Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 29, 2022

According to Forbes, today’s business benchmark is customer experience. The key to having that edge over the competition is delivering top-notch customer experience, ensuring the quality of well-trained staff and continuously studying customer behavior and trends to ensure that customer needs and expectations are met.

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Forrester eCommerce

JANUARY 6, 2020

Preparing for this years list of future channel trends has been an immersive experience to say the least. In 2019, I was able to talk to 497 companies one-on-one about their channel strategy and programs, including 130 of those face-to-face.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

According to a study by UC Today , 90% of consumers expect to have an omnichannel retail experience when we shop. They also want customer service channels such as chatbots and call centers to provide them with the same level of information and support regardless of how they choose to interact.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Customer experience and employee experience live in two different acronyms, CX and EX. A recent Forrester survey report found that companies that provide connected experiences between CX and EX report dramatic benefits around innovation, cost reduction, revenue growth, customer experience and digital transformation.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2021

At a time when brand interactions bridge both digital and physical shopping, it is increasingly important for retailers to leverage technology to improve customer experiences and create value. Here are a few examples of how technology enhances customer experience and strengthens brand value.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The landscape of commerce and delivering customer experience changed dramatically over the past year, as millions of shoppers found health, safety, social distance and remote work taking center stage in their daily lives. So what are the customer experience and commerce trends that will continue, or become more fully realized, in 2021?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In today’s world, a stellar customer experience (CX) isn’t just a nice perk with which to provide customers — it’s table stakes. Consumer expectations are at an all-time high, and retailers need to ‘wow’ customers at every single touch point or risk losing them.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Here are three reasons why forward-thinking retailers are implementing MACH principles — and working with organizations that are doing so — to foster dynamic customer experiences that align with consumers’ changing wants and needs (and in turn, exceed revenue goals!): The customer experience is changing — and faster than ever.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 23, 2023

Prada Group and Adobe have entered an enhanced partnership designed to enable real-time personalization and increase revenue by enhancing the luxury retail group’s customer experiences across all digital and physical channels.

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Forrester eCommerce

AUGUST 20, 2020

Online marketplaces have been around in one form or another for decades. Accelerating the trend is a myriad of factors including changing buying behaviors and demographics, companies shifting to subscription and consumption models, and the rising importance of ecosystems.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

The pandemic’s disruption of the retail industry has driven a lot of change over the past 15 months, from an increase in online shopping to the rapid adoption of omnichannel fulfillment options. Because for consumers, omnichannel shopping is insanely convenient. There’s no quick fix to transform your enterprise for the omnichannel 2.0

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

OSF Digital’s Digital Strategy team (formerly known as FitForCommerce) developed the 2022 Omnichannel Retail Index (ORI) to establish a benchmark for current practices and, most importantly, provide a set of actions and recommendations for the future. These key investments and opportunities include: Mobile experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Retail’s busiest returns period may be in the rearview mirror until next year, but rising ecommerce order volumes have caused returns management to become an aspect of ecommerce and omnichannel business that warrants a dedicated year-round strategy. Returns are a major cost of doing retail business of any kind, but especially online.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 24, 2022

These investments align with the company’s intentions to strengthen its omnichannel strategy and a three-year plan to invest $1.3 Omnichannel is at the heart of our strategy and customer proposition, where we want to provide a great customer experience and a seamless user journey,” said Carl Dawson, CIO of Asda in a statement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As the divide between digital commerce and in-store shopping shrinks, the spotlight is now on the role omnichannel retail strategies play in both driving traffic to brand’s websites and foot traffic to physical stores. With online purchases making up 15.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2022

Casual lifestyle brand Tom Tailor has launched a new mobile shopping experience through the NewStore omnichannel cloud platform’s Consumer App. Our new app puts the experience of a flagship store in our customers’ hands.”.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 13, 2021

In the World of ‘Attention Commerce,’ a Multi-Channel Presence is Key. As the company’s Senior Director and General Manager of Omnichannel, Sharon Gee has been at the center of the massive shifts taking place in ecommerce over the last year and a half. As a result, companies had to contemplate, ‘What is my omnichannel strategy?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2024

While being able to physically investigate a product in context is a clear value prop of the brick-and-mortar experience, consumers increasingly see stores as destinations for high-quality service, immersive experiences and activations, and even digital order fulfillment. We wanted to get the best experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

Additionally, the fact that so many customers are conducting research on their own devices while in-store “creates a barrier,” he added, noting that customers may feel that the store’s CX “is worse than what I get on my phone.” The company was able to put that into practice with its deployment of Manhattan solutions at Reebok in 2023.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2024

Retasmart is designed to enable retailers to unify all channels and experiences in one solution, allowing them to solve challenges related to inventory management, customer engagement, payment options, reporting and analytics, and multichannel retailing — all from a single platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 5, 2021

By enabling customers to message in-store associates while they shop online, conversational commerce gives customers an enhanced customer service experience and the confidence they need to buy online. Connect Your In-Store and Digital Experiences with Conversational Commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Meanwhile, customers expect a buying experience that is tailored to them, from pre-purchase to ordering and beyond. one customer I was talking with recently served consumers, small businesses and teachers, all of whom have different needs).

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 3, 2024

The brand offered a full line-up of products and multiple pack types to complement on-the-go watching, casual viewing and big game-day parties to satiate customers’ hunger for delectable salty-and-sweet confections.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

However, the company also has achieved growth thanks to new awareness and sales channels such as: A blossoming Brooklinen for Business (B4B) strategy: The company has launched a new ecommerce destination that allows hotels, bed-and-breakfasts and other hospitality businesses to purchase Brooklinen products.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2023

Hawkins’ job is to actually deliver on all those buzzy retail aspirations — omnichannel, seamless, frictionless — and fast, because if there’s one thing the mobile-first Gen Z shopper is not known for, it’s patience. Then all of that is getting pushed out through the influencers’ channels and our channels.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If, during COVID-19, we noticed physical store shoppers shifting their shopping to the digital commerce versions of their favorite retailers and firmly establishing omnichannel shopping, then that experience is shifting.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 11, 2022

Action: Conduct deep customer research and analysis to understand what makes your target audience tick. What channels do they use? Leverage these insights to guide your approach to marketing, customer service and engagement across all channels. Lesson 6: Treat Your Stores as More Than Just Another Sales Channel.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

“We want to give [our customers] that same Elie Saab experience that they would be used to receiving in-store, digitally, and that meant optimizing every touch point of the online buying journey,” said Elie Saab Jr., CEO of Elie Saab in a statement.

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Groove

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Selling your products across multiple channels is a great way to reach a wider audience of customers. However, keeping all of these channels updated with the latest product information can often be a little tricky, especially when you're dealing with large catalogs of products and a range of sales channels.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 2, 2023

Focusing on the Fundamentals With the splashy, often short-sighted, tactics that used to work no longer bringing in results, DTC brands are being forced to go back to retail fundamentals — good products and a good customer experience. “

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 29, 2024

Store-based fulfillment of customer orders got an enormous boost during the COVID pandemic, when both curbside pickup and delivery offerings became survival tactics for so many retailers. Benefits stemming from omnichannel strategies also have been spreading widely across the retail enterprise.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2022

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. And that gave way to stellar branding, and lackluster products, creating a bubble in customer acquisition channels.”

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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. The Four Pillars of Omnichannel Success. The pandemic has made omnichannel a business imperative for merchants of all sizes. This year, it’s projected to reach 21.8% Access Now.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It’s about figuring out what your customers and employees want and then aligning those expectations back to pieces of technology that deliver on that promise. ” The exact definition of unified commerce, and in particular its relationship to the idea of “omnichannel,” varies depending on who you ask.

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