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Four must-have strategies for a successful online store

By Alan Chester, VP of eCommerce at Luzern With the adoption of online shopping continuing to soar, brands are evolving their eCommerce strategies and upscaling their digital storefronts. While attractive and functional web stores are essential to reach and engage existing customers, entice new buyers, and grow conversion rates – brands must do more, or risk being left behind. This article features the four must-have strategies every brand should embrace for…

Why physical stores are still vital for retail

February 11, 2021
Zory Alonzo
Customers, NEWS, Retail
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Photo by Atoms on Unsplash During the Covid-19 pandemic, online became a fundamental channel for retailers. Even as overall retail spending decreased, eCommerce sales grew over the previous year. The impressive results may overshadow that eCommerce still represents just a small percentage of total retail sales: in the U.S., the number is as low as 14.5%, according to eMarketer data. This means that over 85% of retail still happens in physical stores, which makes a synergy between online and…

Customer Highlight

When you buy Danforth Pewter, you bring a unique piece of authentic Vermont artisanship into your life. All of our goods are handmade in Middlebury, Vermont by our team of local artisans, who cast, spin, polish, paint, and assemble raw metal…

How automation can help retailers digitally transform in the new year

February 2, 2021
Zory Alonzo
NEWS, Retail
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Automation software process system business concept, innovative business concept and technology Premium Photo Venu Kannan, global vice president, Domain and Applications Practice, UiPath, maps out reasons why retails should be seriously considering automation to meet rising consumer demands. While brick-and-mortar shopping…

3 I’s that could reframe the future of retail

January 26, 2021
Zory Alonzo
NEWS, Retail

This is a pivotal moment for the retail industry. While many retailers are under acute pressure just to survive, those that make it through the pandemic have an opportunity to create a much stronger and more profitable relationship with their…

Is turnover rent the new future for retail?

January 19, 2021
Zory Alonzo
NEWS, Retail
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While turnover-based rents aren't unusual in retail, the Covid-19 pandemic has placed landlord-tenant relationships and lease obligations in spotlight. The turnover rent model was becoming increasingly common in retail leases even before the pandemic, but the question now is whether…

Consumers favor smartphones for back-to-school shopping.

September 7, 2020
Zory Alonzo
Customers, NEWS, Online
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More than half (59%) of U.S. consumers plan to use their smartphones for back-to-school shopping this year, making mobile devices more popular than personal computers (26%) and tablets (15%), a new study by mobile advertising company AdColony found. Fifty-five percent…

What COVID-19 did to customer loyalty

August 31, 2020
Zory Alonzo
NEWS
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As retailers grappled with out-of-stocks, research found that 75% of consumers opted to shop alternative brands. Consumers recently have become more loyal to the brands they shop. According to a survey from e-commerce marketing platform Yotpo released last November, a quarter said…

Physical retail will not disappear, it will transform

August 3, 2020
Zory Alonzo
NEWS
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Retailers dealt with an issue before the pandemic and it is called “retail apocalypse”, this concept talks how a massive amount of retailers had to close their stores around the United States and the world, due to the changes in…

New Age Retail

In early 2020, retail was predictable. Clothes were neatly stacked on shelves and displayed on mannequins, shoppers browsed in search of just the right item, and online orders came into the warehouse and awaited fulfillment. Then COVID-19 hit, and a…