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The End of a Transaction is Just the Beginning: Fostering Engagement, Loyalty and Return Visits at Checkout

Retail TouchPoints

Fortunately, the point of sale is a great place to receive input. The point of sale is a great place for retailers to seek feedback that will enhance the customer experience throughout the store. Similarly, retailers can add lottery capabilities to their point-of-sale touch points.

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How Retail Returns Influence Customer Retention

Retail TouchPoints

It’s meant to be quite simple for a shopper, but as an ecommerce retailer, you know it’s not that easy — especially if the customer changes their mind and wants to return said magical shipment back to your shop. What happens next, by way of return experience, most certainly impacts whether they will purchase from your business again.

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Atlanta Arena Adopts Cashierless Checkout for ‘Hawks Express’ C-Store

Retail TouchPoints

Sports stadiums, with their combination of limited square footage and shoppers eager to return to the game, have become optimal locations for autonomous stores. Customers enter the store, select their items and exit, with purchases being automatically processed through their mobile payment method.

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Has Amazon Finally Cracked the Code for Grocery Retailing?

Retail TouchPoints

Pickup/Returns Counter, Eat-in Caf Highlight Larger Ambitions Two notable additions to the standard grocery store design stand out: A large in-store counter and separate entrance for Amazon.com order pickup and returns ; and a large eat-in caf area at the front. That said, 180 million U.S.

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How AI-Driven Search and Personalization Boosted AOV 5.5% for Freedom Furniture

Retail TouchPoints

Freedom is the first omnichannel furniture and homewares retailer in Australia to allow customers to buy and return third-party items in-store , Mitchell noted, adding that the modules motto is NLS: Never Lose a Sale.

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The Importance of Omnichannel Customer Service in Modern Retail

Retail Focus

Features like booking an in-store pickup online or returning online purchases in person are now viewed less as perks and more as baseline expectations. Cross-Channel Returns and Exchanges Returns and exchanges can be a significant sticking point, particularly when orders are made through one channel and returned through another.

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What retailers need to know about the return of in-store shopping

Inside Retail

But while a retreat from online sales was predicted, the speed and scale of shoppers returning to bricks-and-mortar stores was less anticipated. A research report states that 61 per cent of consumers are likely to spend more in a store, and 90 per cent are more likely to return, if they have a positive in-store experience.

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