping is the part that requires a HUGE amount of energy. Printing on demand service.

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Retail Geek

DECEMBER 7, 2020

They are able to see the carrier shipping performance for all those clients and provide aggregate data that gives us insight into holiday shipping performance, also known as #shipageddon. ShipBob is a third party logistics provider that offers e-commerce fulfillment for thousands of brands.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

million, FY Merchant Solutions revenue grew 116% to $2B Shopify Expands Its Checkout System to Facebook and Instagram. Fourth-Quarter Revenue Grows 94% on GMV Growth of 99% Full-Year 2020 Revenue Grows 86% on GMV Growth of 96% FY Subscription Solutions revenue grew 41% to $908.8 Amazon news: Amazon acquires Seltz, a Shopify competitor.

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Retail Geek

MAY 20, 2021

I think almost no one was down in fact I think nothing was down from April of last year but the you know some of the categories that didn’t have his biggest slow down last April, had had more like typical typical growth like the general merchants. 12:02] And all that averaged out to what did I say 40 39 percent today.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 11, 2021

Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason and Scot show listeners here at the Jason and Scot show headquarters we are always on the lookout for exciting new startups that are innovating around some of our favorite topics of e-commerce payments. Jason: [8:30] It’s crazy that 400 million a year is like a starter merchants.

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Retail Geek

MAY 6, 2024

Furthermore, we embark on a detailed exploration of supply chain logistics, with a spotlight on Amazon’s expansion into third-party logistics services, revolutionizing traditional retail strategies by sharing proprietary capabilities for wider adoption. And if you’re based in any of those cities, also drop me a line.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

So that was interesting and then the to me the most geeky coolest thing of all although controversial is during the pandemic, the Brazilian government launched a government-sponsored instant payment system so I got. The thing that has grown a ton is you know shoptalk offers this Meetup service.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You’re gonna end up making some ill-advised purchases and then it seems like everything drop ships from factories. post so they if you remember back in the day wish was like very slow shipping like to 26 weeks. Scot: [6:16] Should be over should be like part of the onboarding. on a Friday night you’re.

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Retail Geek

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

20:56] You know they’ve shut down somewhere houses they sold some so that they’ve actually started this this kind of, harvesting mode from all that investment where that’s reflected is in the symmetric they release called shipping expenses which they measure as a percentage of online store revenues it was 37.2%

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 29, 2023

Jason: [8:04] No I was just I was just thinking that they I assume they left it blank because the underwriters were out of practice. There’s also the others you can think of Jason there’s this one.

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Star Miconics

MARCH 7, 2025

Were talking about something near and dear to my heartextended service warranties. I have experience in the services industry, working in warranty and non-warranty repair, so I know firsthand how important this topic is. Without extended warranties, service and replacement costs could quickly add up for both us and our customers.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 29, 2022

Jason: [7:01] Yeah so in general the macroeconomics are kind of a Debbie Downer and you know I am spending an awful lot of time talking with retailers and brands that are kind of planning for. Wean sort of next 9 months as a result of that but kind of frame this up. 4% which is a 40-year high so inflation is very high.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Meanwhile, for merchants that had already built their businesses online before the pandemic, a larger addressable market buoyed most, but created scalability challenges for all (including Amazon). 57% of BOXpoll respondents opting for free shipping consider delivery in five days to be either ‘fast’ or ‘acceptable.’ on average.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 11, 2022

you know some some different perspectives and some novel stuff and I did record a couple podcast there so listeners have that to look forward to will drop those over the next few weeks and so some good. it’s kind of like a multi-channel shipping solution so they’ve you and I have long.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Services to other retailer. So instacart launched a whole sort of portfolio that they call the connected stores which are kind of all these back at back of house. [9:02] So instacart launched a whole sort of portfolio that they call the connected stores which are kind of all these back at back of house. [9:02]

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Live Streaming Commerce Still not meaningful in US in 2023 (less than 5% of social commerce in US) Yes Jason Total Score: 3 of 5 Scot : Amazon uses this 2022 setback/slowdown/reversion to the mean for a public resetting of expectations, but behind the scenes they take share and raise the bar on shipping. Scot: [28:09] Yeah.

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