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From Retail To Restaurants, Holiday Gift Card Sales Are Hot

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In a year that’s been filled with lifestyle changes, personal pivots and business adaptations, 2020 may also go down as the year of the gift card as studies show an outsized increase in sales leading up to the busy holiday season. InMarket’s data also showed customers were spending about 17 percent more on gift cards in 2020.

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Social Shopping Emerges As Hottest Digital 3.0 Trend

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Social shopping is the latest pandemic-driven trend to catch fire. With Burberry launching a social experience at its brick-and-mortar Shenzhen store and social platforms like Facebook pushing their commerce capabilities, new startups are popping up and established brands are catching up to capture this newest area of the digital shift.

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How BNPL Is Helping BlackCool Boost Brand Awareness And Availability

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have BNPL accounts, and the trend is gaining popularity around the world. . This growth is creating opportunities for numerous retailers, including BlackCool & Co. , a lifestyle brand that offers apparel, accessories and fragrances as well as spirits and hand-rolled cigars. Registering And Extending Brand Appeal .

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Melding Digital With Physical Rescues In-Store Retailing

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From where things stand in Q4 2020 it’s not hard to imagine physical retail going extinct. Noting the ways COVID has permanently changed retailing, CNBC recently reported , “As more and more stores go dark at the mall, some major retail executives are looking to grow outside of it — a tactic they hadn’t touted so publicly before.

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Blackhawk Network Teams With Kroger On Gift Card Curbside Pickup, At-Home Activation

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Kroger customers can now expediently and simply order gift cards for curbside pickup in addition to their supermarket items at 1,900 of the chain’s locations throughout the nation, according to a Monday (Dec. 21) announcement from Blackhawk Network.

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New credit card partnerships climb, but the composition shifts

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The credit card partnership market is off to an aggressive start in 2019, given issuers’ robust activity in the first half to try to fuel new growth amidst a leveling-off in receivables. Already, 10 new credit card programs launched in the second quarter of 2019 (Figure 1), compared to the 16 launched in 2018, based on our analysis.

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Deep Dive: Keeping Up With Bridge Millennials’ Retail Impact

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Bridge millennials’ rise is changing the retail ecosystem ahead of the 2019 holiday season, but their impacts will continue to be felt in the year ahead. The group also spends more than other demographics, averaging $2,225 in retail purchases per year. Bridge millennials are becoming bellwethers of shifting retail trends.