Retail TouchPoints

JULY 7, 2020

The global pandemic has accelerated the pace of change for the retail industry at a rate we have never before seen. E-Commerce spending has grown by more than 30% , cementing consumer expectations for flexibility, choice and convenience. In 2019, the global contactless payments terminal market was valued at $13.23

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Retail TouchPoints

MARCH 15, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic triggered a surge in ecommerce growth across the U.S. retail industry, as many consumers now solely rely on online shopping. Ecommerce sales increased by almost 20% in just the first three months of 2020 according to McKinsey, escalating ecommerce trends by the equivalent of 10 years.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 23, 2020

This is a timely offering that could help small businesses stay afloat during the pandemic. Perhaps more important, it will help businesses and brands of all sizes showcase their products and close sales without shoppers ever having to leave Facebook or Instagram. from 2019. The potential is enormous.

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Korona

JANUARY 11, 2022

The retail industry is booming like never before despite the turmoil caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the National Retail Federation estimated that retail sales exceeded $4.44 In 2022, global retail sales are expected to reach $26.69 According to Score , small retail businesses, which account for 98.6%

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 15, 2022

From leisure and sportswear to gifts and jewelry, the chances are you’ve bought a product from a small business over the last couple of years — whether it be a digitally native startup, a one-person band working from their kitchen table or a small independent store selling online around the world. The Unboxing Experience.

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RTP blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

By Stuart Blake, BlueVine Every year, America’s 30 million small businesses work incredibly hard to earn their slice of the $700 billion+ holiday season sales pie. Let’s explore these three areas and what steps retailers can take now to make certain they are in the best position for a successful 2019 holiday shopping season.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 28, 2021

In May 2020, McKinsey issued a report stating while the COVID-19 pandemic was shaking up small businesses across the board, it was disproportionately affecting minority-owned small businesses. Think food services, retail and personal and laundry services, for instance. Reasons cited were that the country’s 1.1

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ecomdash

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

With the month of love behind us, let’s review all the latest happenings from February in our most recent Ecommerce Lately article. Ambani Launches A New Ecommerce Portal. India’s ecommerce industry is making a wave. million small businesses in Gujarat. million small businesses in Gujarat.

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GetElastic

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

After extensive research and interviews, the team at Get Elastic is presenting a list of 30 industry movers and shakers in B2B ecommerce. These hardworking and thought-provoking individuals are known among their peers and commerce community as experts in digital strategy and building digital-first B2B enterprises. Twitter LinkedIn.

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Retail TouchPoints

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Retailers and industry experts have been forecasting a 2020 holiday season dominated by ecommerce almost since the world started taking COVID-19 seriously, and results from “Cyber Weekend,” or BFCM (Black Friday/Cyber Monday), effectively made their case. over the 2019 holiday. We’ve been stuck at home, not at work or traveling.

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ecomdash

JULY 3, 2019

Running an online business can be time-consuming, leaving no room to read up on the latest news in ecommerce. But with Ecommerce Lately, it’s easy to keep track of the month’s trending topics. With the summer season ahead of us, let’s review all the latest happenings from June in our most recent Ecommerce Lately article.

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Prime Day 2020 will likely prove to be a success, according to Rachel Dalton, Director of Ecommerce and Omnichannel Insights at Kantar. of Prime members expected to spend more this year than in 2019, while only 8%. The results are still preliminary — as of publication, the only hard numbers Amazon released are $3.5 While the $3.5

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Retail TouchPoints

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In the world of ecommerce, Google is a bit of an anomaly: while a relatively minor player in the marketplace landscape compared to giants like Amazon and eBay , it is at the same time central to the shopping journeys of millions of consumers every day. We’re Not a Retailer, We’re Not a Marketplace’.

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Sailthru

DECEMBER 3, 2019

With an unusually late Thanksgiving, the 2019 holiday season is the shortest in seven years, though you wouldn’t know that from Cyber Weekend. Online shoppers spent a whopping $12 million every minute during Cyber Monday alone, making it the biggest ecommerce day in U.S. Small Business Saturday: $3.6 Black Friday: $7.4

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ChannelAdvisor

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

A lot happened in 2019 for e-commerce. These brands and retailers know what to expect, and are able to evolve along with the industry. These brands and retailers know what to expect, and are able to evolve along with the industry. Some even managed to increase YOY revenue and improve data feeds.

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Ecommerce Platforms

AUGUST 22, 2019

Practically speaking, it could be that you need a customizable e-commerce website, or probably want to run a powerful blog with actionable content on whichever niche you have in mind. That’s not to mean that WordPress isn't a good alternative for e-commerce. Ecommerce . So which triumphs over the other? Here's why.

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lateshipment

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A question that is largely on the minds of retailers and consumers alike. With COVID-19 still at large, consumers will be making difficult shopping choices and retailers will be scratching their heads for a strategy that will bring them a great sale. What do retailers have in store for them? In 2019, holiday sales were up 4.1%

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Retail TouchPoints

JANUARY 13, 2023

The 2022 holiday season showed slow, but steady, improvement for the retail industry. As economic headwinds curbed spending capacity, online retail grew in the U.S. Inflation was a major factor in slower growth despite heavy discounting by retailers. but at its lowest rate in years: up 3.5% billion, according to Adobe Analytics.

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RTP blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

By Rigel Cable, FLUID Growing a small business in 2019 requires technological savvy. Here are some top tips to help small businesses succeed, taken from “big business” wisdom. For small businesses, that often means platforms like Shopify, Big Cartel or even Salesforce Commerce Cloud.

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 15, 2024

The ecommerce platform — which already is dealing with a number of lawsuits and legislative investigations — is now also facing a class action lawsuit for copyright infringement, filed April 5 in the Southern District of New York. “To Widespread copyright infringement is baked into the business.”

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Ecommerce Platforms

JANUARY 25, 2022

By joining forces, these two companies have created a new ecommerce channel, opening up the world's biggest market for millions of merchants. Ecommerce in China: A Land of Challenges and Opportunity. With its dynamism and innovation, ecommerce is an indispensable part of the country's economy. The market is gigantic and complex.

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MakeWebBetter

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Before anybody could start with their black friday deals, online-shopping retailer-Amazon releases daily deals at every hour. Not only that, to celebrate the biggest day of the year for retailers, Amazon pushes exclusive offers and deep discounts through ‘Countdown to Black Friday’.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They were core destinations for all things retail; where families spent hours on a free Saturday and where teens, hungry for independence, spent many Friday nights to build their social clout. Coresight also found that traffic at top-tier malls was up 12% in 2022 over pre-pandemic 2019 levels, while traffic was up 10% at non-top-tier malls.

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ROI Revolution

JANUARY 4, 2021

Let’s take some time to review last month’s COVID-19 + ecommerce news as we prepare to move ahead into January. Visit this blog post for more COVID-19 news about where the world of ecommerce has gone since last March when the pandemic started. Pandemic accelerates digital retail: Stats + trends.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 24, 2021

Overall ecommerce spending fell 1% compared to Prime Day 2020, according to data from Salesforce. However, third-party Amazon sellers and certain retail categories achieved their own success stories, and advertising cost-per-click (CPC) didn’t spike much despite a significant increase in spend across the event. billion in sales.

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Ecommerce Platforms

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Square is one of the best-known solutions in the world for small business eCommerce, mobile selling, and backend business management. For instance, if you run a specific kind of business, Square can give you a software solution that's been tailor-made to suit your needs. What is Square for Retail?

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ChannelAdvisor

DECEMBER 4, 2019

A lot can happen in a week of holiday omnichannel commerce. As the dust settles on the 2019 Cyber Five, here are a few early takeaways from the shopping season so far: Holiday Sales Numbers Are Strong . eMarketer predicts that total US retail sales are poised to climb 3.8% Amazon is testing a new holiday storage facility ?)

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ROI Revolution

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Coronavirus, Black Friday, + Cyber Monday ecommerce stats. Digital Commerce 360 ). Digital Commerce 360 ). billion globally from independent & D2C brands, showing consumers’ support for the movement to support small businesses over the pandemic. COVID-19 + ecommerce: B2B stats. trillion in 2019 to $1.3

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Smile.io

MARCH 17, 2020

Still, this does not mean that as a small business owner you are doomed. SMS marketing is often an overlooked tool in ecommerce, but it could be the perfect solution for you to break through and draw in customer attention in a non-intrusive and personalized way. So, let’s see when we should use SMS as a small business.

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Smile.io

MARCH 17, 2020

Still, this does not mean that as a small business owner you are doomed. SMS marketing is often an overlooked tool in ecommerce, but it could be the perfect solution for you to break through and draw in customer attention in a non-intrusive and personalized way. So, let’s see when we should use SMS as a small business.

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ROI Revolution

JUNE 30, 2021

Ecommerce vs. in-person: Pandemic impacts in 2021. After surging nearly 34% in 2020 due to the pandemic, ecommerce retail sales are expected to grow a more modest 13.7% this year while non-ecommerce sales will see 2.2% Total retail sales will reach a record $5.86 Retail sales will remain steady at around 3.5%

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TradeGecko

APRIL 9, 2019

Over the past decade, the rise in eCommerce has transformed the retail experience - and this trend only continues to grow. In recent years, online retail sales reached an incredible $2.3 trillion worldwide , and eCommerce sales accounted for more than 10% of all retail sales globally.

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MakeWebBetter

AUGUST 8, 2019

When talking about e-commerce marketing ideas. So here I present the most needed holiday sale calendar of 2019. But firstly, I would like to share some sales stats which might help and excel your business this e-commerce holidays. Ecommerce holiday sales mostly counts upon […].

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Ecommerce Platforms

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Just like the other Square reader options like the Square terminal and cash register, the Square Register is designed to simplify the way that retail businesses connect with their customers and support card transactions. So, what kind of business will benefit most from the Square register? Square Register Pros and Cons.

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Retail TouchPoints

JUNE 17, 2021

120 years on, the unambiguously named Goodwill remains a mainstay on the American retail scene, with an enviable 94% name recognition among U.S. retail, Goodwill isn’t typically the first to come to mind. When most of us hear Goodwill we think of the thrift shop, but the nonprofit’s retail operation is only a means to its larger end.

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Ecommerce Platforms

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Square for Retail $60 per month. Since the pricing for the supplemental services will only apply to some people, you needn’t worry about it much if you’re only looking to build a basic ecommerce site. This device retails at $24.99 As of 2019, Square has also implemented a digital wallet for merchants similar to PayPal.

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ROI Revolution

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

From the completely unexpected impacts of the coronavirus on ecommerce to the twists and turns of Amazon Prime Day 2020 , this year has introduced a mix of obstacles and opportunities for all brands and retailers. With all of this year’s ups & downs, 2020’s holiday ecommerce shopping landscape will be like no other.

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