365 Retail

MARCH 5, 2024

Social commerce – purchases made directly on social networks – may seem anecdotal to some, but it’s taking off and is expected to grow three times faster than traditional e-commerce, reaching $1.2 Selling directly on social networks, on the other hand, is more recent. trillion by 2025.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Adding to the overall shipping volume will be those consumers who would normally have purchased a gift in-store and brought it to the recipient themselves. With travel restricted by COVID-19, these shoppers are highly likely to choose shipping directly to the gift recipient.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

His platform Flip — described as a “shopping social network” — already has more than 1,000 brands participating, including E.l.f. Now Flip is planning an “aggressive” expansion beyond the beauty category in the coming months that is likely to enlarge both its brand portfolio and its user base. “I

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Additional apps and services: Creators and sellers can choose from a variety of apps to drive seamless ecommerce operations, including Zendesk, Gorgias and 1440 for customer service ; Printful, Printify and NovaTomato for print-on-demand merchandise; Yotpo for reviews; and shipping services from WeeBee, Flowspace and Easyship.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

Instant answers about product sizing or shipping details can greatly influence the shopping experience and make or break a sale. Tip 7: Focus on delivery: Fast delivery is still a priority and 79% offer free shipping. But how can you stand out in a world of limited customer attention?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

At the very least, the form it takes is very different from its counterparts: “Pinterest is not social media, although we are grouped in that category,” said Dan Lurie, Head of Product, Shopping at Pinterest. “We’ve We’ve used different terms over time — at one point we talked about being personal media, not social media.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2023

” Accelerating Time to Market and Improving Demand Planning On the surface, all these elements contribute to a relatively robust gamification strategy — but points, rewards and even vote leaderboards are hardly new, especially in retail. .” Every single day, you’re going to contribute to ultimately what we’re going to create.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Now, as the company’s 15th birthday nears, Hyman has unveiled her plans to “reinvigorate” the business heading into 2025 and beyond. The business experienced “rocket ship growth” until March 2020, “when people fundamentally stopped wearing anything except pajamas,” Hyman explained. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 31, 2022

New consumer behaviors that stemmed from the pandemic — particularly omnichannel shopping, curbside and ship-to-home ecommerce sales — are proving to be real and durable even as COVID restrictions have eased. Dig into their predictions and start putting your seasonal plan in place!

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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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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

While the manufacturers provide the product details and the products themselves, Temu handles everything else – from customs processing to international shipping. In the first month after its launch in the US, Temu invested some US$200 million in advertising and planned a US$2 billion budget for the year. Loyalty program.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 1, 2022

There are numerous options for diversifying your online offerings, from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales to third-party marketplaces to social commerce. Fulfilment and delivery plans. To fulfil orders, they can either ship inventory to retailers or dropship through suppliers. Social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2021

Cost per order: Your cost per order is an important metric because it tells you how much one order costs once advertising, packaging, shipping, etc. Total costs (marketing, packaging, shipping, fulfillment, storage, etc.) / # of orders = cost per order. Evaluating 2020 Metrics and Planning for 2021. are factored in.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 21, 2021

“Consumers will expect a frictionless shopping experience and they will expect retailers to offer convenient options such as Click-and-Collect, Buy Now, Pay Later, flexible shipping, easy returns and multiple payment options to make shopping more convenient.”. Social media has turned into a hugely important driver of sales,” says Johnson.

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Independent Retailer

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As far as trends go, there is nothing to suggest that mobile commerce development will slow anytime soon. Social Media Platforms Become the New QVC for Millennials and Gen Z. It will not be just a transaction, but instead will become an entire shopping experience.

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A1 Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Over half of UK shoppers (55%) plan to shop during Black Friday/Cyber Monday. Over a third (36%) of consumers are planning to spend more than in 2020, an average of £363 over the weekend . ” Many Brits are planning to make BFCM in-store purchases at local shops (43%) and independently owned businesses (31%). .”

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Retail Next

APRIL 1, 2021

Half shipped, half in store? Ship to store? This could include any one or combination of stores, catalogs, social media, the phone, online. Allbirds (via Shopify), to highlight one retailer, offers pick up in store and fulfills orders via ship from store. . Social commerce. They are in control.

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Retail Geek

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In this episode we cover: Amazon Q4 Earnings Walmart Q4 Earnings US Department of Commerce Q4 e-commerce data Discussion of Temu and other Social Commerce News Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. on a Friday night you’re. In China via u.s.

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A1 Retail

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Communication and planning with the event organisers, Hyve has been seamless. Ginny Major, eCommerce Home & Living Category Manager, TikTok Shop Global said “Collaborating with Spring Fair has been essential in educating the industry about the value of TikTok Shop and the future of social commerce.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 7, 2023

We also briefly discuss e-commerce in Brazil, around Jason’s recent trip to São Paulo. In this episode we recap everything you may have missed if you couldn’t make it to Las Vegas. Progression and then this last one that we’ll talk about at the end called platforms. [19:11]

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Retail Minded

JULY 29, 2023

This has led to the emergence of social commerce , where customers can connect with brands they identify with through various platforms. Moreover, retailers can use predictive analytics to forecast future trends and plan accordingly. This will ensure timely deliveries of products and materials.

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Retail Minded

JULY 29, 2023

This has led to the emergence of social commerce , where customers can connect with brands they identify with through various platforms. Moreover, retailers can use predictive analytics to forecast future trends and plan accordingly. This will ensure timely deliveries of products and materials.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 20, 2023

Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. 60 billion in total sales and live streaming was likely less than 1% of that 60 billion so I. [40:48]

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 6, 2023

12:35] Look it was an early social commerce player as far as leveraging Pinterest and things that you could do with. The more people each of the Goodwill sellers have to hire in their e-commerce operations. But you know just quickly on ModCloth I’ll say that you know we were able to quickly come in. [14:32]

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Retail Geek

APRIL 30, 2021

They painted a picture about facing some significant headwinds and I think they they told investors that they plan to significantly ramp up investment spending. You know are what or you know how people are using that app so I you know like it’s predominantly a shipping tracking app and so I the. So you know that that.

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Retail Geek

APRIL 9, 2021

Um are we leaning heavily into it and we’ve seen Walmart due to two pilots where they had Commerce events on Tik-Tok now, and. [30:54] E-commerce isn’t particularly good at and so the hypothesis is that this social commerce. 32:46] The digital disruption of Commerce means. Um weather is not is. [32:09]

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Retail Geek

JULY 9, 2021

Found themselves having to go to other three pll’s to sell on Amazon because Amazon just wouldn’t accept all of their goods and so if you’re going to say oh you know what I’m going to put all my eggs in Amazon’s basket and have them ship all of my.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 31, 2021

Jason: [0:48] I know this was a bad week to plan a vacation in the canal. Jason: [2:07] Yeah and the plan B is not ideal it’s a so long way around. Scot: [0:40] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners Jason hope you’re having a good week and you have no blockages like the Suez Canal.

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Retail Geek

AUGUST 20, 2022

Jason: [6:28] And the flip side is of course the other carriers you’d be shipping through the other common carriers the holiday search these are quite common so this is not not going to feel like a typical or out of line when you compare it to UPS or FedEx.

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Retail Geek

JULY 26, 2023

Jason: [24:39] No it’s you know so Tim who is seven to ten days and they offer you a shipping guarantee so you get like store credit if it doesn’t arrive in 10 days. Jason: [24:29] Yeah if you want to buy like cheap no-name stuff you should buy it from Tim oh it’ll be like 99 cents.

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Retail Geek

OCTOBER 6, 2022

We also discuss the latest news (and controversies) around Facebook and TikTok pulling back from some social commerce initiatives (and pressing forward with others). 31:44] Social commerce still has a bunch of avenues like live streaming does not appear to be a high volume one in the US and then later in the month.

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Retail Geek

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

And you know these these factories in China, and these these marketplaces of these factories in China you know quickly built a huge business shipping individual packages to Americans right and so that’s. Jason [31:44]But in like 1996 that that.

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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.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Loyalty Programs Its not uncommon for brands to roll out loyalty programs to frequent customers, offering exclusive early access to sales, rewards for purchases or deals on shipping.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 18, 2025

Some retailers and brands in line with this trend include: Under Armour : Plans to reduce its SKU count by 25 per cent to focus on the innovation and storytelling of fewer products. Finally,social commerce, or integrated shopping on social platforms, is evolving and redefining the consumer journey, including engagement.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 16, 2021

While consumers do plan to return to stores as that becomes possible again, 74% of those surveyed by Linnworks said they will continue to do the majority of their shopping online moving forward — because it is so convenient. One Channel Won’t Cut it — Brands Must Be Everywhere Consumers Are.

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