Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Recent headlines about Meta ’s Instagram and Facebook doing away with shopping features on their platforms might appear to be a retreat in the social commerce wars. Social commerce sales in the U.S. Social commerce sales in the U.S. In fact they are anything but — and with good reason.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2022

During periods of lockdown, social media emerged as a key form of communication, opening an opportunity for retailers to accelerate the development of social commerce in the APAC region. China continues to lead the world in social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

The Flipkart Group — India’s homegrown digital commerce conglomerate that is majority-owned by Walmart — has raised U.S. billion in fresh funding and is now valued at $37.6 The new funding is a major vote of confidence in the potential of digital commerce in India, still a relatively nascent market.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The social-commerce app matches women with a contributor sharing a similar body type who can guide them on the best styles to suit their physical characteristics. More than 83,000 women from over 100 countries have downloaded the app, with the US, Australia, and the UK accounting for 70 per cent of users. Image: Supplied.

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Indigo 9 Digital

MAY 6, 2022

billion annual active customers last year while JD.com had 552 million active accounts in the year ended September 2021. China’s eCommerce market is maturing and is expected to grow by 15% between now and 2025 while the rest of the world is expected to grow at a rate of 52% during that time period. Alibaba had 1.3 billion in 2021.

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