Inside Retail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Iconic has launched a Hubbed concept store at the new Martin Place metro station, featuring a ‘Click, Try and Collect’ shopping experience. The store combines the convenience of online shopping with several features of a physical store. They can also try on outfits and return orders at the venue.

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Retail Gazette

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The tie-up is designed to make shopping at the grocery giant more convenient for customers, who will be able to do their weekly shopping alongside collecting and returning their parcels in one trip. Its market share dropped one percentage point from 13.5% as sales fell 5.5% in the 12 weeks to 3 November.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2022

drop in 2020. “It’s The other complicating factor is you’ve got consumers who are incredibly aware of the supply chain, inventory and shipping challenges that are out there. We appreciate the physical experience of brick-and-mortar and the value of shopping in-store. Overall sales were up 8.5% 1 through Dec.

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Retail Gazette

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Shop price inflation dropped for the second consecutive month in February, hitting its lowest point of annual growth since March 2022. The latest BRC-NielsenIQ Shop Price Index found annual shop prices were down to 2.5% in January, marking the tenth consecutive monthly drop in the category.

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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. Click & Drop is Royal Mail’s primary shipping solution. People also love getting deliveries from their trusted Royal Mail postie.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 24, 2023

The deal coincides with the wide launch of CommentSold’s drop shipping capabilities, creating an end-to-end platform for direct-to-consumer (DTC) sales. “I These sites will automatically feature seller-curated drop ship items as ecommerce listings.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 25, 2024

The return revolution Recent insights from Australia Post reveal that eight in 10 Australian households now shop online, highlighting the importance of a strong e-commerce strategy. But how crucial are shipping and returns? Consider including prepaid compostable shipping bags and QR codes for easy drop-off or collection services.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 12, 2022

Ecommerce, along with other digital channels, took center stage as new shopping habits formed and expectations drastically shifted. While we won’t be traveling in flying cars to our favorite stores anytime soon, we’re still on the fast track to a transformed shopping experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Tommy Hilfiger customers can generate a prepaid shipping label from tommy.thredup.com , fill any shippable box or bag with women’s and kids’ items from any brand and men’s products from Tommy Hilfiger, then ship the items to ThredUP to be resold. The second drop will reportedly feature one-of-a-kind Tommy Hilfiger archive pieces.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 25, 2024

Our enhanced FLX Rewards program represents a significant step in providing a seamless shopping experience for sneaker enthusiasts,” said Mary Dillon, President and CEO of Foot Locker in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 29, 2022

The popularity of online shopping has created enormous opportunities to reach new customers, but this has come at a cost. Exacerbating the situation, these same shops lost $10.30 When customers know they can get their money back easily, they’ll shop confidently with an unfamiliar merchant and spend more.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2024

Walmart Canada , in partnership with TerraCycle , will mark Earth Day on April 22 with a “Fresh Start” Day of Action, encouraging consumers to recycle their used blue Walmart shopping bags as part of a free national recycling pilot program.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 7, 2023

When it debuted back in 2010, Wish was the only game in town as far as manufacturer-direct discount shopping apps went. But times have changed dramatically in the 13 intervening years: Temu , which debuted just last September, is now the top shopping app in the U.S., Reducing shopping and shipping friction.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 24, 2022

Consumers are Split Between Home Pickup and Carrier Drop-off. As a result, drop-off (at a carrier or retail location) became the preferred returns method for 67% of consumers, according to our BOXpoll surveys. The Post Office Increases its Popularity as a Returns Drop-off Destination. consumers love the USPS.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2021

The Fillogic tech-enabled facility will offer a variety of shipping services, including same-day delivery for local residents and one-stop shopping that will allow customers to conveniently drop online returns on-site. Traveling customers visiting from other areas also will be able to easily ship their purchases home.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2021

Online shopping became a refuge, not because of overwhelming convenience, but because contactless commerce was necessary. One in four consumers are shopping more with small brands. Even more astounding, one in four consumers (and 48% of Gen Z) said they are shopping online because they were bored with nothing else to do.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 3, 2024

Consumer Study , 85% of consumers check a company’s returns policy before even making a purchase when shopping online, and 68% of U.S. Consider offering a printable, pre-paid return shipping label or even a QR code that customers can use at drop-off locations without needing to print anything.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm has launched a series of new products under the Klarna Spotlight banner, all aimed at strengthening the company’s position as “a true shopping utility for consumers and a growth partner for retailers.” Consumers can also set product price ranges to decide whether it’s a good time to buy.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2024

The company pointed to faster growth in glasses, lower outbound customer shipping costs as a percent of revenue and improved efficiencies in owned optical laboratories as key drivers for this gross margin improvement. Gross profit also increased 16.3% million, while gross margin landed at 56% compared to 54.6% the year prior.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2022

SHEIN took the opportunity to showcase some of its special lines, including the designer-led drop range SHEIN X, the plus-size SHEIN Curve range, a PRIDE-themed assortment and its higher-end MOTF line made from “quality materials and construction.”

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

However, one sustainable investment management firm’s data indicates that ecommerce can generate 17% less greenhouse gas emissions than brick and mortar retail shopping, and other studies report similar ecommerce advantages. Smarter Shipping Options Transport is a large component of the ecommerce footprint.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 3, 2024

Pitney Bowes and PackageHub have debuted a no-box, no-label returns drop-off network at nearly 1,000 locations nationwide, with the promise of hundreds more launching soon. With the launch of this network with our partner PackageHub, we have access to their network of premium drop-off locations across the U.S.”

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 26, 2022

A Nielsen IQ Omnichannel Shopping Fundamentals Survey found that 61% of participants would like orders delivered as fast as possible, compared with 39% who indicated they would accept a slower delivery speed. online shoppers expect free two- to three-day shipping.”. Shipping everything via ground, which results in slow delivery times.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The retailer also is currently seeking third-party solution providers in areas including payment processors, order management and shipping and fulfillment. The Michaels Marketplace will be invite-only and aimed at “high-volume sellers of components, tools or craft materials,” according to an announcement on the company’s website.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

Up to 30 per cent of your sales may end in a return, and up to 50 per cent of an item’s original value makes up the return cost, including shipping, warehousing, and labour costs,” explains Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns.

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Inside Retail

MAY 29, 2024

Up to 30 per cent of your sales may end in a return, and up to 50 per cent of an item’s original value makes up the return cost, including shipping, warehousing, and labour costs,” explains Tara Daly, senior director of product marketing at Loop Returns.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The majority (59%) of shoppers say that being able to shop on mobile is important when deciding which brand or retailer to buy from, and mobile sales drove almost half (44%) of all online shopping revenue this holiday season. Drop shipping and print-on-demand are good options for smaller stores to avoid inventory issues.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 23, 2023

At Meta, 80 per cent of our investment goes towards our artificial intelligence-powered ads [such as] Advantage+ Shopping,” said Tan. And then we tried it with Advantage+, and we ended up getting a CPA of $15 or $16, which is a major drop, and allowed us to be profitable again,” he said. It was just over our target.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2021

Ecommerce retailers are looking for ways to minimize the bottom line impact of returns — some even forgoing recovering the product to save on shipping costs. Their most common complaint was centered around retailers not including a return label in the shipping box. Does anyone actually like returns?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2024

The retailer even ran a flash shipping program as early as 2015. In most cases, items are dropped at consumers’ doorsteps within two hours. For extra motivation, they get 5% off every subscription delivery they register for, plus free shipping. This is important when we think about cross-category shopping.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 17, 2022

Unified commerce, on the other hand, connects all data-driven aspects of retail, from the back-end systems to customer interactions, to help create a continuous shopping experience. Similarly, Zara allows its customers to return online store purchases free of charge within 30 days of shipping date, to any store or Australia Post drop point.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In today’s fast-paced world, convenience is the key in retail, which includes giving customers the option to shop online, collect, and return their orders in-store. With smart click-and-collect lockers, customers can simply drop by the store at their leisure and retrieve their order. Enter Groundfloor C lick -and-Collect lockers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 14, 2022

The early-season surge can be attributed to shoppers’ awareness of potential shipping delays , which also made omnichannel fulfillment a winning solution during that final rush: stores with curbside or in-store pickup options captured 62% of global sales during the Dec. 18 and Dec. 18-31 window. “In

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2022

An end to order deadlines for online gift shopping. Helen Marsh, Gift Flick co-founder & CMO, says the aim is to remove the anxiety of ‘shopping before the shipping window cut-off date’ and replace that with a positive, creative new way for consumers to reveal physical gifts through a personalised digital experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 28, 2022

The beauty retailer recently announced its plans to open more standalone stores and beauty shop-in-shops at Target and by adding Return Bars to locations, it will be able to boost store traffic, streamline the returns process and help reduce logistical costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2021

There are subscription shopping services now available too. More than one-third of Americans said that none of the gifts they gave during the 2020 holiday season were shipped. Nearly every consumer in America (84.5%) looks for coupons while shopping online, according to our research. Only 15.5%

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2021

Online business Kogan has seen its earnings drop by “more than 42 per cent” after sales slowed in the third quarter compared to previously high demand, the business announced on Friday. million demiurge fee – that is, failing to offload goods from a ship for freighter in the allotted time.

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