Fake goods surface in up to 60% of Google product searches, study says
Google is among the search engines that show fake and possibly dangerous counterfeit goods in as many as 60% of their search results, putting...
L’Oréal offers first line of virtual makeup for social media, video calls
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L'Oréal Paris introduced its first line of virtual makeup for social media. The cosmetics giant's "Signature Faces" augmented reality (AR) filters are available on...
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,...
The government just blocked another razor startup from getting acquired
The Federal Trade Commission announced it would sue to block Proctor & Gamble’s purchase of razor and body care company Billie on December 8th, citing P&G’s...
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...
More retailers are paring back on distribution centers as part of their cost-cutting initiatives
Distribution centers, an area that received a massive amount of investment from retailers in recent years, are now starting to be the target of...
Warning Signs That You Are Creating Irrelevant Content
Content is king – heard that phrase before? Coined shortly after search engines came into being, it was all content publishers needed to flood...
Gartner: 5G will drive 100M people to shop in AR by next year
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The rollout of high-speed 5G mobile service is set to drive growth of augmented reality shopping to 100 million consumers by next year, researcher Gartner...
Why Shopee boldly pushed ahead with a retail pop-up despite low footfall in malls
At a time when malls are struggling to lure footfall, Shopee has taken a bold step in launching its pop-up store in partnership with...
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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 ......
