Retail TouchPoints

JULY 9, 2024

JCPenney has faced the same challenges that bedevil the entire department store vertical, ranging from lower foot traffic at malls to the high operating costs that come with significant brick-and-mortar investments. RTP: What about the many areas supporting the customer experience?

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 19, 2022

Doubling down on stores: Like many executives helming omnichannel businesses, Louvet emphasized the continued importance of physical locations. We’ve opened 80 stores over the last year and are investing in more,” Louvet noted. We want to do it in a way that’s meaningful and aligns with our strategy and overall brand vision.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

And because food shopping decisions align directly with consumers’ needs and preferences, food retailers have a unique opportunity to differentiate through the physical experience they offer. For example, La Grande Epicerie in France was spotlighted as the “crème de la crème” of the French gourmet retail experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2021

The department store retailer took a similar route by dividing Saks Fifth Avenue into distinct ecommerce and brick-and-mortar companies — a move that could become a trend among apparel and specialty retailers. This is the second such separation made by HBC in recent months. In fact, Saks may be ahead of the curve with its spinoffs.

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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. Today’s brands (if they are paying attention) are taking note of how customers interact with their brand, and how the brand makes them feel to optimize the customer journey.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

During the pandemic, focus shifted to ways shopping malls were attempting to make shopping faster, easier and safer for consumers with curbside services offerings and other omnichannel capabilities. Retail design and experience experts agree that malls can no longer copy-and-paste the same combination of retailers and food offerings.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It’s been demonstrated many times, including at Siman Group , which operates 15 large department stores across Central America. Additionally, Siman can now perform weekly stock counts of more than 250,000 items per store; previously, counts had been limited to twice annually due to the pre-RFID complexity involved.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Conversely, 73% of consumers responding to a survey by Returnly said they would not shop with a brand again after a poor returns experience. Under these conditions, returns could quickly become a logistical nightmare, a customer experience risk and, most of all, a drain on profits. Normally, apparel returns are roughly 7.5%

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 21, 2021

Large retailers like Target and Walmart continued to thrive in Q1 2021 on the back of their large store footprints and strong omnichannel presence. People are going to be time constrained and delivering a great customer experience is going to be a valuable asset.”. ’ ” said Anderson.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Kohl’s CEO Michelle Gass will leave the department store retailer to take on the newly created position of President, LS&Co., Gass is leaving Kohl’s at a challenging time for the company and for department store retail overall. reporting to Levi Strauss & Co. President and CEO Chip Bergh. Beginning Jan.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 20, 2022

In mid-2021 rumors also surfaced of plans for large-footprint department stores , although Amazon hasn’t formally announced anything along these lines. Amazon Style could be a first foray in the department store realm where the company could expand to other untouched categories at brick-and-mortar, such as homewares.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 5, 2021

The result of this integration is a more consistent customer experience that can be mapped and optimized throughout the journey, from discovery to purchasing and aftercare. Another dimension to the ‘convenience’ experience is contactless delivery of services and products.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 15, 2024

FAO Schwarz , the iconic New York City toy store, has opened its first location in Paris, on the fifth floor of the Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann department store.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 7, 2022

Key to Kohl’s transformation strategy will be an enhancement of the retailer’s omnichannel reach, both through expansion of its store portfolio and continued efforts to build its digital business. Kohl’s plans to enhance its data science capabilities in an effort to engage with customers more efficiently and provide greater relevance.

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iVend

MARCH 14, 2022

Optical retail straddles two worlds – optical retail stores are part medical practice, with prescription lenses, and part fashion retailer, selling designer frames and sunglasses. According to the Association for Customer Loyalty, one of most effective tools for branding is omnichannel retailing.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 22, 2023

Today, Curacao operates stores that are at least 100,000 square feet in size and cover four main verticals — electronics, home, fashion, kids and babies — and 17 different subcategories. We don’t want to be just a store that sells stuff that everyone else sells ,” said Nerubay. We sound like them. We feel like them.”

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Next stop — your favorite department store to pick out an outfit for a work trip later in the week. The store is quite busy, so you flag down a salesperson and they help you check out from a mobile point-of-sale (POS) system. You decide to mobile order via your iPhone, so the latte is waiting for you as soon as you arrive.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

YOY growth this holiday season, whereas department stores will only see a 0.3% Focus on bringing people back to stores: In-store retail sales are expected to increase 7.9% It can be done in-store, it can be done by SMB retailers — but it does take some practice.”. “You

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2024

Heritage luxury department store Bloomingdale’s is staking a claim in the resale market by partnering with luxury resale platform Rebag. While more than 2,500 of these items will be for sale on Bloomingdales.com, the remaining goods will be featured (and for sale) in five Bloomingdale’s stores nationwide.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2021

The technology has been used in categories such as beauty, CPG and accessories, primarily in department store environments. This pilot, expected to roll out to 200 stores by the end of June 2021, represents Perch’s largest deployment in the pet category and the supermarket vertical.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 22, 2023

“We think of it as a way to deepen the relationship with our customers and get them into new categories.” Physical Stores Create Unique Value and Get ‘Premium’ Investment Like many omnichannel retailers, Anthropologie understands the unique value of its stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 27, 2021

Rising ecommerce sales and the power of social networks empowered customers to discover new, cutting-edge brands, which meant many (especially millennials and Gen Z) spent less time in the beloved department stores that had long served as anchor tenants. Shopping Destinations Set Sights on an ‘Experiential’ Tenant Mix.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But rather than being a disappointment to customers, the beauty brand turned the moment into an exciting event that delighted loyal fans and brought in new ones. Benefit launched an omnichannel campaign for the new range with the help of long-time partner Bloomreach to generate excitement around the new product line.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 11, 2024

However, this is contradicted by the fact that Gen Z use stores for clothes more than millennials, although those physical locations may be more about a 24-hour pop-up than a four-story, stone-clad traditional department store.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The laggards are those we now read about in the headlines as entering bankruptcy, with large department stores often mentioned. In simplest form, displays are increasingly being used as wayfinding devices in the larger retail environments like malls or department stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

These partnerships build on the brand’s partnerships with more than 30 retailers across grocery, drug, toy, apparel, department stores and specialty, which include Walmart and, most recently, Macy’s. Claire’s will add two additional partners this spring, but did not identify the grocers.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Nordstrom.com also offers free shipping and returns at any store, while Nordstrom Rack will offer free shipping on most orders over $39 through November 13. The department store retailer also is trying to capture the attention of gift-givers by zeroing in on services that make their lives easier.

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Sailthru

JUNE 13, 2018

But more than that, they illustrate the opportunity brands have to leverage their scale and modernize the customer experience. Those who are not only surviving, but thriving, in today’s complicated retail landscape understand that consumers don’t look at shopping as “I’ll buy this online and that in a store.” Census data.

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Optimizely

AUGUST 27, 2019

Takeaway: Technology will continue to assist when it comes to personalizing the customer experience. Amid recent news that the luxury department store has filed for bankruptcy , it’s no surprise that some of the questions in the keynote fireside chat hit hard, notably Bloomberg reporter Kim Bhasin’s asking, “So, what’s going wrong?”.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As more consumers relied on ecommerce during lockdowns, many first-time users discovered its ease and convenience, making it more crucial for brick-and-mortar stores to differentiate their experiences. With store closures, brands and retailers have had to bolster their omnichannel strategies.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 16, 2020

A survey by MySizeID found that: 49% of shoppers are uncomfortable shopping in-store for apparel ; 33% of shoppers are uncomfortable shopping in-store for cosmetics ; and 18% of shoppers are uncomfortable shopping in-store for shoes. of consumers say they will feel most comfortable shopping at standalone specialty retail stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 8, 2024

For example, it would have been far better for department stores to take more risks 20, 15 or even 10 years ago, than to keep putting these incremental changes into the world.

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Sailthru

MARCH 8, 2018

As the world’s largest retailer and online retailer go head to head in a battle of Goliath and Goliath, one thing is clear: Omnichannel has become the white whale for retailers. Technology has created a complex customer journey. How can a brand master the omnichannel experience? Personalization and omnichannel.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 28, 2021

Neiman Marcus Group (NMG) is making big moves to adapt to changing consumer behaviors, with strategic investments in talent, merchandising, technology and supply chain to reshape the Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman customer experience.

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BigCommerce

MAY 4, 2018

By embracing SaaS technology and emerging trends, Natori is on pace to earn a new generation of consumers – ones who buy from their site, not just in department stores. What to Know Before You Go: Skullcandy is a true omnichannel business. But that’s where AI and social commerce could help. What to Know Before You Go.

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lateshipment

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Digital transformation (Brick-to-Click) – A recent report by IBM states that the pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital shopping by roughly 5 years; the same report also indicates that by 2020, department stores will decline by 60% while e-commerce will grow by nearly 20%. Have an omnichannel approach.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 25, 2023

Creating New Value with In-Store Experiences Each of the approaches discussed above leverages store space to offer customers an experience they can’t get online, which can encourage them to keep coming back. These experiences aren’t mutually exclusive, either.

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