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Deep dive: What social commerce looks like around the world

Inside Retail

Social commerce – shopping on social media platforms – is expected to reach US$1.2 It is growing three times faster than traditional e-commerce. McKinsey & Co stated in mid-2022 that social commerce comprised more than 13 per cent of China’s total e-commerce sales. trillion ($1.9

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Opinion: The clock is TikToking for supply chains

Inside Retail

This year, over 102 million people will buy via social platforms in the US alone and by 2025, global sales via social commerce will exceed US$1.2 Among consumers – and not just Millennials – social commerce is gaining significant traction, growing three times as fast as overall e-commerce.

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Amazon Takes Legal Action Against 10,000+ Fake Review Facebook Groups

Retail TouchPoints

“Our teams stop millions of suspicious reviews before they’re ever seen by customers, and this lawsuit goes a step further to uncover perpetrators operating on social media,” said Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Selling Partner Services at Amazon in a statement.

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11 Things to Know About China’s eCommerce Market

Indigo 9 Digital

billion annual active customers last year while JD.com had 552 million active accounts in the year ended September 2021. 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 Alibaba has a 47.1%

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Inside Natori’s Transformation from High-End Wholesaler to Omnichannel Brand

Retail TouchPoints

The company’s wholesale business is still thriving, but now it’s only part of an omnichannel strategy that includes ecommerce , social commerce and marketplaces. And because those wholesale relationships were so central to Natori’s business, losing or seeing a significant pullback from even one account would have been a big blow.

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3 Takeaways from NRF Converge: Quick-Hit Quotes from Sephora, Walmart, Zappos and More

Retail TouchPoints

Following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, brands and retailers were eager to show solidarity and support. We’ve been on a multi-year quest to help people buy nearly everything that they find on Pinterest and to give merchants the tools to connect with those eager Pinners. THEME 1: Actualizing Diversity and Inclusivity.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 284 Annual Predictions 2022

Retail Geek

Bonus – More store closures in 2021 than 2020. commerce penetration says at 16% or better in 2021. Jason : NFTs, Web 3, Metaverse, and Ultrafast delivery services are all overhyped and don’t deliver meaningful commerce revenue in 2022. Jason Total Score: 3 of 5. 2022 Predictions.