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Social Commerce Revolution: How Payments Innovation Transformed the Digital Shopping Experience

Retail TouchPoints

They extend to things like livestreams, shoppable content and payment links within Instagram Reels, stories, TikTok videos or Pinterest Pins. Here, Ill outline this infrastructure and other top considerations for merchants and platforms as they wade into this new domain.

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Regulation is Coming to POS Finance: Why Responsible Lending Will Benefit Retailers

Retail TouchPoints

As economic pressures and living costs surge, more people than ever are considering using point-of-service (POS) finance — such as buy now, pay later and installment loans — to manage their cashflow. It’s clear that there is a consumer-driven need for more flexible finance and smarter buying power. .

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Alibaba Seeks to Enable Entrepreneurs with New Sourcing and Financing Tools

Retail TouchPoints

Same goes for the services Alibaba is building to stay competitive: financing solutions, fulfillment services, AI tools to make the process of using the platform easier, localized warehousing to speed up delivery. Sounds familiar, right? That’s because Amazon, and now Walmart, have all done the same.

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Pacvue Co-founder on How to Avoid the ‘Shiny Penny Effect’ with AI and Retail Media

Retail TouchPoints

The whole process of planning, optimizing, activating and measuring all these retail media networks is very cumbersome, so that was another topic how do we make these workflows easier? You get into your functional teams finance and marketing or whatever and you talk about all the things you want to automate.

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Starbucks, Amazon and Gucci: Retail embraces crypto, but it’s not easy

Inside Retail

The industry’s latest move: accepting cryptocurrency as a form of payment. In countries where crypto is more regulated, retailers have opted to join forces with licensed payment platforms that are registered with local finance institutions to process transactions. Beyond payment.

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Meta, Amex and TikTok Offer Holiday Help to Small Businesses

Retail TouchPoints

Meta also will highlight businesses from its Meta Business Leaders Network in the new 2022 Smalliday Showcase gift guide, and provide small businesses with advice on advertising effectively with its SMB Holiday Marketing Guide. Additionally, eligible SMBs will be able to earn a $100 TikTok advertising credit. small business owners.

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The Top 5 Retail Remix Episodes of 2023

Retail TouchPoints

Over three -plus years, I have had the honor of speaking with industry pros who have rich backgrounds in tech, marketing and advertising, operations, finance and so much more. With the rise of retail media, he saw a unique opportunity to bring the robust, data-driven creative of digital advertising to the physical environment.