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So-called Generation Z is also driving much of the innovation when it comes to retail. To reach consumers on the hunt for offerings that are “clean and natural,” the retail chain rolled out its Everspring household brand. Gen Z Trends. As well, the brick-and-mortar retail shopping experience is still important to Gen Z.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Auto sales are driving retail trends, as online marketplace and auction site eBay has released a new eBay Motors app. At the same time, Carvana , a firm that allows consumers to browse and purchase vehicles online, has added a new virtual financing option.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Walgreens has followed in the footsteps of Walmart and Amazon to join the retailer-as-ad-agency trend , while BigCommerce recently launched Open Checkout to let developers, retailers and partners create tailored checkout experiences. 67% : Share of Australian consumers who prefer to shop in-store rather than online.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online.

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JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. Larger Trends. This is only part of the innovation trend stemming from video games. In-store sales, notably, is where the retailer needs to see growth. percent, it wasn’t as much as the retailer wanted to see.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Luxury and upscale retail are undergoing some significant changes as the holiday shopping season kicks off and a new decade approaches. The retailer recently delivered earnings that beat analysts’ expectations for the recently completed financial quarter, even as its net sales declined year over year. Social Retail.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. About the same share — or 60.9

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. More consumers are going online to shop and pay as the pandemic progresses. It produced several payment trends, which can be found in the How We Shop report.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.

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JUNE 17, 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers were already seeing enthusiasm from customers for more convenient ways to interact during the purchasing process. While some retailers have offered limited order pickup options for some time, this was often limited to certain verticals or a small sub-set of products. The Challenges.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The pandemic is proving to be a tough loyalty test for retailers, as they are competing for customers’ attention in an environment where competition is still present in both online and in stores. Retailers must, therefore, assess what type of shopping experiences consumers are searching for, as well as how to provide swift payments.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

Among the ongoing trends in retail is the funding for online used car platforms, and the ongoing rise of eCommerce and digital payments in Latin America. Used Vehicle Trends. Consumers who want to sell their cars via that platform reportedly seek an online price estimate. “If million in a previous round.

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MARCH 20, 2019

For instance, why are there significant, revenue-draining gaps between what merchants think about payments innovation and what they actually do? Koopman and Karen Webster recently engaged in a discussion about how those gaps apply to a very specific but lucrative part of the retail landscape: the health and beauty product space.

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JULY 11, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a type of point-of-sale installment loan that partners with retailers to allow consumers to pay for their purchases in multiple equal payments. When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

The longstanding practice of selling automobiles is getting a change — reflecting larger trends in commerce. For instance, online marketplace and auction site eBay has released eBay Motors , a new app that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to list a car in under five minutes, according to a report by The Verge. New Financing.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

At the same time, however, online platforms are aiming to protect their users as fraud mounts. And, in retail, the so-called smart home — powered in large part by voice-assisted retail and payments — will be one of the primary trendlines of the 2020s. All this, Today in Data.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Not only is it a big time for retail but, in a sense, a kind of dress rehearsal for the upcoming all all-important holiday shopping season. Retail back-to-school spending for families will hit an average of $696.70 last year, according to the National Retail Federation , a trade group. this year, up from $684.79 Amazon Effort.

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Here are some of the important trends that Bank Innovation pulled out of the fintech chatter […]. A lot happened in the digital banking world this month, from major events in the payments worlds like PayPal acquiring iZettle for $2.2 billion only days before its IPO to major regulations such as GDPR going live last week.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

Corporate buyers are quickly shifting their purchasing habits online, and seeking more efficient experiences from product sourcing through to checkout. According to Suchit Bachalli , CEO of Unilog , thanks to the market's acceleration as a result of COVID-19, the industry is on the cusp of some major innovation. An Emerging Necessity.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Our Paid Search team earned some well-deserved recognition last week when their paid search campaigns for long-time client Lake Champlain Chocolates won Best Use of Search – Retail/Ecommerce (PPC) at the US Search Awards. This is exactly what ecommerce websites should do. It was amazing work.”.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

When Home Depot announced last month its plans to acquire HD Supply Holdings , it wasn’t just a sign of expansion for the home improvement retailer. It was also indicative of a growing trend of B2C merchants expanding into the B2B realm in an effort to take advantage of a surging market. The Outsourced FinTech Opportunity.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Retailers, too, have higher education on their minds. It has long been a significant presence in the lives of many college students, and that trend is sure to grow even more in the coming months and years. Mobile Innovation. Another hot retail trend that is also being honed on campuses is subscription retail.

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MARCH 27, 2020

While the advancement of open banking regulations may be seeing a small skip due to the spread of the coronavirus , many countries saw business and typical banking operations halted right after deciding upon new online privacy rules. For more on this and other stories, visit the Tracker’s News And Trends section. Security .

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are doubling down on digital as they look to staff their stores for the busy holiday shopping season. Those staffers will focus on freight processing and the fulfillment of orders placed online and via the mobile app. They will also fulfill orders placed through the web. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual reality could have more retailers reach more consumers in the coming few years — in large part by upping the consumer experience. Already, trends are emerging that promise to play out with greater steam in the 2020s. clothing retailer Topshop, which used it to take shoppers on a waterslide through central London.”.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Customers are shopping online more often and are more frequently opting for contactless payment methods in stores, for example. One recent study found that 29 percent of customers would stop shopping with retailers that they felt offered inadequate public health or safety measures, for example. About The Playbook.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Don’t look now, but virtual reality and augmented reality are starting to make bigger gains in the retail world. These are still early days but trends are coming together — and expectations are rising, thanks not only the evolution of AR and VR technology, but the coming deployments of 5G mobile network ecosystems. Larger Trends.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Retail Federation ’s annual convention may have come and gone but the sentiments, strategies and lessons learned from facing nearly a year of pandemic-led changes by some of the world’s largest merchants are going nowhere fast — especially when it comes to their embrace of increased digitalization. Stores As Social Centers.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” The company owns 458 stores in the U.S., Larger Trends. billion in 2013, representing a 2.10

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Retail technology is undergoing big changes in the restaurant world, and that includes the drive-thru. The latest development in retail camera use comes from the drive-thru lanes of the fast-food industry, according to the Financial Times. But recent changes have sparked even more interest and innovation from commerce operators.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

Coffee retailers are tapping into digital technology that helps them grow their reach beyond their stores, especially in China, where competition has been brewing between Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee and Starbucks. Luckin is hardly the only retailer tapping into the potential of vending machines. have also logged healthy sales.

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JULY 17, 2019

That holds especially true for service retail, where contractors and mechanics might still be more likely to quickly answer an actual phone call than respond to an email. Indeed, to many service providers, “innovation” can seem like nothing more than a buzzword, Koopman said. Of course, there are reasonable explanations for that.

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JUNE 10, 2020

Consumers are now getting everything online and that’s going to shape their behavior for good. online or offline, safely or not). That’s why Shift has seen better performance from most OEMs, new retailers and traditional brick-and-mortar retailers who don’t have this formula set up to respond to this scenario.”.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

The obituary for brick-and-mortar retail has been written many times. Retailers need to seize the moment when shoppers return gifts. Preparing for returns is a best practice; leveraging returns intelligence to inform product development and new customer acquisition strategies is next-practice retail.”. Consumer Trends.

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JANUARY 1, 2021

It will reflect the work-from-home (WFH) changes that we made not only to slow down the spread of a deadly virus, but also those innovations that employers and employees liked the best. It’s a trend — and investment — that’s expected to grow in 2021 and beyond. The Digital Shift. CPGs’ Big Bet. QSRs’ Big Pivot.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Consumers who previously paid for purchases by swiping or inserting their cards at in-store point-of-sale (POS) terminals are now turning to contactless cards and online shopping to safely and easily obtain needed goods. Find out more about these stories and other headlines, read the Tracker’s News and Trends.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Consumers are firing brick-and-mortar retailers from the jobs they held years and decades before. To get their shopping jobs done, consumers are now hiring retailers that make it convenient to do business – anywhere, anytime, through any channel and on their terms. When Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store Goes Horribly Wrong.

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