Retail Trends In The Next Five Years [TABLE]

75% of US retailers believe that developing a more engaging in-store customer experience is going to be critical to their business in the next 5 years, according to a Motorola Solutions survey released in June 2012.

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Important Attributes to eShoppers for Beauty & Personal Care Products [CHART]

Fully 96% of online buyers shopping for personal care and beauty products said the ability to find a specific product was their topmost desire from an online retailer, followed closely by free shipping (93%), finding a favored brand (92%) and then best price (90%). Interestingly, online buyers indicated that receiving free samples and reading product…

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Product Categories Purchased Online [CHART]

Online consumers spent 33% to 45% of their monthly beauty and personal care budgets online, according to a March 2012 survey of online buyers in North America conducted by A.T. Kearney. Shoppers are using both etailers and brick-and-mortar stores to purchase these types of consumer packaged goods, meaning that brands need to step up multichannel…

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Target's Facebook Fans & Friends Purchase Behavior [CHART]

via emarketer.com The data showcased how earned media activity on Facebook affected consumers’ offline and online purchases. After being exposed to an earned brand impression from retailer Target on Facebook, 4% of fans made a purchase during the next four weeks, compared to 3.3% of fans in the control group. In addition, friends of fans…

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Tablet Shopping Frequency [CHART]

via emarketer.com Of this growing population of tablet owners, more than half reported shopping on their tablets at least once per week and 12% shopped daily, according to data released by rich media marketing platform provider Zmags in January 2012. Read the rest at eMarketer.

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Impact Of Online Channels On Retailers [CHART]

via marketingcharts.com When asked about the digital marketing channels having the greatest impact on their businesses, 58% of senior executives working for large retailers point to social media, per KPMG survey results [pdf] released in June 2012. Interestingly, this puts social media’s impact on par with online shopping, which was cited by 59% of the…

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