Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2024

Personalization has become an expectation for many consumers, but brands’ maturity levels in providing personalized marketing and CX varies greatly. Personalization is a top priority at Macy’s, all the way up to our CEO,” said Bennett Fox-Glassman, SVP of Customer Journey at Macy’s in an interview with Retail TouchPoints.

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RTP blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

The term “omnichannel” gets thrown around a lot — some might say too much — by retailers and industry observers. However, the word still conveys an important truth: retailers must take every action possible to maximize customer engagement opportunities across both traditional and emerging channels. Let us know in the comments below!

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 28, 2023

Accenture surveyed more than 10,000 consumers in 16 countries and found that although we’re living in a time of “lasting uncertainty,” the “ resilient consumer ” is uncovering new ways to protect and control what is most important to them. As a result, consumer behaviors are becoming more complex.

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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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GetElastic

AUGUST 10, 2021

An omnichannel approach enables businesses to deliver consistent, frictionless, and more convenient user experiences by interconnecting every customer touchpoint. Many businesses have taken the first step and adopted a multi-channel approach to engage with customers across a myriad of channels such as web or mobile.

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SellBrite

JANUARY 5, 2018

Omnichannel strategies have the power to create memorable, lasting experiences for consumers. Omnichannel is a new type of strategy that is tough to implement. Most often it gets confused with multi-channel, which is a vastly different strategy. What a perfect omnichannel eCommerce strategy looks like.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 26, 2022

D:R Consumers are now looking for a transformed shopping experience and ways to express themselves through the products they buy. Retail store design is a multi-year investment in capital, and therefore it is easier to adapt to unprecedented changes through brand communication and customer service models. How are you catering to them?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 13, 2024

Despite Tightening Wallets, Select Brands Flourish As spend growth softened in the second half of 2023 across discretionary categories and companies geared toward more price-conscious consumers flourished, opportunities presented themselves for brands that kept an open mind. However, not all customers behave the same.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2021

Even retailers earning high marks for omnichannel enablement remain far from invincible, however, and others can build and even improve on what has already been done. Any retailer can stand out by meeting shoppers’ needs across channels, especially in aspects where others are falling short.

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ROI Revolution

MAY 6, 2021

To make the customer journey between all of these channels seamless, retail leaders are making sure a holistic omnichannel strategy is a part of their digital transformation. An omnichannel approach can be a big revenue driver. An omnichannel approach isn’t new. So what’s the next big thing?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

What emerged was a focus on companies’ wealth of first-party data, which is collected directly from their consumers, allowing advertisers to target audiences across numerous channels via retail media networks. Advertisers will then be able to create better-targeted omnichannel campaign strategies that deliver valuable results.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Photo courtesy of TikTok Shop While the ecommerce functionality has been available to at least some users since late last year, today marks the service’s debut to the wider TikTok community, and to say that both consumers and brands have been eagerly anticipating this development might be an understatement.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2021

Back-to-school surveys across the retail sector point to a strong season, spurred by pent-up consumer demand. Jeff Orschell, EY’s Americas Consumer Retail Leaders, noted that global data as well as the firm’s consumer research point to demand remaining elevated, despite the uncertainties. ADDITIONAL LISTENING: 2.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 23, 2024

It was the growth of what we first called multi-channel, which then became omnichannel, and then we saw the growth of the brands born on the internet.” Is the digitization of in-store experiences driving a context collapse for consumers? The top five themes include: 1. Michelle Gass, President of Levi Strauss & Co.,

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

However, if customer service is excellent, 78% of consumers will do business with a company again, even after a mistake. The number of touch points and level of consistency shoppers expect across all departments and channels is increasing. Today, 74% of customers said they use multiple channels to start and complete a transaction.

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GetElastic

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Front and center in any conversation about commerce are the words personalization , omnichannel , customer-centric, and experience-driven. Customer retention rates are 90% higher on omnichannel vs. single channel. By investing in the omnichannel experience. Source: Clout Brands. And how do they do that?

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

How will consumers and markets respond? Frictionless Omnichannel “Omnichannel” as a goal is nothing new; retailers have been pursuing this objective for well over a decade. Omnichannel” as a reality has proven more elusive. What will the Fed’s next move be?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As consumers head back to physical stores, malls and shopping centers are striving to remain relevant parts of shopper journeys that have been dramatically reshaped. Landlords need to be more flexible with retailers, not only in the duration of their space but how to get out of it and/or how they use it, so it can be more multi-purpose.”

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BigCommerce

DECEMBER 13, 2017

.” Alex thinks about Amazon as simply another sales channel for his business. But a 50% decrease in margins for a highly trafficked and high sales channel doesn’t cause a bit of concern for Alex and his team. That’s how to optimize sales channels. Selling direct and via third party channels has helped us broaden our reach.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2022

as its official retailer across all channels in India. The long-term franchise agreement will allow Reliance to introduce Gap’s latest offerings through a mix of exclusive brand stores, multi-brand store expressions and digital commerce platforms. has named Reliance Retail Ltd. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We

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Optimizely

JUNE 12, 2018

That’s exactly why you need to stop relying on email alone and branch out into new channels instead. Email is just one of many ways to engage buyers, and you have to spread out your communications to your audience across multiple channels and platforms. How do I find the right channels to engage?

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 9, 2021

Many companies are accustomed to viewing performance by channel, by store or by product. But for consumer brands, the ultimate measure of marketing success is in fostering a better relationship with the customer. The health of a company’s relationship with these individuals transcends the store, the channel and the product.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 21, 2023

“Omnichannel” has been an aspiration for brands for many years now, but while it used to refer to the merging of a retailer’s brick-and-mortar and ecommerce operations, it now means something very different. We have 4,600 stores; we are within 10 miles of 90% of the U.S. Those are tough numbers to beat.

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Ecommerce Platforms

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The eCommerce service is an omnichannel commerce platform that provides the power of large-scale businesses to mid-size brands. BetterCommerce is a large-scale enterprise-grade omnichannel solution for eCommerce built to empower retailers to maximize revenue, stay ahead of the competition, and be more efficient. Omnichannel.

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365 Retail

MAY 17, 2022

In this context, solutions that manage the growing number of complex multi-channel payments for retailers while delivering hyper-personalised services – aka services that respond to the specific needs of the merchant, based on their target demographic habits and preferences and geographical regions – is important for customer experience.

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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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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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BigCommerce

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Within 18 months they were selling more on Amazon than through their traditional channels. In fact, it can be your initial parlay into household name status, and multi-million dollar sales. A sheet metal factory in the industrial space wanted to come out with a line of consumer products to sell on Amazon. How did they do it?

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

We use data to gain consumer insights, test market reception and decide when and where we’re going to advertise. This deeper and faster method of surfacing, predicting and acting against real-time consumer activity benefits CPG companies that are restructuring for omni commerce. Understanding the Consumer Journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

With this deeper understanding, we’re going far beyond the search box to create a search experience that works more like our minds that is as multi-dimensional as people are. Earlier this year, Google introduced “multi-search,” which allows users to search using a picture and text combined. The majority of U.S. later this fall.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Traditional outbound marketing to consumers, such as email campaigns, SMS text messaging, display ads, retargeting and other forms of “push marketing,” will in the future see even less engagement from consumers. Omnichannel. Today’s loyalty program platforms have evolved to meet the customer where they are.

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Kissmetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Offer omnichannel customer service : Make it easy for your customers to reach you by being available on multiple communication channels. MobileMonkey is one of the best customer service tools that will help you create a cohesive experience across multiple channels. List Your Products On as Many Channels as Possible.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 18, 2024

Today’s retail workers almost need to have superpowers — moving as fast as The Flash would be helpful given how many different tasks a retail worker performs each day — but adaptable, multi-purpose solutions can provide that extra burst of needed speed. Associate apps also need to reflect operating conditions on the ground.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2023

This applies across the customer shopping journey, from customized recommendations to predicting consumer behavior and product demand as well as creating more seamless omnichannel experiences. With AI, brands can analyze customer behavior across shopping channels to provide highly customized product suggestions.

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Wiser

JUNE 10, 2021

With the rising popularity of omnichannel shopping and the blurring of the lines between different sales channels, special attention must be paid when building multi-channel pricing strategies. Is it necessary to have a single price across all channels or is it better to change the price?

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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. The days of designing channel experiences within the four walls of a store are coming to an end,” said Walker.

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