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Japanese Digital Marketplaces are Hot! What to Know About Setting Up Shop

Retail TouchPoints

Growth markets include food, personal care, fashion, beauty products, toys, electronics and furniture amongst many other categories. Japan’s cross-border ecommerce market is growing as well: today it’s a $2 billion (USD) market, estimated to reach over $5 billion in 2030, and where new opportunities lie for U.S.

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Utilizing the External Data Boom for Digital Shelf Optimization

Retail TouchPoints

Publications about marketing often invoke the comparison of a digital shelf with a physical one. However, this isn’t enough even if the company is operating in a local market only. Competitive stock monitoring provides opportunities to optimize your marketing resources. This comparison, however, has its limits.

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Cardlytics Bolsters Digital Advertising Offering with $275M Acquisition of Dosh

Retail TouchPoints

Cardlytics runs banking rewards programs for financial institutions that are designed to allow marketers to identify new customers and increase loyalty from within banks’ online and mobile channels. Founded in 2016, Dosh is a transaction-based advertising platform that helps consumers earn cash back when they shop, dine or book hotels.

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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

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. Although there’s no such solution available right now in the market, the industry is working furiously to make it a reality in the near future.

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Mirvac finds a good fit with social fashion app Mys Tyler

Inside Retail

For Australian property group Mirvac, this isn’t just a strategic investment but also a partnership it hopes will help shape the future of its retail business through shopping centre activations. Stylists in Residence at Toombul Shopping Centre, QLD. Mirvac partnership taps into community connection. Image: Supplied.

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Thailand’s promised cannabis bonanza disappoints as politicians trade blame

Inside Retail

Thousands of cannabis shops and businesses have sprung up, especially in Bangkok and tourist spots, since Thailand became the first Southeast Asian country to decriminalise the drug. ” He did not comment on the scale of smuggled cannabis in the market or its impact on farmers. Some shops highlight their foreign supplies.

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Astound Commerce Appoints Will Linebarger as VP, Composable Commerce

365 Retail

Linebarger has more than twenty-five years’ experience across telecommunications, finance and digital commerce. I was attracted to Astound’s concentrated efforts on the composable practice market,” said Linebarger.