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The Future of Retail is 3D

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In the coming years, this booming online retail industry is set to be revolutionised by high-performance technology that’s more commonly associated with video games than digital shopping: implementing high render 3D graphics is one of the driving forces. Opportunity is coming — and you don’t want to be left behind.

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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 will create a significant opportunity for specialty apparel retailers, which are predicted to see 4.6%

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How to Meet and Exceed Amazon-Driven Customer Expectations 

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Shoppers can start research on a laptop, compare prices in a store and then complete an order on a mobile phone. If they needed a new shirt, they went to the department store. If they needed to replace a light bulb, they went to the hardware store. Amazon is everywhere the customer is. Omnichannel is here to stay.

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The Ecommerce Guide to Back to School Shopping

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In second place, Boomers prefer department stores while Millennials and Gen X prefer off-price stores. Average clothing sales for department stores ($390), fast-fashion retailers ($338), ecommerce ($279), and off-price stores ($277) all surpass clothing sales at mass merchants ($234).

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Don’t Let Sears Fool You: Shoppers Still Value Brick-and-Mortar Stores

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missed the stores. Which retailers do these shoppers long for? Nearly one-quarter said House of Fraser, a department store group with even more heritage than Sears. Having been founded in 1849 when Queen Victoria sat on the throne, House of Fraser will soon have fewer than 30 retail stores left.

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Inside the Overlap Between Omnichannel and Personalized Experiences in Retail

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As the world’s largest retailer and online retailer go head to head in a battle of Goliath and Goliath, one thing is clear: Omnichannel has become the white whale for retailers. The research firm graded the brands based websites, store locators, fulfillment, ecommerce, email, mobile, and social media.

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How Retailers Exceeded Expectations with Click-and-Collect

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The Commerce Department also showed an increase of 0.4% During that same period, online retail grew 1.2%, contributing to a total of 12.7% growth for online for 2017. At the same time, department store sales were down 1.1 percent, reflecting the continuing shift toward online shopping.

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