Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2022

During periods of lockdown, social media emerged as a key form of communication, opening an opportunity for retailers to accelerate the development of social commerce in the APAC region. China continues to lead the world in social commerce. In those under 40, this figure jumped to 1 in 3.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 15, 2023

What it didn’t have at that point was a streamlined, intuitive online checkout process — and that quickly became a major hindrance to the company’s DTC expansion plans. “We We were attracted because of their fraud offering and then we saw their checkout solution.” The Bolt solution also benefits from a network effect. “As said Narang.

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Star Miconics

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Part of this shift is the emergence of social commerce, a trend that’s setting the stage for this next retail revolution. Combining mobile shopping and social media, two of the most popular contemporary pastimes, retailers are finding more creative ways to engage consumers, drive sales, and enhance the shopping experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the surge in online shopping, physical stores remain essential for retailers, providing a space for customers to interact with products and build deeper brand connections. Retailers using cashier-based systems also are focusing on updating hardware and software to improve the checkout experience.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 2, 2022

Pinterest has signed a definitive agreement to acquire THE YES , an AI-powered platform that allows consumers to personalize their shopping feeds based on their brand, style and size preferences. With this acquisition, Pinterest is setting the stage for an expanded social commerce strategy and product offering.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

It might have been the worst-kept secret in retail, but after months of unconfirmed reports , behind-the-scenes testing and tales from the front lines , TikTok has finally, formally launched its new ecommerce offering — TikTok Shop. in November 2022. reads the company announcement. The company also reiterated that all TikTok-protected U.S.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 20, 2023

Walmart is the first retailer to test out TalkShopLive ’s new “shoppable simulcast” feature, which allows brands to broadcast live shopping events simultaneously across up to four different online destinations, including the TalkShopLive platform, their own website and Facebook.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 10, 2024

Embracing AI Walmart’s goal is to make shopping experiences effortless, engaging and personalised. There is also a new AR feature called ‘Shop With Friends’. It’s essentially a ‘Virtual Try-On’ service that becomes a social experience. This new service will automate the shopping experience, from basket building to delivery.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Meta and Amazon have quietly debuted a new closed-loop social commerce experience that allows Facebook and Instagram users to link their social media accounts to Amazon so they can make purchases directly in-platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Whether it was inspiration from this “summer of sport” or keeping up with the ever-changing weather, the increasing unpredictability of consumers’ shopping habits was on display this summer. Having grown up as internet natives, Gen Z is said to be more desensitized to traditional advertising. after deploying both of these tactics.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 3, 2022

TikTok will reportedly enter a partnership with TalkShopLive to launch its live shopping platform in North America, two people familiar with the matter told the Financial Times. TikTok’s live shopping platform is already operational in Asian markets including Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam as well as the U.K.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

But following a series of major strategic moves, the role Pinterest hopes to play in the burgeoning realm of social commerce is crystal clear. Julie Bornstein, Founder of The YES and now Chief Shopping Officer, Pinterest. What can [the web] do that a retail store can’t do that makes shopping better?

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 30, 2022

Without foot traffic, social platforms saw brands offer delivery (with and without third-party delivery vendors), livestream shopping experiences and more ways to pay online. Reducing user flow and overall friction has been key in acquiring new customers and maintaining positive engagement for social commerce brands.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It’s no secret that retailers and brands have become obsessed with driving conversion in their quest to recover the more than half of shoppers who abandon checkout before completing their purchase. Maximizing that combination of factors can be accomplished at checkout, as long as it’s not stripped of all its goodness.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 19, 2022

YouTube has announced a series of new enhancements to make shopping more integrated on its platform, including a new Shopping section on the site and a partnership with Shopify that will allow merchants to easily feature products on their YouTube content. The Shopping section will roll out to additional countries later this year.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Pinterest is launching into livestreaming with the debut of Pinterest TV — a series of in-app, live, shoppable video content that zeroes in on the platform’s social commerce potential. Pinterest TV will allow creators to tag the products they showcase via “Product pins,” which Pinners can shop and then purchase on retailers’ websites.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Dan Lurie, Head of Product, Shopping, Pinterest. Pinterest is a social media platform and yet…it isn’t. At the very least, the form it takes is very different from its counterparts: “Pinterest is not social media, although we are grouped in that category,” said Dan Lurie, Head of Product, Shopping at Pinterest. “We’ve

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 3, 2021

As social commerce adoption continues to pick up its pace, more retailers are offering shoppable content on platforms like Snapchat, Instagram and TikTok. By virtually twisting or turning each pair of jeans, users can learn about specific fits, washes and unique details, as well as get styling tips and click to purchase.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 31, 2022

The expansion of its AR visualization tech into the home décor category is critical to the platform’s social commerce ambitions : nine out of every 10 Pinners use Pinterest for home décor research and inspiration, and the company reports that Pinners are 5X more likely to purchase from try on-enabled Pins than standard Pins.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The buy now, pay later (BNPL) firm has launched a series of new products under the Klarna Spotlight banner, all aimed at strengthening the company’s position as “a true shopping utility for consumers and a growth partner for retailers.” Shoppable Video. All products featured can be purchased directly from the videos. Creator Platform.

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Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

To answer customers’ demands, business leaders must find the balance between adapting services to consumers’ digitally-driven shopping behaviors and staying true to the company’s strategy. It also requires businesses to create a digital wallet, obtain a shareable QR code and keep track of every checkout location.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 18, 2023

Shopping is everywhere. There are seemingly endless opportunities to shop — or be inspired to shop — in both the physical and digital worlds at any moment. Today’s consumers move across digital, physical and social platforms with ease, switching from browsing, researching and buying in seconds. Oct 6-10, 2022.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One variation of Bolt’s Checkout Everywhere function on The Independent ‘s site. It makes it very easy for services and publishers like The Independent to open up their own shops with the complete inventory, but without actually holding that inventory.”. Social Commerce Meets Affiliate Marketing.

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 9, 2023

To do it, Forever 21 is: Making significant investments to align its digital and physical channels ; Enabling fast, frictionless checkout ; Meeting Gen Z where they are, on social media, to drive discovery ; and Listening to its customers to evolve its brand in line with their expectations. Forever 21 one-click checkout with Bolt.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Heightened Demand and Discounts Heightened demand for in-store shopping, overall minimal sales growth and right-sized discounts will occur. In stores, technology that fosters faster checkout and browsing/store navigation for shoppers would serve well to be rolled out just in time for the holidays.

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A1 Retail

AUGUST 25, 2021

The expansion of the partnership will bring new in-app shopping experiences to TikTok for the first time as Shopify continues to power the creator economy. Shopify and TikTok have announced an expansion to their partnership, launching a new way for entrepreneurs to reach consumers with TikTok Shopping.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 15, 2022

Appointments for high-end fashion brand shopping have been a long-time standard, but they’ve begun to trickle down to fast fashion brands like H&M and Zara too. Customers book an appointment online and then shop in-store, creating a more curated feel while making life easier for associates to manage. Self-Checkout/Roaming Checkout.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 30, 2023

There’s an art and science to using customer data to capture shopping behaviors and trends and activating that data along with the right shopping features. Instant answers about product sizing or shipping details can greatly influence the shopping experience and make or break a sale. Tip 3: Optimize navigation and search.

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Inside Retail

JULY 18, 2022

Whether it’s online or offline, as long as the shopping experience is friction-free, most shoppers end up happy and retailers end up winning their business. Similarly, online stores that reveal shipping fees as early in the checkout process as possible can address a major cause of cart abandonment.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 14, 2023

Countless companies both big and small — including Meta , Pinterest and Google — are trying to tackle the challenge of making shopping online more like shopping IRL, where inspiration can strike at any moment and from any direction. Here’s a playlist where we all can shop for that.” Evans: We’re off to the races.

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Retail Focus

APRIL 24, 2023

When the event launched a decade ago, there were no self-service checkouts, QR codes were non-existent, and same-day delivery was unheard of. Amidst this disruption, new opportunities are arising with the evolution of the high street, a rethinking of the shopping experience and new ways of remotely communicating with customers.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 5, 2023

In his new role at TikTok, Chen is expected to lead online retail product operations and be under the leadership of Bob Kang Zeyu, the president of e-commerce. Social commerce – the use of social media to promote and sell products – is estimated to be a US$1 trillion industry in APAC by 2025.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 5, 2023

In his new role at TikTok, Chen is expected to lead online retail product operations and be under the leadership of Bob Kang Zeyu, the president of e-commerce. Social commerce – the use of social media to promote and sell products – is estimated to be a US$1 trillion industry in APAC by 2025.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2022

For the enterprise solutions we have Pay with Venmo checkout, which is the integrated checkout button that you see as you’re checking out with large businesses such as the Grubhub s and Lyft s of the world. People really are converting at checkout because it’s seamless and easy. Example of a Venmo business profile.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2024

Fake fashion e-shops According to researchers at Avast, an internet security company, more than 4000 fake e-shops were set-up to exploit consumer spending in the post-festive season sales. Nationally in the year prior, over $9 million was lost to online shopping scams according to the National Anti-Scam Centre.

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Inside Retail

MAY 1, 2022

In fact, 55 per cent of AU consumers are shopping online more frequently than before the pandemic. With numerous options for online shopping, including marketplaces, brand/retailer websites and social media, consumers are more channel agnostic than ever. They research, compare prices and purchase products in new ways.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Walmart has planned more than 30 holiday-themed live shopping events for the 2021 season. In-video selling will be available on Walmart.com, MSN Shopping tab, TalkShop.live and all product partner sites included in the programming.

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