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Social Commerce Revolution: How Payments Innovation Transformed the Digital Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Take Instagram, for instance the platform pulled in an estimated 6.5 They extend to things like livestreams, shoppable content and payment links within Instagram Reels, stories, TikTok videos or Pinterest Pins. Higher transaction volumes across these platforms have led users to be more cognizant (or wary) of privacy and data-sharing.

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Turn Tricky Market Conditions into Revenue-Increasing Opportunities

Retail TouchPoints

Here are ways SMBs can create new revenue-increasing opportunities, maneuver through tricky market conditions and grow their online business throughout 2023. Simple and easy checkout processes are needed to seal the deal. Drop shipping and print-on-demand are good options for smaller stores to avoid inventory issues.

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Is unified commerce the new holy grail?

Inside Retail

Unified commerce is essentially the integration of all data-driven channels of retail – customer and product data from both in-store and online – on a consolidated platform. it operates in silos and unconnected platforms. Unified commerce enables the customer to purchase an item in-store and have it shipped home. Endless aisle.

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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

Retail Bound

One of the topics that consistently comes up in the retail world is the logistics of shipping. From the manufacturers to the distributors, to your retail store – there are many factors and unexpected costs to consider during the shipping process that can be often overlooked.

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Holiday Leftovers? Here are 4 Ways Sellers can Minimize Excess Inventory

Retail TouchPoints

Further, excess inventory can lead to lost revenue because products that are not sold quickly can become obsolete or go out of fashion. Sellers are also setting up independent stores on platforms that can help automate the selling process and enable sellers to connect their stores to a broader range of marketing channels.

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RSP21 Reveals Top Growth Drivers for the Post-COVID Era

Retail TouchPoints

The 15 sessions covered a wide range of topics, so to make it easier to browse we’ve organized the sessions into four categories: Holiday 2021 forecasts and how best to prepare for 2022; Building loyalty with connected consumer experiences; Key ecommerce and digital marketing trends; and Embedding innovation within your retail organization.

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

Retail TouchPoints

And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.