In May 2021, we predicted total retail sales around the world for that year would increase by 6.0% to just over $25 trillion, a significant comeback from 2020’s lows.
The Philippines and India will lead the world in retail ecommerce sales growth this year, with respective increases of 25.9% and 25.5%. Countries in Latin America and Southeast Asia will make up most of the top 10 list, while the last spot will go to the US, the only advanced economy to slide into the rankings, with 15.9% growth.
The omicron variant and a lack of stimulus funds may have stunted volume growth. Here’s how PayPal can use its super app to boost engagement.
Insider Intelligence spoke with Bill Ready, president of Commerce, Payments, and Next Billion Users at Google.
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.
As retail’s digital dominance grows, Google successfully captures retail ad dollars: Its investments in social commerce on YouTube and improvements to Google Shopping appear to have paid off.
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.
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.
Because the system can’t turn a profit, it can offer more competitive pricing, which may help spur adoption when it launches in 2023.
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.
Based on our US Digital Grocery Features Benchmark 2022 report, which evaluates 10 digital grocers based on an analysis of 30 different features on their websites, membership and account features are the most important features to consumers.
In China, ecommerce sales will make up a substantial share of 2022's total retail sales at 46.3%, while the UK and South Korea will round out the top 3, with 36.3% and 32.2% ecommerce shares, respectively.
Total retail sales in Southeast Asia grew 2.5% in 2021.
The offering could pose a threat to mPOS hardware providers but helps Apple grab more in-store volume and bolsters its payments business.
Insider Intelligence spoke with Liz Hershfied, senior vice president and head of sustainability at Madewell, about how Madewell has repositioned itself to adopt sustainability into the brand’s ethos and the steps other retail companies should take to encourage sustainable shopping behaviors.
Conversational AI is becoming more integrated into consumers’ lives every year, as tech like retail bots and virtual agents continue to improve the customer experience.
On the company’s earnings call, CEO Steve Squeri added color to the issuer’s performance and addressed popular trends like BNPL and cryptos.
Buyer's remorse intensified in 2021 as ecommerce adoption rose: High return rates are cutting into retailers’ margins and increasing inventory pressure.
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