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RV Camper Network Replaces Longstanding Magazines With Digital Platform

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Good Sam, which calls itself “the world’s largest organization of recreational vehicle owners,” unveiled a new digital platform and related online publication set for a January launch and said it is phasing out existing print magazines, according to a Tuesday (Sept. The new digital magazine is called, predictably, “RV Magazine.”. “As

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Retailers Find New Innovation Fuel Against Amazon

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No, that doesn’t mean that PYMNTS takes sides in the struggle for retail supremacy, but only that we like to note when someone or some organization mounts a challenge to the eCommerce and logistical behemoth. High-End Retail. The battle for Amazon retail supremacy also involves pets. Retail Challenge.

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How Experiential Retail Is Giving Physical Stores An Edge

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As 2020 unfolds, the retail business has been dramatically altered. But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. So, what constitutes experiential marketing for retailers? Wine and cheese for the shoppers?

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How Food And Retail Can Collaborate Via Blockchain

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But what hasn’t been so deeply explored is how that technology can help food producers and retail firms collaborate more deeply, helping both succeed and strengthening the industries that power them. In 2016, overall retail sales climbed just 2.1 Merits Of The Collaboration. Blockchain is like one universal language getting spoken.

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How Digital Innovators Capitalize On Subscription Businesses

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To serve a wide range of consumers in the digital age, innovators are rolling out subscription offerings ranging from news content to gaming. Some providers are capitalizing on the concept by launching new services that offer access to premium content such as newspapers and magazines in exchange for a monthly fee.

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How (And Why) Major Retailers Are Embracing Print Catalogs Again

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The holiday season is the time for nostalgia and tradition, and that is the case here at PYMNTS, where even amid our coverage of the newest retail trends, we sometimes get the warm-and-fuzzies. It led us to wonder, going into the heart of the fourth quarter and then into 2020, about the status of that old standby, the retail catalog.

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More Than Pretty Pictures: The Rise Of Visual Commerce Boosts Retail

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For fans of retail or marketing history — or just fans of how people communicated in the past — reading old magazine and newspaper advertisement from, say, before the 1960s can be fun and illuminating. Already, retailers, telecoms and others are mapping out that 5G AR future (and beyond). Retail Benefits. The Rise Of AR.

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