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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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Deep dive: What social commerce looks like around the world

Inside Retail

Apparel, beauty, health and wellness were the biggest beneficiaries at that time. Twitter Shops enables merchants to showcase up to 50 products on their Twitter profile. Social commerce is going to be a natural fit for certain categories that have higher involvement, such as petcare, beauty, and confectionery.

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Turn Innovation into Action: Top 10 Takeaways You’ll Get From #RIC21

Retail TouchPoints

To kick off the first day of #RIC21, Jeff Orschell, EY Americas Consumer Retail Leader, will drill down into today’s top consumer priorities, including sustainability, affordability and health. Beauty share real-life examples of how companies can ensure their mission and values are reflected in all their actions. will present the Nov.

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Dollar General promotes 18 executives

Mass Relators

In this role, Connolly will assist with all aspects of securities disclosure and compliance, as well as NYSE listing compliance, corporate governance, management of DG’s Board and its committees. She also led NMG’s supply chain transformation strategy to modernize its omnichannel distribution and fulfillment network.

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How Tmall Global is overcoming the challenges of China’s zero-Covid policy

Inside Retail

We already have over 1 billion customers in our entire Alibaba ecosystem, and we want to fulfil their different needs and purchasing habits,” he added. Digitising every aspect of the merchant operations is also key. sales, we are making our marketing and analysis tools available to all our merchants. The rise of livestreaming.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 296 – Guardian Baseball Co-Founder Matt Kubancik

Retail Geek

Scot: [8:17] Cool so you you were a e-commerce entrepreneur so you’ve done that then you did software-as-a-service so you get the check that off the box and then I saw on LinkedIn you’ve also been working with a turbo host so that’s actually getting into my world of cars now tell me tell me how you got into that one.

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AI among the hot topics at this year’s Industry Day

Mass Relators

Justin Honaman of Amazon Web Services Honaman started his presentation by challenging his audience with the question, “What are you doing today so that you’re not obsolete tomorrow?” This is really a huge differentiator for us, because we’re leveraging the proximity of our stores to fulfill and deliver digital orders.

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