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

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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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Turn Tricky Market Conditions into Revenue-Increasing Opportunities

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The new year is here; however, the market challenges of 2022 didn’t evaporate with the turning of the calendar. Supply chain issues, inflation and other economic headwinds that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine are still present for merchants. Have a simple checkout process.

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4 Ways Ecommerce Returns Will Change in 2022

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Consumers are Split Between Home Pickup and Carrier Drop-off. As a result, drop-off (at a carrier or retail location) became the preferred returns method for 67% of consumers, according to our BOXpoll surveys. Where consumers live has a lot to do with which returns process they prefer. consumers love the USPS.

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Have Temu and Shein Thwarted Wish’s Hopes of a Comeback?

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And Wish, which held that top spot back in 2018, has now dropped out of the top 50 completely after having fallen to #35 as of last March. There are other troublesome indicators for the company: Q2 saw declines across the board at Wish. The trade-off is long shipping times, another thing Wish is working hard to improve.

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Small Business, Big Ideas: Amid Historic Disruption in Off-Price, This Family-Owned Overstock Wholesaler is Reinventing the Game

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As he drove around the streets of Chicago looking for local retailers interested in steeply discounted Christmas tree bulbs and the like, he had his own lightbulb moment perhaps there was a larger market for excess and out-of-season inventory. The Small Business Challenge: Continually Coming up with Wow! deals , he said.

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Choosing a Distribution Model: Drop Shipping vs Traditional Inventory

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One of the topics that consistently comes up in the retail world is the logistics of shipping. From the manufacturers to the distributors, to your retail store – there are many factors and unexpected costs to consider during the shipping process that can be often overlooked.

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Staples Partnership Adds 1,000+ Happy Returns Locations to Network

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Happy Returns by PayPal has teamed with Staples US Retail to offer the Happy Returns in-person service, adding more than 1,000 Staples retail locations to its return service. “Staples is a destination for all things shipping, especially for small businesses and remote workers.

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