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It’s almost that time of year again. Come April, citizens and businesses alike will perform our civic duty by handing over a portion of our earnings to the government. Tax season is upon us.
Many retail businesses experienced growing pains due to the market’s shift towards e-commerce and the omnichannel shopping experience. Some businesses are facing massive closures and potential bankruptcy. Many others, however, thrived through 2017 and can expect success in the months ahead.
The physical retail marketplace continually changes due to its susceptibility to multiple variables such as consumer preferences and the automation movement. The initial emerging narrative spelled doom for legacy physical retailers and constructed a future in which e-commerce dominates the retail marketplace.
Whether or not consumers enjoy having many product choices has been a question businesses, especially in the e-commerce market, have struggled with. Businesses refer to this as the “paradox of choice” and “choice overload” — the relationship between consumers and the amount of choices they’re presented with.
Reports and articles across the market have highlighted layoffs, foreclosures and bankruptcies of some of the industry’s biggest players, essentially constructing a narrative where online-exclusive stores will eventually phase out the brick-and-mortar experience.
Dirxion customer Ulta Beauty spoke at the annual CRM Conference in Chicago earlier last week,as reported by TotalRetail. Ulta Beauty’s SVP of Marketing Strategy Eric Messerschmidt spoke on the company’s CRM and e-commerce strategies and how they increase customer loyalty.
Online catalogs publishers looking for a simple but complete interface can switch to Dirxion’s new minimal UI. The interface design stores its tools and features within a menu that opens and closes with one click.
For some catalog printers, Internet commerce is actually helping to create new business, a recent article in the Portland Press Herald points out. The story focuses on a major printer in Freeport, Maine — The Dingley Press — who now prints catalogs for many online retailers.