Their greater population density leads to more retail ecommerce in general, including both home-delivered and collected purchases. Grocery likely leads the way in fueling click-and-collect growth. Although grocery was slower to adopt online ordering than other categories, it’s now catching up. Click-and-collect fulfillment is used more commonly for these purchases.
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| Jan 25, 2023
We talk about e-commerce a lot on this podcast and in general, which makes sense. E-Commerce is making up an increasing share of retail sales at 16% this year and 20% by the end of 2028 according to our forecast. But that still leaves at least 80% of sales, US sales specifically taking place in stores, which might be why we're seeing so many stores launch new formats.
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| Jun 12, 2024
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| Feb 1, 2023
But at the same time, we're looking at older population, also learning how to use e-commerce and fintech, and the upcoming older generation will also be a bit more tech-savvy. Bill Fisher:. And how can marketers benefit from in-store tech? Carina Perkins:.
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| Apr 29, 2024
How Ikea innovates to keep up with an expanding ecommerce market. More Chart of the Day:. 6/15 - Direct-to-success. 6/14 - Buyers without borders. 6/13 - Top of the funnel to you. 6/12 - YouTube’s retail rush. 6/9 - Make it discount. Methodology: Data is from the May 2023 Coveo report titled "Ecommerce Relevance Report 2023: Privacy vs.
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| Jan 6, 2023
Բ’s ecommerce disruptors will get disrupted. Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop face a reckoning following breakneck worldwide expansion. The crop of mobile-first ecommerce players with roots in China have taken off with consumers around the world.
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| Nov 14, 2024
TikTok’s latest strategy to boost social commerce sales relies on AI: The social platform is testing a feature that automatically links users to TikTok Shop without creator input.
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| Oct 31, 2023
Instacart, which expects to add advertising to Caper Carts, envisions a future in which it offers a “portfolio of different advertising tools, both on our platform and outside of our platform, that can make us a real one-stop shop for CPGs,” Simo said.
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| Aug 7, 2024
Few US merchants are selling goods on TikTok Shop: Many are reluctant to invest time and resources in the platform given the widespread speculation that it will be banned or sold.
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| Apr 10, 2023
The solution: UK-based fintech Sprive is one alternative that helps users overpay their mortgages using automation and shopping-based cashback rewards. It links to a user’s bank account and uses spare cash from everyday purchases to make mortgage overpayments automatically—which Sprive claims can save customers £10,000 ($13,000) over the lifetime of their mortgages.
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| Apr 30, 2025
At this year’s Shoptalk Europe event, held in Barcelona last week, Davidkhanian observed that while retailers are encountering the same challenges as 15 years ago, the way they approach them has changed. Here’s a look at three examples. The struggle: The shopping journey is becoming more fragmented. The solution: Create a unified commerce strategy.
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| May 16, 2023
Go further: Read our Spotlight: Grocery Inflation report to learn how rising prices are shifting DZ’ spending patterns. This article originally appeared in Insider Intelligence's Retail & Ecommerce Briefing—a daily recap of top stories reshaping the retail industry. Subscribe to have more hard-hitting takeaways delivered to your inbox daily. Are you a client? Click here to subscribe.
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| Jan 20, 2023
Under the new deal, Ubisoft will acquire non-exclusive rights to stream Activision Blizzard’s current and future PC and console games throughout the European Economic Area for the next 15 years, with the rights persisting in perpetuity. Microsoft’s stock rose 1.3% in premarket trading Tuesday, and Activision gained 1.1% on the news of the restructured deal.
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| Aug 23, 2023
Domino’s will soon list its menus on Uber Eats and Postmates: The pizza company sees the apps as a means to drive incremental revenues.
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| Jul 12, 2023
“We have several hundred open positions in the US, Europe, and China.”. Layoffs are damaging pandemic-era diversity initiatives: Recent layoffs have scrubbed the attempts to boost employee diversity, per The Washington Post. Women represent about 39% of the overall workforce but 46% of all layoffs since September, per Layoffs.fyi.
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| Feb 1, 2023
The insight: Retailers’ efforts to boost their high-margin retail media businesses are complicating their ability to negotiate with brand partners, particularly as they push for price concessions to alleviate the pressure on inflation-weary shoppers.
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| Apr 5, 2024
The trend: As TikTok faces bans in Western areas like Europe, Canada, and the United States, its growth prospects continue to look strong in its home region, where nearly 60% of the world’s social network users are based. In Asia-Pacific, TikTok will be the fastest-growing social platform this year.
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| Mar 28, 2023
The news: Digital fraud fell but was still rampant during the Cyber 5 holiday weekend—4.2% of all attempted US ecommerce transactions were suspected to have been fraud between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, per TransUnion. This was a decline from last year’s 5.8% despite increased ecommerce activity this year.
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| Dec 6, 2024
At the end of last month, February 17th, in fact, the European Commission fully implemented this new and core piece of digital legislation in the EU. Here's Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, explaining the rationale for this act. Margrethe Vestager:.
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| Mar 28, 2024
The law says Europeans' personal data must be protected when transferred outside of Europe. Regulators think Meta's data flows exposed Europeans to America's weaker privacy laws, where US intelligence agencies can intercept communications from abroad. Meta says it will appeal against the quote, unquote, "Unjustified and unnecessary ruling."
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| May 26, 2023
Around 40% of boomers said last November that they mostly or always shop in-store, according to data from Attest. For Gen Xers, that total was 27%, with the proportion dropping to 23% among adults overall. Boomers were the only cohort to see in-store responses outnumber online responses. How should advertisers optimize for their digital audiences across generations?
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First of its kind: UK-based startup Evident created the index, which ranks the 23 largest banks in North America and Europe by their ability to develop and deploy AI-powered solutions. The index scores the bank across four factors: AI-focused talent, AI innovation, leadership in AI strategy and implementation, and transparency of responsible AI practices.
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| Feb 2, 2023