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Hit or miss: Can Pinduoduo replicate the success of Shein in the US?

Inside Retail

Founded in 2015, Pinduoduo has grown to become one of the top e-commerce platforms in China, offering a wide range of products, from daily groceries to household goods and fashion, thanks to its unique social commerce model, where customers purchase items as a team to achieve lower prices. Not all doom and gloom.

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TikTok Continues Amazon-like Push into Commerce with Fulfillment Services in the UK

Retail TouchPoints

TikTok is continuing to build out its commerce-related services with the launch of ecommerce fulfillment for companies in the UK selling via TikTok Shop. The UK, along with several markets in Asia, was one of the first regions where TikTok Shop commerce functionality was made available. 1, 2023, multiple sources report.

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Message in a bottle: How social media has disrupted the fragrance sector

Inside Retail

The state of the fragrance market The rise of niche fragrance brands comes at a time of overall growth in the sector. shows the global fragrance market was valued at $49.8 One example of this is Austin-based fragrance brand Phlur, which launched in 2015, and is now owned and creatively directed by fashion influencer Chriselle Lim.

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What Meta’s move away from Instagram Shopping means for retailers

Inside Retail

It started with Facebook Shop, which was launched in 2015. The Asian market seems to have steered towards mega all-in-one apps. There have been many attempts at making Facebook and Instagram shoppable. Best I know, none of them got much traction with retailers nor, more importantly, with users. There are some key differences though.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 268 – Amazon Prime Day Recap with ChannelAdvisor CEO David Spitz

Retail Geek

Amazon Prime day was launched in 2015 to celebrate Amazon’s 20th anniversary, and has become a world-wide summer shopping event. The length of the event has been slowly expanding since 2015, so it is now two days long. He joins us this week to share ChannelAdvisor data from Amazon Prime Day 2021.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 316 Annual Predictions 2024

Retail Geek

Jason visited the Walmart Neighborhood Market in Pea Ridge, Arkansas featuring drone delivery. No Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Yes Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. And behind the neighborhood market is a drone center.