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Key steps for making your retail business digital ready
The transition is no longer a choice, considering that customer experience and competitive standing depends on how quickly you can embrace modernisation.
Before you...
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Personalized marketing in a competitive environment for brands and e-commerce retailers
Personalized marketing is all about offering improved user experience (UX) by serving relevant content, or targeting key messages in the funnel, based on your...
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Five ways to make your mobile PPC strategy work for you
With half of the population stuck to their smartphones, checking on the most recent coronavirus updates, it seems imperative to have a clear idea...
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Walgreens Boots Alliance’s heavy focus on digitalization to save up to $600M
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As Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) continues its "digitalization" efforts, the company stands to reduce annual IT cash spend by between $500 million and $600...
AR tops list of tech that makes users view a brand as innovative, study...
Augmented reality (AR) is the most likely technology to make consumers think a brand is innovative, although most cutting-edge tech fall flat, per a...
FAA: New drone rules address safety, provide more operational flexibility
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The FAA has released final rules for drones regarding remote identification and flying over people, paving the way for more delivery...
Report: Amazon is making its own version of AirPods for Alexa
Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports that Amazon is working on its own version of Apple’s popular AirPods wireless headphones. The company is looking for new...
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Alibaba in crosshairs of growing antitrust scrutiny in China
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s dominant position in the online retail and digital payments markets make it the most likely target of growing antitrust scrutiny...
GameStop lost $673M last year
GameStop on Tuesday reported that in its fourth quarter, which had one less selling week than the year-ago quarter, total global sales fell 7.6%...
Urban Outfitters announces disappointing holiday sales, group CEO departure
Urban Outfitters, Inc. reported total company net sales for the two months ended December 31, 2020, decreased 8.4 percent over the same period last...
A new era for Amazon as Jeff Bezos hands over CEO role
In an internal letter to Amazon.com employees yesterday, Jeff Bezos announced that he will be stepping down as chief executive of the company in the third...
5 retailers winning despite the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic disrupted virtually every segment of the retail industry and created an incomparable sense of uncertainty.
Between dealing with both supply and demand...
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Six Numbers That Explain The Fate of Department Stores
Department stores were the 20th century's marvelous shopping destination. Retailers that were filled with varied and often unique merchandise, offering high levels of convenience and...
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Will Self-Checkout Ever Win Over Its Critics?
Self-checkout stations show little signs of slowing their expansion across retail, yet critics only appear to be getting louder.
In a recent article in The Atlantic,...
American Express expands small business perks as it reportedly falls under federal investigation
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Days before The Wall Street Journal reported federal investigators were looking into American Express' sales to business owners, the company introduced more incentives...
Digital Shift Leads Mastercard To Take Contactless Payments To The Cloud
If the sky’s the limit for contactless payments, which the pandemic has certainly shown, and if the technology is deployed across mobile devices ......
