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How consumers find what they want to buy and buy it in a world that is no longer defined by a physical place but what a consumer wants to buy and how she wants to buy it. Connected devices and the integration of payments into this now digital-led shopping journey is creating new ways for merchants and consumers to interact and disrupting traditional retail business models.

Beauty Buyers’ Club Beauty Pie Lands $100M
Beauty Buyers’ Club Beauty Pie Lands $100M
September 08, 2021  |  Investments

The beauty buyers’ club Beauty Pie has closed a $100 million funding round and said it is planning to expand its reach beyond its direct-to-consumers...

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CVC Could Sell Its Stake in Watchmaker Breitling
CVC Could Sell Its Stake in Watchmaker Breitling
September 03, 2021  |  Retail

CVC Capital Partners could sell a substantial minority stake in Breitling SA, one of the last independent watchmakers in Switzerland, according to a Bloomberg report...

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Back-to-School/Holiday Shopping, Wedding Experiences, Amazon Store Plans
Back-to-School/Holiday Shopping, Wedding Experiences, Amazon Store Plans
August 23, 2021  |  Today In Data

Engaged couples want experiences more than any other gift. Plus, shoppers are already thinking about the holiday season as they do back-to-school shopping, and we’ve...

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Study: How 73 Million Highly Connected Consumers Are Pioneering The Connected Economy
Study: How 73 Million Highly Connected Consumers Are Pioneering The Connected Economy
June 21, 2021  |  Commerce Connected

Ninety-two percent of all consumers have placed online orders for products. More than 85 percent have paid bills online and nearly 75 percent have booked...

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Klarna Rolls Out CSS Tool To Help European Retailers Save
Klarna Rolls Out CSS Tool To Help European Retailers Save
June 15, 2021  |  eCommerce

Digital bank Klarna is rolling out a new Comparison Shopping Service (CSS) solution to help its European partner retailers increase their return on Google ads....

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Amazon Moving Prime Now Ordering To Main App
Amazon Moving Prime Now Ordering To Main App
May 21, 2021  |  Amazon Commerce

Amazon customers in the United States using the company’s super-fast Prime Now delivery service will do so through the main Amazon app by year’s end,...

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Food Network’s Ree Drummond Headlines Walmart’s Next Live Shopping Event
Food Network’s Ree Drummond Headlines Walmart’s Next Live Shopping Event
May 20, 2021  |  Retail

Walmart is heading back to the live-shopping well later this month with the help of Food Network star Ree Drummond. Drummond and her daughter Alex...

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Shopping App Rankings Rock Retail As Battles Brew Between Titans
Shopping App Rankings Rock Retail As Battles Brew Between Titans
May 13, 2021  |  eCommerce

As battles royale go, the retail wrestling match between Amazon and Walmart is getting brutal. We track it attentively in our Whole Paycheck series, a...

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Contextual Commerce Expands Beyond Social Media
Contextual Commerce Expands Beyond Social Media
March 03, 2021  |  Retail

The contextual commerce wave has been building for quite some time. In 2018 — a full two years before the words “global pandemic” became a...

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