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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 That’s a drop in the bucket compared to Amazon’s 1.7 We’re Not a Retailer, We’re Not a Marketplace’.

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Amazon shares tumble after weak Christmas trading outlook

Inside Retail

Amazon’s 12 per cent extended-trade stock drop erased about $140 billion in its market capitalisation, greater than the entire value of companies such as Morgan Stanley, Netflix and Lockheed Martin. Prior holiday quarter sales growth was 9 per cent in 2021 and 38 per cent in 2020. Net sales were $127.1 billion a year prior.

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5 Holiday Trends to Watch Include Rise of ‘Couch Commerce,’ Curbside Pickup

Retail TouchPoints

Retailers and industry experts have been forecasting a 2020 holiday season dominated by ecommerce almost since the world started taking COVID-19 seriously, and results from “Cyber Weekend,” or BFCM (Black Friday/Cyber Monday), effectively made their case. Shopper Yield data revealed that spend per consumer increased 36.3%

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 309 Instacart IPO Filing

Retail Geek

1:24] And just to set it up the you know in my world of start-up land it has been very hard to get an IPO done so there’s been a couple post coated and like late 2020. Jason: [8:04] No I was just I was just thinking that they I assume they left it blank because the underwriters were out of practice.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 279 – Amazon, eBay, Shopify Q3 2021 earnings

Retail Geek

Jason: [2:13] Yeah all that’s gone now it’s just a chunk of aluminium but I’m excited to get mine I have a little jealousy because I feel like we both ordered early on launch day and I think yours already shipped is that true. It was a rigorous process.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 288 – News and Q4 Earnings Report’s

Retail Geek

you know some some different perspectives and some novel stuff and I did record a couple podcast there so listeners have that to look forward to will drop those over the next few weeks and so some good. it’s kind of like a multi-channel shipping solution so they’ve you and I have long.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 286 – Amazon Q4 2021 Earnings

Retail Geek

And she said Apple created two challenges for advertisers one is the accuracy of our ads targeting decreased so that they’re lost targeting which, increases the cost of driving the outcomes the other is that measuring the outcomes because we’re. Tailwinds on these foreign exchange calculations.