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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Wirecard has announced a new partnership with French firm SES-imagotag to make it easy for consumers to use their mobile devices to pay shelf-side while shopping in-store, without having to line up at the point of sale. SES-imagotag specializes in omnichannel retail experiences — and is present in over 14,000 stores in 55 countries.

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OCTOBER 1, 2018

Packaged goods often reach consumers’ hands after traveling across oceans and being shipped between manufacturers, distributors and retailers. For example, a company could program the platform to display product care information when customers use their smartphones to engage with the near-field communication (NFC) tag or code on the package.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The dreaded returns season has hit retail with a predictable but painful thud. With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. In the brick-and-mortar retail era it was a nuisance to be avoided.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

Beauty is considered to be one of today’s fastest-growing retail operations, even more so than its apparel business. ” Macy’s has been struggling recently with sales at its traditional stores, and is lagging behind as brands begin to sell directly to customers who are skipping mall trips. They were down 0.6

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Even the ways retailers package their items can make a difference in their taxes. This month’s Next-Gen Sales Tax Tracker examines these compliance complexities and their impact, as well as ongoing efforts to streamline how retailers can fulfill their obligations. Around The Next-Gen Sales Tax Wor ld.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The conversation came against the backdrop where i2c announced a partnership with TAG, to launch a super app that provides instant payments capability to Pakistan’s unbanked adult population, which at present numbers about 100 million individuals. To that end, Amir Wain , CEO of i2c Inc. It will happen.”.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

“The technology was first adopted here; it just didn’t catch on the way it did globally,” Jackson said, adding that in places like Japan and Norway, ESL technology is present in 80 percent to 90 percent of retailers across a spectrum of verticals, with that number pushing 60 percent in Canada. However, the retail marketplace in the U.S.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Mastercard has teamed up with retailer Fred Segal Sunset and Made to sell limited-edition products that showcase female artists and designers, as well as demonstrate Mastercard’s blockchain-based Provenance solution, which illustrates the journey of a product from start to store. billion in counterfeit online sales.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

In retail, inventory is what you’ve got and you hope they want. Technology, as it does so often with every corner of life, can help augment that (retail) judgement. Technology, as it does so often with every corner of life, can help augment that (retail) judgement. We understand that the retailers are concerned about inventory.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

Sales taxes empower governments to maintain critical public services, but they can also make medical essentials too expensive for those who need them. Diaper expenses quickly add up for families with infants or incontinent adults, and sales taxes only increase the burden. Sales taxes’ price tags.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Alibaba is at the forefront of a bid that would take Intime Retail Group private, with a price tag of as much as $2.6 billion price tag would offer up a 42 percent premium for Intime, as paid by Alibaba and Intime Founder Shen Guojun, at HK$10 a share — and Alibaba already owns three-quarters of the company’s stock.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The feature is expected to appeal to creators and brands, and will also allow users to add shopping tags to their posts. Record eCommerce sales will translate into high rates of returns this holiday season. Reels are the short-form videos that now have their own tab in Instagram. Tis the Season …. for Omnichannel Returns?

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JUNE 14, 2019

Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is carrying more weight in retail these days, helping merchants to innovate and win over consumers, and even serving to tie together web, mobile and in-store experiences as part of the focus on omnichannel commerce. The tags can also function as anti-theft devices.)”. Treasure Hunt.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

Richardson started noodling on the concept of fusing retail with hospitality in some capacity. The house contains items that come with small wooden tags that printed with the hashtag #SHOPTOSTAY. If the traveler likes an item, they can scan a quick-response (QR) code on the tag and take the product when they leave.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

But social media is also driving retail innovation, and those trends are going to help shape commerce in the all-important fourth quarter and beyond into the 2020s. One recent example of the intersection of social media and retail comes from Facebook-owned Instagram. Regulation might be in the future.

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JULY 19, 2017

Mastercard is expanding its QR-based programs to create greater choice in retail mobile payments. Once the QR code has been scanned, the online payment will be processed through the Mastercard network using M/Chip technology and the secure EMV infrastructure that retailers already have in place.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The retailer limited the sale of the collection, which sold out on H&M websites across Europe hours after its Thursday (Nov. And on California-based resale marketplace Tradesy, shoppers can actually get a deal, with a Giambattista Valli shift dress selling for less than the retail price of the H&M collaboration.

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MARCH 18, 2020

For most retailers, this virus thing is starting to hurt. Retailers are now in full-on battle mode,” said Jefferies Analyst Randal Konik , who foresees a 90 percent to 100 percent drop in mall traffic. For retailers, this is now about near-term survival.”. “For For retailers, this is now about near-term survival.”.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

While the program is still just a pilot, journalists working for Mashable will be able to take a photo of, say, a celebrity and tag elements of his or her outfit with links to similar products available for sale on eBay. The lab hopes to learn how to increase sales through the eBay platform. “By Beyond Photos and Music.

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MARCH 19, 2018

When it’s time to check out, customers go to a dedicated counter where the cashier makes sure they scanned the correct number of items and removes a security tag. The retailer has already tested the technology at a store in New Jersey. And the retailer is flexible on timing: Brands can stay for as short a time period as a month.

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MAY 18, 2020

percent of the 12,000 consumers we studied say that they are shifting the retail spend once done in physical stores, to digital channels. Retail Done in Bits and Bytes. It took about 15 years for 5 percent of retail sales to shift online, then another 10 to shift another 5 percent. Even more remarkable is that 5.1

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JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. The move is one of several Tilly’s has been pursuing recently to draw additional foot traffic in an era when, like many youth-focused retailers, it is seeing its sales constantly shifting online. Larger Trends. More Money.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Instagram has launched a checkout feature designed to help the social media platform become a more attractive place for consumers to buy retail products, and to capture more sales via what is coming to be known as contextual commerce. As it stands, users can swipe a product on Instagram to visit the vendor’s website to place an order.

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APRIL 8, 2020

point-of-sale (POS) form of lending that’s become a retail sensation around the world in recent years. It is for these reasons that we see buy now, pay later solutions being so rapidly adopted across the fitness market and almost all retail categories.”. Enter ‘buy now, pay later’ (BNPL), the layaway 2.0

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Loyalty is the Holy Grail of retail, with happy customers retained and spending all the while on goods flying off brick-and-mortar shelves. Karam said that the changes happening in retail are similar to what is going in software. In retail, a similar shift also has been transpiring, from transactional relationships to relational.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The court ruled in favor of Qualcomm and banned sales of the iPhone models that had the Intel chips. That prompted Apple to remove iPhones off the store shelves of 15 retailers in the country. At the same time that iPhone sales are lackluster, Apple is seeing its subscription-based business grow.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Yet retailers are now offering shoppable photos on partner websites. While the program is still just a pilot, journalists working for Mashable will be able to take a photo of, say, a celebrity and tag elements of his or her outfit with links to similar products available for sale on eBay. . — Only 6.5 A whopping 42.5

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APRIL 15, 2016

Could everyone’s favorite image-based social network be transformed into the world’s largest crowdsourced retail catalog? This coming Thursday (April 21), Alexis Maybank, Gilt Groupe cofounder and its first CEO, will launch a new foray into digital retail: Project September. One woman hopes the answer is yes.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Many retailers, like Swap.com, say their inventory is quickly growing. 2015, items marked “new with tags” bumped up nearly a quarter, and this January, that number is slated to pop up even more. According to the National Retail Federation, more purchases made online are returned than those in store. million just this week.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

billion that would take Intime Retail Group private as part of Alibaba’s efforts to counteract slowing online sales growth. trillion brick-and-mortar retail market. billion | Alibaba’s bid to take Intime Retail Group private. trillion | Size of China’s brick-and-mortar retail market.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retailers have an opportunity to surprise and delight shoppers with digital, connected and omnichannel experiences in the physical store, but many are struggling to make that opportunity pay off. Yet none of that is making it into the physical retail environment. AR Best Practices.

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JUNE 14, 2016

6, put a $800 price tag on Amazon’s share value, CNBC reported. “We believe eCommerce sales will continue to account for a greater percentage of retail sales, driven by convenience and faster and less expensive delivery,” they noted. On Monday, Amazon’s share value closed at $718.81 on NASDAQ.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Consider the fact that Cook shone the spotlight, specifically, on iPhone sales tied to China, along with other hardware. Look back beyond the panic of December’s stock market and the initial panics of January (the month already feels like it’s been dragging on forever, doesn’t it?), and the signs have been there for a while.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” The company owns 458 stores in the U.S., Another one seems ready to bite the dust. Larger Trends.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In an attempt to lower its reliance on the iPhone, Apple is overhauling its leadership ranks and changing its priorities so that it is focused more on services, artificial intelligence, hardware and retail, reported The Wall Street Journal. Apple’s moves come at a time when demand for its iPhones is starting to slow.

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APRIL 15, 2019

Amazon has found a gold mine with its third party sales service. That’s despite third-party sellers making up just one-third of Amazon’s overall online sales, according to Motley Fool reports last month. A recent research report supports the claim that when it comes to B2B eCommerce, price isn’t everything.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The price tag of Apple’s latest iPhones, combined with an economic slowdown and extending smartphone replacement cycles, were named by IDC as the culprits behind the dive in sales at the Cupertino, California handset maker. According to a report in Bloomberg citing IDC, the smartphone market in China contracted 9.7

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