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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. In those under 40, this figure jumped to 1 in 3.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 14, 2023

Walmart has debuted a digital-first shopping experience that provides customers with a view into three celebrities’ online carts: football star Patrick Mahomes , pop singer Becky G and the ultimate consumer (and consumer product), Barbie. Customers can shop customized carts filled with items for some of these notables’ favorite moments.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the surge in online shopping, physical stores remain essential for retailers, providing a space for customers to interact with products and build deeper brand connections. A study from marketing research company Alter Agents revealed that 77% of surveyed millennial and Gen Z shoppers shop on social platforms.

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Inside Retail

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For 80 to 1,100 Snap Tokens— users can shop designer collections from Valentino, Prada and Miu Miu for their Bitmoji avatars. Snapping a bargain Patrons of Prada or Miu Miu will struggle shopping in-store to purchase much under $1000. And in December, Valentino added new styles to the Bitmoji offering.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Vaccarella is no stranger to retail — Bogg has wholesale partnerships with Dick’s Sporting Goods and Bass Pro Shops , among others — and she has mastered a model in which the brand develops exclusive designs tailored to each partner’s shopper base. We want to be that one-stop solution for all things organization.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

For decades, Black Friday marked the official start of the holiday shopping season and was one of retailers’ most critical sales days. But thanks to the evolution of ecommerce and, specifically, live shopping, brands and retailers have the power to expand their holiday revenue opportunities and capitalize on an entirely new wave of commerce.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 16, 2025

However, research conducted by the financial services institution HSBC confirmed that as the average price of personal luxury goods increased by 52 per cent in Europe since 2019, with similar price hikes across the globe, the number of consumers shopping for these products decreased.

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JANUARY 5, 2023

Users can then style their avatar with the newly created virtual clothes and complement their fashions with accessories, dance moves, music tracks and special effects. In these environments, users can gather a variety of fashion ingredients by engaging in mini-games, styling sessions, live events and more.

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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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Retail TouchPoints

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

(Image courtesy Shopify) “You’ll be able to buy everything from clothing to unique accessories, collectibles [directly on Roblox] — the possibilities are endless,” said Shopify President Harley Finkelstein in a video where he appeared as a Roblox character. “We This partnership is going to help shape the future of immersive commerce.

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MAY 19, 2023

Source: Pinterest) Launched on May 17, 2023, the five-day campaign kicked off with a livestream shopping event from the Banana Republic store on Folsom Street in San Francisco, where creators Lauren Chan , Charlotte Bridgeman and Igee Okafor highlighted Banana Republic’s top picks for wedding guest apparel this season.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

Couple these realities with the fact that humans are largely visual animals and it’s no surprise that visual search is becoming increasingly popular for all kinds of queries, especially for those that are shopping related. Heading into the holidays, Google is amping up the shopping experience for visual searches on Lens.

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Retail TouchPoints

JULY 26, 2022

Launched in June 2022, the campaign integrates commerce-driven content into TikTok’s Collection Ads format, which allows users to view and shop products directly on the social platform. We know our customers are on TikTok and they love it. Our Dream Makers (our amazing employees) also have a passion for TikTok.

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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. The first stage of this active partnership is coming to life through a styling advisory service at Toombul shopping centre in Brisbane throughout October and November.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Users will earn accessories influenced by the shops within the different experiences, like a Holy Hydration! To promote the new experience, e.l.f. will give away more than 1 million pieces of user-generated content (UGC), beginning with 10 unique items at launch. Goldfish Pet or Big Mood Musical Wings.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This respondent pool was surveyed from June to July 2022, and focused on holiday gifting plans, including where they were going to shop, who they were going to buy gifts for and how much they were planning to spend. Similarly, parents-to-be are increasingly thinking about values as they shop for their eventual arrival.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 4, 2023

The brand’s fifth store in Singapore, which is located in Ion Orchard, features an “enhanced shopping experience” that aims to introduce more consumers to Desigual through a new perspective on the brand. He explained that the stores are designed to welcome customers to enjoy shopping through the proper lighting and furniture.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 3, 2024

Zara will expand its live shopping broadcasts to the UK, Europe and the United States this year, testing a format that is already wildly popular in China but one with which Western shoppers are less familiar. Brands looking to create a more rarified experience have sought to do live shopping differently.

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Retail TouchPoints

MAY 14, 2024

The Skechers shop in Roblox is designed to build community and engage young consumers, and it appears to be working: In the first five weeks, the Roblox virtual store has seen 3.4 The store features a range of virtual products including apparel, accessories and performance footwear based on a number of Skechers’ signature shoe styles.

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Inside Retail

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The campaign consisted of two collections, the first one exclusively between Fendi and the designer Hiroshi Fujiwara, which is made up of limited-edition bags, t-shirts and luxury accessories. Emerging local fashion brands often start on e-commerce platforms which greatly attract younger consumers with strong spending power.

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Retail TouchPoints

AUGUST 16, 2023

There’s been a lot of anticipation surrounding livestream shopping in the U.S., But so far that anticipation has yet to crystallize into livestreaming becoming the West’s next powerhouse shopping format, as many have predicted. Then at the end of each episode consumers were directed to a website where they could shop for the products.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ultimately people come to Pinterest to dream, discover and shop for their future — their next outfit, their next beauty look or their next home idea. Bringing the Future to Life All items in the Pinterest Predicts Shop were shoppable on Pinterest via QR code.

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JUNE 9, 2022

Consumers follow influencers for more than just shopping advice — they look to them for motivation in their daily routines, their relationships and even their personal wellness,” said Jerutis in an interview with Retail TouchPoints. The influencer marketing industry is poised to reach $16.2

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FEBRUARY 19, 2021

. • Target’s Black History Month collection: In its sixth year, Target’s largest-ever exclusive collection of products from Black designers and businesses features apparel, accessories and more. The initiative is part of the retailer’s Black Beyond Measure campaign, which celebrates Black life throughout the year.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 14, 2024

Fake fashion e-shops According to researchers at Avast, an internet security company, more than 4000 fake e-shops were set-up to exploit consumer spending in the post-festive season sales. Nationally in the year prior, over $9 million was lost to online shopping scams according to the National Anti-Scam Centre.

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Retail TouchPoints

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Claire’s relevance was waning in the late 2010s as the shopping malls where so many of its stores were located became less of a destination among young consumers. But its most powerful move started in the metaverse, and it is seeing the brand evolve in a completely new, entertaining direction.

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Inside Retail

JANUARY 19, 2023

Indeed, some are looking for opportunities to socialise during e-commerce experiences. An example is squad shopping, where users collaboratively shop with friends in virtual environments. Friends can also share their baskets mid-experience, collectively evaluate purchases, and even shop virtually in groups within the metaverse.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

And in some cases, you can even lean into some seasonal references to get people in the holiday shopping mood. After all, as consumers venture across social platforms, that voice is what creates continuity as they consume your content. Touchland aims to showcase all of these options so consumers can shop in the most convenient way.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

With it will come the meta-economy, which will power new opportunities for work, wealth, status and identity, and will impact how consumers communicate, play, shop and learn.”. The NFT shopping area at a London Selfridges. According to Napoli, as of November 2021 only 31% of U.S. The wider “meta-conomy”.

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APRIL 13, 2021

No matter how customers choose to shop, informed associates will be a key part of this process. Soon, they’ll need to find ways to make in-store shopping as convenient as online ordering. Buy Now, Pay Later: How Millennials & Gen Z Want to Shop. Listen to the session on demand. Listen to the session on demand.

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Inside Retail

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

If you spend much time online you’ve probably seen one of Temu’s colourful ads – punctuated by its catchy tagline: “shopping like a billionaire”. An effective marketing strategy Unlike other e-commerce platforms that focus on functional benefits such as saving money, Temu caters to consumers’ emotional needs.

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Inside Retail

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With shoppers often buying sweets, custom-made apparel, accessories and jewellery, White Day offers e-commerce platforms a huge opportunity to fulfil consumers’ needs. Shopping malls, boutiques, and special pop-up shops all take part, offering discounts of up to 80 per cent. Super Shopping Day event in 2018.

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Inside Retail

JULY 24, 2024

For example in Germany, 89 per cent of customers that shop on Revolve choose German as a checkout language. So customers who shop on Big W Market can buy the products they wouldn’t find in a Big W store,” Mansour added.

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Independent Retailer

JULY 19, 2022

At a time when social commerce is undergoing explosive growth, automatic Instagram direct messages are the most effective way to recommend products during conversations with customers. Personalized Online Shopping. Make Personal Recommendations for Future Purchases. An Affordable Sales Solution.

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Inside Retail

AUGUST 14, 2022

As our community has grown, we’ve heard narratives echoed regarding the struggles to find clothes that fit, negative shopping experiences, lack of representation leading to feelings of irrelevance and, increasingly, the link between wearing clothing you like and feeling body confident. Retail is still the main source of fashion inspiration.

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Inside Retail

JUNE 17, 2021

But the one thing they all have in common is that Covid changed the way people shop. Many habits they developed during 2020 — such as shopping online through WeChat and making mobile payments — will become permanent. As a result, social commerce is no longer considered a separate shopping channel.

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Inside Retail

MARCH 25, 2024

The platform According to Urban, Zalora’s platform services and e-commerce solutions provide brands with a one-stop shop and a single point of contact for all their e-commerce needs. In the context of Southeast Asia, it remains a growing e-commerce market, according to Urban.

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