Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

For retailers and consumer businesses, a surge in data breaches presents difficult challenges. From ecommerce, logistics and digital marketing, these sectors are heavily reliant on data for their day-to-day operations. In light of this, it’s critical that businesses strengthen their defenses. million last year. million and $3.48

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

While events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday are still expected to attract crowds and drive online traffic, competition for consumers’ carefully guarded share of wallet will be fiercer than ever. To maximize holiday sales, joining established external loyalty programs can be a strategic move for retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

When customer data is exposed in a cyberattack, criminals can use it to commit fraud. Fraudsters can steal employee credentials to expose customer data. Both kinds of incidents affect the bottom line and both can impact the companys image with customers. Supplier cybersecurity. Vendor communication.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 19, 2025

Young and old, rural and urban, tech savvy and tech-scared we are seeing evidence steadily building that consumers are ready for new experiences. The addition of immersive experiences is one way to boost engagement with customers, increase length of time in store, and ultimately boost ROI. concludes with a retail store.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 17, 2023

And in consumer-facing businesses, a brand’s best customer may suddenly ghost them, disappearing without another word — or another purchase. When a Good Customer Relationship Goes Bad. In recent years, a customer-centric revolution has led brands to recognize the importance of understanding their best customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2023

Retailers must create experiences that are unique to their brand and tailored to individual customers based on their behavior, needs and habits. These highly personalized experiences, when offered to thousands of individual customers using proprietary data, are difficult for competitors to imitate and set the retailer apart.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

is weighing national data privacy and security regulation to help companies keep up with the patchwork of state laws. Consumers are quickly losing trust, and companies must act swiftly and responsibly to restore it. This happens in an environment where consumer trust is already fragile. The tide is turning.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2024

With the rise of ecommerce, direct-to-consumer (DTC) retailers are particularly vulnerable as their online-only presence provides fertile ground for fraudulent activities. In these cases, customers dispute legitimate charges with their credit card companies, falsely claiming non-receipt of goods or dissatisfaction with services received.

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 11, 2019

CMOs’ ability to impress and influence consumers becomes more difficult with each new technology and experience that enters the market. Despite a myriad of headlines about the awe-inspiring potential of AI or the wave of entrepreneurs dreaming up the next moonshot, consumers contend with more glitter than gold.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2020

Numerous industry experts have commented that COVID-19 has accelerated many existing retail trends, most notably consumers’ embrace of digital commerce. But what do those who are directly involved in decision-making — marketers on one side, consumers on the other — really think about this shift? 12 webinar.

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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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Forrester eCommerce

JUNE 22, 2023

Marketers want to capture as much zero- and first-party data as possible, whether that’s email addresses, marketing opt-ins and other consent, or more granular data about who a customer is and what they’re interested in.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 5, 2025

While some of those off-the-shelf solutions can be used immediately, customization in implementing these solutions is often required to ensure that valuable, consented first-party data is captured. Clean rooms facilitate collaboration and data sharing with brands while maintaining compliance with privacy regulations.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2025

In retail brand impersonation attacks, cybercriminals pose as trusted retailers or brands to deceive consumers into revealing sensitive information, making payments for fake products or downloading malicious content. Because customers are already used to seeing and interacting with this kind of content, theyre less likely to raise suspicions.

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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. In April 2024, Ticketmaster suffered a substantial data breach for which the hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility.

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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

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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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In 2020, consumers spent approximately $630 billion on online shopping, and merchants lost $12 billion to fraud. Federal data indicates that impostor scams and ecommerce fraud topped the list. Consumers in every age bracket are in fraudsters’ sights. The youngest group of consumers is Generation Z.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 12, 2023

New to this year’s event is the Consumer Product Showcase , offering SMB brands the opportunity to show off innovative customer-facing products. Growth is likely to continue in 2023, fed by the ongoing deprecation of third-party cookies that has made first-party customer data a highly valuable asset for brands and retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The retail industry has been quick to embrace new technologies for customer engagement especially during the pandemic, when the shift from brick-and-mortar to online retail became critical. While the business side has rapidly adopted digital tools to engage consumers, the security side has often been locked into older technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 14, 2020

Understanding consumer behaviors will be key to building (or rebuilding) a successful retail business in a post-pandemic world. However, retail marketers often lack the data they need to develop and execute more empathetic messaging. This data deficit makes it difficult for marketing to keep pace with a rapidly changing environment.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2022

The importance of winning loyal customers depends on one-to-one customer personalization and engagement based on customers’ behavior and intent. As the benefits of personalization become more apparent, the rise in data privacy concerns and their impact on organizations are beginning to take center stage.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 10, 2024

Full-fledged fingerprinting around the internet is depreciating, and marketers and customers alike will soon notice, particularly in the retail and ecommerce space. With today’s emphasis on privacy, third-party cookie deprecation will inevitably impact your brand, marketing strategy and customers. Fortunately, this is easy to quantify.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 6, 2021

The combination of access to many millions of potential customers and the warehousing, fulfillment and returns services bundled under FBA is a powerful one, according to Elder. But if sellers want to establish and nurture relationships with their customers, the Amazon Marketplace is not the place to do it.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Analyzing customer data to predict future purchases can be hard. And it doesn’t help that most companies focus far too often on preference data to anticipate what customers will want next. They analyze their custom-made dashboards, seeking insights that will drive purchase behavior. That’s preferences analytics.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2021

These days, the framework for marketing success is still being driven heavily by a company’s media plan rather than in the context of overall customer health. But for consumer brands, the ultimate measure of marketing success is in fostering a better relationship with the customer. Are existing customers sticking around?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2024

But with such an expansive reach — one that extends across its branded channels as well as a robust network of national, regional and local retailers — Fender has sought better ways to understand the behaviors of these consumers and engage with them in more intentional and relevant ways.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2023

The latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) data highlights a significant deceleration in inflation, now standing at half of last year’s peak. In response to this unpredictable economic landscape, consumers have recalibrated their shopping habits, demanding businesses to exhibit a newfound agility and innovation.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Dealing with customer service for a faulty product or return? One area that may drastically improve consumers satisfaction with customer service: AI-powered bots that can act as a shoppers own personal concierge service. The retail landscape is dramatically transforming as AI reshapes how businesses interact with customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2022

New research from PwC has found that three in 10 customers are more likely to try a new brand — and that number is even higher among younger consumers. But winning (and keeping) customers’ loyalty is no longer confined to programs and points. Collect and Leverage First-Party Data .

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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.” They could ask a customer, ‘You bought this item online yesterday, do you like it?’

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 30, 2021

Transformative shifts in consumer behavior have forever changed the dynamic between customers and the businesses they patronize. As a result, customers are increasingly turning to mobile devices to shop and becoming loyal to retailers that deliver digital experiences tailored to their unique preferences.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 31, 2022

This goes for the lessons learned by retail brands as they operated through one crisis-induced challenge after the next, navigating the ups and downs of the pandemic as best they could, while meeting unprecedented customer demand. This is the expectation consumers have about their online experiences versus the ones they have in store.

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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. Don’t believe us?

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Forrester eCommerce

JULY 18, 2019

Singapore is recognized as one of the world’s most innovative hubs and as an innovation powerhouse in Asia: The 2018 Global Innovation Index ranks Singapore as the fifth most innovative market out of 126 global economies analyzed, and Singapore’s recently launched S$1 billion innovation fund establishes innovation as a key lever to economic growth (..)

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