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Google Doesn’t Care if it Sells Products, but it Cares a Lot About Attracting Shoppers. Here’s Why.

Retail TouchPoints

We’re indifferent on where the shopping journey ends, where that transaction takes place ,” said Matt Madrigal, VP and General Manager of Merchant Shopping at Google in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. “It The result is a much lower barrier of entry for merchants looking to capitalize on Google’s massive reach.

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Back-To-School Spending Poised To Top $100 Billion Even Amid Disruption

Retail TouchPoints

Households with children in elementary and high school are set to spend an average of $789.49 , far exceeding the 2019 record of $696.70. The most notable shift between the 2019 back-to-school season and today is the strong consumer preference for technology over traditional items like apparel and even school supplies.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 315 – 2023 Turkey5 Recap with Salesforces Rob Garf

Retail Geek

The discussion then turns to Amazon’s innovative advertising approach during a Friday NFL game, where shoppable ads were displayed via QR codes. The luxury category, however, did not perform as strongly, with only a slight increase or even a decrease in sales. billion consumers are shaping shopping trends.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 251 Annual Predictions 2021

Retail Geek

The year of returns – “happy returns” – a startup raises $100M+ in space. for year of returns). 5% of retail in 2019, could be 8-10% in 2020 (as measured by IRI, for CPG private label). Shopify wilts a bit – new competition comes out with different angles (marketcap stays static) – No.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 265 – News, retailer earnings, and listener questions.

Retail Geek

The more reasons Amazon has for people that join Prime the more money they make on this whole ecosystem of services around Prime and it’s. Approved and and this one will have to go through that process as well a minor fun fact there. It’s one of their biggest competitive advantages versus other.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 308 Amazon Q2 2023 earnings recap

Retail Geek

Um there’s some controversy over who’s actually bigger but we’ll leave that for another show if the bottom line is if the two biggest retailers in the market are both outperforming the industry average. Jason: [17:48] Dsps are the third party delivery services that Amazon uses yeah. percent from last year so so. [5:15]

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 271 – Amazon Q2 2021 Recap

Retail Geek

Jason: [17:24] Yeah the in so I literally like looked at and then I might can I pay with Apple pay and then he like looked at me and said you mean NFC payment sure. [17:39] Scot: [17:18] Did you try to pay with Apple pay. Scot: [17:23] Whoa really.