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Ideal Shopping Direct blasts through bullish forecasts

Retail Technology Review

Ideal Shopping Direct (ISD), the UK multi-channel home shopping retailer and owner of the Create and Craft and Ideal World TV channel, reports that it has achieved a significant turnaround in the past 12 months; £6.5m profit, 30% ahead of the £5m it predicted earlier in the year. Internet Retailing Retail Supply Chain

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Christopher & Banks to get its own home shopping TV show

RetailWire

ReStore Capital, a division of Hilco Global, acquired the bankrupt Christopher & Banks chain in January. Now, the company has reached a licensing deal with iMedia Brands for that company to operate the retailer’s business across all sales channels, including a Christopher & Banks television program on ShopHQ, a nationally distributed television network

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QVC and HSN still lead the way in live home shopping biz

RetailWire

billion last year, as the home shopping giant saw its business buoyed by the pandemic and growth in its live streaming operations. Livestream shopping is expected to grow more than four times its current level to $25 billion over the next two years, according to Coresight Research Qurate Retail, the parent company of QVC and HSN, saw sales climb to $14.2

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Levi Strauss and Tommy Hilfiger take a page from QVC

RetailWire

Levi Strauss on Amazon.com and Tommy Hilfiger have launched online programming similar to home shopping networks in an effort to drive incremental online sales as in-store shopping at retail partners remains challenged due to the novel coronavirus pandemic

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What is Livestream Shopping?

Kissmetrics

Livestream shopping effectively combines the two, putting digital retailers in front of a vast online audience while still allowing them to respond to customers on a one-on-one level. It’s highly effective: Livestream shopping generated $60 billion in global sales in 2019.

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QVC parent reports strong online gains

RetailWire

The company reported that online sites connected to its television home shopping properties saw a 25 percent jump in visitors, 20 percent growth in sessions and a six percent increase in total minutes spent shopping Qurate Retail, the parent company of QVC, HSN and Zulily, reported that sales increased 14 percent to $3.3 billion during the first quarter of 2021 with sales rising in the U.S. and abroad.

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Qurate Snags Amazon, Macy’s Execs to Accelerate Video Commerce Growth

Retail TouchPoints

Qurate Retail Group — parent company of QVC and HSN — has made two new executive appointments as it works to differentiate the home shopping brands and build out its omnichannel video commerce operation. homes.

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How Meta, QVC and Coresight Research Use Livestreaming to Drive Holiday Demand

Retail TouchPoints

For decades, Black Friday marked the official start of the holiday shopping season and was one of retailers’ most critical sales days. While live shopping events can hold their own as major independent campaigns, they also are a perfect complement to existing festivals.

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The Growth of Ecommerce in Asia and What to Expect in 2023

Retail TouchPoints

This growth is being driven by the rise of mobile payments and improved internet infrastructure as well as a shift in consumer behavior toward online shopping. Live video shopping in particular has become increasingly popular in Asia, with platforms such as Grab, iStyle.id

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Why Choose Magento for eCommerce Store

MagentoBrain

Magento is designed to provide online merchants with a flexible shopping cart system and control over the look, content, and functionality of their online store.

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How Direct-To-Consumer Is Driving The Need For Real-Time In Retail

RTP blog

Well, you don’t need to care, but Charles Darwin would argue you should: “It’s not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, it’s the one that most adapts to change.” Technology is changing the way we live, the way consumers shop and the way retailers need to operate. Today, it’s no longer the best brands that win, but those that are the easiest to shop with.

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What is Live Shopping: A Guide for Ecommerce Professionals

Ecommerce Platforms

Live shopping, or live stream shopping, combines the worlds of live streaming, social media, celebrity, and ecommerce, and it provides an interesting look into what could be in store for some facets of ecommerce selling in the future. What is Live Shopping?

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The 3 big problems with omnichannel retail

Steve Dennis

Nearly twenty year later, multichannel has morphed into “omnichannel” ( thanks Terry ) which, in turn, has spawned a cottage industry of related jargon: “cross-channel integration”, “seamless shopping”, “unified commerce” and so on.

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The 3 big problems with omnichannel retail

Steve Dennis

Nearly twenty year later, multichannel has morphed into “omnichannel” ( thanks Terry ) which, in turn, has spawned a cottage industry of related jargon: “cross-channel integration”, “seamless shopping”, “unified commerce” and so on. Today many retailers still justify their investments in all things omnichannel by stating that customers who shop in multiple channels are their best customers.

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Shift happens: 7 factors that defined a decade of retail disruption

Steve Dennis

Certainly the past 50 or 60 years brought some big changes: the rise of the suburban regional shopping center, the emergence of discount mass merchants and category killers, the advent of home shopping and warehouse clubs and so on.

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Why CSR Matters To Your Business

Retail TouchPoints

For their part, companies turned their attentions toward similar foundational functions — maintaining the supply of essential products, ensuring the safety of workers and implementing tools to keep the business going in a work-from-home, shop-online, pickup-at-curb landscape.

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Brands Build Communities with Facebook Livestreaming by Stressing Real-Time Aspects

Retail TouchPoints

Live shopping is still a young medium, but retailers and social media platforms alike already are taking advantage of its biggest strength: directly connecting consumers and brand representatives in real time. Alleyoop Uses Live Fridays to Create a One-Stop-Shop Experience.

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March 2020 Industry Updates: Walmart+, Home Depot Ecommerce, & Shop Safe Act

ROI Revolution

of sales and Qurate Retail Group (parent company for QVC, Home Shopping Network, and Zulily) completely dropping off the list. Home Depot Invests in Ecommerce and Fulfillment. It seems that this year, Home Depot looking to fight harder for more market share.

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How to use Product Bundle Pricing to Increase Conversions and Make More Sales

Ecommerce Platforms

Imagine that you’re at home, shopping on Amazon, and looking for a general cleaner spray you can use for your kitchen. Someone shopping for an ordinary white tee may be the frugal type who wants to find clothing items that match with all sorts of other combinations. Admit it.

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How to use Product Bundle Pricing to Increase Conversions and Make More Sales

Ecommerce Platforms

Imagine that you’re at home, shopping on Amazon, and looking for a general cleaner spray you can use for your kitchen. Someone shopping for an ordinary white tee may be the frugal type who wants to find clothing items that match with all sorts of other combinations. Admit it.

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3 Ways Livestreaming is Shaking Up the Retail Marketing Playbook

Retail TouchPoints

Livestreaming, also called Shop Streaming, enables retailers to leverage consumer’s higher propensity to make a purchase when tuning in, in real time,” said Stacy DeBroff, CEO of Influence Central , an influencer marketing and strategy firm.

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Global Ecommerce News from June 22 to July 10

Ecommerce Platforms

QVC has bought the remaining shares in its rival Home Shopping Network (HSN) for $2.1 Billion to consolidate the TV shopping industry. Online shopping accounts for only 8.4 But the brand is promising a seamless shopping experience for some of its products through Instagram. We believe that this is yet another reaction to Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods Market. We also analyze the impact on ecommerce after this record acquisition by Amazon.

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5 Ways the In-Store Experience Shapes Retail in 2020

retailnext

A combination of advancing technology, the need to compete with online shopping, and modernized strategies has led to fundamental changes in stores of all kinds. The unspoken idea is to provide an interactive store experience that goes beyond the benefits of online shopping.

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Instagram Live Shopping: Everything You Need to Know

Ecommerce Platforms

The future of online shopping is here. Cue, live shopping – a phenomenon that's taken the eCommerce world by storm. For the uninitiated, live shopping is best described as social media joining forces with the home shopping network.

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The Biggest Ecommerce Trends You Need to Know About

SellBrite

Augmented or virtual reality allows ecommerce business to leverage increasingly affordable technology to create new shopping experiences for customers. As Google ( Google Cardboard ), Apple ( ARKit ), and Facebook (Oculus), all continue working hard to develop new AR/VR software and hardware tools, ecommerce brands are starting to think more about how to leverage the technology to create better in-store and at-home shopping experiences for their customers.

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Ecommerce Personalization Tips from Overstock, Cosabella, and Trade Coffee: ShopTalk ’19

Blue Acorn

Lastly, they implemented a new data infrastructure, machine learning layer, and cohort testing to deliver a more personalized home shopping experience. It largely comes from which products they previously viewed on the site and their past shopping behavior. In the past, a brand’s ecommerce strategies required a tradeoff between mass reach and a focus on customer segmentation.

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