Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2022

As discount shopping app Wish continues its comeback effort , parent company ContextLogic outlined its plans for 2023 at a summit for its merchants — including a major overhaul of the platform’s shipment pricing structure in order to bring down shipping costs for customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Although inventory visibility already plays a central role in meeting demand, maintaining service levels, and streamlining operations, its the combination of real-time inventory visibility and advanced search functionality thats reshaping your customer experience by delivering on transparency, control, confidence and reliability.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

When customers place ecommerce orders, the last thing they want is an unhappy surprise. Shipping delays and stockouts lead to frustration and disappointment, especially when logistical problems impact time-sensitive purchases, such as special occasion gifts, event tickets or prescription medications.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 1, 2025

Delivering a smooth and frictionless post-purchase experience should be a top priority for every retailer. According to PwC, businesses that reduce friction for consumers and empower all employees to make things right whether through returns, price adjustments or other policies bring higher customer satisfaction and more forgiveness.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The advent calendar has long been a holiday staple, but in the last few years a new variation has soared in popularity luxury advent calendars, ranging in price from hundreds to thousands of dollars. Reader beware, googling this topic will take you down a very expensive rabbit hole, so hold onto your wallet.)

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2024

Returns are a major cost of doing retail business of any kind, but especially online. While some are charging customers fees to simultaneously slow and offset rising costs resulting from elevated return rates, others are adopting returnless refund policies.

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lateshipment

JANUARY 24, 2025

Picture this: Your customer orders a new pair of Nike sneakers in their favorite pink and white combination. You’re happy to make a sale, pack it up carefully, and ship it off. The customer is excitedly waiting for their package and tracking updates daily. What is Shipping Protection Software? The result?

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lateshipment

MARCH 25, 2025

What is the Shipping Journey? Your customers shopping journey refers to the steps theyve taken before, during, and even after they make a purchase at your store. To ensure your existing customers stay hooked, consider post-purchase emails, loyalty programs, and a hassle-free returns and exchange process, should they need it.

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lateshipment

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

So, in this blog, we’ve covered a comprehensive holiday schedule in the form of information on shipping deadlines and peak season surcharges for the 2024 season. The holiday shopping rush can turn out to be overwhelming, leading to issues like shipping delays, inventory shortages, customer service overload, and so much more.

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lateshipment

MARCH 3, 2025

Imagine a world where your shipping process runs like a well-oiled machineno missed deliveries, no tracking nightmares, and definitely no irate customers flooding your inbox. Well, welcome to the reality of automated shipping. What is Shipping Automation? Sounds like a dream? Spoiler alert: its a total game-changer.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Every Rokt interaction pulls from more than 30 different data points in real time to build personalized ad units that ensure the best offers for each customer. And in some cases, we don’t put an offer at all because we know [from the data] that it’s actually going to degrade the customer experience,” said Rozen. “Or

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lateshipment

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

To navigate this risk confidently, you need a safety net: shipping protection. It helps you safeguard deliveries, turning potential disasters into seamless customer experiences. In this handy guide, we’ll dive into what shipping protection is, why it’s essential, and how to overcome common challenges like a pro.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 8, 2025

According to Gartner, more than three-quarters of supply chain leaders are being asked to improve their customer experience (CX) strategies. A customer-centric approach to supply chain management is challenging; it requires a deep understanding of consumer expectations and behaviors, not just today but also for the foreseeable future.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 6, 2023

To combat this, companies should “look beyond a single-carrier and utilize multi-carrier shipping experiences. To combat this, companies should “look beyond a single-carrier and utilize multi-carrier shipping experiences. However, shipping costs for the brand were only slightly above 2019 levels.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While this is good news for many ecommerce retailers, it has also become more and more expensive to deliver those goods to customers. This means that it’s not enough for products to be delivered quickly – customers also want to know that if those items aren’t quite what they expected, they can be returned just as quickly and easily.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The problems with getting products to people quickly and cheaply are well-known: consumers want fast fulfillment, which is costly to provide, but they don’t want to pay high (or really any) shipping fees. Even Amazon , the trendsetter in fast fulfillment, isn’t immune to higher labor costs.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Wayfair introduced its paid loyalty program Wayfair Rewards last month , offering 5% back in rewards across Wayfair’s brands and free shipping regardless of order size for a $29 annual fee. In May 2024 Wayfair opened its first large-format store in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Ill.,

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 20, 2024

Michaels had a major ecommerce ship-from-store challenge. It’s not that this fulfillment method wasn’t popular — the arts and crafts retailer shipped nearly 3 million orders from its 1,300+ stores across the U.S. That was not only expensive for Michaels but contributed to slower-than-desired delivery speeds for its customers.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 20, 2022

In this new landscape, the shipping experience has become more important to a brand’s bottom line — and reputation — than ever before. Here are three ways SMBs can deliver a more personalized shipping experience to build a happier, more loyal customer base. Explore options for personalization beyond delivery speed.

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Groove

AUGUST 8, 2024

The topic of these articles varied: from the things wrong with eCommerce shopping; to information gathering through online coupons; to marketers gathering information about eCommerce customer experience. Delayed Shipping Cost Information It is always best to present the shipping cost information to a customer as soon as possible.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Nearly two-fifths of shoppers were deterred from purchasing from the same brand again after their packages were stolen, illustrating the long-term impact on customer loyalty. They must decide whether to absorb the cost of the lost goods as a goodwill gesture or refuse compensation, which could lead to negative reviews and customer attrition.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Relentless challenges including supply chain disruptions, weather disasters and a ship stuck in the Suez Canal slowed shipments and delivery of goods to consumers. Shipping and delivery will continue to play a major role in how retailers, both small and large, perform and provide effective customer experiences.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) brands are constantly stuck between creating indelible customer experiences and turning profits on those relationships. Building a data pipeline from scratch is expensive, time-consuming, and is the alternative that takes the longest to build and implement.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 21, 2022

As a result, many retailers are seeking to scale up their selection through models like drop ship and marketplace. But while these approaches can help reduce the supply chain costs of stocking and shipping millions of single items, they also have many retailers questioning their roles.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Customers who click See More on those non-Amazon listings will receive a notification that they are leaving Amazon and be redirected to the brand’s website. To create these off-Amazon listings, Amazon said it pulls the product information and price directly from brand websites.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 29, 2024

While much is often made about the cost of RFID tags, the larger barrier to adoption was the cost of the readers themselves. The upshot of the readers being too expensive was simple: from a cost standpoint, RFID was only viable for the DC. Let’s start with the costs. So what’s different this time for the stores?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 5, 2022

Additionally, rising shipping costs , talent shortages and the ease with which consumers can compare offers online make ecommerce profitability a particularly tough challenge. What the research found that was a little surprising to me was the importance of customer experience,” said Anderson. “If

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Because of the speed and scope of these imposter campaigns, the only realistic way to protect your brand and your customers is through continuous, automated monitoring to detect unauthorized brand mentions and file takedown requests. Shipping and Beyond Unfortunately, the security and fraud risks continue after orders are approved.

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lateshipment

APRIL 3, 2025

Every e-commerce business relies on shipping carriers like DHL to deliver a seamless customer experience. Packages get damaged, and shipments might go missing, and suddenly, you’re dealing with frustrated customers and revenue losses. When this happens, you might assume the loss is yours to absorb.

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lateshipment

MARCH 15, 2025

Such instances can instantly escalate things and infuriate your customers, who might make hasty decisions that can prove to be costly for you. The first action a frustrated customer would take in such situations is simply choosing to quit shopping with you, as a result of the bad experience they faced.

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lateshipment

MARCH 3, 2025

It slashes your margins, jacks up your costs, and can even tarnish your brand reputation. While being suspicious of all customers is not the right solution, having measures in place to protect your business is unavoidable. Essentially, they’re manipulating the system for their own benefit and at your expense.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2024

As a result, brands and retailers have had to up their game for their omnichannel strategies to ensure they have the new features and functionality that consumers require to find the best products at the best price. Far fewer respondents ( 56% ) said that more expensive product assortments would lead them to have higher expectations. “We

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2023

There are hefty fees for merchants when it comes to returns — shipping is costly and restocking takes time and money, which can take a toll on any business. However, not providing a frictionless customer experience has long-term growth implications that you need to consider if you hope to maintain a successful e-commerce business.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

These sorts of requests — known as chargebacks — are very expensive and time-consuming for all parties involved. In fact, there are roughly 615 million chargebacks happening every year and the average chargeback costs $191, which amounts to $117.46 Tackling issues that affect the overall customer experience is crucial.

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lateshipment

MARCH 25, 2025

Your products are the heart of your business, and shipping is what gets them where they need to go. Naturally, there’s a cost involved in making that journey happen, as there are logistics, fuel, handling, and a whole lot more that go into getting your package from point A to point B. What is a Shipping Surcharge?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 31, 2023

A recent study by IHL Group projects that the global cost of inventory distortion in 2023 will be $1.77 IHL estimates the cost of ORC in the U.S. Incidents of customers unable to find an associate to help them increased 36.3% trillion — bigger than the combined retail GDP of all of Latin America. While a problem across the U.S.,

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