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Beyond the Transaction: How PayPal is Helping Remove Friction Across the Commerce Experience

Retail TouchPoints

Since spinning off from eBay and going public for a second time in 2015, PayPal has expanded its reach well beyond that one digital marketplace to more than 30 million merchants worldwide. When we have partnerships with these merchants they’re trusted brands, so consumers can feel good about shopping with those brands.”.

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DoorDash Looks Beyond Restaurants to Become ‘The Local Commerce Company’

Retail TouchPoints

The delivery platform unveiled a series of major updates and service additions at its first-ever product showcase on June 27, 2023, including search and shopping features to help consumers find and buy whatever they are looking for (well beyond just meals), and a new integrated rewards program for merchants.

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Sainsbury’s bosses defend profits: ‘We are not a rip-off retailer’

Retail Gazette

The grocer also defended higher pay packages for its senior executives at its annual meeting in London on Thursday. If we offered you something for £1, and I said I made 3p on that product, I don’t think you would call us a rip-off merchant or a profiteer, but some MPs have.” jump in first quarter sales.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 309 Instacart IPO Filing

Retail Geek

Jason: [8:04] No I was just I was just thinking that they I assume they left it blank because the underwriters were out of practice. There’s also the others you can think of Jason there’s this one.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 308 Amazon Q2 2023 earnings recap

Retail Geek

Jason: [17:48] Dsps are the third party delivery services that Amazon uses yeah. Scot: [17:52] Delivery service professionals yeah so that was interesting. The growth in 3p Services was actually faster than the retail growth as well so sort of implies that the volume went up but also Amazons. Learn more about this.

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Mirakl CEO: Marketplaces are ‘Arming the Rebellion’ of Traditional Retail Against Big Tech

Retail TouchPoints

Giving heft to this shift have been the names steadily joining the ranks of marketplace operators — retail heavyweights like Hudson’s Bay , Macy’s , Simon Property Group and Kroger all have joined the fold, and the common denominator among many of them (and in the case of the above list, all of them) is SaaS marketplace platform Mirakl.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 271 – Amazon Q2 2021 Recap

Retail Geek

6:00] Um Extended the the new visual merchandising approach to to the Staffing and store operations yet so maybe a work in progress. Jason: [17:24] Yeah the in so I literally like looked at and then I might can I pay with Apple pay and then he like looked at me and said you mean NFC payment sure. [17:39] Scot: [17:23] Whoa really.