Small Biz Trends

JULY 5, 2025

From mobile shopping trends to the rise of social commerce, these insights can help you make informed decisions for your business. Key Growth Indicators Marketplaces play a pivotal role in ecommerce, driving 67% of global online sales by 2024, a notable increase from 40% in 2014. Technological advancements also spur growth.

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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

Myntra, which the group acquired in 2014, is among the leaders in the fashion category in India. One of the group’s core strengths is its logistics and supply chain arm Ekart , which employs more than 100,000 people and makes deliveries to more than 90% of the addressable pin-codes in India.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Among the solutions chosen for the 2022 cohort were tools that support sustainability by repurposing garments in both the physical and digital worlds — solutions that can advance the evolution of retail personalization with innovations in areas such as the metaverse, NFTs, gaming, social commerce and product returns.

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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. Neill’s background is telecommunications but she said the idea for Mys Tyler had been brewing since 2014, when she was living in New York.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 7, 2022

Social commerce. Deuskar is one of the most prolific inventors in retail technology, with a number of patents for technology now used by over 100 major global retailers across site, app, email, social and stores. Livestreaming. Augmented reality. They’re exciting, buzzy and cool, and retailers can’t wait to try them.

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