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Australia’s entrenched e-commerce platforms poised for industry disruption

Inside Retail

Australia’s e-commerce boom has given rise to a healthy ecosystem of online shopping merchants commanding a sizable user base of local consumers – many of whom managed to weather the pandemic by riding a surge of digital sales. Shoppers are more sophisticated today and are looking more for value,” says Levy.

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Sweden’s Klarna buys influencer marketing platform

Inside Retail

Swedish payments firm Klarna said on Tuesday it had acquired influencer marketing software firm APPRL as it looked to tap into strong growth in shopping across social media channels. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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How Indian brands could benefit from Walmart’s ambitious export goals

Inside Retail

Joined by his management team, McMillon met with suppliers, merchants, grantees, artisans and MSMEs (micro and small to medium enterprises) across the company’s programs, such as Walmart Sourcing, Walmart Vriddhi, Flipkart, PhonePe, Walmart Marketplace, Walmart Global Tech In India and Walmart Foundation.

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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

From the manufacturers to the distributors, to your retail store – there are many factors and unexpected costs to consider during the shipping process that can be often overlooked. Retailers need to consider their capacity to manage logistics and the value of faster delivery to their customer base. Dr. Ralph F.

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FedEx Aims to Amp Up Convenience with Package-less Returns Program

Retail TouchPoints

FedEx will launch FedEx Consolidated Returns, a solution designed to provide an easy ecommerce returns option that retailers can make available to shoppers, in early 2023. FedEx Consolidated Returns will be facilitated through supply chain services offered by FedEx Logistics and FedEx Office. of all U.S.

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Meet Missfresh, the Chinese grocery retailer offering 30-minute delivery

Inside Retail

We also own our user acquisition channels and after-sales services, which ensures the best products and services being delivered to our customers. million) in 2020 and provided on-demand service to an accumulated number of 31 million customers in China by 2020. How big is Missfresh now? Missfresh generated RMB 6.1

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Google’s Former Chief Evangelist Shares the Secret to Ecommerce Profitability

Retail TouchPoints

And then lastly, it’s [about helping] merchandisers radically change how they work — from writing thousands of rules to patch a broken system to having a machine do the boring stuff so merchants can start doing much more meaningful things. Right now merchants have to write thousands of rules to do a lot of what I just described.