Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In the pandemic’s wake, many retailers set up flexible fulfillment services in order to meet new safety guidelines and consumer requirements. From early 2020 to mid-2021, the percentage of retail chains offering curbside pickup surged from a miniscule 7% to a staggering 51%. Nicholas offered six best practices: 1.

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GetElastic

JANUARY 14, 2019

The success of industry disruptors such as Airbnb, Amazon and Tesla can be attributed to many factors, but these companies all have one thing in common — a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience, rather than just selling a product. As a result, customer expectations as a whole are evolving.

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GetElastic

JANUARY 13, 2019

The success of industry disruptors such as Airbnb, Amazon and Tesla can be attributed to many factors, but these companies all have one thing in common — a focus on creating an exceptional customer experience, rather than just selling a product. As a result, customer expectations as a whole are evolving.

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lateshipment

OCTOBER 23, 2020

But the 2020 season won’t just be bigger, it will be radically different thanks to one key factor: the COVID-19 pandemic. The panic around this virus and the broad swathe of destruction it has caused around the world ensure that 2020 will be remembered with dismay. How the 2020 Holiday Season Will be Different.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 10, 2024

Amazon , which already has a significant physical presence in Ireland via the Dublin fulfillment center it opened in 2022, will now have a country-specific online presence on the Emerald Isle. Previously, Amazon’s Irish customers could shop the site via its online stores in other countries like the UK. The launch of Amazon.ie

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2024

As stores try to balance protecting profit margins while delivering a unified customer experience, the escalating cost of returns has reached a breaking point. Increasing a customer’s confidence in sizing reduces the need to bracket, where shoppers order multiple sizes, ensuring that returns are baked into the purchase.

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GetElastic

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Better customer experience means targeting people, not buyers. Thu, 02/27/2020 - 00:00. As a result, customer expectations as a whole are evolving. Essentially, this means making it as simple as possible for customers to find what they need during every interaction, allowing them to purchase when and where they are ready.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 27, 2021

BJ’s Wholesale Club will strengthen support for its drop-ship program with online order fulfillment and delivery accuracy solutions from CommerceHub. The retailer has enhanced several of its omnichannel offerings in recent years, including the launch of curbside pickup at all club stores in August 2020.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Kroger has kicked off a multi-year agreement to have Gatik AI ’s autonomous box trucks transport products from the retailer’s Dallas customer fulfillment center to multiple retail locations in the area. and Louisiana since late 2020. The retailer also teamed up with Ford Motor Co.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 3, 2021

The company operates more than 250 micro-fulfillment centers across the country, fulfilling orders for common items including cleaning and home products, over-the-counter medications, baby and pet products, food and drinks and alcohol. The funding will build upon the $1.15 delivery charge. The company acquired BevMo!

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 27, 2023

Customer experience (CX) strategies often focus on using technology to improve steps in the customer journey, but CX can also be about the bigger picture: how their purchases impact our environment. In 2020, 62% of consumers had made that kind of switch. However, green last mile delivery isn’t available in all areas yet.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Everything a customer comes in to us to buy is a component to make something,” said Christopher DiTullio, Chief Customer Officer at JOANN in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. There are not a lot of individual items that you grab and go, so [the customers] need help. Everything starts with the people and the team.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2021

Shapaker shared recommendations for what retailers and sellers need to do in order to consolidate the gains made last year, and how the industry (mostly) dodged the “shipageddon” bullet that had been predicted for holiday 2020. Retail TouchPoints (RTP): We’ve seen tremendous overall ecommerce growth in 2020. In Q2 2020, boom, the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Some of the key takeaways from the Q3 results include: Big box retailers such as Walmart and Target continued showcasing their omnichannel dominance with strong results, proving that their years of investment in leading-edge fulfillment strategies have paid off; Other retailers with strong omnichannel offerings in attractive categories, like Lowe’s.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The retailer plans to shutter 400 to 450 stores worldwide in fiscal 2020, which ends in February 2021. 1, 2020, GameStop achieved net sales of $942 million , a 26.7% GameStop already has closed 388 locations this year; the retailer currently operates more than 5,100 stores around the world. For the three months ended Aug.

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GetElastic

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Better customer experience means targeting people, not buyers. Thu, 02/27/2020 - 00:00. As a result, customer expectations as a whole are evolving. Essentially, this means making it as simple as possible for customers to find what they need during every interaction, allowing them to purchase when and where they are ready.

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lateshipment

OCTOBER 16, 2020

According to Deloitte’s 2019 holiday survey , customers planned to spend over 74% of their holiday budget on retail for clothing, home furnishing, gifts, etc. With the Coronavirus pandemic still looming large, Holiday Season 2020 will be similar to the months of March through October than when compared to last year’s holiday season.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2021

Another retail holiday season has come and gone — and the 2020 season was unlike anything we’ve ever seen. Let’s review the biggest trends of the 2020 season — including takeaways for retailers to engage staff, delight customers and demonstrate resilience in the year ahead.

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Groove

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This was the case for one of our clients, so our team created a custom eCommerce integration to help the company modernize their website and upgrade the user experience. Before working with the Groove Commerce team, Perform Group ran into many issues when it came to accurately tracking inventory and processing and fulfilling orders.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

The pandemic put pressure on every retailer’s website, but GNC faced a unique obstacle: the company had rolled out a revamped ecommerce site in January 2020, just in time for social distancing and lockdowns to cause a massive shift toward online ordering. What the tools tell you versus what a customer tells you sometimes are different.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Top-line findings from a recent Sensormatic survey reveal that while in-store shopping is expected to rise through the holiday season, what consumers are looking for while they’re there is for retailers to provide insight into product availability and alternative fulfillment offerings.

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lateshipment

MARCH 9, 2020

Customer engagement is a much-loved term and a cornerstone of most businesses. It’s a ll about communicating with customers when it matters and forging relationships that last. Every business aims to give its customers the best possible customer experience.

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Groove

DECEMBER 14, 2020

eCommerce Fraud in 2020. Creating Safe In-Store Shopping Experiences. Safety has become the new customer experience in stores as merchants have stepped up their social distancing game with signage, one-way aisles, exit-only and entrance-only doors. Ryan Bermudez, Signifyd Director of Customer Success, East.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2021

Delivery volumes and expectations for rapid delivery have consistently grown for years, but 2020’s drastic increase in ecommerce demand could not have been predicted. In 2020, online spending represented 21.3% In 2020, online spending represented 21.3% In fact, in Q3 of 2020 alone, almost $1 in $5 spent was online.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Consumer expectations of retailers have been transformed by their experiences buying from Amazon and other innovative retailers that are able to provide fast, efficient omnichannel experiences. Americans spent more money online during the 2020 holiday season than previously, with revenues growing 32% year-over-year and exceeding $188.2

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2020

At the store level, the funds will go toward: Renovations to nearly one-third of its locations; Expansion of curbside pickup ; Piloting “micro fulfillment centers” within supercenters to speed up fulfillment of pickup and delivery orders ; and Deploying digitization, robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies to make stores smarter.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2020

. — FILA needed to quickly move its website experience from a relatively static brand catalog to an appealing, efficient direct-to-consumer sales portal. Prior to the 2020 upgrades, visitors to the FILA site would find a “customer experience that was sorely lacking,” Trenson noted. “I sneaker collaboration.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2021

Lands’ End Marketplace had a soft launch in June 2020 to beta test the platform’s integrated systems. The retailer will leverage its website and drop shipping for order fulfillment to create a positive customer experience.

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Ecommerce Platforms

AUGUST 4, 2020

Love it or hate it, shipping is an essential element to any ecommerce operation, and when done well, it's another opportunity to wow your customers. This is why engaging a reliable fulfillment solution is imperative. After careful consideration, ShipBob emerged the all-round winner for the better fulfillment company.

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ChannelAdvisor

DECEMBER 19, 2020

And the struggle for speedy fulfillment and shipping. . So before you begin to seek an entirely new approach for 2021, it pays to take a look back at the most popular strategies from 2020. Here are the five most popular ChannelAdvisor resources in 2020. #5: 4: Fulfillment Resources for Brands & Retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Amazon has launched new local selling capabilities that will allow its third-party sellers to offer same-day store pickup and fast delivery for customers in their area. Our research shows that many customers will opt for local pickup when given the choice. Walt’s Television , a longtime Amazon seller with a store in Tempe, Ariz.

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Kibo

OCTOBER 8, 2021

By now, most retailers understand that customer experience (CX) is a priority when it comes to ecommerce. Providing an excellent online shopping experience is even more important than the quality of the product or service, per nearly two thousand businesses in a recent SuperOffice survey. US consumers spent 32.4

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Customers receive status updates on their phone and a unique QR code that can be scanned by the robot’s top camera, to open its secure compartment and retrieve their items. The live robot deliveries, which debuted for the 2021 holiday season, will provide further data for refining the program and user experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In anticipation of customer demand for more and faster delivery options during the holidays, Bed Bath & Beyond has launched multiple options for same-day home delivery. Customers using the Bed Bath & Beyond and buybuy BABY websites will be charged a flat rate of $4.99 for orders over $39. for orders under that threshold.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

billion net loss, which was partially driven by $6 billion in added costs — including the cost of operating its massive fulfillment network. We have worked to protect and enhance the customer experience despite a sharp increase in costs, particularly over the past three quarters,” said Olsavsky. “We’ve year-over-year.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 23, 2022

After nearly a decade of underinvestment in its tech stack, FTD began making significant solution investments in early 2020 centered on its upgraded Mercury HQ (MHQ) solution. Part of FTD’s growth plan is to expand from the approximately 2,000 florist member customers currently using the platform to at least 5,000 within the next two years.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

grocery spend, both online and in person) to almost $80 billion in 2020 ( 8% of total spend). Some of these delivery startup companies that were getting huge valuations in 2019 and 2020 are now struggling to stay afloat. Now only 54% of shoppers are buying online, versus 59% in 2020.

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