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As Gen Z Enters Prime Spending Years, Brands Sharpen Their Pitch

Retail TouchPoints

They’ve been shaped/scarred by not one but two global economic traumas — the Great Recession of 2008-2009 and the COVID pandemic — and they’ve grown up with social media playing an increasingly large (and loud) role in shaping culture, including how these consumers shop, research and purchase products and services.

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Payments in 2021: What Lies Ahead After the Digital Boom

Retail TouchPoints

It has been a year of momentous change for the payments industry. For instance, cash usage waned even further this year amongst fears around the pandemic, leading to a coin shortage across the country that had many merchants pointing consumers to digital payments if they lack exact change.

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Cryptocurrencies are the Future of Payments: Here is How Merchants Fit In

Retail TouchPoints

Reinventing Payments: The Entry of Bitcoin. Bitcoin began as a concept to revolutionize payments in 2008, and today stands at a total valuation of more than $1.1 trillion at the time of writing this article — a figure that is higher than the market capitalization of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo.

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Revolve SVP’s playbook for going global and the importance of localisation

Inside Retail

Here, Li speaks to how Revolove’s global growth is driven by localisation strategies that deliver the best service to its customers within each region. I’m responsible for the profit and loss of the international markets. That involves operations, customer service, logistics, warehousing, currency and finance.

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The EDI Advantage for Product Brands Eyeing Big Retail

Retail Bound

Understanding EDI and its pivotal role can unlock smoother operations and open doors to some of the world’s biggest retail chains. EDI works by standardizing the format of business documents so that they can be easily understood and processed by different computer systems. Enter Electronic Data Interchange, or EDI.

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EuroShop 2023 Preview

Retail Focus

These cutting-edge solutions will help retailers optimize customer loyalty and stay ahead of the curve in an ever-evolving market. Seamless Store, Analytics, AI, Mobile Payment, Connected Retail are just some of the dominant topics in the Dimension Retail Technology. Expo & Event Marketing will be held in Halls 10-14.

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Despite global scrutiny, BNPL is on the rise in Singapore. Here’s why

Inside Retail

According to GlobalData’s e-commerce analytics, Singapore’s e-commerce market is set to reach US$17.9 BNPL services are gradually gaining prominence in Singapore, with a growing preference for flexible payment methods among consumers,” Neralla Rama Ravi Teja, a retail analyst at GlobalData, told Inside Retail. “All