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Payments in 2021: What Lies Ahead After the Digital Boom

Retail TouchPoints

It has been a year of momentous change for the payments industry. For instance, cash usage waned even further this year amongst fears around the pandemic, leading to a coin shortage across the country that had many merchants pointing consumers to digital payments if they lack exact change.

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June 2021 COVID-19 + Ecommerce News Roundup

ROI Revolution

Published June 30, 2021. Ecommerce vs. in-person: Pandemic impacts in 2021. Ecommerce sales are expected to see slightly higher growth in 2022 compared to 2021, with a 15% total increase in ecommerce sales expected next year. yearly growth until 2025, and ecommerce will eventually see slight declines in growth.

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Top Risks For Retail Businesses In 2021 (And in The Next Decade)

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In this article, we take a look at the key risks that may be faced by retail businesses in 2021 but also through the next decade. With the adoption of e-commerce on the rise, brick and mortar retail businesses face increased risks of having to shut down. Indeed, Statista predicts ecommerce revenue to reach $563.4

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August 2021 COVID-19 + Ecommerce News Roundup

ROI Revolution

Published September 3, 2021. Mastercard reports that their Q2 2021 revenue surged 36% over last year, a confident indication that consumer spending is rebounding after the pandemic made shoppers wary of making discretionary purchases. Citibank saw spending on cards increase 40% in Q2 2021.

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Don’t be Fooled, Meta isn’t Abandoning Social Commerce — and Here’s Why

Retail TouchPoints

billion by 2025, according to projections from Insider Intelligence. For its part, Meta closed out 2022 with its first-ever year-over-year decline in ad revenue, and together Meta and Google (“The Duopoly” as they’re known in the ad industry) made up less than 50% of all digital ad spend last year, something that hasn’t happened since 2014.

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July 2021 COVID-19 + Ecommerce News Roundup

ROI Revolution

Published July 27, 2021. In June 2021, ecommerce was up 95% over June 2019. As the most efficient, scalable way to buy digital ads, programmatic should be a strategy every marketer considers in 2021. in 2021 to approach $909 billion and account for 15.5% In Q1 2021, curbside pickup surged over 600% for Target.

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What retailers can learn from the 2021 holiday shopping season

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The 2021 holiday shopping season was historic, in that it was the culmination of two years of accelerated trends, shifting consumer behaviors, and omnichannel shopping realities that have emerged since the start of the pandemic. Online holiday shopping sales surpass $200 billion. The widespread availability of vaccines in the U.S.,