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Cyber Week 2017: Black Friday Stats, Cyber Monday Trends + 25 Brands Reveal The Secrets to Their Success

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Automotive retailers saw the highest average order value ($235.10) , followed by retailers within the Sports & Outdoors ($143.50) and Home & Garden ($103.60) categories. mobile and iOS v. Small Business Saturday. Small Business Saturday: +22.79%. Mobile Orders Surpass 50%. Black Friday.

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A Small Business Guide to Handling Cross-Border Payments

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Small businesses can now easily find employees across the world for both part-time contract work and full-time positions. So retailers, too, need to be prepared to accept payments across borders. Read on the learn more about cross-border payments and how small businesses can make this process simple, reliable, and efficient.

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The Ecommerce Holiday Readiness Checklist: Mobile Optimization, Checkout CRO & The 11th Hour

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In 2017, holiday season sales accounted for more than one-quarter of total annual retail sales, rising 5.5% In 2018, holiday sales predictions from the National Retail Federation are at an increase over 2017 of 3.3% holiday retail sales increase is again conservative. Optimize for Mobile: The Fastest Growing in Holiday Sales.

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The Future of the Mall: Why Developers are Rethinking Everything from Tenant Mix to Events and ‘Adjacencies’

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In fact, analysis of Google mobility data by CoStar Advisory Services revealed that the number of visits to retail and recreation sites has nearly fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels as of early July 2021. “ Retail TouchPoints spoke with executives from shopping destinations across the U.S.

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The Ethical Shopping Journey

Retail TouchPoints

Other values-driven brands could be found at health food stores, but The Body Shop was the only store that carried a wide range of personal care and beauty products from a single brand in one location. Clearly, values-driven shopping should be a consideration for retailers. At the time, there was no online shopping.

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Ecommerce Trends: 147 Stats Revealing How Modern Customers Shop in 2017

BigCommerce

BigCommerce has teamed up with retail and payment experts Square to dive deep into the shopping habits, behavior and preferences of thousands of American buyers across multiple generations. However, despite how easy it is to launch a webstore, scaling an online business remains extremely difficult even for the most seasoned ecommerce expert.

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How eCommerce Businesses Can Conquer the Biggest Holiday Sales Days

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After all, the Christmas shopping season entails a variety of big “holiday sales” such as Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday. Taking an even closer look, Forbes also suggests how online sales for retailers in popular gifting categories are set to get a significant boost this coming season.