Groove

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Definition of Omnichannel eCommerce With omnichannel eCommerce , a company provides a consistent customer experience in eCommerce across all channels. When you employ this approach, you focus on creating integrated customer experiences that boost branding and nurture customers even if they bounce from channel to channel.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 17, 2020

As experts continue to assess COVID-19’s impact on the retail industry, some consider the loyalty shakeout to be the most significant. Winning and keeping customer loyalty has been a long-standing challenge in the industry, but the pandemic has forced consumers to switch brands for new reasons: price, scarcity and availability.

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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. Invest in Your People . Be Transparent About Inventory Challenges .

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Here are three reasons why forward-thinking retailers are implementing MACH principles — and working with organizations that are doing so — to foster dynamic customer experiences that align with consumers’ changing wants and needs (and in turn, exceed revenue goals!): The customer experience is changing — and faster than ever.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2024

On the other hand, traditional retailers must reinvent their playbook to keep up with a customer experience driven by tech that evolves quickly enough to meet consumers’ rising expectations. However, delighting customers is possible by focusing on other aspects of delivery and how they tie into the overall customer experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The solution was created to help retailers build their CX business case, understand their CX maturity, illuminate ways to generate ROI and help define a solid CX strategy to drive desired business and customer outcomes. Additionally, its more than 80 pre-built journeys aim to drive customer loyalty, spark upsells and lead to faster ROI.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 6, 2023

These include: Digital enablement: As digitization becomes more widespread, retailers should ensure they have the proper digital tools to anticipate and understand their customers’ needs. Do we have the right user experience? Do we have the right customer experience? Do our physical and digital platforms match?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Customer experience (CX) optimization is a necessity for ecommerce retailers and other online businesses that want to convert visitors, drive sales and cultivate customer loyalty. For example, many websites could quickly improve their CX by adjusting their site search functionality.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 21, 2023

Parents and caregivers are always on the lookout for activities to keep their kids engaged during the summer months, and Michaels has tapped into this need — and not coincidentally, creating new opportunities to build customer loyalty — through Camp Creatology.

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Groove

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Loyalty programs take that concept one step further by thinking beyond email to create a more sophisticated customer experience. Weve helped several clients set up loyalty programs. As a result, customer loyalty programs often deliver enough value that buyers are willing to provide contact information to participate.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 18, 2023

Maximizing Mobile Personalizing the user experience to enhance customer loyalty is more achievable today than ever before. By providing information that customers need within their personalized loyalty app, retailers strengthen their customer relationships.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 7, 2022

Many factors go into customer loyalty, from the most basic (offering quality products that shoppers want) to more emotionally driven considerations. But just because these reasons are less tangible than a retailer’s product assortment, it doesn’t make them less important. Case in point: the Kroger Zero Hunger Zero Waste initiative.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This not only cuts into profit margins but also risks damaging the brand’s reputation; 46% of porch piracy victims said the experience negatively impacted their relationship with the retailer. Retailers are caught in a difficult position.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The letdown customers experience when their orders don’t arrive on time, or at all, results in uncertainty and distrust that’s difficult — if not impossible — to remedy. Retailers can expect that customers will turn to other vendors; once this happens, they’ve lost both the sale and the customer’s trust and loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 30, 2025

As we move into 2025 and reflect on the learnings of the 2024 holiday season, customer loyalty and the risks of losing it are at the top of every business leader’s mind. But delivering a great customer experience hinges on more than just strategyit requires seamless user experiences (UX) at every touch point.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 26, 2025

Ecommerce platforms can use the same technology to suggest products that align with a customers previous purchases and browsing behavior. This level of personalization not only enhances the customer experience but also drives higher conversion rates and customer loyalty. Dev Nag is the CEO and Founder of QueryPal.

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Forrester eCommerce

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

This holiday season, maintaining (and tapping into) your customers’ loyalty has never been more critical. As you plan for holiday shopping – and the inevitable returns that will follow in January – loyalty marketers must: Show, not tell.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

By taking a closer look at thriving brand communities, retailers can learn how to develop ones of their own that drive loyalty and a better customer experience. Although every brand is unique, the process of building a brand community is one that can be studied and replicated. What thriving brand communities look like.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

As the holiday shopping season approaches, retailers face increased pressure to facilitate a seamless and secure shopping experience. This is an opportunity to not only capture share of wallet but also build lasting customer loyalty and trust. Payments technology is central to the shopping experience. Prior to J.P.

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365 Retail

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

In the competitive landscape of retail, fostering customer loyalty is essential for long-term success. Loyal customers provide a reliable revenue stream and contribute to brand growth by acting as ambassadors, sharing positive experiences through word-of-mouth and online reviews.

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Forrester eCommerce

APRIL 26, 2021

Emotion metrics can be a measure of a customer’s actual loyalty. But only when they're placed in a larger context of customer loyalty metrics. Read more.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2025

By improving the shopping experience on the front end whether through generative AI, AR/VR technologies or optimized product syndication they can drastically reduce the volume of returns, preserve their margins and enhance customer loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 17, 2025

A combination of proactive, intelligent customer support and advanced technologies can reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction and foster stronger relationships transforming returns from a setback into an opportunity to provide a hyper-personalized customer experience for both shoppers and retailers.

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Forrester eCommerce

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Forresters research reveals the immense value for both customers and banks of useful, convenient digital banking experiences. The right mobile banking offerings, for example, can unlock new value for a customer and differentiate a banks brand. And our broader customer experience research […]

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RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

JANUARY 8, 2025

Retaining customers not only ensures consistent revenue but also fosters brand loyalty and advocacy. In this blog, we will explore proven customer retention strategies that retail businesses can implement to boost customer loyalty and long-term success.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 29, 2023

But with 73% of consumers saying that “a good experience is key in influencing their brand loyalties,” according to PwC , there has never been a better time for brands to relook at their processes, upgrade their antiquated technology and find a new solution that delivers a fair experience to sustain customer loyalty.

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lateshipment

MARCH 25, 2025

Your customers shopping journey refers to the steps theyve taken before, during, and even after they make a purchase at your store. With the growing role of a positive customer experience in driving sales and repeat purchases, the concept of the shopping journey and its importance has never been more relevant.

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Forrester eCommerce

MAY 14, 2019

As marketing strategy changes and marketing resources shift, so do consumers and customer loyalty — today, consumers use more devices, ad blockers and other privacy protection tools, and still have increasingly sophisticated customer […].

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Because the team’s office is a short distance away, it creates a clear pipeline from the store floor to the executive team, which can help improve the brand’s feedback loop and foster customer loyalty. We’ve done events where customers have come up to me because I host all our livestreams.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 7, 2022

She will oversee the retailer’s marketing, advertising and customer experience initiatives as well as lead the development and execution of Mattress Firm’s brand strategy and develop a forward-thinking media strategy. Mickey Mericle.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

The solution provider also uses AI, ML, computer vision and natural language processing, with the goal of providing its customers with data-driven insights for generating personalized shopping experiences that drive customer loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Competitive pricing is a key strategy to build customer loyalty and increase sales. By using AI to calculate prices based on market demand and other market conditions, you can ensure that you’re offering the best value to your customers. This can help improve customer loyalty and help you stand out from competitors.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 10, 2025

Hawkins experienced this culture gap firsthand as he helped his former company, Green Hills , develop its customer loyalty initiatives. In many cases, the technology works great, but the people don’t accept it, Hawkins noted. In those cases, you have to let the value of the technology speak for itself, he said.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2024

has named four executives with extensive retail experience to top posts, including naming Frank Kerr as the company’s first-ever Chief Customer Officer. where he was one of the first 50 employees, and he’ll be responsible for driving a holistic customer experience using consumer insights, marketing, loyalty and promotions.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the surge in online shopping, physical stores remain essential for retailers, providing a space for customers to interact with products and build deeper brand connections. A well-designed store can create a memorable brand experience that strengthens customer loyalty.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The agenda is designed to hit on all the core issues surrounding this space, from cybersecurity to finance and customer experience. CEOs, CIOs, CFOs and other executives involved in Web 3.0, 18-19, 2022, at Convene One Liberty Plaza in New York City.

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lateshipment

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The reasons can range from fit or quality issues to customers simply changing their minds. Unlike cash refunds, where theres a possibility that the customer might exit your business forever, store credit keeps customers engaged, encouraging them to explore more products. It comes in many formswhich well be discussing next.

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