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Trustwave SpiderLabs Report: The 2023 Retail Threat Landscape

Inside Retail

The danger facing the retail sector is year-long and growing, as revealed in the just-released Trustwave Threat Intelligence Briefing: The 2023 Retail Services Sector Threat Landscape. The online retail, or e-commerce, market surpassed a staggering $1.09 This effort does pay off.

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Consumers and Merchants Should Look Before They Leap into BNPL Services

Retail TouchPoints

The economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated demand for buy now, pay later (BNPL) payment options. Surges in online shopping during the pandemic helped fuel the growth of point-of-sale loans — a market that is forecast to grow at an annualized 9.8% Consumers are using BNPL to stretch purchase payments between paychecks.

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Target to Spend $5B to Enhance Operations in 2022, Plans 250 More Ulta Beauty Shop-in-Shops

Retail TouchPoints

Enhancements to its same-day delivery offering with the previously announced addition of product returns and Starbucks order pickup to its Drive Up service at select stores, as well as an expansion of the backup item option for more categories.

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Reports: Microsoft’s Bing Quietly Launches Marketplace in Bid to Compete with Google Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

based online sellers” are reportedly participating in the beta test of Buy Direct, but a source told Business Insider that Microsoft hopes the service will drive $25 million in gross merchandising value (GMV) by fiscal 2023, which ends June 30, 2023. Bing accounts for approximately 25% of total monthly search volume in the U.S.,

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Report: BNPL Vendor Shares Fall as Apple Prepares to Enter the Space

Retail TouchPoints

Ap p le will reportedly team up with Goldman Sachs to launch its own buy now, pay later (BNPL) platform that lets shoppers make Apple Pay payments in installments, according to Bloomberg News. The move sent share prices for other BNPL providers downward as the market reacted to the news. Investors’ fears are not unfounded.

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Bed Bath & Beyond Tech Chief Resigns as Retailer Deals with Data Breach

Retail TouchPoints

No specific reason was given, but the filing noted that Masood’s departure “was not the result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Company’s operations, policies or practices or financial statements.”. He was replaced as CFO on an interim basis by SVP and Chief Accounting Officer Laura Crossen.

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CFPB Announces Intention to Regulate BNPL Following Release of Consumer Impact Report

Retail TouchPoints

The bureau also released the Buy Now, Pay Later: Market Trends and Consumer Impacts report, which found that Affirm, Afterpay, Klarna, PayPal and Zip together provided 180 million loans totaling over $24 billion in 2021, a near tenfold increase from 2019. Apparel and beauty companies accounted for 80.1%

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