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Gen AI: Google’s Not-so-Secret Weapon in the Battle for Search Engine Dominance

Retail TouchPoints

Last week Google announced a sweeping slate of product updates across its search, shopping and marketing interfaces at Google Marketing Live (GML), which followed an equally expansive set of updates from the Google I/O conference for developers the previous week. with more countries to be added soon.

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Seriously Silly Socks: Personalization + pick, pack, ship simplification.

BigCommerce

Seriously Silly Socks won the Innovation Awards Grand Prize of $10,000 and a fully paid trip to a Retail Conference of their choice. For building a personalized Build-a-Box tool that simultaneously reduced pick, pack and ship time –– saving time while making money. You can experience it right here , and I invite you to try it out.

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A Half Dozen Business Choices

Bryan Eisenberg

Your marketing must proactively find customers. That’s why Amazon can effectively invest its marketing budget in customer experience (free shipping), while Culligan of Amarillo uses local search and local selling techniques. The good news is the customer is willing to wait a little. Price or prestige?

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Amazon Expands Buy with Prime Availability to all U.S. Marketplace Sellers

Retail TouchPoints

“There was some head scratching by people when we announced this,” said Doug Herrington, CEO of Worldwide Amazon Stores at a conference for Amazon sellers in September 2022. But what we know is that it’s going to be a better customer experience for Prime members. and the honest answer is, maybe.

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Top 10 Contactless Trends to Watch in 2022

Retail TouchPoints

“The desire is still there to do touchless, but for different reasons than COVID safety,” he said during a presentation at the 2021 retailX conference in Chicago. Retailers had wanted to do this before as a way to save on labor costs.”. trillion worldwide, equivalent to both 10.3% of all in-store sales and the GDP of Canada.

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Amazon’s Counterintuitive Next Big Move — Helping Brands Sell Off Amazon

Retail TouchPoints

“For much of the history of retail, there have been significant barriers that put high hurdles in front of entrepreneurs who wanted to launch a new brand,” said Dharmesh Mehta, VP of Worldwide Selling Partner Services at Amazon during the third annual Accelerate conference for Amazon sellers. and the honest answer is, maybe.

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Ulta Beauty, American Eagle Share How Supply Chain Investments Can Drive the Entire Company

Retail TouchPoints

Supply chain and last mile challenges have been grabbing headlines for months, and executives from Ulta Beauty , American Eagle and others shared their advice on how retailers can turn these troubles into opportunities at the Home Delivery World logistics conference.

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