Retail TouchPoints

JULY 22, 2024

With the 2024 holiday season not too far away, it’s an opportune moment to evaluate your fulfillment operations and determine which technologies require an upgrade or replacement to secure your future success. If you’re noticing warning signs, it might be time to consider upgrading or even replacing your existing technology.

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BigCommerce

MAY 4, 2018

For consumers, Rent the Runway is a luxury clothing rental company that allows regular folks to rent and wear expensive goods they’d otherwise never have access to. 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.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In internal fulfillment, the business handles the complete process of storing, packing and shipping. The company must have a warehouse to keep its inventory, and a logistics team to manage the goods for storing, ordering and shipping directly to stores/distributors or customers. How technologically advanced are your operations?

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The acceleration of the digital economy has led to technological innovation in many aspects of retail operations. New tools make data available to retailers like never before and are the linchpin to improving efficiencies, reducing waste, saving energy and assessing overall carbon footprint. Good for Profits and Planet.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

The good news is that retailers can make a number of adjustments both to reduce return rates and to make the overall process more streamlined and less costly. in the retailer’s facilities. From a customer perspective, according to research from Optoro , 66% of consumers prefer to bring returns to stores rather than shipping them back.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 2, 2022

According to a study by the Öko-Institut in Berlin, ecommerce overall results in significantly lower carbon emissions than brick-and-mortar retail sales, mostly thanks to savings in heating and electricity. But online purchases still have a significant environmental cost, even if it is lower than that of physical retail stores.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Fortunately, the labor disputes were resolved before any major disturbance to the economy, but the situation has forced brands — and any business that relies on national carriers — to reconsider their shipping strategy by embracing a multi-carrier approach. How do the costs compare with national carriers?

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Let’s face it — a monogamous relationship with a national shipping company ain’t cutting it anymore. If you are a retailer stuck in a single-carrier relationship, it’s time to open it up, especially with holiday shopping underway. Combined, we could cross-reference whether or not a given retailer used a single carrier.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 17, 2020

The impact of digital technology on the retail industry has been nothing short of profound. In recent years, bricks have morphed into clicks and taps as consumers have embraced the convenience of online shopping. Still, nothing could have fully prepared retailers — both online and in the physical world — for COVID-19.

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BigCommerce

MAY 1, 2018

Nonetheless, both technology and human behavior are constantly changing, and as a business owner or ecommerce manager, you have to be ready to adapt. Cost reductions (47%). For example, you can use the information about peak shopping times to get rid of excess stock at sale prices or run social ads during these timeframes.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2024

Retail TouchPoints: What are the biggest changes you’ve noted in how goods arrive at consumers’ doorsteps over the last decade, and what do these shifts mean for retailers and FedEx? And that’s a big part of what sets us apart — we’re building the technology today that will make supply chains smarter and more resilient tomorrow.

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BigCommerce

AUGUST 17, 2018

To ensure that you’re offering a fair and competitive price for your products, you’ll want to look at what similar online retailers are charging. Don’t just look at the price retailers are charging for their products, look at the total cost as well (tax + shipping charges + service fees).

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Ecommerce Platforms

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

If you’re thinking of starting your own retail business, but you don’t have the budget to pay for storing and shipping products yourself, then a fulfilment company is a must-have. Fulfilment companies are the organizations capable of handling things like packing and shipping an item for a business. Same day or two-day shipping.

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BigCommerce

JULY 25, 2017

John’s advice: To other small to mid-sized online retailers working with Facebook ads , John Lott says, “Start small, and don’t give up if you don’t see quick results. Let customers name their price: ALB uses PriceWaiter on their product pages –– which lets the buyer name a price.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 26, 2023

This mismatch of the item’s size and the box it comes in might seem like a minor problem, but it makes the already expensive last mile even more costly, with higher corrugate cardboard costs and wasted space in delivery trucks (not to mention being a sustainability nightmare).

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 25, 2022

Investment in the proper technologies needed to build a strong supply chain not only enables prompt replenishment of products in inventory, but also optimizes planning capabilities in rapidly evolving business ecosystems while minimizing duplication, errors and inefficiencies. Navigating the Dynamic and Evolving Shipping Industry.

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BigCommerce

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Getting shipping quotes. Beyond customization for brands, agencies, developers and technology companies now have the ability to build a completely customized checkout on BigCommerce, and then market that solution as a replacement for the BigCommerce checkout on both the BigCommerce App Store and their own marketing material.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 27, 2022

But these systems, built for long lead cycles and slow/steady feedback loops, simply weren’t designed to impact how items are priced, where they’re located, how they’re advertised and their ship place of origin at the pace at which consumers are now making major (and minor) purchasing decisions with two swipes and a click from their phone.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 8, 2023

After three years of supply chain logistics and shipping delays, retailers have too much inventory sitting on shelves, and consumer demand continues to be in flux as inflation maintains a strong grip on budgets everywhere. This means the way consumers shop has drastically changed as new financing options rise in popularity.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The “white space” in this case came from the fact that sourcing products from faraway regions isn’t a challenge that could easily be solved by existing technology. You can participate in trade fairs, but that’s expensive. Or you can travel there, which is again expensive. The Democratization of Distribution.

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Ecommerce Platforms

APRIL 13, 2021

Every time you ship a product the packaging either gets thrown in the landfill or recycling bin. Sustainable packaging is eco-friendly material used for shipping and storing goods. It's manufactured using the cleanest of technologies available and the best practices known for maintaining sustainability.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

While technology has continued to have a dramatic impact on the retail industry, the spread of COVID-19 has created new technology trends and accelerated current tech best practices significantly. Automated commerce, or a-commerce, is one of the hottest technology trends in retail currently. Autonomous delivery.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 5, 2021

The cost of fraud to retailers is up 6.6% And merchants may have been extra concerned about fraud during the holiday shopping season, because the crush of holiday orders and unusual shopper behavior (binge-buying, shipping to multiple addresses) can make it hard to detect fraudsters online and at curbside for BOPIS pickups.

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BigCommerce

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Thinking of selling a single product each day at flash sale prices? In fact, it’s likely all of this year’s 19 most innovative ecommerce brands have your online channel activities beat in terms of impact on: Conversions. Michael Leff , vice president of technology at StoreYourBoard, the 2016 Innovation Award winner.

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Ecommerce Platforms

JANUARY 5, 2023

If you’ve been around the block of ecommerce, you likely know just how vital shipping is. So, now customers expect shipping times of just a few days and often expect low-cost or even free shipping. This is where fulfillment solutions for smoother, faster, and easier shipping come into their own.

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Kissmetrics

JULY 8, 2021

However, to give a brief overview, BrickSeek started out in 2014 as a web application enabling LEGO collectors to track down popular sets online and in-store. The same things that make BrickSeek such a useful tool for consumers also make it a potentially invaluable resource for online retailers. Think about it.

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Kissmetrics

MARCH 23, 2018

online retail sales. Even some of the other biggest retail giants in the world have a tough time competing against Amazon. Some may tell you that even if you can’t compete with their scale, you can compete in other ways, like offering competitive discounts and free shipping for your own customers. Improve your shipping.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 14, 2023

However, that doesn’t mean retailers shouldn’t be searching for ways to minimize the costs returns incur. These include not just costly shipping and processing fees but also the extra promotions or liquidations needed to move excess inventory.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 4, 2023

How do CPG manufacturers and retailers analyze potentially thousands of SKUs across multiple brick-and-mortar and online retail outlets? It’s both an art and a science — and it requires going beyond traditional methods and tools, and being just a little bit obsessive about the behind-the-scenes technology.

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Ecommerce Platforms

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Shippo Review: An Easy-to-use Shipping Solution for SMB Merchants. Do you find order fulfillment as the most twisted and wearisome part of your online business? No matter how weighty the shipping demands are, a merchant needs a pristine solution to work with. You need an easy, fast, and reliable shipping software you can trust.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 29, 2023

Given the rapid growth of online retail over the past few years, brand owners have become increasingly vigilant about the distribution of their products, in many instances by third-party resellers, on these online platforms. This is true of third-party sellers on online platforms as well.

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Ecommerce Platforms

MARCH 14, 2022

With it, online retailers get access to a pan-European fulfillment network which allows you to manage your whole supply chain across and remain flexible with the plethora of shipping partners that are a part of byrd's logistics ecosystem. The warehouse then kickstarts the order process and ships the order that same day.

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eCommerce Training Academy

MAY 1, 2020

Competition was minimal, technology wasn’t as affordable as it is now and access to product was limited. China is opening up to the world and technology is now affordable. Lots has changed including the way they consume content and communicate online. They get easily distracted with technology and social media.

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lateshipment

APRIL 23, 2020

Fraudsters are leveraging the same technology that merchants are using, making it increasingly easy for criminals to scale their operations. There’s a famous saying about scaling that inspires eCommerce retailers and marketers: If you can make one dollar in sales, you can make a million. Fake eCommerce Returns. Ask for CVV.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 29, 2020

It has been widely reported that the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a boom in online retail. Economists are predicting a flat or modest increase in holiday sales compared to 2019, but they expect a big increase in online holiday shopping. in costs related to chargebacks, merchandise and remediation time and expense.

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Wiser

AUGUST 18, 2020

Dynamic pricing in online retail has come a long way as a pricing strategy. It is defined as a strategy that allows retailers to respond in real-time to supply and demand levers. Where Did Dynamic Pricing Originate? . Dynamic pricing ties back to a pricing model that American Airlines pioneered in the 1980s.

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