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Beyond the Transaction: How PayPal is Helping Remove Friction Across the Commerce Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Since spinning off from eBay and going public for a second time in 2015, PayPal has expanded its reach well beyond that one digital marketplace to more than 30 million merchants worldwide. When we have partnerships with these merchants they’re trusted brands, so consumers can feel good about shopping with those brands.”.

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It’s Time Retailers Give Customers What They Want: Online Shopping Without Passwords

Retail TouchPoints

It’s a lose-lose scenario: Customers are left completely frustrated by the process and brands put their reputations on the line every time a customer leaves their website because of a poor user experience. Transmit Security’s own research found that 55% of consumers have left a website because the login process was too complicated.

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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. Drop Shipping Model Drop shipping is where a retailer markets a product, collects payment from the customer, and then orders the item from a supplier/wholesaler.

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Strategies for Growth During a Frugal Holiday Shopping Season

Independent Retailer

Consumer Spending Will Be Lower. Facing a Christmas that some economists predict could be ‘called off’ in the eyes of consumers, retailers are braced to do all they can to help shoppers spread the cost; and in turn, keeping profits stable and business afloat. In 2013, merchants lost an average $9 for every new customer acquired.

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Buckle Up, Retailers: Strategies For Growth During The Most Frugal Holiday Season Ever

Retail Minded

Facing a Christmas that some economists predict could be ‘called off’ in the eyes of consumers, retailers are braced to do all they can to help shoppers spread the cost; and in turn, keeping profits stable and business afloat. With consumer spending likely to be down this holiday season, selling to them from one place is a huge gamble.

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The Downfall of Sears, 5 Reasons Why it’s Struggling to Survive

Indigo 9 Digital

He foresaw that America’s growing railway infrastructure could be used as a way to send goods to consumers in rural communities that lived far away from stores. Consumers were finally given a way to access merchandise at much lower prices than what was available from nearby merchants. It was a runaway success. Retail stores.

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Cryptocurrency: The good, the bad and the ugly

Inside Retail

It took 70 years until they started accepting credit cards in Australia, but less than another 15 years for the beverage giant to announce, in June 2020, that their 2000+ vending machines across Australia and New Zealand would accept Bitcoin for payment. But make no mistake – they are still volatile, complex and not to be taken lightly.