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One to watch: APAC goes all in on social commerce

Inside Retail

We have found new ways to buy our favourite brand or our groceries, not only to fulfil our basic needs but often as an antidote to boredom. 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.

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Wonder Buys Media Company Tastemade for $90 Million

Retail TouchPoints

Wonder, which was founded by Jet.com entrepreneur Marc Lore in 2018, purchased meal kit company Blue Apron in October 2023 for $103 million and in November 2024 acquired Grubhub for $650 million. Wonder opened a food hall in a Quakertown, Pa.

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Exclusive CEO Q&A: How LUXIE Is Pivoting To Win Older Shoppers

Retail TouchPoints

Riley : When I first came on board as CEO in February 2018, I wanted to get us out in front of a lot of consumers. To adjust for this volume, we have changed some fulfillment, shipping and customer service capabilities. We now ship to 160 countries and we have three fulfillment centers, in the UK, U.S. and Singapore.

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The next billion shoppers: Where they live and how they’re changing retail

Inside Retail

Since 2018, the number of Millennials who mostly or always shopped online has nearly tripled and their use of social media has almost doubled. Some solutions include crowdsourcing delivery and quick-commerce services to facilitate fulfilment and reduce shipping costs while offering consumers greater flexibility,” he opined.

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How Streamlining Digital Checkout Boosted Polywood Conversions Nearly 50%

Retail TouchPoints

After its late 2018 implementation of the Bolt one-click checkout solution, which draws on data within the solution provider’s network of users and consumers to fight fraud, Polywood saw impressive results: In its first year, the brand marked a 10% lift in checkout conversions, a 5.5%

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Here’s an in-depth look at the major retail sales events in Southeast Asia

Inside Retail

With shoppers often buying sweets, custom-made apparel, accessories and jewellery, White Day offers e-commerce platforms a huge opportunity to fulfil consumers’ needs. The e-commerce factor. Another phenomenon that is quite unique to the Southeast Asian e-commerce market is the prevalence of unique sales periods like 9.9,

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

Retail Geek

34:47] Because we’re comping over we’ve talked a lot about people are gaps kind of to your comp because it’s going to be so hard in e-commerce to copy your because we’re at you know things were surging because we’re all locked up so so Amazon the nether that is Amazon could be one of the few kind of heavy. [35:05]

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