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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The experiential retailer b8ta is also launching a new community-driven store, this one aimed at fashion and lifestyle apparel. The company started in 2018, calling its concept “retail as a service” (RaaS). It will serve as a social marketplace, and brand partners will design their own spaces and operate their own marketing.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Apple reportedly said that the service will not allow advertisers to track what subscribers are reading, which means no targeted ads based on consumed news stories, as is the case with social media. As PYMNTS has regularly documented, subscription eCommerce is among the hottest areas of digital retail.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Google Maps is getting a makeover and retailers will be a beneficiary as it enables more location sharing, data access and social media integration. billion in 2018 and is expected to reach over 25.2 It can detect patterns and opportunities for retailers on a very basic level (where are my customers coming from?).

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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. Trend Growth.

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DECEMBER 24, 2018

Text messaging, social media, Pinterest and memes have all been offered up as avatars of destruction — and the general consensus seems to be that the death of conversation is a direct result of the digital age and probably has something to do with millennials. When consumers are finished with the cars they return them to Fair.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

In fact, 2020 opened with retail reports decrying the great toy sales slump , citing the 4 percent fall-off in toy sales, the rather tepid holiday sales season reported between 2018 and 2019 and the fact that toy sales came up short during last year’s holiday season.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over the course of years, Facebook reportedly enabled some of the world’s biggest tech companies to access the personal data of users — which amounted to the social media giant exempting some businesses from the privacy rules its customers thought they were protected under.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

According to a report in Reuters , citing Dada-JD Daohjia, the company is partly owned by JD.com and operates two businesses: Dada, the delivery service that has a network of 5 million delivery men, and JD Daojia, which partners with retails stores to provide delivery services.

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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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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Over a year of research, development and beta testing, Shopkick Grocery was found to increase consumer basket sizes to $59 in grocery, drugstore and retail spend per trip versus the $32 national average. Retail brands and partners for Shopkick include Best Buy, Clorox, Nestle and Starbucks, among others. supermarket like Kroger.

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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 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

The Americana Group currently operates 29 food production sites as well as 1,800 restaurants in the Middle East. The coffee chain has invested in offering discounts, fast delivery, lower prices and promotions on social media. million (800 million yuan) in 2018, which Fei said was expected.

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JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012.

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The firm links fashion merchants with procurement and inventory management solutions, marketing and social media support, payment processing and financing, among other B2B products. Bose said the company is also investing in “cloud factories” to enhance manufacturing capacity for its sellers. The company’s revenue hit $1.3

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

are seen as increasingly bullish on the retail landscape in China, even amid trade wars and the worry of recession. Indeed, American retailers are heading east: They’re opening the doors to brick-and-mortar stores in China, while listing on China’s dueling marketplaces, Tencent and JD.com. Luxury Moves.

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MAY 1, 2020

But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? Practical, in-person sessions with content specialists cover early-stage business challenges, such as creating a value proposition, bookkeeping, pricing and social media.

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JUNE 13, 2018

McDonald’s will have the self-serve kiosks by the end of 2018, at a cost of about $2.4 One operating assumption, for example, is that when kiosks enter a QSR space, time is basically up for the cashiers behind the counter. Their figures estimate that about 80,000 fast food jobs will disappear by 2024. The writer for Inc.

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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. Cars.com, based in Chicago, launched in 1998 and became a public company in 2017 in its spin-off from TV broadcaster and digital media firm Tegna.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Chinese conglomerate Tencent missed the mark overall in the fourth quarter of 2018, but its WeChat Pay showed significant growth, particularly as the number of merchants actively transacting on the platform was up 80% year-over-year. WeChat and its local version, Weixin, reached about 1.1

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MAY 1, 2019

percent in 2018. percent in 2018. As mentioned above, and as documented by PYMNTS research , Amazon keeps on making gains when it comes to product searches – a trend that, according to observers, underscores the eCommerce operator’s treasure trove of shopping-related data, and its expertise in using it. percent last year.

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PYMNTS

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. billion on Jan.

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APRIL 20, 2018

While the firm is small today, as of February 2018 it snapped up $10.8 million in a Series B funding round to expand its operations. That round was led by Japanese travel operator H.I.S. — a pairing that might seem a bit odd, as H.I.S is not just a financial investor, but is valued as a strategic investor. By utilizing H.I.S.’

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. According to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. Social Media. Online Resale.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

Going into the 2018 holiday shopping season, there were worries about a shortage of live Christmas trees — as is the case with all agriculture, farmers who grow trees are under often relentless pressure to sell their land for development — but that does not seem to have materialized. Christmas Tree Landscape. consumers bought some 27.4

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Loyalty and mobile continued to do some productive lifting for Starbucks in its fiscal third quarter of 2018, as those two factors contributed to an 11 percent year-over-year revenue increase, with sales for the coffee chain reaching $6.31 company-operated transactions, the company said in its financial report. Only a few – or 3.3

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JULY 3, 2017

Travel companies have historically been some of the worst offenders for drip pricing, a technique used by online retailers whereby a headline price is advertised at the beginning of the purchase process, and additional fees — such as card surcharges — that are added later in the process to inflate the final cost. The Rise of CNP Fraud.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

According to an investigation by Sixgill, $250,000 of Fortnite items were sold on eBay in the last 60 days, with operations being conducted around the globe in Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and English. And an estimated 86 percent of the scams were shared via social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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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. Fingers-crossed.

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MARCH 25, 2019

We started to really think about how [we] not only simplify integration and onboarding, but [how to] better manage operations on an ongoing basis,” he said. “We That checkout experience is powered on the backend by PayPal via its retail partnership program. Instagram and PayPal Pair Up for Instacommerce. eBay Drafts Google Pay.

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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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OCTOBER 29, 2018

Facebook reported on their website that their teams have made progress: They removed 837 million pieces of spam in Q1 2018 before anyone reported it, disabled 583 million fake accounts “within minutes” of going online and removed 24 million inappropriate pictures related to violence and nudity. million such pieces.

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MAY 18, 2018

The program is getting off the ground in Florida, and is on track for expansion to other Whole Foods stores as soon as summer 2018. The nation’s largest supermarket operator announced this week that it has officially signed a deal with U.K.-based based retailers. market, though Ocado plans to have talks with other U.S.-based

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

It can be difficult for grocers to profit from online sales of inexpensive retail products, and the marketplace’s 15 percent seller fee wasn’t helping. That’s a steal by any standards, but particularly in Hong Kong where iPhones can sell for as much as four times their retail price. The shutdown will take place on April 10, 2018.

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Insights on Business

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. Fingers-crossed.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Chris’ public posts including his playbook for dealing with COVID-19 were gobbled up on social media. Whether this turns out great or a bubble that pops, Chime has jolted the staid banking industry into thinking about who will acquire future retail customers and where value creation may emerge.

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