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Meta, Amex and TikTok Offer Holiday Help to Small Businesses

Retail TouchPoints

Amex also has partnered with musical artist Chlöe Bailey to create a “Shop Small Soundtrack” that TikTok users can add to their content. Shopping small has a significant impact on helping local communities, with two-thirds of every dollar spent at small businesses staying within the local community. small business owners.

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

Retail TouchPoints

Among its multiple impacts, COVID-19 accelerated an elongation of the holiday shopping season that was already underway. Rather than being limited to a jam-packed four to five weeks from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, consumers are beginning their shopping as early as October (with a few doing so even earlier than that).

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PayPal preparing US$45 billion bid for Pinterest

Inside Retail

Acquiring Pinterest would allow PayPal to capture more of that e-commerce growth and diversify its income though advertising revenue. The online payments provider hopes to successfully negotiate and announce a deal by the time it reports quarterly earnings on Nov. Pinterest was valued at about $13 billion when it went public in 2019.

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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. Only consumers only had 17% of their shopping done by early July, and 54% said they held off on spending because they didn’t know what they needed. per family, up from $976.78 — another record.

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11 Things to Know About China’s eCommerce Market

Indigo 9 Digital

While online shopping definitely accelerated in 2020 [in China], saying physical retail is more or less obsolete is not true,” said Nishtha Mehta, a China-based corporate innovation coach. “In By contrast Amazon started offering same day Prime delivery in 2019. Community buying is a popular way of shopping. billion in 2021.

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Social Selling: Need to Know Data for Small and Medium Businesses Amid the E-Commerce Explosion

Retail Minded

The following guest article has been written by Mark Hook , VP, Global Brand, Communications and PR at Brightpearl, a retail-tailored operating system for omnichannel merchants. The impact and growth of social media brands now play a huge part in what we see on our newsfeeds — and with that, social commerce has flourished.

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Social Selling: Data for Small and Medium Businesses Amid the E-Commerce Explosion You Need to Know for 2022

Retail Minded

The impact and growth of social media brands now play a huge part in what we see on our newsfeeds — and with that, social commerce has flourished. S ocial apps that already allow for commerce include Instagram , Facebook , and Pinterest. But TikTok and Twitter are also experimenting with shopping features. .