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NRF Big Show to Spotlight Innovative Consumer Products and Workforce Solutions

Retail TouchPoints

Everyone in the retail industry knows January means two things: lots of holiday returns and the venerable NRF Big Show , running Jan. The industry’s ongoing search for talent — a particularly challenging problem in today’s tight labor market — will be addressed in a number of NRF sessions. 16 keynote from 3:15-3:45 p.m.

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Amazon Brings Live Shopping to Streaming TV

Retail TouchPoints

The HSN-style, free ad-supported TV (FAST) channel will give consumers expanded access to the content and creators of Amazon Live, which debuted in 2016 on desktop, mobile and Amazon’s Fire TV devices. In 2023, more than 1 billion customers in the U.S. and India watched Amazon Live streams across those devices, according to Amazon. .

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How One UK Publication Captures Shoppers at the Point of Inspiration

Retail TouchPoints

In 2016, it became the first national British newspaper to move fully online , and now it is among the first publishing outlets to employ a new technology that turns its articles into commerce vehicles. Social Commerce Meets Affiliate Marketing. This doesn’t necessarily mean the end of affiliate marketing.

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PayPal preparing US$45 billion bid for Pinterest

Inside Retail

PayPal has offered to buy digital pinboard site Pinterest for $45 billion, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, a combination that could herald more financial technology and social media tie-ups in e-commerce. It would be the biggest acquisition of a social media company, surpassing Microsoft Corp’s $26.2

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Retail Statistics You Should Know

Small Biz Trends

We have assembled all the numbers you need, including store operations, shopper behaviors, how retailers market their businesses, and much more. The retail market size is continuously growing. According to a report , small specialty retail stores have a market size of $33.4bn in the US. per year on average between 2016-2021.

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Consolidation and live shopping: Four e-commerce trends to watch in 2023

Inside Retail

While we’re expecting this year to see an acceleration of many trends that took off in the pandemic years, the consumerisation of B2B e-commerce is the sleeper of the 2023 season. Social commerce and live shopping. Social commerce is anticipated to grow three times faster than traditional e-commerce by 2025.

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For Online Impulse Buys, Personalization is the Sixth Sense

Retail TouchPoints

A 2016 survey found that nearly 80% of impulse buys happen in-store. These trends have put a renewed spotlight on impulse buying and how marketers can trigger those spontaneous purchases that drive sales and profits. Case in point: Return rates for online purchases are 15% to 40%, compared with 5% to 10% for in-store purchases.