Loyalty Programs

Advance Auto Parts Embarks on Mobile Tour
April 13, 2017 at 9:19 am

Advance Auto Parts has hit the road for its fourth annual Mobile Tour. This year, there are two parts to the tour โ€” the Restoration Tour and the VIP Tour. The tours stop at dozens of automotive and store events across the country, and kicked off at Daytona Bike Week back in March. โ€œItโ€™s aโ€ฆ

How Ulta Succeeds in the Competitive Beauty Category
March 24, 2017 at 9:44 am

In an industry that's ridden with store closures and bankruptcies, one retailer is a bright spot. Ulta Beauty, one of the fastest-growing beauty retailers, saw net sales increase 23.7 percent in 2016 and earnings per share soar 30.9 percent. Earlier this week at Shoptalk in Las Vegas, Dave Kimbell, Ultaโ€™s chief merchandising and marketing officer,โ€ฆ

Fostering Customer Loyalty in an Omnichannel World
March 22, 2017 at 1:14 pm

Building customer loyalty is becoming more and more difficult in todayโ€™s omnichannel retail environment. Your competition is always just a simple search, click or tap away. Itโ€™s much more cost effective to retain existing customers rather than acquire new ones. So how can retailers gain customer loyalty? In the webinar โ€œCustomer Loyalty: The Holy Grailโ€ฆ

What Do Consumers Expect From Retail?
March 1, 2017 at 7:00 pm

Itโ€™s been hard times recently for retailers, for example, R.H. Macy & Co. Founded by Rowland Hussey Macy in 1858 in New York City, on opening day the company had sales of $11.08. That would be $328.10 today based on inflation. Macy's moved to Herald Square in 1902 and through expansion eventually became the โ€œlargestโ€ฆ

How Personalization is Driving Increased Loyalty for Walgreens
January 18, 2017 at 12:00 pm

Attaining customer loyalty is an incredibly difficult, but important, task in today's hypercompetitive retail environment. It's well-documented that retaining an existing customer is much more cost effective than spending to acquire a new customer. Therefore, retailers have implemented loyalty programs to incentivize customers to come back and purchase from them again and again. Walgreensโ€™ Balanceโ€ฆ

Amazon to Launch Loyalty Credit Card for Prime Members
January 11, 2017 at 12:47 pm

Amazon.com is making news โ€ฆ again. The e-commerce giant is trying to ring up even more sales, announcing a new credit card aimed at its most loyal customers. The credit card is for Prime members only, and offers 5 percent back on all Amazon purchases. MarketWatch reports the card, branded with Visa Inc. logo, doesโ€ฆ

Forget the Sale! Whereโ€™s the Loyalty in Holiday Shopping?
November 28, 2016 at 10:18 am

The holidays are on a fast-and-furious pace to smash head-on into our collective shopping carts. And thereโ€™s no better time for your bottom line than the holidays to hit the โ€œsaleโ€ button and get people to take your inventory off your hands. Am I right? But what about the mind-set of your current, loyal shoppers?โ€ฆ