Omnichannel

In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Ashley Chiaradio and Kristina Stidham discuss retail spending predictions for Father’s Day. The industry is already experiencing a resurgence in spending as consumers become more comfortable shopping in stores as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes. This purchasing surge will push Father’s Day spending to a record high…

The use of automation technology to facilitate the seamless flow of information between product suppliers and retailers is critical to meeting consumers’ omnichannel fulfillment demands. Automation is necessary for retailers to not only satisfy their customers’ lofty expectations for buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) and curbside pickup, but also to keep pace with their…

During the pandemic, retailers faced once-in-a-lifetime headwinds, including closed physical locations, limited in-store capacity, slowed shipping times, and a customer that was oftentimes scared to leave the house. As a result, they turned heavily to buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) and buy online, pick up at curbside (BOPAC) to make their customers’ buying journeys…

With vaccine rollouts accelerating across the United States and beyond, post-COVID surveys have emerged. Looking forward has turned to looking back as marketers examine how the pandemic accelerated e-commerce adoption and growth. Without a doubt, successive lockdowns had a tremendous short-term impact on e-commerce sales. According to SearchNode, 50 percent of companies saw online sales…

The growth of omnichannel fulfillment programs such as buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) and curbside pickup of online orders has been trending for several years now. That trend reached a tipping point in the last 12-plus months, as the COVID-19 pandemic led consumers to seek out safer, contactless shopping experiences. Equally embraced by consumers…

The gift card market in the U.S. is projected to record a CAGR of 9.2 percent during 2020-2024, growing to $221,147 million by 2024, according to the Q2 2020 Global Gift Card Survey. This comes on the heels of a report from Blackhawk Network that revealed a more than 80 percent increase in digital gift…

In this interactive webinar, our speakers will be addressing how retailers can prepare their stores for the forecasted surge in demand.

After 2020’s big shift to e-commerce and a year’s worth of rising expectations for customer experience (CX), what’s the state of CX in digital commerce now? It’s a question worth asking because 87 percent of companies say they’ll compete on CX this year. Meanwhile, the ways that people can buy online keep evolving, which means…

Best Practices for Effectively Implementing Automation Technology

In this episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Ashley Chiaradio and Kristina Stidham discuss an article recently published by Total Retail Report, “5 Things Holding You Back From Making Omnichannel Retailing Profitable,” authored by Steve Ross, omnichannel solution principal at Aptos. Retailers are struggling to manage a multitude of enterprise impacts, ranging from planning to…