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How consumers find what they want to buy and buy it in a world that is no longer defined by a physical place but what a consumer wants to buy and how she wants to buy it. Connected devices and the integration of payments into this now digital-led shopping journey is creating new ways for merchants and consumers to interact and disrupting traditional retail business models.

What Spontaneous Commerce Can Teach Online Retailers And Payment Providers

What Spontaneous Commerce Can Teach Online Retailers And Payment Providers
What Spontaneous Commerce Can Teach Online Retailers And Payment Providers
December 04, 2017  |  Retail

In January 1950, William Applebaum published a piece in the Journal of Marketing about the buying behaviors of consumers in retail stores. At the time, Applebaum...

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Thinking Inside The Box For Holiday Shopping
Thinking Inside The Box For Holiday Shopping
December 02, 2017  |  Retail

With only 23 days left until Christmas, the pressure is mounting. Sure, there are some Type A people who’ve long since done their holiday shopping...

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Retail Fraud Online Actually Went Down For Black Friday
Retail Fraud Online Actually Went Down For Black Friday
December 01, 2017  |  Retail

Here’s a nice change of pace going into the weekend: It looks like online fraud did something unsual for Black Friday this year. Get the...

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Tapping The Power In The Plus-Size Apparel Market
Tapping The Power In The Plus-Size Apparel Market
December 01, 2017  |  Retail

The average American woman’s size doesn’t much resemble the average size of a runway model — a fact well-known to any woman who ever stood in...

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Today In Data: Omnireadi Merchants, Payments Evolve And Supply And Demand Drives Price
Today In Data: Omnireadi Merchants, Payments Evolve And Supply And Demand Drives Price
November 30, 2017  |  Today In Data

The end of the year can make people do things they wouldn’t normally do, like spend three or four times the list price on a...

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eBay Makes Conversational Commerce Leap
eBay Makes Conversational Commerce Leap
November 30, 2017  |  Retail

Online marketplace eBay has launched a new service in partnership with Google, according to news from Chain Store Age on Wednesday (Nov. 27). Get the Full...

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Kroger Beats The Street On Strong Discounting
Kroger Beats The Street On Strong Discounting
November 30, 2017  |  Earnings

Kroger is forecasting some good news for the final quarter of the year — on top of announcing a better-than-expected earnings report for Q3 2017. Wall Street...

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Cyber Monday Is Amazon’s Biggest Day Ever
Cyber Monday Is Amazon’s Biggest Day Ever
November 30, 2017  |  Amazon Commerce

Amazon.com said Wednesday (Nov. 29) that Cyber Monday was the single largest shopping day in the company’s history around the globe, including the biggest ever...

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Today In Data: Corporate Travel Spend, UK Cash Is King And Cannabis’ Growth
Today In Data: Corporate Travel Spend, UK Cash Is King And Cannabis’ Growth
November 29, 2017  |  Today In Data

When it comes to payments and technology innovations, some industries are seeing massive growth, and others are seeing declines. Sectors like corporate travel, cannabis and...

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