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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Here’s the news: Beijing-based Babytree, which was founded in 2007 and “operates an online platform for parents to exchange know-how, shop for baby goods and purchase early education services,” recently launched its IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Contextual commerce is a retail practice centered around discovery.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. 21), the latest commerce operator to be on the verge of extinction in this age of digital and mobile. though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. “As Another one seems ready to bite the dust.

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APRIL 22, 2019

That’s reportedly the case when it comes to luxury retail brand Gucci. According to a new report in the Financial Times , Gucci plans to open six call centers, including in such cities as Florence and Shanghai, as the retailer chases consumer demand for smartphone-enabled commerce, especially among millennials in the hunt for luxury goods.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The holiday shopping rush is always critical for Main Street small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S. — percent of consumers have switched from shopping for retail products in stores to shopping for them online, while 16.6 In some cases, like retail and restaurants, it’s because they are open for business.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Using camera and camera technology in such a way is becoming a more important part of retail, part of the rising trend of visual commerce. There is another trend at work, one called contextual commerce, and it’s easy to see how more sophisticated offerings related to visual commerce can help the other online retail trend.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

Walmart, meanwhile, is working with JD.com to expand operations in China, the U.S. Currently, JD’s business operates similarly to Amazon and Alibaba in that it holds and sells its own inventory and lets third parties hawk their goods on its platform. “If and Southeast Asia. But the good thing is U.S.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Online marketplaces for everything from retail goods to travel services to hospitality need to ensure a quick and easy way for both buyers and sellers to transact with each other— or risk losing both sides to a waiting host of competitors. An AI-Powered Visual Shopping Experience For Millennials, Gen Z.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The company outlined plans in July to build 1,500 restaurants in China in the coming decade, becoming the last of Toronto-based Restaurant Brands International Inc’s main brands to enter the country.”. are seen as increasingly bullish on the retail landscape in China, even amid trade wars and the worry of recession. Popeyes’ Path.

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MAY 1, 2020

It’s understandably an anxious time for Main Street businesses , even as downtowns prepare to reopen. But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? EforAll began operating in Holyoke in 2018 and in Roxbury in 2019.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

He added that small shopkeepers had to figure out almost overnight how to move their businesses online and digitize even their physical operations so they could keep the customer relationships they already had. And we’re glad to see more digital advertising and using social media to drive their agendas.”. What Comes Next.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

It is the smallest of firms, the stores that dot Main Street, that are struggling the most with the great digital shift. That means digitizing all aspects of their businesses from marketing to all facets of daily operations, from consumer-facing outreach to payments in the back office in order to stay connected to consumers and communities.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

At the same time, Alipay found that travelers born between 1960-1969 as well as 1970-1979 served as the “main driving force in outbound tourism and overseas consumption.” In addition, recipients can receive the codes through social media or email, and retail spaces such as food outlets can also display the codes.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

The eCommerce operator plans to print a holiday catalog , reportedly for distribution at Whole Foods and via mail. Even some major retailers famous for their catalogs are shifting more to digital. Online retail accounted for 53.7 That’s one reason some retailers are stepping up their catalog efforts. Paper Declines.

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JULY 13, 2018

Location has always mattered in business, but the concept is taking on new meaning in online retail. consumers to paint a landscape picture of the retail trend. Buying a dress worn by a celebrity in a picture featured on a magazine or social media site qualifies. It’s not about speed.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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AUGUST 24, 2019

According to Zach Hensley, vice president of operations and guest experiences for the Seahawks and CenturyLink Field, these services are changing how fans experience live games and boosting their overall enjoyment. we can also expect more voice-assistant retail as part of the games. million people in 2016 to 17.2

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MAY 29, 2018

Meanwhile, retailers are scrambling to develop and translate the personalized experience consumers desire into digital features for these devices, using data as well as artificial intelligence and augmented reality. The financial services company recently debuted a new partnership with Russian phone operator and telecom provider MegaFon.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

A disaster sets off a complex flow of donations and disbursements , a complex process that involves disaster victims, individual donors, private charities and other nonprofits, financial institutions, private and public companies (including retailers and payment service providers) and local, state and federal governments.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

Today, the brand is very different than the soap-making operation that was formerly run out of its founders’ kitchen. The brand’s popularity has not come from marketing – Herbivore spends very little on that – and instead has come from the word of mouth generated by their sizable and enthusiastic social media following.

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MAY 31, 2018

The paper reported that, in May, the online retailer “added two directors to its 11-member board that were nominated by activist investor Starboard Capital. The social media operator said last year that it is expanding the number of cars for sale, which users can view via its marketplace, teaming up with leaders in the auto industry.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Currently, the American department store chain’s main Chinese digital representation is a storefront on Tmall Global, a web shopping site for imported products operated by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Macy’s announced the planned move last week at an event in Shanghai. Macy’s launched on Tmall last November.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

Just like retail, this is the state of the restaurant industry as we kick off 2020: caught in the throes of a digital reinvention as the role of the physical footprint is being rethought, and as tech plays as much of a starring role in its top- and bottom-line success as the products it produces and delivers.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Even if the House that Bezos built were suddenly to disappear in a puff of smoke tomorrow, physical retailers would still have to convince customers that driving to a store gives them a better experience then shopping the endless aisles of the web for the latest fashion at the best prices. But maybe that’s the good news.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

It was the main question put to a panel of payments and customer-facing professionals who told Karen Webster that the “old” ways of doling out rewards, on a merchant-by-merchant, point-by-point basis — even with thresholds in place before redemption — no longer applies. The technology is there; firms just have to make use of it.

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JULY 26, 2016

Whatley noted that the payment solution has enabled many charities to accept credit cards, including the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, which uses DipJar in both a retail setting to collect money for themselves and to collect money at events, and the Salvation Army, which uses branded DipJars for various campaigns.

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MAY 25, 2017

The May Payments-as-a-Service Tracker™ examines the ways new payment solutions and tools are helping merchants with their business operations and improving relationships with the customers and clients. News from the Payments-as-a-Service Landscape. Reinventing the Recreation Market.

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JUNE 17, 2016

Main Street Businesses. We were thrilled to report that the health of those businesses that line the side streets and main streets of Any Town, USA are not only healthy and growing but making the local economies in which they operate healthy, too. And, that’s not all the good news. Private Label Cards. Speaking of Birchbox ….

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JUNE 28, 2019

While companies work to overhaul existing payment infrastructures, the latest venture by social media giant Facebook will require new infrastructures to be created from scratch. Find a Deep Dive, outlining how financial players are working to modernize payment infrastructures for cross-border needs, inside the Tracker.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Attorney General Letitia James said her office won more than $16 million in restitution and penalties for 68,000 victims and shuttered the scammers’ New York and Oregon operations. New York officials, however, recently delivered good news to victims of a magazine scam that Orbital Publishing Group oversaw.

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JULY 18, 2016

Big Data can present big rewards or big headaches for retailers. The sources of data can be as variant as the data itself, coming from transactions, of course, with information about every purchase, every swipe, every dissatisfied return to the retail brick-and-mortar location or online.

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JUNE 23, 2018

Neither the image produced by Cornelius nor the space selfie by Aldrin had any immediate commerce applications — to put it mildly — but there is no doubt those photographs, the achievement they represented and the future they foreshadowed influenced men and women who would go on to make advancements in retail and technology.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

It’s easy to think that, since so many countries have already taken the faster payment plunge , the upcoming US initiative would be a smoother operation. However, that would mean operating under the assumption that payment activity has remained the same as it was ten years ago, which is clearly not the case.

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JULY 6, 2018

Another segment, millennials, are looking for unique destinations that can lend themselves to Instagram and other social media channels. John Romfo, chief operating officer for GLAMPING.COM , said in a press release last year that “what started as a trend has evolved into a full-blown phenomenon.” The Great Outdoors.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

The online retailer sold smaller versions of the trees last year, but online orders of Christmas trees made up only a small portion of overall sales of the trees. But online retail sales are hardly the only digital boost that digital technology gives to the sale of live Christmas trees, according to Hundley. Christmas Tree Landscape.

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MAY 1, 2019

Here’s the lay of the land: Google ’s growth in paid clicks is slowing down, causing troubles with investors and, no doubt, a degree of joy among its main rivals for online commerce and advertising power. The program also gives participating retailers a chance to attach themselves to those search queries via sponsored posts.

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JULY 28, 2018

And while bargain retailers charge vanishingly small amounts for their goods, all of those little sales add up to some pretty amazingly large figures for bargain-hunting consumers. “We Part of it is a savvy social media-based distribution model through WeChat. We can’t remember [the] last time we left without spending $100!”

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The Digital Consumer Report , a Samsung Pay collaboration, aims to illuminate the role of AI and machine learning in transforming how consumers and merchants think about customer service in the retail sector.

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