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Shopify Adds New Tools for Twitter, Google and iOS to Enhance Retailers’ Reach

Retail TouchPoints

Some of the biggest changes include new capabilities and integrations with Twitter that will enable additional social commerce options; Google , which will help retailers connect with shoppers near their brick-and-mortar locations; and iOS , which will let retailers use iPhones to accept contactless payments.

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How Xcel Brands’ CEO is Trying to Solve Social Commerce

Retail TouchPoints

There’s no shortage of companies trying to crack the code of social commerce in the U.S. from the biggest social media platforms to small start-ups. Video commerce is the delivery of content. It ties together the best of affiliate, the best of influencer and the best of digital into social commerce.

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How One Auto Dealer Revved Up Car Sales in an Unexpected Place – Pinterest

Retail TouchPoints

Catalogs allows merchants of all kinds to upload their active inventory directly to Pinterest and turn those ecommerce listings into dynamic Product Pins, making them more shoppable. More than 40 years on, the company now boasts eight locations across New York’s Hudson Valley region, with a ninth on the way.

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

Retail TouchPoints

The Retail TouchPoints 2022 Retail Strategy & Planning (#RSP22) webinar series, now available on-demand, offered a wealth of tips and best practices across critical areas including pricing, location-based technology, inventory management and marketplaces. Mastercard Spending Data Reveals 4 Key Takeaways for Holiday 2022.

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

Retail TouchPoints

Brick-and-mortar locations are still essential parts of the shopper journey, but they need to be reconfigured to accommodate both shopper discovery and functions like flexible store-based fulfillment. Hear how the retailer was able to fine-tune the search experience to drive discovery and conversions during a lunch-and-learn session on Nov.

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How Investment in Technology Is Elevating the Customer Experience

365 Retail

As a result, over half (52%) of merchants say that they’re funnelling investment towards winning new customers, whilst 36% are allocating budget to help retain existing ones – with technology being a key enabler. For example, leveraging social commerce to capture more spend or running incentives to engage new customers.

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Back-to-school spending flattens amid fiscal concerns

Mass Relators

However, wanting to please their kids, retailers will likely have opportunities to harness the indulgences parents are willing to make,” said Stephen Rogers, managing director, Deloitte Insights Consumer Industry Center, Deloitte Services. Technology and apparel lead the charge among pre-owned products (both at 28%).