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JANUARY 22, 2020

For retailers, nothing really ever comes easy — and things aren’t getting any easier, at least when it involves gaining and retaining customers. Indeed, as the recently completed National Retail Federation (NRF) retail show in New York City demonstrated, commerce keeps moving to what Webster called in the webinar a “customer-centric approach.”

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

To let shoppers discover and try out new products, payment companies are helping merchants launch augmented reality (AR) experiences within social media platforms. The firm chose a Kenyan brand, Huddah Cosmetics , as the first social commerce merchant on its Mula service to roll out the platform.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

Earlier this month, Saks Fifth Avenue President Marc Metrick told CNBC that the luxury retailer didn’t need fancy artificial intelligence (AI) to help it succeed in the industry, despite the tectonic shift thrusting every other retailer into reliance on such technologies. Some luxury retailers are starting to offer such experiences.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Regardless of what happens with the sale of TikTok, social commerce could become a retail factor to reckon with in Q4, and is definitely ready for its close-up in 2021. In fact a new report puts the global market for social commerce at $89.4 billion this year and says it will reach $604.5

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JULY 21, 2017

Connecting with consumers has seen a significant change over the course of the past few decades. No longer are retailers working with marketers to figure out a way to mass market products and services. With the advent of connected devices in the palm of almost every consumer’s hand, the retail ecosystem has certainly seen a shift.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Consumers might feel creeped out by all those hyper-precise and personalized ads on social media, but how many would mind – really mind – if, because of predictive eCommerce technology, their stocks of toilet paper never ran out? It’s not as though Amazon hasn’t thought of this, of course. Other Players.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Luxury retail is being revised — and in some cases, reinvented — and those trends are worth attention as the 2019 holiday shopping season approaches. One of the latest, ongoing trends is the rise of online luxury resale commerce. That’s not to say brick-and-mortar is doing well in all areas of the luxury retail world.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It’s the big stage for retailers, the holiday shopping season – when all the consumer world is watching (and, merchants and payments providers hope, buying more than they did last year). And let these bad memories of holidays past guide you in the coming weeks to ensure that your retail and payments machine is running in top condition.

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MARCH 30, 2016

While it’s just become a fad in the last few years for retailers to actually start selling their wares on social media, just having a Facebook page has been a necessity of online merchants for many years more. In fact, it might be more important in retail than anywhere else.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

At a time when the coronavirus has sent record numbers of consumers online instead of to the mall, livestreaming is filling the social vacuum. For the first time ever, consumers can hang out and shop with their friends online, in one place,” Verishop said at the launch of its new “Shop Party” feature on its platform.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

In the webinar, entitled “ 5 Ways Fraudsters Fake IDs — And How Your Face Can Stop Them ,” Trilli not only offered an up-to-date primer on the latest criminal techniques to steal online data and identities, but gave practical and hopeful advice on how to prevent much of that fraud, even as the people behind it keep raising their game.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

FreedomPay said it is “rapidly expanding on a global scale” in such markets as retail, eCommerce, hospitality and food and beverage. FreedomPay’s robust solutions across payments, security, identity, and data analytics are available in-store, online and on-mobile,” the press release said. Before, they were limited to one or two areas.

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MAY 1, 2019

Google appears to be losing steam in the ongoing race to dominate the online advertising market, and competitors Amazon and Facebook are taking advantage of the stumbles. Another issue is attached to this recent news: Searches – specifically, product searches, which help drive online commerce. YouTube Concerns.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Of course, some of this investment came from banks. Based on this survey of over 2,000 consumers, it’s clear that online retailers, tech firms and social-media players face an uphill battle to convince consumers to allow them access to their financial data. That’s no surprise. So why not? Thanks for reading. [1]

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Published reports indicate that in the past year, Ikea has seen online sales increase by 45 percent. Of course, it’s not surprising that a retailer looking to focus on digital is exiting print. That beats 2 percent for mobile, 1 percent for email, 1 percent for social media and 0.2 percent for internet display ads.

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MAY 8, 2020

The first quarter of 2020 should have been business as usual — especially for the payments processors and financial services technology companies — the firms that keep commerce humming across offline and online channels. The coronavirus upended, well, everything, of course. Setting The Stage.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

For most people, parenting is an all-or-nothing endeavor, a constant mindset and lifestyle, the lens through which the rest of life is filtered, and a bond that can connect fathers and mothers across neighborhoods, states, time zones and countries (thanks in large part to the internet, of course).

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

Those who travel to some of the wealthier parts of the world, however, will discover the well-to-do have much more expensive unattended retail tastes. shoppers got their own taste of unattended luxury retail when vending machines dispensing caviar were installed in several Los Angeles-area malls. A few years ago, U.S.

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DECEMBER 20, 2016

A new study recently released by the Pew Research Center looking at online shopping has shed an interesting light on how eCommerce has changed consumer behavior over the past decade-and-a-half. adults have made a purchase online, and 51 percent of consumers surveyed reported making at least one purchase using a mobile device.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

It all depends on how you look at it — and where you look, of course. Bitcoin, of course, exists as one of the most widely recognized cryptocurrencies. Building The (Retail) Use Cases. And, of course, the crypto landscape extends well beyond bitcoin. Of course, it’ll take some time to get there if we do.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Financial institutions, of course, use data to create new products and services to cement customer loyalty. Data Wars, Via Social Media. The war may be waged across social media, where reputations can be dented in a matter of short Twitter bursts. In financial services, access to data is, well, everything.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

Some 49 percent say they shop online when they can, while 48 percent are favoring contactless payments and 46 percent say they’ve cut down on cash use. And of course, they also need customers’ support. And we’re glad to see more digital advertising and using social media to drive their agendas.”. What Comes Next.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For those familiar with online dating, the challenge of standing out in a crowded field is nothing new. Facebook’s entrance into digital dating has been long anticipated — the social media firm announced its plans to begin moving into the world of matchmaking in mid-2018. Facebook’s service formally launched in the U.S.

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AUGUST 24, 2019

That’s because stadiums and sports teams are looking for more opportunities to connect with at-home and online viewers as they come to represent another segment of attendees. Bundled sports broadcast packages, social media and high-definition televisions allow them to enjoy games from the comfort of their living rooms.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

Can any social networking platform be all things to all people? If anything can, it’s Facebook, and the social media giant sure is trying. Two billion monthly users are more than enough to make the retail experiment profitable, even if only a “few” of them embrace it. Hungry for more than content? This is hardly news.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Another 33 believe D2C retailers have better deals on their websites, while 33 percent say it’s easier to see all of a brand’s offerings on one site: Even better, from the brands’ point of view, is that the consumers most interested in D2C are typically younger, better educated and wealthier than those with less interest in the concept.

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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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AUGUST 23, 2019

Fewer sales in-store, of course, mean less torque to the top line. These are all macro-concerns, of course, but they do have a lasting impact on the micro-economic side, where decisions are made, where firms navigate their immediate and longer-term environments. Less torque to the top line means drag and declines on the bottom line.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

It can happen on a well-crafted blog designed to appeal to particular hobbyists, or an event and ticketing website, or an online platform devoted to travel. The breakdown of positive and negative experiences with contextual commerce also helped to define what’s attractive about the retail method, and how merchants need to approach it.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Big merchants have many strategies, but they often lack an online checkout strategy. As a result, merchants may lose millions a year due to the friction associated with converting shoppers to buyers online. It allows customers to pull in credit card, billing, and shipping info they’ve stored on the social media sites.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

This past year showed us how much we actually can do online and how people can adapt to connecting with people through a screen (my grandma included). All of these new consumer habits that are taking place online, has changed the way brands communicate with their audiences.

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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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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

percent of consumers have switched from shopping for retail products in stores to shopping for them online, while 16.6 percent have gone from dining in restaurants to ordering their food online since the pandemic began. 28 — and it will be, according to American Express, the year of the social media promotion of SMBs nationwide.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

As The Financial Times put it, Vestager “said that the preliminary probe focused on the online retailer’s dual role as a competitor, but also host, to third-party merchants.”. Last week it announced Souq, an online retail and marketplace website in Saudi Arabia, is launching the Amazon Global Store. European Tone.

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MARCH 23, 2020

Because quaranstreaming is in fact a more generally social animal than its predecessor as consumers in the U.S. and around the world are searching for means to both socialize and fill their time in a world where everything is closed and any human being that doesn’t live in one’s household needs to stay a safe six feet away.

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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. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. Social Media’s Role. Back to 2012.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Global beauty products company Coty is entering into a partnership with online P2P social commerce platform Younique. Spending nearly $13 billion in the cosmetics industry, these shoppers do their research predominantly online and then take that knowledge to the stores to make their purchases.

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