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Google Brings Advanced AI Capabilities to Search, Including Virtual Try-On, Agentic Checkout

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This week at Googles annual I/O conference for developers, the company announced several new advances, including a more personalized multimodal AI search experience for shopping queries, agentic checkout capabilities and an enhancement to its virtual try-on tool that will allow users to see products on their own body.

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Zalora to optimise global payments with BridgerPay

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Southeast Asia’s leading online fashion and lifestyle retailer offers customers a world of payment options and a seamless shopping experience. Now, consumers who shop Zalora will have the ability to pay with any of their preferred local payment solutions at online checkout as part of a seamless shopping experience.

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Back-To-School Spending Poised To Top $100 Billion Even Amid Disruption

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The most notable shift between the 2019 back-to-school season and today is the strong consumer preference for technology over traditional items like apparel and even school supplies. The move from school supplies and apparel to hardware and computers wasn’t at all surprising to us,” Sides explained. “The

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The Social Commerce Lowdown: the Latest from Pinterest, Meta, Twitter and YouTube (and Why it Matters)

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Twitter Lets Merchants Create In-App ‘Shops’. Twitter is testing a new free feature called “Shops” that allows merchants to showcase up to 50 products on their own in-app shop. The offering expands on Twitter’s existing Shop Module , which lets merchants display up to five products directly on their profile. “We

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TransUnion Survey: BNPL, Curbside Pickup Top Back-to-School Trends

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Now we’re seeing a big expansion of it, not only across merchants but also into less expensive or more ordinary type purchases. In terms of back to school, we’re seeing BNPL being used for things like books or apparel.”. “Everyone always thinks of [BNPL for] buying the Peloton.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

Retail TouchPoints

That, of course, is the key to Wish’s business model — by connecting international consumers directly with manufacturers (most of them Chinese, although diversifying the company’s merchant base is one of the company’s key turnaround pillars), customers can get products for dirt cheap. Doubling down on merchants outside of China.

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For the pandemic-hit fashion industry, the future is digital

Inside Retail

As global apparel revenues plummeted almost 20 per cent in 2020, e-commerce has emerged as the silver lining of the fashion industry’s challenging year. New customers are a major growth engine for retailers, but many merchants view first-time online shoppers as high-risk due to their unfamiliar behaviour and lack of purchase history.