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Buy Now, Pay Later: Does it Work for your Online Retail Business?

Retail TouchPoints

Humans have been dynamically evolving the concept of loans and credit in commerce for hundreds of years — culminating in the explosion of consumer credit cards in the 20th century. consumers have now used a buy now pay later (BNPL) service. . consumers have now used a buy now pay later (BNPL) service. .

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From Barcodes to Bytes: Retailers Prepare for Next-Generation UPC

Retail TouchPoints

It’s hard to believe that the invention of the UPC — first used by railroads almost 100 years ago and then introduced to speed grocery checkout lines back in 1974 — hasn’t changed. Consumers want more information about the products they buy, and retailers want more visibility into the products their customers buy.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 289 – ShipBob Co-Founder and CEO Dhruv Saxena

Retail Geek

ShipBob is a tech-enabled third-party logistics provider (3PL) that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. Scot: [5:52] And then so that was 2015 earlier kind of also 2014 yet. Dhruv: [5:58] Now 2014 2015 we got into this incubator called y combinator Scott so. And we have fulfillment centers in the u.s.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 292 – Q1 2022 Recap (Live)

Retail Geek

5:15] Another hobby of I guess it was a shared one is we like to coin phrases, one of the ones that I coined was Zero friction addiction so when consumers have these low-friction experiences not only are they great.