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Does Procurement Play a Role in Retail Recovery?

Retail TouchPoints

But through this disruption, retailers began to see that their procurement process is in many ways the linchpin for maximizing revenue and reducing spend as the economy recovers post-pandemic. Specifically, procurement can help retailers optimize their spending on goods and services that are NOT for resale, also known as GNFR.

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Why DoorDash & Other Delivery Apps Struggle with Profitability

Indigo 9 Digital

Food delivery companies largely sell an undifferentiated service. Even bottled water is more differentiated than food delivery services. Cumulative payments to drivers for…deliveries…historically have exceeded the cumulative delivery fees paid by consumers,” Uber wrote in its third quarter 2020 earnings release.

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8 Things You Need to Know About Block (Formerly Known as Square)

Indigo 9 Digital

Cash App started allowing users to make purchases in Bitcoin in 2018, making Cash App one the first mainstream payment apps to do so. In 2021 $10 billion worth of Bitcoin transactions flowed through Cash App and more than 10 million Cash App users have used the app to buy Bitcoin since 2018. to reach 59 million this year.

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What to Sell on Shopify?

Small Biz Trends

These restricted items include but are not limited to certain firearms and parts, goods or services that promote self-harm, COVID-19 products that flout the rule for the sale of COVID-19 related products, etc. The North American smartwatch market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 9.57% during 2018-2026, according to Mordor Intelligence.

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The Downfall of Sears, 5 Reasons Why it’s Struggling to Survive

Indigo 9 Digital

Fast forward less than two decades later to 2018 when Sears was in so much financial hardship with declining sales and profits as well as mounting debt it filed for bankruptcy. Consumers were finally given a way to access merchandise at much lower prices than what was available from nearby merchants. Retail stores.

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Forever 21: 4 Reasons it Failed & Filed for Bankruptcy

Indigo 9 Digital

If you do subscribe to our retail trends newsletter to get the latest retail insights & trends delivered to your inbox 3. By 2018 Forever 21’s online sales were only 16% of total sales. Between 2018 and 2019 Forever 21’s stores in Canada, Europe and Asia lost approximately $10 million per month.