Amazon is boosting its Prime membership fee: As subscriber growth slows and ecommerce costs rise, the retail behemoth banks on loyalty and a wide array of services to keep users from canceling.
The firm closed the acquisition and made it available to online merchants in Australia and the US.
On this episode of our new Behind the Numbers show, Reimagining Retail, our analyst Andrew Lipsman hosts Russ Dieringer, founder of Stratably, to discuss intrigue in the executive ranks at key retail media platforms Amazon, Walmart, and Instacart. They also rank their top four retail media trends for 2022.
Pinterest adds an AR furniture shopping tool to its app: The platform aims to help customers make more informed purchase decisions to help boost sales.
There were far more store openings than closings in January: The trend demonstrates the appeal of brick-and-mortar retail in some key categories.
Domino’s Pizza offers a 'tip' to customers who pick up their orders: The campaign aims to help the pizza chain deal with staffing challenges.
Because the system can’t turn a profit, it can offer more competitive pricing, which may help spur adoption when it launches in 2023.
JD.com hopes the Year of the Tiger will prove auspicious: The ecommerce giant gave away JD.com hopes the Year of the Tiger will prove auspicious: The ecommerce giant gave away RMB1.5 billion ($232.5 million) in a bid to attract users to its payment services. in a bid to attract users to its payment services.
On today's episode, we discuss how buy now, pay later (BNPL) adoption will continue to evolve and what's next for these services. We then talk about what retailers' first step into the metaverse should look like and what retailers should be doing with their avalanche of returns. Tune in to the discussion with our analyst Sky Canaves.
US shoppers saw more out-of-stock messages this past holiday season than in previous years, per an Adobe index that tracks this activity. The index rose to 4.0 during the 2021 season, when US ecommerce consumers received more than 6 billion out-of-stock messages. That’s about an 8% increase year over year and a 264% jump from the pre-pandemic 2019 season.
Both card networks reported strong volume growth and outlined ambitions for cryptos and B2B payments.
Instacart will allow merchants to run storefronts and display ads: The move follows months of high-level advertising hires from Big Tech firms.