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Adobe: Consumers Will Spend More Online in First 10 Months of 2021 than All of 2019

Retail TouchPoints

New data from the Adobe Digital Economy Index highlights the staying power of online shopping habits formed during the pandemic, seemingly answering one of the biggest questions of the year: will ecommerce continue to grow, or settle down to pre-pandemic levels? That’s 9% more than the comparable period last year and 58% more than 2019.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Called “Buy Direct,” the third-party marketplace is being integrated into Bing’s existing ecommerce experience, Start Shopping, where consumers can find products and are then directed to a retailer’s website to make the purchase. Google’s shopping function is more algorithm-based, relying on the query itself and search history.

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Walmart’s futuristic vision: AI shopping, drone deliveries and green energy

Inside Retail

Embracing AI Walmart’s goal is to make shopping experiences effortless, engaging and personalised. A new GenAI search experience, which is live on iOS for all customers within the latest version of its app, is now available for all customers who are logged into their Walmart account.

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14 store closures a day lead to 5,000 fewer UK shops

Retail Gazette

Large scale retail restructuring and administrations such as Wilko led to a net of 14 store closures a day last year with 5,000 fewer shops now trading across the UK. Although the 9,138 new openings in 2023 marked the highest rate since 2019, the majority of these were driven by hospitality sites, the research revealed.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Target has big plans for 2022, with the retailer announcing plans to invest up to $5 billion this year to open new stores, enhance its digital, fulfillment and supply chain capabilities, and expand its shop-in-shop concept with Ulta Beauty. and New York’s Times Square.

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Gift Card Purchases Up 414% as Americans Shift to ‘Buy Now, Shop Later’ Mindset

Retail TouchPoints

The latest data from the Adobe Digital Economy Index revealed that out-of-stock messages rose a whopping 325% in October 2021 compared to the same month in pre-pandemic times (way back in 2019), and in the last month alone consumers have been hit with more than 2 billion out-of-stock messages online.

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Opinion: Consumers’ screen times gives shopping centres a headache

Inside Retail

Retail shopping centres face a major challenge rebuilding customer traffic and sales after the Covid-19 pandemic is controlled. With occupancy rates under pressure, shopping-centre landlords have already reviewed property valuations to account for tighter rent market conditions and financial concessions required to retain key retail brands.

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