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Best Buy Launches Platform for Prescription-Based Medical Devices
January 10, 2024

Best Buy has added a new platform to support its expansion into prescription health and wellness technology products.  The new online experience enables eligible customers to buy continuous glucose monitoring devices (CGMs), according to a Wednesday (Jan. 10) press release issued by Stripe, which is providing the payments infrastructure for Best...

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Amazon Integrates Buy With Prime With Salesforce Commerce Cloud
January 10, 2024

Amazon says it is integrating its Buy With Prime tool with the Salesforce Commerce Cloud. The solution, announced in a news release Wednesday (Jan. 10), lets Salesforce merchants add Buy With Prime to their shopping platforms. “Buy with Prime for Salesforce Commerce Cloud builds on our efforts to help...

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Amazon Sizes Up Trillion-Dollar Returns Challenge, Enlists AI for Perfect Fit Solution 
January 09, 2024

Amazon wants you to feel confident while shopping at home. They want you to make more confident purchasing decisions, and they want to lower the likelihood of you returning a product, which has become a $1 trillion problem.  In fact, according to Karen Webster, returns...

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BigCommerce and Marketplacer Partner to Create Multi-Vendor Marketplaces
January 08, 2024

BigCommerce and Marketplacer have partnered to enable BigCommerce customers to transform their online stores into multi-vendor marketplaces.  With the BigCommerce Marketplace Connector enabled by this partnership, BigCommerce customers can allow third-party sellers to list and sell products from their stores, the companies said in a Monday (Jan. 8) press release.  “The...

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Online Marketplaces Prioritize Digital Wallets and BNPL for Payment Options
January 05, 2024

Online marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Rakuten are increasingly embracing embedded payments options for consumers, such as digital wallets and buy now, pay later (BNPL). According to “Embedded Payments and the Retail Innovation Agenda,” a PYMNTS Intelligence and Carat by Fiserv collaboration, 58% of eCommerce platforms...

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7 in 10 Main Street SMBs Use the Same eCommerce Platforms
January 04, 2024

An online presence is a must for any business today, and online sales require a platform that allows consumers to have an easy, quick and reliable shopping experience. But building your own platform is expensive and takes time, making it impossible for many small and...

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Report: TikTok Targets $17 Billion in US eCommerce Volume
January 04, 2024

TikTok reportedly hopes to expand its U.S. eCommerce business to $17.5 billion this year. That ten-fold increase, the subject of a Wednesday (Jan. 3) Bloomberg News report, sets the stage for the company to become a larger threat to rivals such as Amazon, Shein and Temu....

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What Global Merchants Need to Know About Boosting Cross-Border Sales
January 04, 2024

Global merchants in eCommerce are grappling with countless challenges and opportunities in today’s digital era. Against this backdrop, building a thriving cross-border business demands a comprehensive strategy that navigates complexities while capitalizing on avenues for growth. The concept of “good authorization hygiene” emerges as a...

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In 2023, the Meal Kit Category Lines Blurred
December 28, 2023

Increasingly throughout this past year, meal kits have begun to be not so much their own discrete category as an integrated piece of a larger food eCommerce system. Take, for instance, Blue Apron. In late September, omnichannel food hall company Wonder, founded and led by...