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Walmart Packages Marketplace and Delivery Tech for Sale to Other Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

Walmart will make its own technologies across both digital and physical channels available to other retailers. Retailers will be able to access Walmart’s cloud-based services to reach new customers through Marketplace and offer national two-day shipping through Walmart’s Fulfillment Services. in a statement.

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Online or In-Store? Why Shoppers Embrace Multi-Channel Shopping

Wiser

In the world of retail, the internet has given way to eCommerce and its rapid shipping, easy price comparisons, and other perks for consumers. The rise of eCommerce is also behind the prevalence of multi-channel shoppers: folks who buy from both online and in-store channels. . Personally, which channel do you prefer?

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Measuring Marketing Spend In 2018: Why Cross-Channel Attribution Matters Most

RTP blog

By Glenn Taylor, Senior Editor With nearly nine in 10 retailers having increased their marketing budgets in 2018, according to RetailMeNot , merchants are strongly motivated to ensure the money is being spent effectively. In a session at Shop.org. What I would advise people to do is to decide, what do we sell?”

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Retail 2008 To 2018: A Decade Of Revolutionizing The ‘How’ Of Customer Engagement

RTP blog

By Debbie Hauss, Editor-In-Chief I’ve been covering the retail industry for a long time. In one of my first jobs out of journalism school, I worked for a magazine called Giftware Business , then I moved on to Private Label Product News and — fast-forward to the age of digital-only — I eventually landed at Retail TouchPoints (RTP).

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The 19 Ecommerce Growth Challenges of 2018, Outlined by Amazon’s Annual Report

BigCommerce

From general Amazon growing pains to government regulation, part of the report took a hard look at some of the major issues and potential risks ahead that all ecommerce retailers need to consider (as Amazon third-party retailers or otherwise). Amazon Risk Factors and Obstacles in 2018. Channel expansion and high-growth pains.

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Wish Launches Marketing Blitz to Reintroduce Itself to Consumers

Retail TouchPoints

After topping the charts as the most popular shopping app in the world in 2018, Wish fell out of favor with consumers who had one too many bad experiences. Today marks the brand’s reintroduction to consumers with a multi-channel, multi-market campaign aiming at bringing the new experience of shopping on Wish to life.

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A baker’s dozen of provocative retail predictions for 2018

Steve Dennis

2017 was one of the most transformative years for the retail industry that I can remember. 2018 is likely to be just as wild and woolly, albeit in somewhat different ways. Physical retail isn’t dead. Boring retail is. Many stores will close in 2018. A lot of stores closed in 2017. Many will open as well.

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