Retailers Looking for the Discount Sweet Spot This Black Friday

You don’t need a crystal ball to foretell a few things about Black Friday and Cyber Week 2020. #1) It will be unlike any shopping...

Instagram Reels to have a shopping feature soon

Instagram Reels will soon be adding a shopping feature in India. The new feature was announced in October as something the company had in the...

How to Create an Effective Customer Journey Map

Whether you’re looking to recruit new customers or boost loyalty with your existing customers, it all starts with the same thing: getting to know...

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...

The Best Brands On TikTok In 2020: A Quick Guide

TikTok has become a major player in a brand’s social media success. We saw a large sway of brands jumping on the TikTok hype in 2019,...

19 Best Deal Websites & Online Shopping Platforms for Deep Discounts

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, total U.S. retail e-commerce sales topped $209 billion in the third quarter of 2020, an all-time...

Is Instacart Showing How AI Will Transform the Grocery Experience?

Instacart announced a series of AI-driven upgrades to its websites, apps, and smart carts that promise to help grocery shoppers with education, discovery, and checkout. On...

2019’s three key payment technology trends

With consumer desire for speed and efficiency driving new payment technologies, here are the top trends retailers should focus on. When I look back at...

Under Armour faces investigation into accounting practices

Under Armour is under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department over its accounting practices, particularly around whether the retailer...

Sunshine Contacts is an invite-only address book app from Marissa Mayer’s new startup

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has just revealed her first major product since stepping down back in 2017: a new contact management application for...

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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

Dive Brief: 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 ......