So over the past couple of years, Walmart has tried a bunch of different formats for live streaming starting at the end of 2020 when it worked with TikTok on its first livestream for the holidays and they've worked with other platforms like Twitter and YouTube and produced dozens of events.
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| Mar 21, 2023
I think with the holidays, when shoppers were making more bulk purchases while also trying to watch their budgets or stretch their budgets. And we know that Walmart's Great Value band is actually the most purchased private label in the brand according to research from Numerator from last summer. More than 70% of US consumers had purchased this brand.
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| Feb 28, 2023
The recommendation I got was from somebody in the family that said, "You need to wait until the holiday because when the mattress companies have big sales.". Tiffani Montez:. Oh, okay. Rob Rubin:. So we bought around July 4th. Tiffani Montez:. But would you have thought that it was creepy that they overheard your conversation had they given you a really good recommendation? Rob Rubin:.
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| Oct 30, 2023
Maybe it's tied to specific events or holidays or collaborations with other brands because they can really add an element of excitement or freshness to brands. Especially for brands or retailers that are struggling with their existing stores, they kind of take them out of their typical setting and can cast them in a fresh light. Now for luxury brands, they can often have a little more mass appeal.
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| Oct 4, 2023
In October Civic Science found that nearly two thirds of 18 to 24 year olds were likely to visit the mall to holiday shop versus one third of over 55s. That is all we have time for. Andrew, thanks so much for hanging out today. Andrew: Thanks, Marcus. Always fun. Marcus: And thank you to Victoria who edits the show. Thank you to James who copy edits it.
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| Feb 13, 2023
Alibaba and JD.com tout Singles Day successes, but the data is murky: While transactions rose 27% YoY, the sale was 10 days longer than last year, making it an uncertain gauge of consumer sentiment.
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| Nov 12, 2024
I know that as the holidays gear up, they're looking at offering some major discounts for Black Friday and beyond, probably. Sara Lebow:. We've got Blake making a conversion from a video we saw, we've got Skye making a conversion from seeing something appear over and over again on the TikTok Shop tab, and then we have me, I have never made a purchase from TikTok Shop and I hate TikTok Shop.
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| Nov 22, 2023
TikTok Shop is entering its second holiday season, when it will rely on big brands and livestream commerce to maintain the momentum it's gathered since launching a little over a year ago.
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| Nov 5, 2024
US consumer spending rose 3.7% in Q3: Several indicators suggest the US economy is on sound footing as inflation wanes and consumer sentiment ticks up.
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You have so many people who haven't had to repay their student loans, which many people have speculated have really kept retail sales strong over the last couple of months, even amidst this period of inflation, and it could potentially be a really significant variable that starts to impact retail sales, certainly at the beginning of next year, but potentially even hitting the holidays as well.
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We're about to run into Christmas and Hanukkah and a bunch of other holidays, so they have to wait till next year. So it's still a bit of a mess even though we are back to having shows and movies again at some point. But yeah, the movie industry wasn't exactly in great shape before the strikes. Analysts expecting the number of shows and movies made to be cut by a third from 2022 to 2025.
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So this holiday weekend, I was looking to walk around with my daughter, but it was cold outside and the library was closed. So drove to Nyack, New York and walked around the Palisades Mall. And I was like, this is a huge mall. I'm very tired. I've been walking around for hours, and I didn't even see the whole thing.
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| Feb 23, 2024
Can you guess what the expected spend for Easter holiday is in the US? Marcus Johnson:. Total or-. Suzy Davidkhanian:. Total. Marcus Johnson:. Total. Okay. $7 trillion. Suzy Davidkhanian:. No. Come on. Marcus Johnson:. I'm kidding. Suzy Davidkhanian:. 24 billion. Up four to 6%. Marcus Johnson:. So close. Suzy Davidkhanian:.
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| Apr 6, 2023
TikTok Shop doubles down on livestreaming as ecommerce sales grow: The platform sees an opportunity to grow order frequency and drive more impulse purchases.
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Target scores a major get for Black Friday: The retailer will be the exclusive merchant selling a “Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book” and “The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology.”
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Instead spending a bunch of time sketching something out and being unhappy with your illustrating ability, you just punch it into Midjourney and see what it looks like, see if it would in fact be the right thing to put on a holiday card for Marcus, or if it wouldn't be. Marcus Johnson:. [inaudible 00:21:09] done. Max Willens:.
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| Mar 1, 2024
If a person started working at the age of 19 after their education and kept working until around the age of 65, doing a standard eight hour per day job, excluding weekends and holidays, that'd be about 128 of the 954 months of life spent working. On average, about 20 minutes a day is spent on the toilet. So over the course of 80 years, that sums up to about 13 months and one week.
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| Feb 9, 2024