Retail TouchPoints

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Recent headlines about Meta ’s Instagram and Facebook doing away with shopping features on their platforms might appear to be a retreat in the social commerce wars. Social commerce sales in the U.S. Social commerce sales in the U.S. In fact they are anything but — and with good reason.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2022

During periods of lockdown, social media emerged as a key form of communication, opening an opportunity for retailers to accelerate the development of social commerce in the APAC region. China continues to lead the world in social commerce.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 12, 2021

Flipkart plans to use the new funding to make investments across people, technology, supply chain and infrastructure to address the requirements of the rapidly growing consumer base in India. A key focus area for the group is to help informal commerce segments leverage the power of technology.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 12, 2022

Among the solutions chosen for the 2022 cohort were tools that support sustainability by repurposing garments in both the physical and digital worlds — solutions that can advance the evolution of retail personalization with innovations in areas such as the metaverse, NFTs, gaming, social commerce and product returns.

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Inside Retail

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The social-commerce app matches women with a contributor sharing a similar body type who can guide them on the best styles to suit their physical characteristics. Neill’s background is telecommunications but she said the idea for Mys Tyler had been brewing since 2014, when she was living in New York.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 13, 2021

The number of active users on Alibaba Group ’s ecommerce platforms topped 1 billion for the first time in fiscal year 2021, but this milestone was tainted by the company’s first quarterly operating loss since it went public in 2014 — a result of the historic antitrust penalty levied against the company earlier this year. billion yuan ($1.2

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Retail TouchPoints

APRIL 7, 2022

Social commerce. It plays the part of a shopper’s trusted friend or a store associate, mixing and matching different items and looks until the consumer finds a perfect match. Livestreaming. Augmented reality. They’re exciting, buzzy and cool, and retailers can’t wait to try them. Value for Shoppers and Retailers.

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