Black Friday’s too late this year. Is Prime Day just in time?
After months of speculation around just when Amazon would go through with its annual Prime Day sale, usually held in July, it has finally landed in mid-October. That...
Men, women not so different when it comes to shopping behavior
Over two-thirds of men and two-thirds of women do the majority of their shopping online and more than two-thirds of men and women are...
How Social Media Marketing Has Revolutionized The Gaming Industry?
The majority of the retailing operations for the gaming business are arranged through digital communications like YouTube and various other proficient message conveying platforms....
Digitally native brands on the power of brick and mortar
Founders and CEOs at digital-first businesses at Shoptalk predict their business models will need to move beyond early strategies like social media marketing...
How to Choose a Perfect Mobile App Development Company
Sometimes having a plethora of options makes choosing the best solution for your project even more difficult. In 2019, the United States alone had...
Brandless expands health and wellness assortment
Brandless on Wednesday announced an expansion of its wellness products, including 17 items ranging from organic superfood powders and organic vitamins to non-GMO supplements...
What Lies Ahead in the Future of Omnichannel?
The importance of omnichannel operations is well established, and that is driving customer expectations higher than ever. In 2020, Gartner estimated that 60% of B2C...
Ranking: Top 30 growth retailers led by Gymshark, Boohoo and Farfetch
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Dominated by retailers, our latest Top 30 Growth Retailers ranking is critical reading in the run-up to Christmas as shoppers increasingly migrate online.
As...
What’s hot in retail technology investments right now?
1. M&S
Hermes UK has announced that Marks & Spencer is its first retail partner to use its new video technology – Hermes Play.
This allows...
Retail fails: 6 of the biggest blunders from industry history
Every now and then in retail, decisions turn out so badly that leaders can't even blame the weather. Or "fashion misses."
To be fair, in...
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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 ......
