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Reports: PayPal in Talks to Acquire Pinterest for $45 Billion

Retail TouchPoints

The payments provider has worked to stay at the cutting edge of relevant trends, including the buy now, pay later (BNPL) services that are currently experiencing massive growth and are expected to surge during the holidays. Adding social media capabilities could further enhance PayPal’s offerings for retailers. “We

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Digital Is Turning Retail Into An On-Demand Model

Retail TouchPoints

To accomplish this, operational models need to be adapted quickly. Predicting what’s to come isn’t easy, but having a robust network infrastructure in place would allow retailers to deploy new services rapidly when they’re ready to add them — regardless of where stores are located, or how long they’ve been established.

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How customer loyalty helped Myer bounce back

Inside Retail

After a rollercoaster six months of lockdowns, Christmas and Omicron, department store Myer yesterday delivered a strong half year result with net profit up 55 per cent and its first dividend payment since FY17. Loyalty is king. This will ensure we’re getting products to our customers in the quickest and most effective way,” King said.

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2023: Ring in Retail Profits by Stopping Automated Threats

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Specifically, bot operators continue to siphon retailer profits with increasingly sophisticated automated threats — including account takeover, web and API scraping and more. ATO attacks cost retailers millions of dollars each year. Because of this, it’s shockingly expensive to process all of this fake traffic.

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British Home Improvement Retailer MKM Lays the Foundation for Future Success with New Composable Website

Retail TouchPoints

A National Business Operating Locally MKM operates 125 branch locations across England, Scotland and Wales, each with its own inventory and pricing. Additionally, MKM operates as a franchise model of sorts, with the branch managers each having a share of their business. And that’s just the beginning.

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Ollie’s Elevates Loyalty Strategy with its Branded Credit Card

Retail TouchPoints

Ollies offers close-out merchandise from the worlds most reputable brands at 70% off retail price. The process launched in August 2024, and in early October, the company took a brief hiatus to regroup and see how the first phase of the launch went so we could come back and launch another group of stores, Kuypers said.

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You Can’t Spell Retail Without AI

Retail TouchPoints

When connected to a payment device such as a credit card, this can enable consumers to load merchandise directly into shopping bags in their cart, and bring it out to their car without waiting in line. Price Optimization is for all Retailers. In physical stores, we’re seeing AI used to improve the customer experience.

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