Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

With the sector continuing to experience accelerated growth, major retailers are looking for ways to maintain and build trust while dramatically improving customer experience and orchestrating cohesive customer journeys. Consumers are only one click away from retailers at all times.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 22, 2024

In the not-so-distant past, customer experience (CX) was a straight line — a predictable journey from point A (the customer’s question) to point B (the company’s answer). However, as retail landscapes evolved and consumer demands became more sophisticated, this linear approach showed limitations.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2024

With the growth in ecommerce and higher consumer expectations for convenience, it is essential for retailers to make returns processes as efficient as outbound fulfillment. Customers today want consistent, personalized experiences across channels with multiple payment options and faster refunds.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The pace of technological change — as well as consumers’ increasing demand for always-on-shopping, anytime, anywhere — has left some retailers struggling to innovate digitally to meet customers’ evolving wants and needs. The customer experience is changing — and faster than ever. MACH helps them do it — and fast.

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Groove

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Why a Strong eCommerce Email List Matters eCommerce email marketing is one of the most important channels to generate traffic, conversions, and revenue for many businesses. In fact, email marketing has the highest ROI of any digital marketing channel, generating an average of $42 for every $1 spent.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Between the tariff tug-of-war, flailing markets, insanely high egg prices and general twitchiness (as one strategist put it), consumers have gotten a bit hard to nail down lately. Here’s what some of the leading minds in retail say consumers need now. One thing is clear its not AI.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

Retailers need to continue to focus on enhancing the digital product discovery experience, especially as more and more channels arise for consumers to discover and purchase their products. Optimizing product descriptions across channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Although inventory visibility already plays a central role in meeting demand, maintaining service levels, and streamlining operations, its the combination of real-time inventory visibility and advanced search functionality thats reshaping your customer experience by delivering on transparency, control, confidence and reliability.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Returnless refunds are improving the almighty customer experience, and in turn, their potential customer lifetime value. Image courtesy Ryder According to Ryder’s 2023 ecommerce consumer study of 1,077 U.S. Of course, no good deed goes unpunished.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Consumers now prefer digital payment options, with cash usage declining in all major economies. Uninterrupted Power Supplies (UPS) and generators are valuable for boosting resilience, especially if trading in locations that experience regular electricity power-cuts. A multi layered, end-to-end approach is essential.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It’s essential (though tough) work, especially because consumers’ demand for visual assets in digital ecosystems is only continuing to rise. This results in relentless demand for creating engaging content across an increasing number of marketing and ecommerce channels in this digital-first economy.

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Groove

JANUARY 13, 2025

With tools like AI, predictive analytics, and robust eCommerce platforms, businesses can streamline operations, expand their reach, and deliver superior customer experiences. Unlike B2C eCommerce, which targets consumers, B2B eCommerce connects wholesalers with retailers, manufacturers, or other business clients via online platforms.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Exclusive: Google Debuts New Retail Media Solution with Lowes as First Beta Tester (March 18, 2024) Retail media was THE growth story in 2024, fueled by these networks ability to target consumers at key decision points in the shopper journey. consumers wallet.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2025

The expanded landscape and anticipated bot-driven website traffic are ushering in the future of search, and both retailers and marketers must prepare to reimagine their organic search strategies and ensure they can show up when and where consumers are searching.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

Personalization is now a hygiene and customers have come to expect it regardless. Source: McKinsey However, personalization is no longer limited to targeted offers in the current landscape; it now covers the entire customer journey. A positive customer experience makes a valuable difference in a retailer’s success.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This has never been more apparent than now, as consumers look to elevate their in-store shopping experiences and expect the same versatility and ease that they have obtained with modern omnichannel retail. Vision AI is becoming more central to creating that retail experience consumers desire.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

At the same time, consumer expectations for personalized, omnichannel shopping experiences continue to rise. For example, multimodal AI can help retailers optimize inventory by analyzing sales patterns alongside supplier communications and consumer feedback. One area of focus will be content moderation.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2025

In the highly competitive retail market, businesses are leveraging technology to strengthen brand loyalty and enhance consumer experiences in ways that only science fiction writers could have imagined 40 years ago. At the end of the day, threat actors follow the money and utilize the lowest-effort channels to reach it.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2025

Because its relatively easy to communicate this brand ethos through rich product page descriptions, photography and video, the brand leans heavily on strong visual creative to reinforce storytelling through its ecommerce site and social channels. Historically, the brand used Klaviyo for email and Attentive for SMS.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

In fact, 54% of marketers planned to activate their 2024 holiday campaigns in Q3. But consumers have spoken, and 89% think pre-October is “too early” for brands to launch their Christmas marketing campaigns, according to new data from brand tracking company Tracksuit. RTP: Consumers are especially mindful of value this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

For example, apps with both associate-facing and customer-facing user interfaces [UIs] allow associates to support the customer’s own research and also facilitate transactions, including endless aisle capabilities and ship-from-store.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Where customers used to move through an orderly progression of steps before making a purchase in stores, they now jump in and out of various stages of “awareness” and “consideration,” seemingly at random, throughout their digital day. “The Instead, many brands are getting lost in a sea of sameness.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 8, 2023

That could be a bot that the brand has put forward to interact with you, or [a consumer] scanning a QR code in a retail store to begin a loyalty journey that happens over WhatsApp and continues after you leave the store. The tech to do that now is available securely, and [customers] trust that you can save their credentials safely.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The company also is unveiling new artwork, fonts, colors, prints and fabrics based on consumer insights and trends. Allison Peterson: Our strategy began with the insight that Gen Z consumers, who weve been talking about for a long time, are now beginning their parenting journeys.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 31, 2023

by storm, rising to the top of the app charts and garnering millions of fans, until consumers began to realize the cost of those ultra-low prices — long delivery times and often poor quality products. Joe Yan: Our strategic focus right now is to to keep improving the customer experience. Yan: Definitely.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The holiday shopping frenzy is officially in full swing now that Thanksgiving weekend has ushered in Cyber Week dealmaking, and brands are pulling out all the stops to capture consumer attention during the most lucrative retail season of the year.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

We’ve all heard that today’s empowered consumer demands seamless and consistent experiences, but new research from CI&T indicates that these expectations are higher than ever. consumers of all ages, races and genders, as well as an assessment of digital retail strategies across various product categories.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A key aspect of Tractor Supply Company s brand mission is providing legendary customer service. That means investing in technology that both directly and indirectly supports them as they browse and buy across channels. RTP: How do you use consumer and associate feedback to best prioritize your tech investments?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Your own digital sidekick that initiates returns , arranges replacements and keeps you updated through your favorite communication channel. One area that may drastically improve consumers satisfaction with customer service: AI-powered bots that can act as a shoppers own personal concierge service.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Many of these consumers subscribe to ad-supported tiers, which are cheaper than their ad-free counterparts, but still provide the same high-value programming. At this point, CTV is as advanced as its ever been, which not only affects advertising technology, its capabilities and its value to marketers, but also connects the dots for consumers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2024

Together, these developments placed an unprecedented strain on retail brands to maintain a superior customer experience. Beyond the consumer risk, there is the retailer brand risk. Beyond the consumer risk, there is the retailer brand risk.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Vonage’s latest global research shows voice calls are a top-two preferred communication channel by consumers when connecting with brands, and this is likely to increase in the coming year. However, when considering voice as a channel, it’s not just about making phone calls. Global Customer Engagement Report (vonage.com).

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 30, 2024

Additionally, the program carries no restrictions on the trade-in items in terms of their original purchase channel, age, brand or condition. For example, even customers living at a 4,300 -meter elevation in Tibet can access JD.com for trade-in options that include doorstep delivery and recycling of old appliances.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 20, 2024

Inflation rates remain unpredictable , consumer confidence is fluctuating and supply chain disruptions , including the geopolitical environment, continue to affect inventory levels and pricing. Meanwhile, consumers themselves are pulling back on spending slightly in Q3, as Morningstar notes. Leveraging affiliate channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It’s a common marketer’s dilemma: how do you expand your brand’s appeal beyond its core customers? Ironically, one of the things that made this such a tall order was that the retailer’s original customer group really, really loves the brand. Digital is not a channel, platform or technology — it’s a business driver,” said Preis.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

However, experts note that in times of economic volatility and fast-changing consumer behaviors, brands need to think strategically about their path to global growth. They also can look at marketplaces, and even the resale market, to gauge demand and determine whether they can successfully capitalize on consumer needs.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

2021 was a critical year for the direct-to-consumer (DTC) space. With consumers’ rapid shift to ecommerce channels, DTC players had to navigate surges in demand and effectively compete against a broader landscape that included their startup peers but also omnichannel behemoths.

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