Understanding the entire customer journey when purchasing products, with constantly changing consumer behaviour, is difficult yet necessary. 74% of consumers shop in more than one sales channel before buying, but why do customer start in one channel and end up … Read More … Read More
eCommerce
Future of Retail: Clicks and Bricks
We’ve seen a war emerging in retail. Online vs traditional brick-and-mortar. Up until recently these two channels have been treated just as that, two distinctly different channels and have not played nicely together. The continued rise of eCommerce has revealed … Read More … Read More
Why Not Just Sell Direct?
After doing all the “hard work” of getting a customer on my site and getting them to press buy, why would anyone gift a high margin direct to consumer sale away to a retailer? This is the number one question … Read More … Read More
Amazon: Friend or Foe
The timeless sandal brand Birkenstock is walking away from Amazon. The company sites withdrawing from the marketplace as the only option to combat the rise in counterfeits and unauthorized selling from Chinese merchants who have become increasingly present on the service. 62% … Read More … Read More
Customers who Research Online, Prefer to Buy There
Flatter Distribution with Ship from Store
The war for customers is on and traditional retailers are joining the fight. In a bid to get products to customers at break neck speed, brick and mortar retailers are offering a ship from store option. To do this they … Read More … Read More