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From China to India, how the world’s retail markets stack up: report

Inside Retail

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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3 Immersive Customer Experiences Using Augmented Reality

Retail TouchPoints

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

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Reaching Gen Z and Millennials: What Brands Need to Know About Creator Guided Shopping

Retail TouchPoints

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. Rodney Mason is Head Of Marketing, Brand Partnerships at LTK. 1] [link]

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Retail Statistics You Should Know

Small Biz Trends

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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5 Tips for Singles’ Day Success

Retail TouchPoints

products, combined with the sheer size of the Chinese market, make the potential hard to ignore : “It’s an opportunity for Western brands to find a faster-growing market than the one they’re currently operating in. billion in 2021, making up 37.4% of all social commerce sales this year.

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2021: The Year of Social Advertising

Retail TouchPoints

Entering 2021, retailers are still looking to beef up their ecommerce strategy to get this trend to stick. This, coupled with the rise of social commerce, has indicated major potential for retailers to adopt social advertising into their marketing mix. In fact, Smartly.io

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 268 – Amazon Prime Day Recap with ChannelAdvisor CEO David Spitz

Retail Geek

A weekly podcast with the latest e-commerce news and events. In episode 268 is a recap of Amazon Prime Day 2021 featuring David Spitz, CEO of ChannelAdvisor. He joins us this week to share ChannelAdvisor data from Amazon Prime Day 2021. This year Prime Day is earlier than usual on June 22-23, 2021. Transcript.

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