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How to make cashless pay off for you

Inside Retail

Technological advancements over the past decade revolutionised the way consumers pay for goods and services. Phones and smartwatches are now regularly used to make payments, more recently complemented by such emerging options as buy-now-pay-later and cryptocurrencies. This happens across all payment methods.

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How Indian brands could benefit from Walmart’s ambitious export goals

Inside Retail

Joined by his management team, McMillon met with suppliers, merchants, grantees, artisans and MSMEs (micro and small to medium enterprises) across the company’s programs, such as Walmart Sourcing, Walmart Vriddhi, Flipkart, PhonePe, Walmart Marketplace, Walmart Global Tech In India and Walmart Foundation.

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Inside Natori’s Transformation from High-End Wholesaler to Omnichannel Brand

Retail TouchPoints

When I joined in 2007] I tried to stay behind the scenes, but at one point we needed somebody to lead the investigation and eventual implementation of this whole new ecommerce business model that none of the employees, and certainly none of the executives, either wanted to do or had the capability to do,” Natori added. “

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How Malaysian department store Pavilion is connecting with customers

Inside Retail

From a big-picture view, previous trends have shown that in the aftermath of major crises like — the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the 2007 global financial crisis — the retail industry tends to rebound. Hopefully the pandemic will be brought under control and we will not see another lockdown.

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Behind the Scenes of TikTok Shop with a Pioneering U.S. Seller

Retail TouchPoints

But the meteoric success on TikTok of the 3D puzzle game Kanoodle (first introduced in 2007) took everyone by surprise. He also said that TikTok “have been really great partners” throughout the process as he and his team encounter challenges or have feedback.

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Inside the evolution of the meal kit subscription industry

Inside Retail

Omaha Steaks in the USA began a mail order and home delivery service as early as 1952. The first meal kit as we now know it was launched in Stockholm, Sweden in 2007 when Kicki Theander created Middagsfrid (roughly, ‘dinner peace’ in English) to help families enjoy home-cooked dinners without the logistics of meal planning and purchasing.

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Retail Minded Announces Debut B2B Trade Show Supporting Sexual Wellness: Introducing STIMULATE

Retail Minded

STIMULATE will connect retailers to industry leading vendors and retail service providers to support the growing demand of sexual wellness products that include lingerie and intimates, pleasure products, bath + personal hygiene, lubricants + grooming, costumes + fetish, fashion accessories, games + gifts, novelty and more.