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Michaels Prepares Marketplace Offering to Offer More Than ‘Just Coupons and Discounts’

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The retailer also is currently seeking third-party solution providers in areas including payment processors, order management and shipping and fulfillment. Michaels’ CEO Ashley Buchanan first revealed plans for a marketplace in a February 2021 story in The Wall Street Journal. Michaels gained access to some of A.C.

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Amazon Adds BNPL Option for Business Customers

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They will receive an instant credit decision and can then select from customized pay-over-time options ranging from three to 48 months, with the confidence that they won’t pay more than the amount agreed to at the time of purchase. Since launching on Amazon.com and the Amazon mobile app in 2021 , Affirm expanded to Amazon.ca

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RSP21 Reveals Top Growth Drivers for the Post-COVID Era

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The 2021 Retail Strategy & Planning webinar series, now available on demand, brought together retailers, solution providers, practitioners and industry experts from firms including IDC, Alvarez & Marsal, WSL Strategic Retail and Cambridge Retail Advisors. Holiday 2021 and Preparing for 2022.

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The Most Important Retail Metrics to Leverage in 2021

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A closer look at these metrics allows you to revisit your business strategy, sharpen the systems you have in place and increase sales. But when looking at these numbers, the excess data can feel overwhelming, so we’ve rounded up the most important retail metrics to leverage in 2021. Evaluating 2020 Metrics and Planning for 2021.

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

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The Mastercard SpendingPulse measures in-store and online retail sales across all forms of payment, providing a wealth of insights to help merchants refine and optimize their holiday strategies. this holiday season compared to 2021, and McNamara cited consumer demand for more deals and promotions as a likely reason.

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Cloud Native Value: Why Retailers Should Learn to do More With Less

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If retailers think online shopping in 2021 is about the simple exchange of goods for money, they’re doing it wrong. If they aren’t delivering a connected and engaging customer journey, they’re not going to keep pace with the competition and they’ll quickly fall into obscurity. From Monolith to Microservices.

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Digital Readiness: How Your Ecommerce Brand Can Succeed This Holiday Season and Beyond

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The 2021 holiday shopping season is expected to be a record breaker. Ongoing supply chain issues, continued disruption from the pandemic, worker shortages and consumer habits that have changed forever have forced ecommerce brands to operate in new ways in 2021. And these challenges aren’t going away anytime soon. As prices rise, U.S.