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Australians ordered 1 billion parcels in 2020

Inside Retail

Australians ordered over 1 billion parcels during 2020, a first for the country, according to the latest Pitney Bowes parcel shipping index. The] index [confirmed] what our own predictions and other indicators in the market were already saying. The post Australians ordered 1 billion parcels in 2020 appeared first on Inside Retail.

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Is Black Friday Still Relevant in 2020?

Retail TouchPoints

I believe that 2020 will be the year that Black Friday merges with Cyber Monday and permanently shifts to becoming an online event. There will be no reason to market two separate shopping days, as customers will come to expect deals throughout the entire month of November.

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How nostalgia and NFTs created a multibillion-dollar collectables market

Inside Retail

They all contribute to the multibillion-dollar market for physical and digital collectables. A report by market research and consultancy firm Market Decipher states that the global collectables market was valued at US$426 billion in 2022 and is predicted to reach US$1 trillion by 2032. million in 2020 to US$17.7

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Fairway Turns its Markets into ‘Convenience Stores’ with 30-Minute Delivery from Instacart

Retail TouchPoints

Manhattan’s Fairway Market grocery chain has partnered with Instacart to develop a new convenience-focused service called Fairway Now that will offer delivery of last-minute grocery items and household essentials in as fast as 30 minutes. Fairway Market is a trademark of the retailer-owned supermarket cooperative Wakefern Food Corp.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. Marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. New tactics to acquire data to reach marketing goals.

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Top 2020 Retail Challenges and How To Future-Proof for 2021

Retail TouchPoints

And in the ecommerce world, that can only mean one thing: online retail giants such as Amazon continue to dominate the market. in June 2020, which is significantly more than its April 2020 projection of a 3% decline. The use of conversational commerce on messaging platforms has accelerated in 2020.

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Purple Appoints Marketing Veteran as CMO

Retail TouchPoints

Purple Innovation , the digitally native mattress brand, has hired Keira Krausz as its Chief Marketing Officer following the departure of Patrice Varni, who joined the company in June 2021 as Chief Marketing and Digital Officer. From 2013 to 2019, Krausz worked with Nutrisystem as the company’s EVP and Chief Marketing Officer.

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Building Supply Chain Resilience in the Real World

Speaker: Kelly Barner - Co-Founder & Managing Director of Buyers Meeting Point, LLC

Since 2020, procurement and supply chain professionals have faced an unprecedented set of challenges. Global inflation is at record highs and the Great Resignation has given way to the Great Reshuffling, leading to uncertainty in talent markets. The pandemic was just the start. What will 2023 bring?