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OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Australian government said on Wednesday it planned to introduce laws that would empower the central bank to regulate digital wallet providers including Apple Pay and Alphabet’s Google Pay. Reporting by Renju Jose in Sydney; Editing by Stephen Coates, of Reuters. billion in 2022, from 29.2 million in 2018.

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JUNE 8, 2023

The D2 Summit: Retail Edition is a co-located conference at the Retail Innovation Conference & Expo , which is taking place June 13-15, 2023 in Chicago. The D2 Summit will ladder up to this central mission, with its sessions answering key questions surrounding Web3, such as: Q: Is it possible to humanize digital experiences?

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JUNE 30, 2023

Owners of one of the company’s 11,212 “Genesis Pass” UNDW3 (pronounced “underwater”) NFTs can now convert those digital tokens into an UNDW3 Card, and connect their wallets to a new dedicated site where they will gain access to “creative sessions, contests, video games and interactive conversations,” according to CoinDesk.

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MARCH 12, 2022

Many were built decades ago when switching, adjustment, and data collection were done manually, but digital protection and control devices have become more intelligent. Expanding grid digitization means a bigger cyber security threat. Field personnel can also control devices using front-panel push buttons or a laptop.

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 17, 2023

Sneaker marketplace The Edit LDN has raised $4.8 Revenue at The Edit LDN has been growing faster than 500% annually over the past two years as the marketplace rides the momentum of the $30 billion sneaker resale market, which has been seeing 5% annual growth as a whole. million in seed funding to help it scale in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The 96 th edition of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade can be experienced in the metaverse this year, and fans will have the chance to vote on which of five NFT projects will be turned into a real-world balloon for the 97 th edition of the parade in 2023. A New Space for Digital Toy Collectors. 24, 2022 at 9 a.m.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Bloomingdale’s has debuted a lineup of designer collaborations, events and digital activations, including a virtual store, to celebrate its 150 th anniversary. A 150th Anniversary Collection of exclusive limited-edition merchandise launched on Sept. Blackstock & Weber for Bloomingdale’s 150th.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

During its launch week, timed to coincide with NBA All-Star 2024, the NBPA metaverse space will feature daily limited-edition merchandise drops from brands founded by, invested in, respected or endorsed by NBPA members (known as “F.I.R.E

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AUGUST 1, 2022

By scanning the code, users are taken through steps to create their digital avatars in Highstreet complete with virtual versions of the 8-Bit items they purchased. Once in Highstreet, users will be granted $HIGH tokens (the native currency of the Highstreet metaverse) so they can start to explore the digital world.

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

The collaboration includes curated merchandise, collectibles, limited-edition apparel and gaming hardware, as well as virtual goods and digital skins that can be purchased in-store or in the Metaverse via cryptocurrency.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 19, 2022

Facebook owner Meta Platforms is launching a digital clothing store where users can purchase designer outfits for their avatars, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. Zuckerberg said he hoped to build the store out into an open marketplace where developers can create and sell a wide array of digital clothes.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Organizational influencers and partners including The Home Edit , Marie Kondo and Cassandra Aarssen are participating in the challenge by revealing the secrets of their junk drawers. Beyond social media, a national out-of-home, print and digital campaign will bring “Welcome to The Organization” to a wider audience.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

Walmart and the National Entertainment Collectibles Association (NECA) have partnered to launch AutoT, a digital collectible platform featuring limited-edition figures and collectibles. Collectors can store their digital collectible for up to two years free of charge in the NECA Vault or have the physical item shipped to them. “At

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 18, 2023

An 8-meter-wide digital display at the front of the store shows a collection of landscape videos produced by local videographer Isaac Forman. RM Williams collaborated with Rugby Australia last month to create a limited-edition collection inspired by both Wallabies costumes and RM Williams motifs.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 15, 2023

Australian digital payments and lending firm Latitude Group Holdings Ltd said on Thursday that a hacker had stolen personal information held by two service providers through employee login credentials. Reporting by Upasana Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath and Maju Samuel, of Reuters.

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MAY 29, 2023

Everything from limited edition sneakers to international stadium tour tickets have become seemingly unattainable. The World of ‘Hype’ Starting with designer collaborations in the early 2010s, the desire for limited edition, or what is now classified as “hype” products, has become a popular purchasing pattern among millennials and Gen Z.

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Retail Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In particular, Nicholas Cooper, CEO at board-rooms.co.uk, notes that “The Virtual Boardroom will be presented as a digital platform that has been fully developed with one main goal in mind – to facilitate and optimize the processes of planning, organizing and managing the board of directors. A systematized document center.

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Retail Focus

JUNE 23, 2022

Open from today, 23 June, the revolutionary store brings a vast, dynamic beauty edit, four restaurants, a ‘tweakments’ destination courtesy of celebrity-approved Dr. Esho, the world’s ?rst cult to lay hands on, FLANNELS strives to challenge the norm of designers and size runs – enhancing its accessible and contemporary denim edit.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Starbucks also will introduce enhancements to the customer experience across retail and digital to help meet customers wherever they are by expanding the experience beyond the physical store. the opportunity to earn and purchase digital collectible assets that will unlock access to new benefits and immersive coffee experiences.

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JANUARY 13, 2022

It doesn’t get any more joyful than being able to explore and shop the limited-edition unisex collection while immersed in a unique adventure envisioned by Balmain and Barbie.” As part of the collaboration, Mattel has created versions of three of the looks for Barbie and Ken dolls.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 17, 2023

Ebay ’s spending spree is continuing with the acquisition of Certilogo , a provider of digital IDs and authentication tools for apparel and fashion goods. “Ebay pioneered recommerce, while Certilogo pioneered connected products and consumer-facing digital authentication. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

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Inside Retail

APRIL 25, 2022

Earlier this month, the Facebook owner said it would start testing tools for selling digital assets and experiences within its virtual reality platform Horizon Worlds, a VR platform Meta launched late last year. Meta also said it would charge creators of digital experiences and assets a 47.5

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Andrea Martonelli and Max Graf are among more than 30 doctoral students working with Dr Mathieu Barthet, a senior lecturer in Digital Media, to explore computational creativity and generative AI. ” Reporting by Alessandro Parodi, Olivier Sorgho and Matthew Stock; additional reporting by Sarah Mills; Editing by Angus MacSwan, of Reuters.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 11, 2023

The Sephora Store of the Future Shanghai edition features seven touchpoints, including care analysis, AI-generated look analysis, lift and learn, mobile POS, and personalised gift packaging. Sephora will also have a purpose-built Beauty Live Studio to gather Sephora’s beauty community for exclusive events or masterclasses. .

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

subsidiary’s Digital Product and Experience team developed the solution, following research that identified a key pain point of teenage shoppers who lack purchasing power — while shopping the brand online they often left carts abandoned. The Abercrombie & Fitch Co.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It might sound strange to say this about a place where some 80% of transactions actually take place, but brick-and-mortar stores represent an underutilized resource, according to Sarah Jarvis, co-author of the second edition of Omnichannel Retail: How to Build Winning Stores in a Digital World. for a lot longer than it has in the UK.

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JULY 28, 2020

Numerous industry experts have commented that COVID-19 has accelerated many existing retail trends, most notably consumers’ embrace of digital commerce. Data will come from the 6th edition of the Salesforce State of Marketing report, which surveyed nearly 7,000 global marketing executives.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 13, 2023

The investment in digital services, as Ikea embarks on a 2 billion euro expansion in the United States, is in keeping with rival Wayfair, which last month launched a ‘Digital Design Studio’ – an in-store kiosk where shoppers can experiment with furniture styles and layout in a digital rendering of a room.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

With China set to become the world’s largest luxury market by 2025 , Alibaba is intent on building out the immersive digital experience on its Tmall Luxury Pavilion to capture those consumers. Instead of supermodels, “super mascots” — digital characters created by the brands — will strut their virtual stuff down a virtual runway.

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APRIL 26, 2022

The limited-edition digital collectibles — dubbed RFTees (Real F’n Tees) — are true NFTs minted onto Polygon’s Ethereum-based blockchain. Pop culture-focused print-on-demand platform LookHUMAN has rolled out a new rewards program that allow customers to earn non-fungible tokens (NFTs) with every purchase.

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APRIL 27, 2023

The program will include new, certified pre-owned, limited-edition and exclusive “only on Ebay” selections from brands such as Konstantin Chaykin , Zodiac Watches and Le Vian. ” Ebay has been experiencing roughly double-digit annualized luxury growth since Q4 2019, and its presence in these categories is continuing to climb.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 20, 2021

Last week, Burberry and gaming technology tech studio Mythical Games announced a partnership to create a limited-edition non-fungible token (NFT) launching this July. It’s these projects that show us a glimpse into the future of community and digital ownership. Digital games are the new community spaces.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 22, 2022

As such, retailers must remodel their strategies to withstand the fast-paced industry, much like Wall Street did when it went digital. Growth is now driven by the more complex dynamics of customer acquisition and retention, and digital marketing has introduced a new set of variable costs. Now Retail is Far More Complex.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“More brands are finding creative ways to immerse their community into digital experiences through NFTs,” said Tami McQueen, VP of Marketing for Panoramic Ventures in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. For example, Mattel launched an NFT collection that allowed consumers to redeem certain NFTs for special-edition Hot Wheels cars.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Saks named designer Alejandra Alonso Rojas, professional soccer player Sofia Huerta and filmmaker and activist Djali Brown-Cepeda as the faces of the retailer’s monthlong campaign, which includes digital content and virtual events to highlight important Latinx contributions.

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MAY 4, 2022

Saks is marking Mental Health Awareness Month with multiple initiatives in May, including the sale of positive affirmation decals, a virtual event on its Saks Live digital platform and a special window installation at the Saks NYC flagship store.

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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Tailored Customer Experiences Online, retailers would be wise to go beyond the typical “for Mom/brother/sister/partner” edits by implementing recommendation mechanisms specific to whom the shopper says they’re buying for.

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