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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. For example, what you generally find in most checkouts [in a sector like grocery] are your standard Visa and Mastercard. What does that do for them?

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3 Ways Retailers Can Harness the Post-Purchase Experience

Retail TouchPoints

The pandemic has shifted post-purchase expectations — consumers expect a more personalized, relevant-to-them experience that goes beyond checkout. Fulfilment, shipping, delivery and returns updates can all be enriched with personalized promotions, loyalty program information and other immersive, branded content.

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How Merchgirls supercharged business growth by 300% during the pandemic

Inside Retail

Established in 2015 by Hannah Chipkin and Pippa Joseph, Merchgirls quickly became the go-to merch solution for companies that wanted something different to the traditional merchandise offering. Merchgirls is a creative agency, focusing on creating merchandise that’s twice as nice for the broader market. What were the results?

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Groceries delivered in 60 minutes: it’s on the cards but just not yet

Inside Retail

They don’t want to spend time going around shelves looking for products or queuing at the checkout. Returning a product can be a hassle. Since 2015, Amazon has delivered to your car trunk wherever you are parked in the United States. With life busier than ever, people want everything from laundry soap to roast chicken delivered.

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5 Things to Know About Amazon’s New ‘Style’ Clothing Stores

Retail TouchPoints

Amazon Style will actually be the company’s seventh physical retail format, which all began with Amazon Books way back in 2015. The King of Ecommerce is no stranger to brick-and-mortar — far from it. There will be humans working the store too. And Amazon promises that the prices in its Amazon Style stores will match those of Amazon.com.

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Myth or Truth: Is Brick & Mortar Actually Dying?

Rangeme

Multisensory experiences Immediate access to products Opportunities to test product quality and fit Human touch that builds relationships and trust Showrooms that drive product discovery Easy returns An escape from our pandemic cocoons. retail sales, nearly double the 2015 figure of 10.7%. Some stores seem pandemic-proof. of total U.S.

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What You Need to Know To Run a Successful Online Business

Rain Pros

Disadvantages Of An Online Business As of 2015, e-commerce was the only trillion-dollar industry growing at a double-digit percentage each year and that growth is projected to continue through 2020. Because your business is available wherever there’s Internet access, you’re not restricted to locality.