digital commerce

How Consumers Forced Big Merchants To Up Their Digital-First Game
How Consumers Forced Big Merchants To Up Their Digital-First Game
October 05, 2020  |  Payments Innovation

Human beings are creatures of habit. Take popcorn and going to the movies. Americans consume roughly 13 billion quarts of popcorn every year, roughly 30...

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Pandemic Revs Up Digital Car Sales For Online Platforms
Pandemic Revs Up Digital Car Sales For Online Platforms
October 01, 2020  |  eCommerce

Amid the accelerating shift to digital sales during COVID-19 restrictions, U.K. car sales platform Cazoo has notched $310 million in funding, Bloomberg reported. With a...

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Taking Digital And D2C Paths To Retail Innovation
Taking Digital And D2C Paths To Retail Innovation
October 01, 2020  |  Today In Data

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) hybrid brand Spiceology is on a mission to get chefs and consumers to experiment with flavor, as home cooking has become popular and eateries are beginning to...

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Super Apps Gain Ground (And Investments) Globally
Super Apps Gain Ground (And Investments) Globally
September 30, 2020  |  Mobile Applications

Super apps – and, from some of the biggest names in commerce, super enthusiasm. And: super amounts of capital being committed to craft consumer-focused ecosystems. The...

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‘What Did You Change?’ 34 Payments Execs Weigh In On Payments, The Pandemic And New Possibilities
‘What Did You Change?’ 34 Payments Execs Weigh In On Payments, The Pandemic And New...
September 30, 2020  |  Coronavirus

The end of the third quarter of 2020 offers a moment to look back — and ahead — as a year unlike any other is...

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Q4 Outlook: Consumer Mindset Is The Wild Card
Q4 Outlook: Consumer Mindset Is The Wild Card
September 29, 2020  |  Retail

The consensus opinions are starting to show up on the retail fourth-quarter calendar. With Amazon’s confirmation of Prime Day and Target’s follow-up of its Deal...

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Amazon Gains Ground In Holdout Markets
Amazon Gains Ground In Holdout Markets
September 28, 2020  |  Retail

The myth of Amazon dictates that any move it makes is nearly pre-ordained to end in rousing success for the eCommerce giant, crushing defeat for...

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Manifesting Retail’s Week Of Revolution
Manifesting Retail’s Week Of Revolution
September 24, 2020  |  Retail

Retail, for all intents and purposes, has always been an interdependent system. Supply depends on demand; demand depends on supply; supply depends on the supply...

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Today’s Top Retail News: Nike CEO Touts Digital; KKR Purchases 1-800 Contacts
Today’s Top Retail News: Nike CEO Touts Digital; KKR Purchases 1-800 Contacts
September 23, 2020  |  Retail

In today’s top retail news: Nike’s CEO touts digital commerce as the “new normal,” KKR will acquire 1-800 Contacts, and Amazon is launching its Climate...

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