Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Customers today want consistent, personalized experiences across channels with multiple payment options and faster refunds. They also expect products to be available where, how and when they want them, which is only possible through a truly omnichannel approach on a single technology platform.

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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. AI-driven solutions offer businesses a powerful way to personalize customer experiences.

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Kissmetrics

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For better or worse, technology affects communication because it is a part of our everyday lives. You might see the average elementary-aged child with their head buried in a smartphone and tempted to take a gloomy outlook on what technology has done to us. How Has Technology Affected Communication? But is it all bad?

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Groove

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Businesses want a reliable means to reach customers and keep them engaged. Text message marketing offers marketers the channel they need to conveniently reach people on the device that everyone seems to have in their pocket. Messages can complement content from other channels and build on engagement.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

There’s more time to experiment, to determine if and how social commerce best works for you, and to understand what systems and data you need to exploit and foster what is certainly an important emerging retail channel, regardless of geography and culture. influencer). Some lessons translate well; others, less so.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2025

Davids Bridal is putting Kelly Cook, its current President of Brand, Technology and Finance, into the CEO seat starting April 1. However, her responsibilities quickly expanded beyond marketing and customer experience, including driving the brands loyalty initiatives, into technology innovation and finance.

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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. This shift from manual processes to digital channels enables real-time order processing, inventory management, and personalized pricing.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2025

Typically known for its Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), which power breakthrough technologies for companies like Meta and Open AI , NVIDIA is now staking a claim in the retail industry by powering solutions for companies ranging from LOral to Lowes and Walmart. This technology is going to change the way we all manage our inventory.

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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 6, 2024

In an effort to reduce sizing-related return rates, some fashion brands are working with Fit:Match.ai, a ‘digital twin’ matching platform that uses AR body-scanning technology designed to help shoppers select their size more accurately. This is just one example of how companies are utilizing technology innovations to prevent returns up front.

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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. While most Cozy Earth buying journeys are highly considered, impulse purchases also occur.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

In an industry still struggling with a tight labor market, choosing which technology to arm store associates with becomes a critical decision. For example, if your stores don’t have reliable network connections, it’s a good idea to seek out technology that operates in offline mode with no loss of efficiency.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2025

The emergence of AI-powered platforms has ignited a profound shift in how we interact with technology and the trajectory of the search landscape. As Chief Customer Officer at Botify , she leads global customer success initiatives and believes in technologys power to transform customer experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The retail industrys rapid adoption of generative AI technologies will continue in 2025. In 2025, retailers will scale these AI projects across the enterprise and embed the technology into core operations of their business. Throughout 2024, many retailers moved gen AI projects from pilots into production.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It’s almost always the first to embrace new waves of innovation, test and deploy new technologies, and integrate them into their businesses to create new, dynamic experiences to benefit customers, employees and ultimately — ROI. Vision AI is becoming more central to creating that retail experience consumers desire.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Now because of technology, social media and the blurring of the physical and digital worlds, they have both. With the rise of technology, social media and digital channels, brands and designers today must be cultivators of change in transforming all dimensions of the human experience within the built and digital environment.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By leveraging our technology and resources, both growing and established businesses can easily explore a new channel that can help them increase visibility and boost sales.” Among the U.S.-based

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

Houchens will deploy the technology to select IGA, Price Less and Food Giant stores. and overseas, provides a white-label ecommerce platform and helps integrate these programs into the retailers overall technology stack. We found answers to all of these requirements and more with eGrowcery. eGrowcery, which operates in the U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Retailers can rely on innovation to fill the gaps left by a lack of staff by deploying the right retail technologies. It’s the ideal way for retailers to differentiate themselves from the competition, build customer loyalty to generate long-term sales, and ensure customers feel their time in-store was well spent.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 7, 2023

Sensory Enabling Technologies (SETs) enable consumers to feel textures, smell and even perceive the taste of a product. Key takeaways: SETs enable brands to craft exemplary customer experiences online by appealing to consumers’ multisensory perception. This is no longer science fiction. augmented reality) to fully virtual (e.g.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The retailer will utilize RFID technology to enable improve the efficiency of how products are received and introduce real-time replenishment capabilities. As a company, we take nothing for granted, especially not customer loyalty,” said Casper Terp Harboe, RFID Project Manager at Bestseller in a statement. “To

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 4, 2025

Retailers should use these channels to explain the why behind pricing shifts and reassure customers theyre getting the best value. Store teams need to understand the strategy and how to explain it to customers. Store teams need to understand the strategy and how to explain it to customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2025

Nike Plans to Cut $2 Billion in Costs, Layoffs Imminent as Strategy Pivot Continues (January 2, 2024) Increasing competition in the sneaker market and global macroeconomic headwinds pushed Nike to make major cost cuts, using tactics such as simplifying its product assortment and making greater use of automation and technology.

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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. They are part of the community and show genuine excitement while engaging with and helping customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 19, 2022

Faced with an endless number of brands, product options and channels to shop through, consumers are looking for the perfect combination of “value” and “values.” Retail TouchPoints (RTP): How have shifts in consumer behaviors and expectations impacted the way retailers invest in technology? But has it changed their priorities at all?

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As a matter of fact, as accessibility becomes a more prevalent concern in the retail sector, the interplay between new technology and AI represents some good news. Features that improve accessibility have the power to help legitimize AI-powered tools and services and lead to more trust around the new technology.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Omnichannel is a buzzword in the world of retail customer experience. Though there are similarities, the difference is that a multichannel approach dedicates a team, system and messaging for each channel. This results in siloed communication and a disjointed customer experience. The benefits of going omnichannel?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Enhanced customer experience: These unexpected partnerships can surprise and delight shoppers, creating a more engaging and memorable holiday shopping experience. Laura Cosgrove is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in ecommerce technology.

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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. Programmable Voice for Greater Customer Experience (CX).

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 13, 2023

When Houle started with Aldo Group as Senior Director of Digital Technology, “We were primarily focused on digitalizing our retail experience across all channels,” he said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. It involves not just the right technology but also the right skills, processes, and culture.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Digital is not a channel, platform or technology — it’s a business driver,” said Preis. Digital Through and Through Now, even though brick-and-mortar retail has regained some of its luster post-pandemic, Anthropologie is still very much a digital-first organization.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 1, 2024

Recent estimates forecast that nearly a quarter of global retail sales will come from online channels by 2027, so the ability to serve a multilingual customer base will be essential for businesses seeking global success. Customers don’t judge businesses by the quality of their products or services alone.

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Retail is undergoing a seismic shift, driven by technological advancements and changing consumer expectations. Retail digital transformation is the process of leveraging technology to fundamentally change the way a retail business operates.

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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. EX (employee experience) matters almost as much as CX!

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

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. CTV ad formats and capabilities integrate into other digital advertising channels and, in turn, can support a more robust set of business goals.

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