Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The news comes just a few weeks after Netflix announced that after 25 years it had shipped its last physical DVD. The market for physical DVDs has been dropping precipitously with the growth of streaming services. That leaves mega-retailers Walmart, Amazon and Target as the last major retailers still offering these products.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 25, 2024

The revised FLX Rewards program will include three tiers: Xtra Savings: Members can redeem points ( 100 points per $1 spent) for FLX Cash, providing discounts of $5, $10 or $20 off, and gain access to member-exclusive discounts and offers; Xtra Access: Exclusive member opportunities such as sneaker Launch Reservations that put members first in line (..)

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Since consumers must schedule appointments for the test kits, retailers have control over the number of tests that can be picked up and dropped off each day, and the volume of testing can change over time. Thanks to HHS, the retailer can be compensated for each completed test that is distributed at their retail stores.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

While more than half ( 54% ) of retailers responding to the 2023 Omnichannel and Fulfillment Benchmark Report said active physical stores are the final locations for inventory prior to delivery, retailers are increasingly using third-party services to handle the actual mechanics of picking, packing and delivering items to consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2023

What goes into a memorable product drop/promotion: “One St. What goes into a memorable product drop/promotion, part two: “Who else hates not being able to order a breakfast sandwich because it’s two minutes after 12 noon? Shipping shirts from the U.S. I want to get it right the next time, and I love the unpredictability.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 4, 2020

To quickly adapt to this change, retailers can deploy different strategies, such as drop-shipping to get their items direct-to-consumer and take back control over delivery timeframes, ensure transparency throughout the process and still deliver a great customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2020

More than 200 in-person return drop-off locations are operating again at retailers including Paper Source and Cost Plus World Market. Happy Returns had closed its 700+ -store Return Bar network in March due to COVID-19, but the company has reopened this portion with new contactless customer interaction processes.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 7, 2020

27) dropped considerably in comparison to last year. Since the numbers are high for early shoppers and the majority of those surveyed said that they were not going to visit stores, the actual traffic results should not come as any surprise. Retailers are already warning shoppers to get out early to avoid shipping delays.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In the last decade, there has been 5X higher growth in debit card volume than credit cards, and in the previous year or two, spending on credit cards dropped 50%.”. Consumers want to avoid a situation where they’re hunting around for a product in-store and waiting in long lines in this pandemic-type environment.

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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. Return Meets the Resale Economy.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2022

However, shares dropped 11.38% to $131.35 following the results’ release on May 17 and continued dropping the morning of May 18, hitting $125.51. “We’re Store comparable sales grew 3.3% And we will work with our vendor partners from sourcing to production to shipping.”. billion in revenue.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Because of the dramatic increase in online/DTC sales, the order profile has changed more to shipping individual packages to consumers. However, most of the automation in DCs is geared toward shipping to stores or other wholesale partners. The worst thing you can do is take the order and not be able to ship it.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2024

So we quietly started to sell cribs and strollers and all of this other marketplace product that we don’t take ownership of, that’s then drop-shipped from other vendors.” As we have surveyed our customers, they’ve told us to ‘sell us more and tell us more.’ How do we think about ourselves?

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Dick’s Sporting Goods also attributed part of the brand’s 23% profit drop in the second fiscal quarter of 2023 to theft ( CNBC ). This approach to in-store product placement allows employees to easily monitor popular items and acknowledge customers in areas where they are displayed. According to a June study by the U.S.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2021

This was rendered possible as retailers and brands offered low-cost shipping, unlimited holding periods and easy returns. Whether it takes the form of prepaid return labels, easy return drop-off locations or returns packaging, the consumer expects to be able to send back inventory — for whatever reason or no reason at all.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 8, 2021

For applications like warehousing, fulfillment, inventory, store operations, shipping and receiving, the need to maintain rapid, accurate and seamless data capture to provide real-time visibility is essential. It has been tested to sustain multiple drops of up to 1.8

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

KPMG’s survey of retail leaders found that 68% of respondents expect sales to improve over last year, while only 24% expect a drop in sales. Among surveyed consumers, 42% said they will leave a retail site if shipping options are limited or they don’t have a buy online, pick up in-store option. Take for example Macy’s.

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Wiser

AUGUST 25, 2020

Instead, a lot of that has been left sitting in the back of stores or warehouses and needs to go somewhere once you open again. Run one-off marketing campaigns to raise awareness and drop the prices wherever possible to get that inventory moving. Any changes to store operations still work with who you are.

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Retail Next

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Here are three of the company’s practices you can mimic, and a couple that are best to drop. If they want to communicate with a person, doing that is as easy as answering a few questions from drop-down menus, then choosing the preferred method of contact. DROP: Alleged Poor Treatment of Workers.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In an industry where traditional store-based retailing is still predominant, manufacturers are coping with the changing dynamics of consumer behaviors, business models; and automation. To stay current, Retailers can use real-time trackable ecommerce solutions and user-friendly retail software to scale.

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Retail Next

JULY 16, 2020

We continue to see that CVR & Shopper Yield are impacted by factors such as only shoppers who are motivated to buy visiting stores, and the increase in services such as ship from store, buy online pickup in store (BOPIS), curbside pickup, etc.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 23, 2023

Canada Goose’s Toronto store gives shoppers an idea of what it might be like to visit Antarctica by inviting shoppers to travel through a virtual snowstorm, a cold room that reaches -12°C (about 10°F), and a virtual mountain pass via an interactive floor that simulates ice cracking underfoot.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 11, 2023

Jason: [18:14] Yeah I guess so to other random things I thought were mildly interesting normally apple is pretty good about dropping these announcements and then having like. Pretty quick of the ability thereafter and so one weird thing they’re announcing this and June and it’s not going to be available in told 2024.

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I Vend

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As a retailer, you rely on your POS technology for store operations, and you may well have an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system as well or be considering one. But rather than seeing them as two essential but separate – entities, the retailers who get the most from their POS and ERP systems are those that integrate them.

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