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Black box parcel shipping: Understanding the options for seamless integration
E-commerce revenue in the U.S. exceeded $600 billion in 2019, up almost 15% year-over-year. More Americans are opening their laptops instead of heading to...
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Creating an Influencer Marketing Strategy
For many businesses, gaining reach to target audiences requires more than just traditional marketing techniques, think ads, referrals, and others. Often, there’s a need...
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Like Me Not: The End of Likes
How do you know a post is on fire and well on its way to becoming viral. Simple, you take a glance at the...
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Apple credit card launches this summer
Apple announced in a press release on March 25 it will introduce a credit card called Apple Card.Touted as a "new kind of credit card," Apple...
Walmart gamifies store associate training with Spark City
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Walmart has started using Spark City, a simulation-style training game in the form of a mobile app, to assist in training its store...
Porsche collaborates with Huawei on new smartwatch
Geopolitics and technology make very poor bedfellows, if you believe everything you read. However, more and more of us are happy to sally forth...
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...
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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...
Walmart launches voice-activated grocery shopping
Walmart has partnered with Google to allow customers to voice order groceries from their Google Assistant enabled devices including Google Home, iPhones and Android...
Caleres to close 133 Naturalizer stores in shift to digital
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Shoe seller Caleres plans to close 133 stores under its Naturalizer women's footwear brand by the end of fiscal 2020 and pivot to a digital...
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...
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%...
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Digital Content Marketing Strategy: How It Helps You Grow
Digital content marketing strategy helps businesses promote their products, build trust with the audience, and create sales and long-term relationships.
The wide availability of digital...
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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 ......
