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Back-To-School Spending Poised To Top $100 Billion Even Amid Disruption

Retail TouchPoints

However, what was interesting is the amount of money that’s going to be spent on things like subscriptions for educational services. Consumers’ desire for fast, efficient shopping is giving big-box retailers an advantage. The way a lot of middle schoolers and high schoolers express themselves is through social media,” Sides noted.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 316 Annual Predictions 2024

Retail Geek

No Shopify launches an ad product such as a retail media network Yes Meta/Google/TikTok lose ad share to new social media platforms and retail media networks. A least one retailer has an AI based auto-replenishment solution with significant adoption. Number five prediction for Jason Retail Geek.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 258 – Retailer Owned Brands and Other News

Retail Geek

That that sort of visual video interface and you know it’s it’s on on a HIPAA compliant version of AWS which they have a lot of HIPAA compliance services on AWS now.