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Why UK Retailers Should Save Some of Their Christmas Marketing Spend for Chinese New Year

Retail TouchPoints

But their return to our shores after the pandemic has been far slower than Americans’ — flight bookings are down around 50% of pre-pandemic levels. To understand the impact of this shift, it’s crucial to recognize the importance of Lunar New Year to Chinese consumers. Make sure you accept a variety of payment methods.

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5 Ways Mobile Payments Can Improve Your Wireless Store

iQmetrix

As a wireless retailer, you know that people rely on their smartphones for everything—from booking appointments and sending emails, to making calls and taking photos. And now consumers also use their smartphones to make payments.

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Shop with Your Steering Wheel: 3 Opportunities in Connected Car Commerce

GetElastic

For example, requesting directions to a point of interest can trigger personalized recommendations, offers and discounts from businesses like Dunkin Donuts for a re-fuel, Audiobooks.com to take the edge of the long drive or gridlock, Priceline for last-minute hotel bookings, and Parkopedia to find the closest (and cheapest) open spaces.

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Shop with Your Steering Wheel: 3 Opportunities in Connected Car Commerce

GetElastic

For example, requesting directions to a point of interest can trigger personalized recommendations, offers and discounts from businesses like Dunkin Donuts for a re-fuel, Audiobooks.com to take the edge of the long drive or gridlock, Priceline for last-minute hotel bookings, and Parkopedia to find the closest (and cheapest) open spaces.

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Casual Observations on Social e-Commerce

GetElastic

There are worse habits I’m sure… I’m not surprised to learn that in the last two years, social media traffic has increased 100% to online stores, or that about 70% of consumers search social media for potential buys. All good things in my book. No, writing them is actually not that easy.) Plus, I’m supporting a small business.

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Viya, China’s top livestreaming influencer, vanished from cyberspace after receiving a $210m fine for tax evasion.

Ecommerce Platforms

Livestream shopping is a new commercial service which uses livestream technology to display products, interact with consumers, and sell products directly through internet platforms. Standing from consumers' points of view, they build honest relationships with customers in the process. for consumer goods and 10.6%

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Overcoming Commerce Inertia is Easier than You Think

GetElastic

While the foundational ordering and payment experience wasn’t necessarily broken, it was cumbersome, slow, error-prone, and, most notably, insecure. lagged behind other countries in mobile payment adoption. An important takeaway from these big swings is the need for retailers to adapt quickly to changes in consumer behavior.