Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The platform has kicked off the service in the alcohol category and will expand it to categories including beauty, electronics and more in the coming months. DoorDash also has introduced a one-year discounted DashPass plan for SNAP/EBT recipients for $4.99 per month, offering $0 delivery fees and lower service fees on eligible orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Buzek forecasts very strong growth for these solutions during the next two years, with self-checkout rising 178% , contactless payment climbing 190% and payment via consumers’ mobile devices increasing 300%. We’re forecasting 700% growth over the next two years for these second locations with dedicated inventory.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2024

Revenue Recognition Pitfalls in Ecommerce Platforms like Shopify, while instrumental in facilitating online sales, often present financial data that can be misleading for CFOs and finance teams. In addition to non-compliance with GAAP, inaccurate revenue recognition can lead to failed audits and poor business decisions based on skewed data.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

billion Kroger-Albertsons tie-up as well as the November 2024 end of a planned Capri Holdings and Tapestry merger. Walgreens Agrees to $192.5M Settlement with Shareholders Over Failed Rite Aid Merger (Oct.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

They want seamless experiencesfrom clear product information and localised payment options to transparent shipping costs and easy returns. They assist with localisation, currency, tax compliance, and shipping integration, allowing businesses to scale without having to build everything from scratch.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Clean, validated address data is an essential business asset that drives a smoother customer experience, reduces operational costs and minimizes errors. Will the item purchased arrive on time and as planned? This seamless data integration reduces costs and enhances customer service, supporting accurate, efficient order delivery.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 16, 2024

Providing healthcare services — such as Botox, hair removal, skin contouring and even facelifts — in a sleek spa environment means many who first come in for a one-time facial or massage ultimately may opt for more expensive healthcare services. Bespoke statement designs and calls to action also promote faster payments.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2023

The retailer’s stores will remain open and its ecommerce operations, including the Pearl by David’s platform and vendor marketplace, will continue operating during the proceedings. We have successfully modernized our marketing and customer interaction processes and driven our retail service levels to best in class.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

At the time, the two retailers operated nearly 5,000 stores and employed more than 710,000 associates. Rather than fulfill its contractual obligations to ensure that the merger succeeded, Kroger acted in its own financial self-interest, repeatedly providing insufficient divestiture proposals that ignored regulators concerns.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Retail digital transformation is the process of leveraging technology to fundamentally change the way a retail business operates. It involves integrating digital tools and processes across all aspects of the business, from product development and marketing to sales and customer service.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2021

Building an online presence starts with a well-designed website supported by an effective digital marketing plan. A tech stack is the ecosystem of hardware and software platforms needed to manage the DTC order fulfillment process from end to end. Fulfillment and Returns. Web Design & Development.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

and Secure checkout: TikTok has partnered with third-party payment platforms to facilitate transactions on TikTok Shop and to ensure a quick, smooth and secure checkout process. Digital Service (USDS). The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S. user data is stored in the U.S. and managed by the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2025

This is also the moment to renegotiate supplier contracts to share the cost burden, secure discounts, defer payments or temporarily freeze prices. And finally, conduct scenario planning by building models to prepare for multiple outcomes, prioritizing investments in high-margin categories and diversifying risk.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2023

Buy with Prime was designed to give Prime members fast, free delivery and easy returns through Amazon’s fulfillment network and ultimately help brands increase shopper conversion by about 25%. Now, the new app is empowering Shopify merchants to offer this seamless payment experience to their customers.

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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. Michaels’ CEO Ashley Buchanan first revealed plans for a marketplace in a February 2021 story in The Wall Street Journal.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

As the ecommerce wars heat up, BigCommerce is making a name for itself as one of the top facilitators of digital trade, alongside competitors such as Shopify, Adobe Commerce and Salesforce Commerce Cloud. Gee: Omnichannel for me means a merchant can sell anywhere their shoppers are and fulfill anywhere they place that order.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

“As part of the ONE RETAIL approach, we combine a variety of consumer journeys into one and put our smartphone app at the center of the entire shopping process,” explained Ekaterina Sokolova, CFO of M.Video Eldorado Group in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “We Machine Learning-Powered Analytics Now Central to Demand Forecasting.

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Retail Gazette

APRIL 16, 2025

The UKs second-largest supermarket said it expects retail underlying operating profit for 2025/26 to come in at around 1bn slightly down from the 1.036bn it delivered in the year to March 1 and below analysts expectations of 1.08bn. increase in annual profit. Click here to sign up to Retail Gazettes free daily email newsletter

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 29, 2023

The company also has been making efforts to expand the availability of its offerings; Shipt revealed plans to add SNAP EBT to its payment options in September 2022 and debuted its LadderUp initiative supporting food access and local businesses in February 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2020

With retailers continuing to reopen their doors to the public, the question remains — what COVID-19-necessitated retailing strategies will make their way into go-forward plans, and which of those will be forgotten? From payments to delivery, processes have been scrutinised to reduce the need to touch people, products and PIN pads.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Not to mention consumers love them, with 80% saying they plan to purchase more gift cards in 2022. If your company is like most, one very important aspect of managing your gift card program may be overlooked, or at least not be given the attention required — state regulatory and legal compliance. Keeping Up with State Compliance.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2022

Subscription meal kit service Blue Apron is ditching the “subscription” for a new offering on Walmart ’s third-party marketplace, giving Walmart customers access to a selection of on-demand meal kits with no recurring payments required. The company said it plans to expand its offerings on the platform in the coming months.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 11, 2020

Solution providers also have joined the fray, creating new solutions and services to help businesses stay open — and even uncover new revenue opportunities — as we venture into the “New Normal,” or what Aptos calls the “Next Normal.” Other retailers were able to successfully adapt to the shift online by offering digital services.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2020

Where large retail chains and brands may have cash reserves of up to six to nine months, most suppliers typically have only enough operating capital for 30 to 60 days. Many of these suppliers, hit hard by the shock waves of the pandemic, have ceased operations and will never reopen. The ability to redirect inventory.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

billion Kroger-Albertsons merger, first announced in October 2022 , had been planned with store divestitures in mind, but the specific number to be sold and their locations had not yet been determined. Kroger said the settlement and payment terms would not affect the merger. billion in cash. Included in Kroger’s results was a $1.4

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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. Zip already owned a portion of Twisto, and plans to buy the remaining shares for approximately $108.5 Twisto holds a European Payment Institution license, enabling the provision of payment serves across all EU member states, subject to regulatory consents.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

Walmart Canada is planning a $3.5 The retailer will invest in features such as advanced notification for customers, improvements in fulfillment center operations to increase speed and trackability and a pilot of micro fulfillment centers located in the backrooms of supercenters. The equivalent in U.S. dollars is $2.58

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The pandemic has accelerated the shift away from shopping in person, making it difficult for many brick-and-mortar retailers to sell products, service their debt load and pay vendors. Here are seven viable steps to consider building into your game plan for continuing to survive the crisis and thrive on the other side. #1:

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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. In operation since 1999, Alibaba.com currently serves approximately 8 million SMEs in the U.S

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Retail Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

From the use of chatbots to direct customers to the correct department while shopping on their mobile device or computer, through to sophisticated inventory management that helps retailers operate easier, the potential for AI in retail is far-reaching.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2022

Also known as pay-over-time or pay-in-4 installment plans, BNPL offers consumers the chance to split up the cost of major purchases directly at the point of sale. Most buy now, pay later offers are interest- and fee-free, unless customers miss a payment. BNPL fulfills a need that previously wasn’t being met,” said Sharp.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Here are the Top 10 predictions retailers should keep in mind as they plan, implement and finalize their holiday strategies. Flexible Payments Will Gain Further Ground. Flexible payments are continuing to gain steam, particularly among younger generations. Let the countdown begin….

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 6, 2023

The newest generation of artificial intelligence (AI) would seem to be tailor-made for the behind-the-scenes operational complexity of today’s retail organization — and in many ways it is. Everything Comes Back to the Data As promising as AI can be in retail operations, it also carries risks.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 22, 2021

6-Step Process to Build an Ecommerce Website from Scratch. The process of building an online store goes beyond just understanding the market you are about to enter. The process of developing an ecommerce website from scratch consists of the following steps: 1. Follow 3 key design principles. Buy premium web hosting.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 10, 2023

Here are four tactics that retailers and ecommerce sellers can employ to eliminate excess inventory and mitigate the impact of the holiday hangover as they plan for 2023: 1: Diversify sales channels. They can start by sharing their 2023 purchase plans with key suppliers to help ensure that they will have the right resources on hand.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 22, 2021

Part of the redesign of the store is all about finding the right balance of consumer pickup locations where inventory exists, where we store it and where and how fulfillment happens. ”. As such, visibility and sustainability are becoming some of the top concern for retail executives when planning for supply chain operations.

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Retail Focus

JANUARY 12, 2023

However, to do that, the system needs to be operable 24/7 throughout the entire year. But, of course, that has many downsides, such as cost, workforce planning, etc. The ultimate benefits that come with all of that include: reduced operating costs, fewer operator errors, increased sales, . enhanced staff efficiency, and.

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