Inside Retail

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Haul positions Amazon to directly compete in the fast-growing discount retail market, particularly against established players like Temu and Shein, which have gained substantial market share in recent years with their low-price business models.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 11, 2025

In response to these challenges, The Nile is focusing on improving its shipping solutions for US customers. By reducing exposure to the tariffs and enhancing speed to market, the brand objective is to maintain its competitiveness.

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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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In fact, some major retailers reported double-digit growth in ecommerce sales during Q2, right at the outbreak of the pandemic. With the growth of buy online, pick up in-store and expedited shipping options, consumers experienced firsthand the ease of digital shopping versus going to the store to make a purchase. In fact, Smartly.io

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But as ecommerce has become a more prominent contributor to retailers’ bottom lines, and the cost of doing business online gets more expensive (think rising shipping costs and increasing returns), the mere existence of an ecommerce operation is no longer enough — retailers now have to find a way to make money online.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2023

Following its launch in Australia in 2016, Danish retail group Bestseller has firmly entrenched its presence in the retail market, with the company making strides in its sustainability and circularity initiatives.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2021

The consumer buying behaviors retail marketers all once knew to be true experienced a seismic shift. The question now is: what do these new “pandemic personas” look like, and how can retail marketers cater to their new needs to set benchmarks for a successful 2021?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2022

Things haven’t been easy of late for the retail sector. Fahmy brings a balanced perspective on solving business problems with 15+ years of agency-based innovation, shopper marketing and retail media experience, coupled with time spent at leading retailer CVS Pharmacy operating the ExtraCare loyalty platform for suppliers.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 22, 2021

For instance, they might use “smart” order routing to have each order sent to the most cost-effective carrier, or partner with a third-party logistics provider to handle the complexities of fast, free shipping. And now’s the time to get ahead.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 28, 2021

The result is mounting pressure for retailers to deliver hyper-personalised, concierge-like shopping experiences with efficient handoffs between departments and channels before, during, and after a purchase. While 88 per cent of retail marketers share integrated tech stacks with advertising teams, this alignment alone is not enough.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Editors’ Perspectives column offers insights and opinions from the Retail TouchPoints editorial team as they dig into the latest trends in retail, marketing and tech. Amazon ’s highly anticipated low-cost Temu competitor has arrived , and it’s called Haul.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The ever-changing retail market has made automation a necessity. Drones: Leveraging drones for shipping and delivery fulfillment came to attention when Amazon revealed their ‘Octocopter’ in 2013. Hence the undeniable need for robust warehouse management technologies that are future-focused and effortlessly scalable.

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Retail Next

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

While it brings great opportunities for entrepreneurs, the stiff competition in the market, plus the enormous demand for high-quality service, make succeeding in this industry challenging too. That is why effective retail marketing is crucial. It makes marketing easy and effective. Send birthday or anniversary emails.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2022

If shipping is delayed and orders are late, tell your customers. Her career includes beauty industry experience, having held both brand marketing and retail marketing roles at Victoria’s Secret Beauty and Jonathan Product Hair Care. 3) Think Big: Build loyal relationships. What does this mean?

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Retail Bound

APRIL 11, 2022

When you think about retail alignment, understand why a store or retail channel is right at this moment in time. Maybe it’s a good size and specializes in your category of merchandise, or maybe it is close to where you are for shipping and product support purposes. Retail Marketing Channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 10, 2020

The Amazon Effect has led to nearly impossible customer demands for many independent retailers. Same-day shipping used to be an e-Commerce novelty, where today it is the difference in conversion. However, with the help of end-to-end partners, many issues with fulfillment can be alleviated.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As the returns market grows, FedEx continues to explore innovative alternatives for our customers,” said Ryan Kelly, VP of Ecommerce and Retail Marketing at FedEx Services in a statement. Additionally, FedEx Consolidated Returns may reduce carbon emissions compared to single prepackaged/prelabeled returns. “As

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2020

While the latter may be true, excess inventory also has a silver lining of hidden pathways to optimizing excess inventory that lead straight to your bottom line through distribution in the off-price retail market. In today’s age, sustainable fashion matters. It’s time to embrace the future of excess inventory.

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Inside Retail

MAY 31, 2023

Like Shein, Temu offers discounted fashion and lifestyle goods, but unlike Shein it sources and ships directly from manufacturers in China. Traditionally, small businesses have struggled to break into a retail market dominated by global brands and manufacturers, lacking the marketing strength to become a cross-border retailer on their own.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“[Marketers that have thrived during the pandemic] know their old beliefs about customer preferences — and by extension, how they connect with their customers — are less relevant. They] are committed to making a wholesale shift to adapt everything they do — insight, data, engagement, responsiveness.”.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 1, 2024

They join a host of Aussie-born apparel and lifestyle brands, including July, Princess Polly, Culture Kings, Bared Footwear, Papinelle and Frankie4, that have been expanding their omnichannel presence in the American retail landscape over the past few years.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 21, 2024

Global expansion Dion Lee’s biggest market is in the US, so expanding the brand’s physical store footprint to the States was the next logical move. “We We are thrilled to be opening our very first US Flagship in the Miami Design District and looking forward to continuing our footprint in the US retail market,” said Lee in a statement.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Brands such as Boat, Wow Skin Science, Sugar Cosmetics, Lenskart , Licious, and Mamaearth have carved out a niche in the Indian retail market by connecting directly with consumers. Estimates suggest that India is now home to over 800 DTC companies, with the ecosystem’s market value reaching about US$12 billion in 2022.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 11, 2024

The collaboration allows eBay to list selected goods from Rakuten ‘flea market’ service Rakuma on its platform, with a Rakuten-contracted vendor managing shipping and US customer service. Mercari was founded and first launched onto the retail scene in Japan in 2013 and launched into the US online retail market just a year later.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This week, The Iconic hard-launched a new brand campaign to serve as a reminder, to consumers and itself, that the online retail platform is far from finished with disrupting and innovating the Australian and New Zealand retail industry. Australians have never had more choice when it comes to shopping fashion online.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Here, we speak with several specialist providers of lighting to the retail market and find out more about the many advantages of revamping your lighting setup. Unique part of retail One provider in this area is Shoplight , which, as its name may suggest, is well positioned to supply lighting solutions to the retail market.

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A1 Retail

OCTOBER 13, 2022

By Elissa Quinby, Senior Director, Retail Marketing at Quantum Metric. Shipping delays significantly impact retailers and consumers, leading to frustrations that can ultimately result in revenue losses and drops in customer retention. Broadening delivery partnerships. Providing real-time alerts.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It goes without saying that you’re going to need to translate all of your marketing and packaging materials into Chinese and work through your fulfilment and logistical challenges from the start. This will include drop-shipping a sufficient supply of your product to China to be warehoused prior to any sales or marketing activity.

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365 Retail

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Every year the Christmas retail marketing blitz seems to start earlier and earlier, and in Britain, we love nothing more than a good grumble about it. We sigh when online sales and email marketing campaigns start targeting us months before we’ve pulled together our shopping lists. Industry experts are anticipating a?“perfect

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Mass Relators

APRIL 24, 2023

The beauty of motherhood is that it brings moms together with a bond regardless of where they are in their lives,” Walmart senior vice president of retail marketing Courtney Carlson said. Free shipping with no order minimum: Even small orders ship for free. Video streaming with Paramount+. Member savings on fuel.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Our headquarters is in Singapore, and all the designs come from here,” Janice Tan, Cellini’s regional retail marketing director and shareholder, told Inside Retail. When the pandemic first hit the Asian markets, Tan explained that the company was preparing for the economic downturn that would follow.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The Retail market landscape has seen significant changes in retail trends and shifts in consumer behavior since the coronavirus breakout, but the industry now appears more optimistic about the growth prospects.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Customers really love our fast shipping and customer service, where we get a lot of positive feedback. Our mission statement is that we want to be the world’s most innovative customer-focused online retailer and we want to provide quality trend-driven fashion to Gen Z globally.

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Wiser

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In today’s hyper-competitive retail market, a price match policy may seem like a good idea. Price matching’s supporters include some of the biggest names in retail. On its surface, a price match strategy is set up to benefit the shopper at the detriment of the retailer. What Are the Pros of Price Matching?

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This allows retailers to increase sales through cross-selling and improve customer satisfaction. With customer-centric retail data, in-store and online data can be combined to define customer segments, optimize omnichannel retail marketing efforts, and help create hyper-personalized customer experiences.

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Retail Bound

MARCH 22, 2021

Before you knock on the door of Walmart, you need to ask yourself, “Am I ready yet to sell to retail, especially a large multi-billion-dollar retailer?” Many clients that Retailbound work with are not ready yet to contact a retail buyer. A distributor ships many different vendors’ products into a retailer such as Walmart.

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Retalon

DECEMBER 8, 2021

One way retailers seek to optimize shipment is by asking, “can this be consolidated?”. How, when, and where the customer prefers to experience their product fulfillment affects the sourcing and shipping decisions. Worse still, customers will simply go to a competitor, and the retailer will suffer lost sales.

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