The retail industry is facing its biggest hurdle yet as a result of the global pandemic. Shoppers may be slow to return to brick and mortar stores and social distancing and stricter hygiene protocols are here to stay as businesses continue to adhere to health…
Brick-and-mortar retailers seem to have a love-hate relationship with eCommerce. Online sellers represent a new faction of competition for the neighborhood store or regional chain. On the other hand, adding an online channel gives retailers new opportunities to grow their businesses. If you’re undecided about…
Value-added resellers (VAR) in the retail space need to be talking a language comprising bricks and clicks if they are to continue expanding their businesses and supporting their customers’ growth strategies. With the rapid rise of eCommerce in the last ten years, it’s clear most…
Cross-border eCommerce will make up 20% of all online retail in 2022, according to analyst group Forrester – suggesting it could be a lucrative area of focus for retailers currently shaping their omnichannel strategies. With Forrester expecting sales of $627 billion to be conducted through…
Retailers are being offered advice from all angles about how to shape their businesses for the omnichannel era – but a key starting point is ensuring they have eCommerce integration within their stores Download our eBook, ‘True Omnichannel Means Bricks + Clicks’ to learn how…
In just a few short years, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged from the stuff of science fiction into a technology widely embraced across industries from healthcare to manufacturing. Given how well Amazon’s Alexa-powered Echo and Dot and other voice-activated assistants such as Google Home are…
Click and Collect is one of the biggest changes in shopping habits over the last few years. As I’ve touched on in previous articles, customers love the convenience of doing the browsing from home, or on-the-go with their mobile, combined with the immediacy of being able…
We’re well and truly moving into the world of connected retail. By that I mean that many retailers have multiple channels, or different ways that shoppers can buy, and those channels are increasingly becoming integrated and linked. It is connected retail enables multi-channel transactions such as Click…
It seems the debate about the future of stores has well and truly moved away from questioning their future existence to focus on how stores need to function in a multichannel retailing world. This shift over the last couple of years is hugely welcome because…
Click and collect is one of the biggest retail trends in recent years – customers love the combination of the convenience of shopping online, with the immediacy of collecting in store. Retailers of all types and increasingly of all sizes are rushing to meet this growing…