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680Consumers Move To ‘Digital-Most’ World During Coronavirus Lockdowns
U.S. consumers have transitioned from a digital-often world to a largely digital-most world in under a month across their “business and life as usual”...
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1.2KThe Rising Popularity Of Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL)
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) products, which let consumers avoid paying at the point of purchase and instead allow them to pay in...
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2.5KSMBs Face An Impossible Conundrum With The Coronavirus
The coronavirus is wreaking havoc on the economy, with individuals staying at home as they purchase less and save while retailers and vendors work...
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1.5KSupporting Social Distancing Awareness, eCommerce With Retail Innovation
Retailers are under the gun to bolster their messaging and ordering capabilities for online shopping, as eCommerce becomes strained amid the coronavirus. Websites have...
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2.2KThe Coronavirus Moves Autos, Antique Sales Online
The antiques business has been slow to transition online, but a confluence of factors, such as COVID-19’s shelter-in-place measure, is changing that reality. One...
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1.2KSmall Businesses Shift Their Outlook With The Coronavirus
For most small businesses, the decade began with optimism, but it would take only three weeks for that thinking to change as...
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2.9KRetailers Use Delivery And Deep Discounting To Stay Afloat
Retailers are beginning to deliver to consumers’ homes or ramping up their ability to do so during the coronavirus crisis. Adore Me has made its in-home...
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4.5KNew Approaches To Shopping And Branding Amid The Coronavirus
The coronavirus pandemic is changing daily life in the United States, as American consumers modify the way they shop to avoid contracting...
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10.4KThe Appeal Of eCommerce Amid The Coronavirus
Consumers have stepped up their activity in eCommerce, as they are not staying in hotels, eating in restaurant dining rooms or using public...
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4.5KProviding Wine Consumers With eCommerce Innovations
Retailers are finding success in the complex, highly regulated wine industry, and are looking to top off loyalty as coronavirus orders flow. Wine Insiders, in...
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618Providing Relief To Retailers And Employees Amid The Coronavirus
Retailers are assisting their workers, while landlords are providing aid to their tenants, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Petco has rolled out an employee relief fund,...
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2.0KThe Potential Of Restaurant Delivery Amid The Coronavirus
The coronavirus has caused many restaurants to stop table service and has put renewed focus on their abilities to manage and fulfill delivery...
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2.6KThe Impact Of The Coronavirus On US Shopping Malls
Mall owners are closing shopping centers amid the coronavirus outbreak, and a trade group that represents them reports that closures are putting a strain...
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2.2KRetailers Respond To The Coronavirus With Trusted Advice, Discounts
Consumers may be looking for trust from retailers amid the coronavirus, as a small but significant share of them noted before the crisis...
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1.5KTackling The Coronavirus Impact On SMBs And Individuals
Companies are working to help restaurants and individuals impacted by the coronavirus. Kroger and the Zero Hunger | Zero Waste Foundation announced a commitment to deploy...
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5.0KEconomic Recovery, Consumer Spending Amid The Coronavirus
The start of U.S. economic recovery is likely approximately six weeks away, if China’s experience with the coronavirus provides lessons learned. While China’s economy is...
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2.2KThe Evolution Of Brick-And-Mortar Retail And Loyalty Programs
Physical retail is evolving to meet the needs of shoppers who expect the same convenience and speed of mobile and online environments. Large shares...
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2.0KTurning The Post Office Into A Destination
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is the biggest retailer in the country in terms of sheer size and locations, and a...
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1.5KThe Brick-and-Mortar Strategy Of Discount Retailers
Businesses that rely on the old-school, brick-and-mortar business model are turning away from eCommerce. Burlington, in one case, announced on its last earnings...
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2.3KTapping Tech To Combat Turbulence
The ride into 2020 has been bumpy to say the least, and beset with challenges. Some were known issues. Payments security, solving the byzantine world...
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1.2KRewriting Definitions For A Digitizing Landscape
There is no shortage of questions that seem basic, but are harder to answer than they appear on first glance. What counts...
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740Taking New Approaches To Supply Chains, eCommerce Purchases
The COVID-19 virus is putting a renewed focus on technology and the supply chain. One retailer, for instance, recommitted to scaling robotics solutions to...
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1.9KConnecting With Customers Through Loyalty Programs, Intuitive Technology
Panera Bread’s $8.99-per-month “all the coffee you can drink” offering debuted this week, which is spurring a new look at in-store loyalty programs. The move...
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1.3KClosing The Expectation-Execution Gap
While there is no shortage of praise for the various improvements that digitization promises to bring to consumers, institutions and businesses, there...
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1.2KInnovating To Capture Value, While Stemming Losses
There are all kinds of ways for a business to directly lose money, and even more ways to simply fail to save...
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5.7KNecessity Is The Mother Of Innovative Invention
The need for innovation springs from many sources. It might come from the rapid evolution of consumer preferences, and in the incumbent...
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1.7KThe Evolving State Of The Restaurant And Delivery Industries
The 2020 outlook report from the National Restaurant Association illustrates an industry contending with the countercurrents of solid consumer spending and disruptive technology. The...
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1.8KFilling The Gaps, Securing The Weak Spots
There is no shortage of pressure points where consumers are pushing for progress – faster payments, mobile wallets, unattended retail, 5G …...
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1.3KPersonalization And Resale In The Retail Market
The resale market is turning out to be one of the hottest trends of the young new year, and is gaining momentum...
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2.0KEnabling Delivery And Voice With Digital Technology
The concept of brand voice took a literal turn this month, with Amazon’s latest rollout, Amazon Polly, an AWS product that provides neural network-based...
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1.5KThe Power Of Experiences And Subscriptions In Retail
Experiential marketing is one of the most commonly discussed and executed strategies in the 2020 connected commerce world. Anthropologie, for its part, is renowned for its...
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2.8KNew Approaches To Retail’s Last Mile And The Circular Economy
The fact that the last mile is the hardest mile has become something of a truism in online shopping. Bond, however, aims to help even...
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2.1KBuilding An eCommerce Presence With Tech, Customer Service
Adore Me has built a solid eCommerce presence with the help of technology and a hyper customer focus, as the lingerie industry increasingly goes omnichannel....
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2.1KProviding Convenience With Brick-and-Mortar Stores, Automated Retail
Foxtrot, a small company out of Chicago, is reinventing convenience store retail and taking it uptown. The retailer features gifts as well as standard convenience store...
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1.4KDeveloping Brick-and-Mortar Stores For QSRs, Sleep Brands
Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are moving to fulfill digital orders as quickly and smoothly as possible. Some operators, such as Chipotle, are even launching store designs...
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4.1KThe Challenges Of Self-Checkout, IoT Technology
There’s not much argument against self-checkout systems as a means of improving the customer experience, but at least a temporary blowback to the technology...
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1.8KInnovating With eCommerce Wine Sales, Brick-and-Mortar C-Stores
Brick-and-mortar retailers are bringing smaller-scale, cutting-edge technology to city locations. Sainsbury’s, for instance, has unveiled a new C-store format in London called On The Go. In eCommerce, Wine.com had a...
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1.9KReinventing Shopping And Agriculture With Innovation
Developers, among others, are working on reinventing the mall, which is still a compelling retail venue. And payment flexibility could be one of...
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1.2KPowering Innovation With Wedding, Transportation Technology
Connected brides have a series of new platforms, interactive tools and partnerships to help them plan their weddings. David’s Bridal, in one case, offers a new suite...
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1.5KInnovative Approaches To Unattended Retail And Apparel Resale
Consumers are interested in unattended commerce – and not only soda and candy from vending machines. They are looking to purchase all sorts of...
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1.5KServing The Millennial Consumer With Convenient Offerings
Reynolds Group Holdings is actively working to court the millennial market, which has a particularly strong focus on convenience. For this reason, the firm...
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2.0KRetailers Focus On Visual Search For Apps, Kiosks
Visual search and in-store kiosks are coming more into focus, with the category powering consumer adoption and shopping at a pace that...
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1.0KOpportunities And Challenges In The Fast-Growing Subscription Sector
The subscription model and the sharing economy are two of the fastest-growing and most compelling sectors in the business landscape. Similar consumer and demographic...
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1.9KSupporting Digital Sales With Retail Innovation
Bookshop is aiming to help independent bookstores expand their range with an easier on-ramp to digital sales. The site’s purchasing experience is similar to Amazon’s,...
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1.5KRetail Transformations With Digital Innovations
Retailers that sell products and services online have been steadily removing payment frictions from their online checkout processes, adopting checkout features like refund policies...
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1.9KSocial Shopping’s Potential Uptick
The potential of social shopping has been rich ever since large tech companies put their efforts behind linking content to commerce. Results, however, have...
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1.7KInnovating In Cities With Electric Vehicles, Cashierless Stores
The electric scooter and bike race in Washington, D.C. has become more complicated in the last few months, as the district has...
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2.0KBuyer Payments And Seller Payouts In A Changing Sharing Economy
The sharing economy is changing with the coming of age of Generation Z, as businesses struggle to balance the needs of established shoppers and...
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1.7KGrowth In Coffee Brands And Unattended Retail
Automated retail is a burgeoning space, with sales growth via many unattended retail devices significantly increasing. However, the industry faces challenges from old machines that haven’t...
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2.0KTransformations In Social Media Commerce And Restaurant Technology
Social media platforms are aiming to harness their contextual commerce potential. TikTok, which is mostly a destination for users seeking short-form videos, is now looking...
