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

Retail TouchPoints

As a result, shopping during this period is not merely a leisure activity but a cultural norm. WeChat Pay, a mobile payment solution from the ur-“everything app” WeChat, has become the norm for transactions within China — so make sure you can accept it and display that fact! But it will be further along than it is this Christmas.

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What do Today’s Consumers Really Want? #RIC21 Day One Answers the Question

Retail TouchPoints

consumers rarely or never go shopping as a leisure activity; A Shopify survey of North American consumers revealed that 40% used a curbside pickup service during COVID, and nearly as many — 38% — plan to continue using these services even after the pandemic passes. Hoyler noted that: 94% of U.S.

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Antavo and CarltonOne Join Forces to Improve Loyalty Program Engagement

365 Retail

By integrating the Antavo Enterprise Loyalty Cloud and CarltonOne’s vast reward catalogue, brands can now offer customers a wider range of customer loyalty rewards including: merchandise; flight, hotel and leisure experiences; gift cards; mobile top-ups and charitable donations.

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Babylist Blends URL and IRL Engagement with Virtual Showroom

Retail TouchPoints

The virtual showroom represented a way to bring this leisurely experience into the virtual world and create a vibrant testing ground that will help Babylist better understand consumers’ content preferences and consumption habits.

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4 ways to be optimizing for voice search

GetElastic

Almost all of voice search are mobile searches. That means that anything affecting your website’s performance on mobile is going to affect your ranking for voice search. Another thing to consider is that people are less patient during voice and mobile searches. This is why it’s so important to go “mobile first”.

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The allure of horse racing betting in the digital age

365 Retail

They’ve become a booming part of the leisure economy, transforming how consumers engage with betting and gaming – all without setting foot outside their doors. We’ve seen an impactful transition from crowded stands and paper slips to digital platforms where live streams, real-time odds, and mobile bets are the norms.

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How Real-Time Inventory Visibility Helps Retailers Improve the Customer Experience

Kibo

Retailers now have multiple channels to interact with customers, such as online stores, mobile apps, customer service, buy online, pick up in store/curbside, and buy online, ship from store/distribution centers (DCs) scenarios. In his leisure, he enjoys playing volleyball and spends most weekends with his two little kids.