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Finding Dropshipping Companies & Suppliers (Free Directory Updated for 2018)

BigCommerce

Also the fashion industry is seeing nice growth. According to the McKinsey Global Fashion Index , fashion industry sales growth is forecasted to nearly triple between 2016 and 2018 (from 1.5 Collective Fab provides over 6,500 products in fashion and beauty (including women’s clothes, jewelry, shoes, etc.).

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John Lewis signs deal with Tesco for warehouse space in online sales push

365 Retail

We will use the Fenny Lock site to fulfil customer orders for fashion, small home furnishing items and technology products.”. The company has committed to a £50 million investment in its website and mobile app, with a further £100 million due to be spent over five years for online growth.

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AR and VR in retail: do shoppers buy the hype?

GetElastic

With ecommerce poised to become mobile AR’s largest revenue stream, 32% of brands and retailers plan to use AR or VR within 3 years and 45% believe AR and VR has the most potential to amplify their customer experience. Augmented reality is particularly attractive thanks to lower costs and (relatively) easy integration with mobile apps.

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2021 Ecommerce Industry Stats Deep Dive: Home Goods, Electronics, Apparel, Personal Care, CPG, Grocery, & Auto

ROI Revolution

With people spending more time inside their homes over the past year and a half, redecorating and remodeling have become common among many consumers. Home furnishing ecommerce reached $92.32 Home furnishings sales were $15.5 Mobile accounts for 73.2% After increasing 5.2% billion in 2021. billion in 2020.

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3 Ways AR and VR can help brands and retailers adapt to the New Normal

GetElastic

Fashion preferences in LA, the Midwest, New York and Miami can be wildly different, for example, as can preferences by age. And virtual try-on has infiltrated everything from cosmetics to apparel, home furnishings to footwear -- evolving to include 360° images, 3D mesh models and interactivity for more realistic visualization.

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4 Ways Retailers Use Digital Technology to Improve the Brick-and-Mortar Experience

Sailthru

more retail stores will close, with apparel, electronics and home furnishings being hit especially hard. Beacons allow mobile apps (on both iOS and Android devices) to listen for signals from “beacons” in the physical world. As far as we could tell, big brand beacon use tended to be creatively limited in this fashion.

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5 Awesome Brand and Retail Partnerships and What You Can Learn From Them

Wiser

The partnership allowed Spotify users to integrate the mobile app with Starbucks’ My Rewards loyalty program. To help its customers better coordinate their homes’ color schemes, Pottery Barn and its sister brands partnered with Sherwin-Williams to create paint palettes that match the retailers’ home furnishings.