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Deep dive: What social commerce looks like around the world

Inside Retail

Social commerce – shopping on social media platforms – is expected to reach US$1.2 It is growing three times faster than traditional e-commerce. McKinsey & Co stated in mid-2022 that social commerce comprised more than 13 per cent of China’s total e-commerce sales. trillion ($1.9

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Meta and Amazon Link Up to Enable In-Platform Purchases on Instagram, Facebook

Retail TouchPoints

Meta and Amazon have quietly debuted a new closed-loop social commerce experience that allows Facebook and Instagram users to link their social media accounts to Amazon so they can make purchases directly in-platform.

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Opinion: The clock is TikToking for supply chains

Inside Retail

This year, over 102 million people will buy via social platforms in the US alone and by 2025, global sales via social commerce will exceed US$1.2 Among consumers – and not just Millennials – social commerce is gaining significant traction, growing three times as fast as overall e-commerce.

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As Consumer Demand for Inclusion Rises, Retailers Must Tackle Legacy Issues and Attitudes

Retail TouchPoints

Products that are sized 18 and above and available in the UK only account for 14% of the total market. From research to garment creation, fitting with body shape in mind, marketing, in-store and online customer service, size-inclusive representation needs to be present at a decision-making level within the fashion industry,” Marci added.

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Back-To-School Spending Poised To Top $100 Billion Even Amid Disruption

Retail TouchPoints

However, what was interesting is the amount of money that’s going to be spent on things like subscriptions for educational services. As in previous years, mass merchants are poised to take the largest share of back-to-school and back-to-college sales, according to the Deloitte surveys.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 262 – Amazon Q1 2021 Earnings

Retail Geek

Scot: [18:04] I like their payment system because they’ve gotten it now to be more like Square where if you once you enter your e-mail it kind of like send you a code and then fills everything out I like that because I can never remember my password I mean this stuff so. Jason: [18:16] Yeah authentication via email in general is a.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 284 Annual Predictions 2022

Retail Geek

Jason : NFTs, Web 3, Metaverse, and Ultrafast delivery services are all overhyped and don’t deliver meaningful commerce revenue in 2022. Shein exceeds $30B in annual sales, disrupting apparel industry Adoption of BNPL services slows down to less than 15% CAGR in 2022. 2022 Predictions.