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December 2020 COVID-19 + Ecommerce Update

ROI Revolution

As we put 2020 behind us, marketers and executives aren’t leaving behind their concerns about COVID-19. According to eMarketer data , as of June 2020, 30% of consumers indicated interested in mobile payments , up from 17% just three months before in March. For mobile app orders, interest has grown from 16% to 28%.

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How To Leverage M-Commerce For Your Retail Business

RetailMinded

This strategy can help them improve efficiency, provide the utmost customer experience, and stay competitive. For example, retail businesses now integrate omnichannel strategies like M-commerce or mobile commerce to enable mobile shopping. You can identify your strengths and what needs improvement based on the customer feedback.

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Target Expands Contactless Checkout and Pickup Options to Enhance Safety During the Holidays

Retail TouchPoints

Target is rolling out multiple initiatives aimed at improving in-store safety during the holiday season, including contactless self-checkout, skip-the-line technology and doubling the number of contactless pickup parking spots. They can then check out with an associate or at self-checkout as they normally would.

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How Brands Can Navigate the Social Platform Ecommerce Boom

Retail TouchPoints

2020’s lockdowns forced brands to get creative with their digital presence as well as how they service their customers. An eMarketer article recently stated, “To align with usage trends, checkout providers will double down on optimizing the mobile payments experience.” The primary solution? Convenience.

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Stripe vs Square: Summarizing Your Options for 2020

Ecommerce Platforms

What's more, for mobile payments, it's impossible to ignore the impact that Square has had on the market. The Square POS is one of the most powerful mobile apps available today, and it does perfectly as an iPad POS if you want to start selling as quickly as possible. For mobile payments, you'll need to check out Stripe Terminal.

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May 2021 COVID-19 + Ecommerce News Roundup

ROI Revolution

72% of marketers will prioritize improving the quality of their customer data over the next 12 months. Mobile ecommerce + COVID-19 stats. Mobile retail commerce sales grew 31.5% in 2020 and are expected to surge another 28.8% By 2022, mobile retail revenue will pass $432 billion, a 25.1% in Q2 2020.

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7 Brands Discuss the Benefits of the New Cashless Economy and Apple Pay’s Growing Ubiquity

BigCommerce

The Evolution of Mobile Payments: A brief history of mobile payments, according to TechCrunch : 1983: David Chaum, an American cryptographer, starts work on creating digital cash by inventing “the blinding formula, which is an extension of the RSA algorithm still used in the web’s encryption.” 2008: Bitcoin is invented.?.