Inside Retail

MARCH 20, 2024

China is the world’s largest retail market, accounting for almost 50 per cent of global retail transactions. Despite sales remaining below the pre-pandemic level and weak consumer sentiment, retail growth is expected to reach 5 per cent from 2022 to 2027. Estimates suggest China’s social commerce market enjoyed a 40.25

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With the growth of buy online, pick up in-store and expedited shipping options, consumers experienced firsthand the ease of digital shopping versus going to the store to make a purchase. Entering 2021, retailers are still looking to beef up their ecommerce strategy to get this trend to stick. In fact, Smartly.io

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 24, 2023

Creator-guided shopping is booming, with no signs of slowing down. retail social commerce projected to reach $80 billion by 2025, according to Insider Intelligence , more consumers, especially Gen Z and millennial shoppers, are turning to creators to help with their purchase decisions.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 1, 2022

These experiences are the newest flavor of social commerce that is redefining the retail shopping experience — both online and in-person. Global social commerce sales are expected to skyrocket from $492 billion in 2021 to $1.2 The best part about in-person shopping?

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 30, 2021

November might seem far away, but the fact is, brands and retailers in China have already been preparing for the world’s biggest shopping event — known interchangeably as Singles’ Day, Double 11 or 11.11 — for months. veterans, spend much of the year prepping for the world’s biggest shopping event. That growing demand for U.S.

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Small Biz Trends

JULY 8, 2021

What do the latest retail statistics tell us about retailing in 2021? We have assembled all the numbers you need, including store operations, shopper behaviors, how retailers market their businesses, and much more. Retail Statistics: The Big Picture. The retail market size is continuously growing.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 2, 2021

After nearly 18 months of seismic changes and Olympics-caliber pivots, retailers are beginning to take a breath and examine what’s happened to the industry — and even more important, what’s going to be most vital moving forward. We’re trying to bring the fun to online shopping. In our ontology there’s shopping and there’s buying.

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