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  1. Technology & Innovation

Refund tech firm Reshop brings in Afterpay Co-Founder Anthony Eisen as CEO and bags $17m in funding

Reshop, a startup that focuses on the refund process for both consumers and retailers, has announced Anthony Eisen as its CEO, as well as a $17 million fundraise.  Eisen most recently served as Co-Founder and Co-CEO at FinTech firm Afterpay, which he launched alongside Nick Molnar in 2014 and listed on the ASX in May […]
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INSIDER’S Week in Beer: 🙌 Oktoberfest Stays Undefeated

This week’s beer goes out to Oktoberfest beers for kicking pumpkin beers’ a**es during this fall seasonal uh, season. Lester Jones shared this nice chart here from the folks at FINTECH in a webinar last week illustrating the dominance (well done on the Beerfest addition there – who says data nerds don’t have fun?).
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Holiday Shopping Trends and Payments Innovations: Experience as Competitive Advantage

As the holiday shopping season approaches, retailers face increased pressure to facilitate a seamless and secure shopping experience. This is an opportunity to not only capture share of wallet but also build lasting customer loyalty and trust. Payments technology is central to the shopping experience. Innovations like biometrics and tap-to-pay have transformed how, when and […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Evolution of C-Suite Roles in the Restaurant Industry: Adapting to Consumer Migration and Technological Shifts

  Is your company, your brand keeping up with consumers? Steven Johnson the Grocerant Guru® at Tacoma, WA based Foodservice Solutions® believes that in the fast-paced world of the restaurant industry, the role of the corporate team—especially the C-suite—has transformed dramatically over the past few decades. From a historically straightforward focus on operations and product […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Pulling Back the Covers on Casper Sleep with Joe Megibow, CEO

Joining us for another interview recorded live in the Bambuser remote podcast studio at Shoptalk Fall event is Joe Megibow, Casper Sleep’s CEO. Joe is a veteran of both more traditional companies as well as disruptor brands, and he helps us understand the evolution of digitally-native brands, the trials and tribulations of trying to reinvent […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Can Brands Compete Through the Payment Experience?

The payment experience has always been considered a “necessary evil” for ecommerce sites. There’s information merchants need to accept, validate and fulfill online orders.  But now, technology is turning the payment experience into an opportunity for differentiation. During this week’s Retail Remix, two executives embedded in this exciting new world of payment share their thoughts […]
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  1. Channel: Delivery

Grubhub Joins the Commerce Media Club

Food delivery platform Grubhub is expanding its advertising capabilities to create a full-fledged commerce media network in partnership with Koddi. Through the partnership, Grubhub merchants can now access tools like bid automation, advanced targeting and granular performance reporting, including key performance metrics such as share of voice, time live and return on ad spend broken out by […]
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  1. Data & Insights

Is the Fear of Fraud Leading to Loss of Sales? AI Can Help.

Fraud has plagued retailers for quite some time, but the issue is now getting its time in the spotlight due to the increased use of AI within the industry, as well as consumers’ general awareness of the trend. In fact, a recent survey found that 87% of consumers are concerned about identity theft or fraud […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

John Lewis connects with UK FinTech Zopa Bank to offer personal loans directly to its customers

Zopa Bank has partnered with John Lewis Money, the financial services arm of UK retailer John Lewis Partnership, to offer personal loans to its 23 million customers.   The tie up will see the UK FinTech embed in the John Lewis Money website its digital first personal loan product. According to a press release, “customers […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

What to know about holiday consumers this year

​[[“value”:” This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. All year, consumers seem to have been on their last nerve as inflation shrank their pocketbooks. Yet month after month, they spent more than many analysts expected them to, including on discretionary goods. Now comes retail’s annual invitation to discretionary spending, the […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Gaining a Holiday Edge with Digital Revolving Credit

The world is certainly embracing digital transactions. Recent statistics show that 2.71 billion people have been shopping online globally as of 2024 — nearly one-third of the world’s population. What’s more, that number is expected to climb to 2.77 billion people in 2025, and the global ecommerce market is predicted to exceed $6.3 trillion in […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Where’s The Generative AI ROI? Start With The Supply Chain.

The way our supply chain communicates is a mess. To find out what’s going where, shippers today use faxes, paper contracts, and lots of unstructured documents. Errors, delays, and lengthy wait times can ensue. If you’ve ever lost an item en route to your home, there’s a good chance this is why. Now, generative AI […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

4 retailer must-haves for a successful 2024 holiday season

​[[{“value”:” This year’s peak season is shaping up to be one of a kind. From the election to inflation, a number of distinctive factors are coming together to create a never-before-seen retail environment. And with a shorter window between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year, consumers may feel an additional squeeze when it comes to finding […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

How United Airlines’ Media Network Helped Univision Engage with Spanish-Speaking Travelers

The rise of retail media has inspired not just retailers but a whole raft of other businesses to launch their own media networks, drawing on their connections with consumers and commerce systems to introduce a new revenue stream. Among the entrants to the broader world of “commerce media” are ride-sharing services Uber and Lyft; BNPL […]
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  1. Trends & External Forces

DOJ Sues Visa for Anticompetitive Debit Card Practices

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Visa for anticompetitive practices in debit card networks, which it says penalize merchants that try to use alternatives. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges that Visa “wields its dominance, enormous scale and centrality to the debit ecosystem to […]
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  1. Holiday & Events

Adobe Predicts 8.4% Growth in Online Holiday Sales, Driven by Discounting

Adobe expects U.S. online sales to hit a record $240.8 billion this holiday shopping season (covering the period from Nov. 1 to Dec. 31), representing 8.4% growth year-over-year. Shopping on mobile devices also is expected to hit a new milestone, growing 12.8% YoY to contribute a record $128.1 billion, which would represent a 53.2% share of online spend this season […]
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  1. Shopper & Customer

Salesforce Forecast: Global Holiday Sales to Reach $1.19 Trillion, Up 2% YoY

Value-seeking consumers trading down, strategically waiting for discounts and choosing low-cost Chinese shopping apps will soften holiday sales growth to 2% year over year (YoY) both in the U.S. and globally, according to the Salesforce Shopping Index, which analyzes data from more than 1.5 billion global consumers on retail sites. While holiday sales grew 3% […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

Ikea Adopts Single Fintech Platform for Global Payments and Data-Gathering

Inter Ikea Group, parent company of furniture retailer Ikea, has entered a global partnership with payments platform Adyen. Using the solution provider’s single financial technology platform to gather data from its physical and digital channels will help Ikea identify shopping behaviors across touch points and uncover business opportunities relating to customer lifetime value. The Adyen […]
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  1. Media & Marketing

New innovative online payment methods to consider right now

Technology today has advanced more than the average person can imagine. It has evolved virtually all aspects of human living, and the financial institution has been one of the most beneficial. The financial system today has seen improved payment methods introduced to the end user, unlike the previous ones that were easily prone to frauds. […]
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  1. Technology & Innovation

VC Execs: AI’s Value is Going Beyond the ‘Generative’ Hype

“Generative AI” has been a key phrase in PR and media for the past 18 months. However, a panel of venture capital (VC) and tech investors revealed during the Retail Innovation Conference & Expo this past June that they’re taking a more long-term view of AI. They’re focusing less on mind-bending consumer-facing experiences, like those […]
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Shoppers believe best holiday deals are after holidays

A good number of consumers, over 77%, believe there are better deals available after the holidays, and nearly 51% plan to take advantage by making a large purchase in late December and January. Those are top findings from a Holiday Green survey, from CouponCabin, regarding consumer habits in the post-holiday time frame. When it comes to post-holiday […]
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2025 Outlook: A Snapshot into Ad Spend, Opportunities, and Strategies for Growth

IAB’s 2025 Outlook: A Snapshot into Ad Spend, Opportunities, and Strategies for Growth offering an early glimpse into ad spending trends for the coming year. The report is a must-read to gain and understanding of brand and agency buyers’ growth strategies and the challenges they foresee. The report covers: 2025 projections for the market overall […]
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AI at the retail edge: What’s possible now

There’s been a lot of talk lately about artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI) and how these technologies are going to revolutionize retail. But the retail revolution can’t be accomplished with sweeping generalizations about putting more technology into stores. Successful retail outcomes are built using technology to solve specific challenges, expanding on wins and […]
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Some retailers would benefit from a TikTok ban in 2025

TikTok Shop took the market by storm in just two years. The social media platform sold more merchandise than Sephora [LVMUY] in late 2024 according to Earnest credit card data. TikTok Shop also handily outperformed during the 2024 holiday season. But a potential ban could result in brands losing access to a vital marketing and […]
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