Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

To meet the evolving needs of consumers worldwide, both now and in the future, we are investing in our operations, said Weinberg. This includes improved operational capabilities with the expansion of our distribution centers in the U.S.,

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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

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

JULY 23, 2024

LS&Co) has shared details of its progress in becoming a DTC-first business, a big part of which has been improving the retailer’s ecommerce experience. Our ecommerce channel is a key pillar of our DTC-first strategy, and we are committed to meeting our consumers wherever they shop and exceeding their expectations on all our channels.”

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The answer is simple: by using Digital PR to engage with editorial sections of key media while also improving online visibility. Thats especially important when todays media-savvy consumer understands the difference between paid-for promotions and editorial reviews. So how can a new and revolutionary beauty brand get noticed?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2024

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? What role does the app currently play in consumers’ shopping behaviors?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 15, 2025

Consumers now prefer digital payment options, with cash usage declining in all major economies. Each sales channel (till, self-checkout, queue-busting, customer service desk) can be designed to use different communication methods and processing paths, ensuring that a single failure wont disable all in-store payment options.

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Groove

DECEMBER 7, 2024

With the prevalence of social media, businesses are constantly feeding unique and engaging content to their audiences through a variety of channels and consumers are beginning to expect this from brands. Establish Trust To help establish consumer trust, we recommend positioning your brand as an industry expert.

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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. AI will enhance safety and content moderation.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Amid all the ongoing furor around new artificial intelligence applications, when it comes to actual utility for both brands and consumers, the cream that has risen to the top appears to be AI-powered agents. This shift could eliminate the gap between research and purchase entirely, creating a more intuitive consumer journey.

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Groove

DECEMBER 12, 2024

BigCommerce SEO best practices can help grow your organic channel by scaling SEO and increasing organic visibility, making it easier to get your business in front of its target market. To improve BigCommerce rankings, remove any unnecessary copies of the same material or slight variations on the same page.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

The AI-powered demand sensing technology is designed to examine short-term demand patterns across various channels using customer insights, market events, pricing, campaigns, localized weather reports, external economic factors and other critical data points to better understand and predict consumer preferences over time.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2025

The launch of WHSmith North America Media Network represents an exciting new chapter for WHSmith North America on our ongoing journey to create more exciting and engaging retail experiences for consumers in travel , said Toby Keir, CEO of WHSmith North America in a statement.

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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. When Wish debuted in 2010 it took the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Under ideal circumstances, reducing rampant returns is best accomplished through improving the issues that are most frequently leading to them. While returns can’t always be prevented, they can be leveraged to improve profit margins and even generate revenue.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

Consumers now look for personalization throughout their interactions with a retailer at multiple touch points. Combining data-informed experiences with customer support can open avenues for retailers to offer unmatched personalization to their consumers. Customers want an immediate response on their preferred channel, time and manner.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 2, 2023

The Engage3 Omnichannel Intelligence module was created to combine omnichannel data, machine learning-powered item linking, competitive intelligence reporting and price image elasticity models to help brands monitor and improve omnichannel performance.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It’s hard to find a topic that all marketers agree on, but if there is one, it’s likely that programmatic ad buying continues to be a dominant channel for advertisers looking to scale. This agility improves campaign effectiveness and allows them to adjust strategies quickly in response to market changes.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

At first blush, home improvement fans might not seem like a core audience for electronics retailer Best Buy. But as homes have become more and more digitized, Best Buy decided it was time to let DIYers know how it could help them up their (smart)home improvement game. How do we create a crawl, walk, run?,”

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2023

Accenture surveyed more than 10,000 consumers in 16 countries and found that although we’re living in a time of “lasting uncertainty,” the “ resilient consumer ” is uncovering new ways to protect and control what is most important to them. As a result, consumer behaviors are becoming more complex.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“The consumer’s going to be very selective, they’ve got a lot of choices; [the season is] going to be promotional, but consumers are [financially] healthy right now and they’re spending. [An It’s not a blowout number, but it’s in line with lower inflation, and the consumer will be spending.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 16, 2024

According to data from ClearSale’s latest survey of consumer attitudes on ecommerce, fraud and CX, there’s a striking range of opinions about personalization among generations. Consumers in this age group are truly digitally native. Unlike their younger counterparts, Gen X consumers are merely open to personalized experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

This annual study of commerce trends benchmarks how 120 retailers and brands perform against more than 200 criteria across web, mobile, in-store and cross-channel experiences. Optimizing customer loyalty is essential for improving the lifetime value of current customers. Tip 6: Allow customers to shop where they are.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Within the heavily regulated CBD industry, it’s difficult for brands to advertise their products across the same depth and variety of channels afforded to companies in other categories. Today the average consumer is exposed to millions of stimuli and hundreds , if not thousands , of visuals on a daily basis.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

” Aligning with the Demands of Today’s Consumers “Some of the language that I continue to hear when I go to many of [my go-to-market appointments] are things like, ‘What will our adjacencies be?’” Consumers are finding inspiration everywhere, and they’re more eclectic in their fashion choices. ” Hyman added.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Spurred by the global pandemic, a rise in social activism and the surge of wellness movements, consumer sentiment has shifted significantly over the past few years. Nearly all (93%) consumers surveyed in PwC’s most recent Holiday Outlook shared that trust is a top influencer in their buying decisions. Pre-pandemic, that number was 70%.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

To continue on a positive trajectory, the retail sector must focus on the growth being driven by consumers’ continued adoption of online shopping. Pay-per-click advertising (PPC) is among the most cost-effective ways to boost sales online, by allowing brands to efficiently reach the right consumers at the right time.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Though there are similarities, the difference is that a multichannel approach dedicates a team, system and messaging for each channel. On the other hand, an omnichannel approach weaves together communication touch points across all channels to create a more cohesive journey. The benefits of going omnichannel? Aberdeen Group ).

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Steve Jobs once famously said that his job was to figure out what consumers want before they know they want it. Either way, the goal is to bring the total shopping experience, across every channel, closer to customers’ expectations — and even anticipate expectations they don’t yet have. They just want what they want when they want it.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 18, 2023

Consumers can now browse and buy Touchland sanitizer across multiple channels, including the brand’s DTC ecommerce site, marketplaces like Faire and even on the shelves of big-name retailers like Ulta , Target and Sephora. and ultimately scale our marketing efforts for specific channels and locations.”

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2021

As eyes and dollars continue to shift to digital channels, the playbook for acquiring, engaging and retaining customers is being rewritten. Marketing: There are a multitude of channels and tactics that allow you to maximize customer reach and engagement. You cannot rely on consumers’ imagination and guesswork,” Chatterjee advised.

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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. Sources: Retail and E-commerce Solutions | Vonage.

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