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FTC Suit Claims Amazon Illegally Maintains Monopoly Power

Retail TouchPoints

“Today’s suit makes clear the FTC’s focus has radically departed from its mission of protecting consumers and competition,” wrote David Sapolsky, SVP of Global Public Policy and General Counsel at Amazon. history,” said Stacy Mitchell, Co-Executive Director at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in comments provided to Retail TouchPoints.

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The Cost of Living Crisis: How Online Retailers Can Weather The Storm

Frooition

The cost of living crisis caused by rising energy costs and the subsequent squeeze on household budgets will hit online retail businesses hard this winter. Christmas 2022 is going to be challenging for many retailers. 10 Tips To Help Online Retail Businesses Survive The Cost of Living Crisis.

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The Latest Digital Marketing Trends in Retail Industry That Drive Sales and Engage Shoppers

RETAIL MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

However, strong headwinds threaten continued growth as retail businesses face ongoing disruption from the pandemic, supply chain challenges, and climate change. Now, consolidating gains can help retailers focus on the customer experience to improve loyalty and potentially capture new markets.

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How to Source and Manufacture Products for Your Online Business

BigCommerce

Tasks to Get Started: Source materials: It could be from your local flea market, craft stores, estate sales, an established retailer or even friends and family. You can do this in places like your product description and shipping and returns policy, plus reiterate in your transactional emails. Passion + DIY.

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What Facebook’s New Ad Policy Means for Your Ecommerce Business

Optimizely

Perhaps more than any other retailers, dropshipping businesses are most ripe for getting flagged by Facebook’s new feedback tool. Unfortunately, there are some ecommerce websites that may have intentionally swindled Facebook users and set off this new policy change. Click To Tweet.

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17 B2B Ecommerce Companies Taking Advantage of a $6.7 Trillion Opportunity (+ How Your Brand Can, Too)

BigCommerce

Distribution relationships with large or chain retailers. Selling to organizations (schools, businesses, non-profits). Many online brands are both B2B and B2C –– and even use their same homepage for each audience, segmenting into customer groups for individual merchant accounts. Supplier selling to resellers.

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9 Internet Trends You Need to Know About This Year

FastSpring

Founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield said the company had recently launched their Fair Billing Policy, where customers can pay what they think the service is worth. In the US alone, ecommerce now accounts for 15 percent of total retail spending. The B2C market is starting to cash in, too. That’s about 3.8