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MAY 3, 2021

In early April 2021, carbon dioxide levels reached a record high of 420 parts per million , according to CO2 Earth , and scientists warn that emissions need to be cut in half by 2030 to avoid the worst aspects of climate change. Shippers that opt in to the program get more than a warm feeling for their money.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As global enterprise spending on software surpasses the $1 trillion mark in the coming decade, the growth rate of software spending will slow to 4% per annum from 7% historically. A buyers’ market for enterprise software will emerge.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

Primark has been making significant progress toward ambitious sustainability goals — including cutting its greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030 — and the apparel retailer has the receipts to prove it. Communications plays a key element in making sustainability more accessible for our customers,” said the Primark spokesperson.

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Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

SAP today announced that it will continue to support customers on Business Suite 7 until 2030. This won’t surprise many people, because the 2025 deadline was unrealistic given how slowly SAP’s customers are moving to S/4HANA. It was never likely that SAP would risk its €11.5

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Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 31, 2025

As reported by several media outlets and confirmed by SAP CEO Christian Klein during its Q4 2024 earnings call, SAP will offer an additional three years of support for some on-premises ERP (enterprise resource planning) customers beyond the existing extended maintenance support of 2030.

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 30, 2020

By 2030, banking will be invisible, connected, insights-driven, and purposeful. Leading banks are pivoting and rebooting their strategy — capitalizing on the pace of change and innovation and setting their course for the next decade.

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Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Forrester’s Global AI Software Forecast, 2023-2030 supports this, as content marketing is the third largest category for specialized genAI software spend. Generative AI’s emergence triggered a landslide of interest and experimentation across sectors, including social media and content.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Theyll reach $12 trillion by 2030. Minimal-touch shopping and buying processes and flexible shipping options will keep your Gen Z customers coming back. Retailers have to start understanding Gen Z. Theyre in their late teens to mid-20s and have far more purchasing power than we give them credit for.

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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 11, 2019

Forrester’s data shows job losses will reach 29% by 2030, and the creation of equivalent jobs will total only 13%. Academics to consultants are prognosticating on the future of work, picking winners and losers, often to the detriment of employees. Job losses and gains dominate headlines. Humanity remains at the center.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The goal is to ensure the entire shopper journey — from the customer’s first glimpse of the landing page through conversations with the brand’s customer service team — resonates with each individual shopper. from 2022 to 2030, which makes now an important time to bring in new customers and secure longtime loyalists.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2022

The initiative is part of the retailer’s plan to become circular and climate positive by 2030, which includes achieving zero-emissions home deliveries by 2025 and cutting relative emissions stemming from customer and co-worker travel in half by 2030. installed 350 EV chargers at locations across the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

billion by 2030. The creator economy is made up of about 207 million creators worldwide, and this sector is predicted to grow 22.5% annually until it reaches $528.39

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Forrester eCommerce

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

From 2020 until 2030, Forrester estimates that global software spending by businesses will climb from $920 billion to north of $1.3 If software is “eating the world,” in the words of Marc Andreessen, the world also has a reciprocal appetite for software.

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MAY 25, 2022

A profitable craft business requires low product costs, high profit margins, and most importantly, high customer demand. Jewelry The jewelry industry is expected to reach almost $519 billion by 2030. In this post, you’ll learn about the crafts that make the most money ranked by category and industry.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

British online fashion and beauty retailer ASOS has laid out a comprehensive plan to achieve a detailed set of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) goals by 2030, including becoming net zero across its full value chain. department chain Nordstrom to drive global growth of the brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

By taking a closer look at thriving brand communities, retailers can learn how to develop ones of their own that drive loyalty and a better customer experience. If you’re able to forge that kind of relationship, you can turn a regular customer into a brand evangelist who will sing your praises to their friends and family.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

“Our partnership with Afresh helps us better manage our inventory of fresh fruits and vegetables in support of our goal to eliminate food waste going to landfill by 2030. In addition, it helps to ensure our customers have access to fresher products when shopping with us.”.

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MAY 3, 2021

This means taking into consideration not just holdover concerns from the pandemic, but what these consumers will demand in the future, according to Barnes & Noble College ’s (BNC) College 2030 report. Perhaps the most difficult part is understanding all the stakeholders in a given college community.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2024

Whole Foods customers can now purchase “surprise bags” of surplus food items from more than 450 stores across the U.S. The partnership will help Whole Foods reach its goal of cutting food waste in half by 2030. through the Too Good to Go app. for a $21 value. . ”

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 1, 2023

Nordstrom has a long history of curating new and emerging brands to offer an ever-evolving and relevant product assortment for our customers,” said Brian Roberts, VP of Brand Programs at Nordstrom in a statement. “We The Folklore Connect platform, launched in 2022, has more than 100 brands, including Ashya , Nalebe and Vavvoune.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

As a result, employees will no longer need to switch between different apps and devices, helping improve their efficiency and productivity while also supporting faster delivery times to better serve member-owners and customers. Online orders will be picked fresh in local Co-op stores and delivered quickly to customers in their communities.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

They are part of a detailed, purpose-driven strategy designed to enable customers to make healthier choices, create greater product transparency, eliminate waste and take bold climate action, all in support of developing a more sustainable food supply chain. “Our Healthier Choices. Greater Transparency.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2021

customers using the ThredUP Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS) solution. The program follows on the launch of Farfetch Donate in the UK with partner Thrift+ in October 2019, and it will allow Farfetch customers to extend the life of their clothes while earning shopping credit and raising money for charity.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

By enabling growth in EV charging, biofuels and RNG and later hydrogen, we can help our customers decarbonize their fleets. Additionally, BP announced plans to invest $1 billion in EV charging across the country by 2030. It’s a compelling combination.”

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2023

Under the strategy, Five Below is planning to triple its store count to more than 3,500 locations by the end of fiscal 2030 while at least doubling sales and growing operating margin by 14% by the end of fiscal 2025.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Customers can bring in their preloved Allbirds shoes for $20 in store credit. The new recommerce program ties in closely with Allbirds’ Flight Plan, a series of sustainability commitments that include reducing the brand’s per-product carbon footprint by half by the end of 2025 and cutting it to near zero by the end of 2030.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2022

We know that the more we design for inclusion, to be welcoming and to strengthen our communities, the better our business will be and the better the Starbucks experience will be for our partners and customers,” said Katie Young, SVP of Global Growth and Development at Starbucks in a statement. “It and Canadian Starbucks locations.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 3, 2024

Grove has launched its Beyond Plastic Impact Tracker , which discloses the amount of plastic avoided and recovered in each order, with the goal of engaging customers more directly in the fight against single-use plastic waste. Since 2020, Grove has avoided 7.8 million pounds of plastic and recovered more than 16 million pounds.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Customers can now shop an assortment of vintage and pre-loved Vera Bradley products directly on the brand’s website. Powered by the Trove recommerce operating system, Onward allows On customers to shop and trade in their pre-owned footwear. Reducing environmental impact is one of our biggest priorities at On.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 19, 2022

During the month of April, Macy’s encouraged customers to round up their purchases and donate their change — up to $.99 Through its Earth Month partnership with Trust for Public Land (TPL), Macy’s raised $1.5

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The adaptive clothing market is growing, with Market Reports World forecasting a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.74% through 2030. Selma and Isaac are championing fashion that transcends barriers, and we know our customers will love to see their relationship and hear their story behind the collection.”

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2021

stores, is part of the retailer’s goal of becoming a circular business by 2030. We hope the Buy Back & Resell service inspires our customers to live a more sustainable life at home while giving their used furniture another life and a second home.”. The service, which IKEA plans to eventually make available permanently at all U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

The goal, according to Smartwool, is “to make a product and also build a system to keep it out of the landfill,” and “begin building systems and experiments that lead us toward our goal of 100% circularity by 2030.”

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Even as physical stores have been able to reopen during the summer months, retailers are contending with a customer base whose habits have shifted , in many cases permanently. The current shift towards online shopping is what we would have expected to see in 2030, meaning that the pandemic has accelerated the rise of ecommerce by a decade.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Walmart customers will be able to place orders and have them autonomously delivered directly to their homes. The program was developed to help the companies better understand how autonomous vehicles can enhance the customer experience, particularly as same-day delivery grows in popularity. “We’re in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 23, 2024

Walmart introduced Project Gigaton in 2017 with an ambitious goal: reducing, avoiding or sequestering one gigaton — that’s 1 billion metric tons — of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The more than 5,900 Walmart suppliers that now participate in the Project Gigaton consortium have delivered on that promise today, six years ahead of schedule.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Both programs are part of the fashion label’s “ Waste Nothing and Welcome All ” initiative, which, among other targets, aims to make Tommy Hilfiger a fully circular brand by 2030. The program is run through ThredUP’s resale-as-a-service offering, an enterprise solution that allows brands to operate customized resale experiences.

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