Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 25, 2024

The prevalence of gift card fraud poses a significant threat to retailers and consumers alike. Traditional plastic gift cards, while popular among consumers, are susceptible to a variety of security threats, including theft, duplication loss, and unauthorized use. That’s a win-win for consumers and retailers alike.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

True to form, Best Buy turned its eye to advertising’s newest tech-infused channel to reach this consumer segment — connected TV (CTV). CTV viewership is growing every year as more and more consumers “cut the cord,” and the vast majority of U.S. But just as the number of CTV viewers is climbing, so is the number of advertisers.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

For consumers, creators and retailers alike, sifting through the ever-changing array of functionalities across platforms is still fraught with misfires, miscommunications and mistrust. There’s no time to waste, because consumers are already there. Social commerce is already a multi-billion dollar business in the U.S.,

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RTP blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

So you go to the retailer’s app or mobile site, scan the barcode and find the sweater in your size. This may sound futuristic, but this scenario is possible today largely because of the power and growing ubiquity of mobile. American consumers spend an average of five hours a day on their mobile devices.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 12, 2023

According to the study, TV and movies no longer dominate the media landscape like they once did as consumers, especially younger ones, increasingly turn to new digital channels for more immersive entertainment experiences. However, this isn’t a case of purely replacing one medium for another.

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RTP blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

By Zach Morrison, Tinuiti Millennials and Gen Z consumers have over $200 billion in buying power, but to effectively market to both generations it’s important to know how they differ from each other, including what they buy and how they shop. Shopping trends often follow the consumer through their life stages.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It started with COVID, and it hasn’t stopped — consumer shopping behaviors continue to rapidly shift even as the pandemic moves into the realm of memory. For brands and marketers, it’s hard, nigh impossible, to keep up with how and where consumers are shopping today, but media planning and buying platform Infillion tried.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 25, 2023

One big reason is that the nature of holiday shopping — with many consumers shopping for others and making purchases across multiple categories — gives retailers a golden opportunity to impress, and possibly retain, new customers. That’s why retailers focusing on EX are building mobile apps.

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GetElastic

APRIL 16, 2020

B2B Mobile Commerce Apps are Hot: Here's Why. Mobile commerce apps for B2B are increasing, and with good reason -- 80% of B2B buyers are using mobile at work, and more than 60% say mobile played a significant role in a recent purchase. For industrial supplier Grainger, 41% of its mobile sales flow through its app.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Outfits like GoPuff, Gorillas and 1520 took the grocery market by storm in 2021, offering a limited menu of consumables, delivered to your door in an incredible 30 minutes or less (and commanding multi-billion dollar valuations in the process.) Mobile commerce will define the next evolution of grocery shopping.

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GetElastic

APRIL 16, 2020

B2B Mobile Commerce Apps are Hot: Here's Why. Mobile commerce apps for B2B are increasing, and with good reason -- 80% of B2B buyers are using mobile at work, and more than 60% say mobile played a significant role in a recent purchase. For industrial supplier Grainger, 41% of its mobile sales flow through its app.

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GetElastic

MAY 22, 2019

Mobile commerce apps for B2B are increasing, and with good reason — 80% of B2B buyers are using mobile at work, and more than 60% say mobile played a significant role in a recent purchase. For industrial supplier Grainger, 41% of its mobile sales flow through its app. How mobile applications support B2B commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As the world recovers from the pandemic and consumers return to the high street, retailers are eager to capitalize on the increased footfall by providing an exceptional in-store experience. This functionality enables retailers to serve consumers from anywhere in the store, in pop-up shops and even on the go.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Real-time CDP helps companies bring together known and anonymous data from multiple enterprise sources to create a consolidated customer profile, which can be used to provide personalized customer experiences across all channels and devices — all in real time. Marketers can also try out a multi-image carousel-based push notification campaign.

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ROI Revolution

MAY 3, 2022

Accurately measuring attribution is becoming a challenge for marketers in light of new consumer privacy regulations. In this article, dive into the data for insights into measuring attribution and consumer privacy. Accurate, data-driven, multi-touch attribution isn’t easy to accomplish. What could be the reason for this?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But if you’ve got a good brand and good products in 2024, you’re going to have a DTC website and you’re also going to have a multi-brand retailer distribution strategy. And the answer is maybe we are. And could you in fact be missing out on some of the biggest technology and supply chain advancements by resisting?

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Ecommerce Platforms

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This function allows you to connect all of your sales channels to build a seamless customer experience, strengthen your customer support center and also provide contemporary shopping options like buying online and pick up in-store with your data on all channels synced. Flexible Multi-Store. Omnichannel. SEO Functionality.

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GetElastic

AUGUST 9, 2021

In this post, we will dive deep into this trend and explain how Elastic Path can now help businesses avoid channel conflict when launching a D2C (direct-to-consumer) thanks to our newly launched Pre-Composed Solution™ for Dealer-Enabled D2C Commerce. Many of these brands, went direct-to-consumer for the first time. Why D2C Now?

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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. Omnichannel now means not just offering services across channels, but also providing seamless communication that connects all touch points. “As

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Consumers make purchase decisions based on instinct. Consumers are less likely to complete the purchase when a digital purchasing experience isn’t seamless—whether it’s a poor checkout interface or limited payment options. million users. And when buyers see a payment method they know and trust—they’re more likely to buy.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 29, 2024

They offer the chance to deliver a better mobile experience, more deeply engage with customers and a touch point through which to gather additional intel on consumers’ behavior and preferences. Most impressive, though, is that app conversion rates are 5X higher than among the brand’s mobile web users. “

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Fabric

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Modern e-commerce is continually changing, spurred, in part, by shifting consumer trends. Before the ubiquity of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, the success of e-commerce hinged on consumers’ access to personal computers. According to Insider Intelligence, mobile e-commerce sales are expected to account for 40.4%

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UpSellIt

JANUARY 13, 2021

With the eCommerce market as saturated as it is, comparison shopping has essentially become standard practice among consumers, and individual eCommerce brands can take a hit as a result. As its name suggests, comparison shopping is what takes place when consumers compare similar products or services before making a purchase decision.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 25, 2021

If a customer experiences downtime on a website or an outdated mobile app with a broken UX, they’ll bounce to a competitor. Today, every one in five purchases is made online, largely due to changing consumer habits in the wake of lockdowns and other restrictions. Cloud-Native Done Right. Go Micro, or go Home.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From a simple point of view, retail media has exactly what advertisers want: a direct connection to the consumers who are on a site to, hopefully, shop for a product or category of products. And in the multi-device, multitasking world we live in, offsite media can drive brand recognition and engagement.

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Kissmetrics

APRIL 20, 2021

However, it requires synergy between online commerce channels and physical retail to succeed. Here’s how the process works: Customers place the order: Shoppers purchase goods online through the retailer’s mobile app or website. consumers have leveraged BOPUS to make purchases. consumers have leveraged BOPUS to make purchases.

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GetElastic

APRIL 16, 2020

B2B Mobile Commerce Apps are Hot: Here's Why. Mobile commerce apps for B2B are increasing, and with good reason -- 80% of B2B buyers are using mobile at work, and more than 60% say mobile played a significant role in a recent purchase. For industrial supplier Grainger, 41% of its mobile sales flow through its app.

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Kissmetrics

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Which… is great news for the consumer experience but a nightmare for you as a marketing manager handling thousands of moving parts (and countless employees) on a daily basis. Especially complex technical challenges that most consumers and employees will never see or fully understand. Your marketing channels. Automation features.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Klar n a is continuing to expand beyond payments as it looks to become “a starting point for every purchase” for its 150 million global consumers. Klarna’s new intelligent search tool compares thousands of websites to help consumers find the best price for any product and lists the results in an “orderly overview.” Shoppable Video.

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GetElastic

AUGUST 10, 2021

With the global adoption of mobile devices, expansion of IoT, and dynamic behavior of customer buying habits, it’s become more important than ever for brands to take a holistic, interconnected approach to their customer’s digital experiences. The latter ensures customers can still collect points for future rewards.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2022

The demand for grocery omnichannel ecommerce has been fueled by the pandemic, specifically consumers’ desire for convenience. To keep up with this demand and consumer expectations, grocers will have to invest in the right forward-looking technology to evolve omnichannel offerings to meet customer needs.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Phone-based customer service, or voice, is well established as the most commonly used and the most tightly managed customer service channel. Phone — the Most Expensive CX Channel Retailers want their customers to be happy, but the cost of interacting with them live is usually inefficient and expensive.

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GetElastic

AUGUST 24, 2016

While the industrial IoT got an earlier start, the consumer IoT is not far behind and it is going to be big. Reimagining the Point of Sale Using many of the same underlying technologies, the consumer IoT gives merchandisers a whole new perception of what ‘place’ even means in the multi-channel universe. Really big.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 27, 2021

With the customer journey growing more complex every day, due in large part to the proliferation of screens and cross-channel marketing, retail brands now require robust attribution models to understand how different channels contribute to desired outcomes. Game Theory Meets Attribution.

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Algopix

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

However, as many sellers on Amazon are facing the issue of manually having to add their product listings to the catalog only one at a time, it can surely be a time-consuming and tedious process without the right tools at hand. Sellbrite works with well known online marketplaces and shopping carts, including Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and Shopify.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Off-site advertising is when a retailer helps advertisers reach its customers on third-party channels like social media or other websites it doesn’t own (“retargeting” is a common example of this). The term commerce also is broad enough to encompass new media offerings from consumer-focused companies that are not traditional retailers.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The past 18 months have seen a lapse in consumer confidence. The pandemic forced alternative fulfillment to the forefront, but every brand interpreted it in a different way, which has left consumers reeling over the lack of clarity and control over their own experience.

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