Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 2, 2024

Since the pandemic, seven in 10 consumers have used mobile devices and apps for shopping, and it’s not just millennials and Gen Z; Gen X and baby boomers are 68% and 56% more likely, respectively, to use their mobile device to make purchases than they were a few years ago.

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Improvements Retail Mobile Customer Experience 282

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. Customers’ data trails can help retailers access preferences, past orders and history.

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Consumer Customer Loyalty Customer Experience Recommendation 283

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

While the business side has rapidly adopted digital tools to engage consumers, the security side has often been locked into older technology. While the SSP is vital for ensuring security, maintaining it is highly time-consuming, often relying on manual input from developers.

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Retail Technology Supplies Operations 277

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2021

As technology and digital continues to infiltrate consumers’ lives, the need for human interaction and emotional connection is more important than ever. If you’re not careful, technology can disrupt the customer journey in a negative way. RTP: How has the pandemic impacted consumer behavior and the need for human connection the most?

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Customer Data Customer White Paper Technology 264

BigCommerce

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Thinking of dipping your toes into the direct to consumer waters? In fact, according to IAB’s popular new study, The Rise of the 21st Century Brand Economy, the future of retail growth comes from direct consumer relationships. Today we’ll explore five essential elements your brand needs to know for going direct to consumer.

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Consumer Shipping Costs Merchant Services Games 305

BigCommerce

JUNE 27, 2017

Since credibility represents such a basic obstacle to conversions on an ecommerce website, overcoming that obstacle can result in significantly improved conversions. Fogg resulted in 10 guidelines for credibility that ecommerce stores can use to improve their credibility. Extensive studies by Stanford professor B.J.

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Improvements eCommerce Payment Services Merchant Services 275

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

Building a relationship beyond just transactions will prevent customers from purchasing based solely on discounts, which can ultimately hurt a retailer’s bottom line. Companies with loyal customers understand their customers’ needs and deliver personalized experiences. Tip 6: Allow customers to shop where they are.

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Shipping Costs Improvements Live Chat Retail 262

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2023

Retailers have access to troves of data: data about their customers, their products and their business. But despite earnest proclamations that consumers expect seamless brand experiences, these data and the insights they generate are resting in disparate systems and used by siloed teams.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 25, 2024

As customers return to in-store shopping, retailers are continuing to face an increase in returns from online and in-store sales. This holiday season, consumers who frequently make returns may be in for a surprise. Customers are attracted to free return shipping, refunds, and no questions asked policies.

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Shipping Costs Social Media Electronics Customer Loyalty 162

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2023

Tanger Outlets will deploy a customer engagement platform from Coniq to better empower its retail partners to deliver personalized and contextual offers to consumers. As Tanger continues its transformation, we believe omni experiences and customer data are critical to serve our retailers and guests alike.”

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Customer Customer Experience Customer Data Improvements 306

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2021

With these sweeping shifts in consumer needs, retailers relied on data more than ever to quickly position themselves to create the kinds of offerings and experiences that consumers expected during this unprecedented period. Real-time data is the key for 2021. CPG will thrive with D2C. The auto industry speeds to digital.

Small Business Retail 285

Small Business Retail Retail eCommerce Social Media 285

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

One area that may drastically improve consumers satisfaction with customer service: AI-powered bots that can act as a shoppers own personal concierge service. This emerging technology can ease common customer service pain points and turn lackluster chores into more luxurious, customized experiences.

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Payment Services Multi-channel Customer Experience Shipping Costs 147

Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Family Dollar will use solutions from Dunnhumby to make merchandising and category management more customer-centric across its store network. In August 2024 Family Dollar partnered with First Insight to improve its merchandise assortment strategy.

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Management Customer Data Consumer Improvements 286

Optimizely

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Deep personalization in ecommerce relies on a combination of dynamic segmentation , smart product recommendations , triggers based on customer behavior, and much more. With customer data powering your B2C marketing, you can drive far higher conversion rates for your email marketing and much higher revenue. revenue-per-send.

Customer Data 366

Customer Data B2C Subscription Channel 366

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Retailers today are faced with mounting pressure to maximize their bottom lines while maintaining cost expectations for consumers. But amid volatile market changes, ever-evolving customer expectations and increased competition online, this is increasingly challenging to realize. Enter artificial intelligence (AI).

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Customer Loyalty Operations Improvements Customer Experience 360

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 5, 2024

Retailers are always looking to improve their game, with an eye to increasing sales, reducing costs and maximizing profitability. Retail competition has increased from small upstart retailers to big box stores and peers, so the ability for retailers to improve on their game is more necessary than ever. Contrast that to retail.

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Retail Games Multi-channel Leisure 312

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Batteries Plus has rolled out a new online experience, using customer data to create a more customized and personalized shopper journey. The company will continue to build on its new digital offerings in order to cultivate deeper relationships with its customers.

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Omnichannel Customer Data eCommerce Platforms eCommerce 277

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 24, 2024

“Our goal is to provide the tools businesses and consumers need to discover and restock their bulk essentials. The new Boxed.com will leverage Spresso technology and MSG’s established fulfillment network to deliver an enhanced customer experience and drive growth for the revived brand.

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Fulfillment Customer Loyalty Banking eCommerce Platforms 263

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Retailers “must focus on both selling the products they have now and ordering appropriately for the months ahead, particularly amid uncertainty around consumer spending,” according to the report. The question to ask is, how do I use technology to increase efficiency and expand my reach to provide consumers with more choice?

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Supplies Retail Customer Data Technology 262

Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2024

Read every single word and carefully consider whether these statements reflect your personal standards around privacy and data use?* *You In many ways this is a win-win for both consumers and brands, but consumers don’t always understand the full implications of each value exchange they take part in.

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Retail Payment Services Consumer Information 290

Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 16, 2022

The Home Depot will roll out more than 125,000 new hdPhones to associates in order to improve both the worker and customer experience at its stores. Earlier in June 2022, the retailer adopted the Adobe Experience Platform to enhance the abilities of its customer data platform (CDP) for creating personalized campaigns.

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Mobile Demo Improvements Customer Experience 279

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2024

Google’s move, along with increased privacy regulations (particularly in the EU), have put a premium on zero- and first-party data. Zero-party data is information consumers intentionally share with a brand, e.g. when taking a quiz, while first-party data is collected by the brand from interactions with its own customers.

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Recommendation Consumer Information Customer 306

Kissmetrics

JANUARY 17, 2022

Contextual personalization considers where customers are in their journey. Companies have used personalized marketing for years to improve engagement rates , but factors like the growth of AI and data analytics are making it easier than ever for even smaller companies to get on board. Customers Prefer Personalized Messages.

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Marketing Recommendation Social Media Improvements 273

Retail TouchPoints

MAY 25, 2022

This is before they even address the issue of managing customer data. Customers are also becoming more wary of the way retailers are storing their data. Businesses need to be transparent about their data protection approach and adapt existing procedures in line with digital innovation and regulatory expectation.

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Customer Loyalty Customer Consumer Gifts 316

Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Current customer Albertsons Cos. We created the Ai.Retail platform several years ago [to offer retailers] a repository of capabilities that teams could quickly pull off the shelf as they’re figuring out what to do with all their data,” said Jill Standish, Global Retail Lead at Accenture in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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Supplies Merchant Services Retail Customer Data 290

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 17, 2024

Within the world of B2B and B2C commerce, where understanding consumer behavior is key, this change has spurred a quest for innovative solutions. By identifying that people are searching for low-calorie wines or high-end tequilas, companies have the ability to enhance customer data platforms for more targeted marketing.

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Social Media B2C B2B Customer Data 311

Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 20, 2024

Removing cookies will wreak havoc on marketers, as they won’t have access to third-party data that many companies rely on to target consumers with personalized ads. pop-up, giving you the option to enable that site to remember your data or not. Conversational commerce.

Small Business Retail 277

Small Business Retail Recommendation Consumer Customer Data 277

Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 13, 2021

The 2021 Connected Consumer Series reflected the challenges retail (and society as a whole) have faced during the past year, but also the growing sense of optimism that is taking hold this year. The pandemic is finally ending, but the new/remade world will require a refined approach to the customer experience.

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Consumer Payment Services Fulfillment Multi-channel 189

Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 11, 2023

Now, foot traffic is still relevant, but brands also have to worry about growing their social presence, having social shops to make purchasing quick and easy, livestream shopping, oh and making sure this all connects back to their website/online store and that they are collecting data to improve future customer experiences.

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Social Media Multi-channel Customer Loyalty Shopify 279

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2024

Organizations have been forced to navigate increased competition, accelerate digital transformation initiatives and adapt to changes in consumer preferences and behaviors. Automating manual processes can increase productivity, reduce costs and improve the customer experience. What lies ahead?

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Payment Services Retail Customer Experience Supplies 264

GetElastic

JANUARY 7, 2020

One of the most effective ways to do that for today’s customers is to use rich media like 360-degree images that mimic an in-store experience on digital devices. Customer data strategy : As we learn more about our customers – age, life stage, hobbies, etc. – Improving Online Conversions with 360º Images.

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Improvements Social Media Hobbies Outdoor 158

Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Customer data is centralized so that agents can resolve issues faster and more efficiently, customers can move seamlessly between communication without having to repeat information, and with everything in one spot you’re able to integrate existing or new tech much more easily. Customers also expect omnichannel experiences.

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Omnichannel Multichannel Multi-channel Customer Retention 328

Optimizely

MAY 15, 2018

In this session, you can learn about the latest developments in social commerce, the technologies that underpin these advancements, and how you best take advantage of this to help improve your customer retention strategies, and expand your business. Your customers are on Amazon. consumers are using online marketplaces.

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Internet Retail Magazine Customer Retention eCommerce 321

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 29, 2020

While the name Burton is almost synonymous with the snowboards the company began making in 1977, Burton has diversified over the years into new categories — including surfboards, apparel, goggles/optics and other sports gear — as well as expanding beyond manufacturing into direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail, both physical and digital.

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Omnichannel eCommerce POS eCommerce Marketing 317

Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

A lot of the pain points that we’re seeing are in the inventory side, but against that backdrop we’re going to see a steely-eyed focus on improving profitability in stores and digital channels.”. We’ve gotten very good at optimizing, merchandising, understanding the ebb and flow and consumer demand in those physical stores.

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Shipping Costs eCommerce Retail Merchant Services 323

Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Beholden to industry powerhouses like Neiman Marcus or Bloomingdale’s in the fashion vertical or Target and Walmart in the CPG space for the majority of sales, brands across the board were wary of entertaining direct-to-consumer initiatives (DTC) that might disrupt their wholesale business. Establish rigor in your data collection process.

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Retail Mobile Consumer Omnichannel 279

Groove

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Investing in an eCommerce marketing tool helps businesses attract, engage and delight customers at every stage of the buyer's journey. Improve your email marketing strategy and exceed customer expectations with a tool that best fits your eCommerce needs. How Klaviyo Helps Build Customer Relationships. Customer Insights.

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BigCommerce Customer Data Social Media eCommerce 300