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Want to Know the Holiday Season’s Top Trends? Look at Back-to-School for Insight

Retail TouchPoints

We’ve done our Future Consumer Index seven times during COVID-19 and at this point, 19% say they have no fear at all [about COVID-19] and 33% say they’ll feel more comfortable in the next six months,” Orschell said in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. However, availability of products continues to be a challenge for many retailers.

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How Flip is Flipping the Script on Influencer Marketing by Making Actual Customers its Stars

Retail TouchPoints

After years of degrading consumer trust in platforms, brands and the influencers they hire, Agha’s premise is that his TikTok-esque social commerce platform — which features product reviews only from real, authenticated shoppers — will power the next wave of ecommerce discovery and online community. And that’s what he did.

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How the Explosive Growth of Shoppable Ads will Impact Pricing and Spending

Retail TouchPoints

Social shopping is becoming more and more popular given the surge in social media usage and the ease of completing a transaction without ever leaving the app. It’s no surprise that social commerce sales are expected to reach $45.74 Prior to SMI, Li held a senior role at Comscore, Inc., billion in 2022.

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Webinar Recap: Taking The Pulse Of Marketers And Consumers To Navigate The Shift To Digital

Retail TouchPoints

That was bumped to number two, and innovation is at the top this year.”. Priorities may be changing, but retailers still need to provide a superior customer experience, added webinar panelist Caila Schwartz, Senior Industry Strategist at Salesforce Commerce Cloud. since the 2019 State of Marketing report. “It

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Blockbuster Alibaba Singles Day Signals China’s Economic Recovery, U.S. Opportunities

Retail TouchPoints

That’s nearly 2X the 2019 GMV total of $38.4 This year saw Western brands taking a bigger percentage of total Singles Day sales,” said Andy Halliwell, Senior Director of Retail at Publicis Sapient in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. These brands’ sales are growing at rates of 200% to 300% year on year.”. 1 — generated $74.1

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What does 2022 hold for the retail industry? Hear from the experts…

365 Retail

But, at the same time, others thrived. . Retailers are grappling to evaluate with the right network across a blend of large warehouses, smaller localised fulfilment centres and deliveries from stores. Consumers are increasingly online and on social media, which is leading to a boom in social commerce.

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#RSP22: Everything You Need to Know About Holiday 2022

Retail TouchPoints

During the session Fine-Tune Your Holiday Strategies With the Latest Spending Insights , Michael McNamara, Senior Principal for Mastercard SpendingPulse, and Emilie Kroner, EVP, Retail & Commerce at Mastercard, used key findings from the summer 2022 SpendingPulse to chart trends for the 2022 holiday season.