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Amex Study: Social Media Shout-Outs Could Pump $197B Into SMB Economy

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As the holidays grow closer, American Express says research has shown that social media promotions and engagement could be a big boost for this year's Small Business Saturday event, according to a press release. The majority of those businesses included restaurants, with retail close behind.

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Mix-N-Match Fake Shopping Holidays For Fun And Profit

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For years, the weekend after Thanksgiving has been a harmonic convergence of made-up shopping holidays, concentrating Black Friday and Cyber Monday into three days of riotous retailing. This year, it falls on Nov. And incidentally, about the cat gear: What were you thinking?

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Today In Data: Building A Better Self-Service World

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Increasingly, it seems retailers need not only ask what they can do for their consumers, as those consumers want to be doing it on their own. Data: 96 percent: Share of social media-based merchants that attribute their success to digital payments. 38 percent: Share of online bill payments made through banking apps in 2010.

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Upscale UK Retailers Look To Land In US Market

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s most high-profile retailers is doing well in the U.S. and another one is ready to open, both of them seeking a new market as their home turf sees retail struggles. s fastest growing brick-and-mortar retailer, Wren Kitchens. And also in training our retail staff to offer the customer a fantastic service.”.

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Amex’s Small Business Saturday Bests $100B

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This brings the estimated total spending on the day to $103 billion since 2010, reported Amex. The movement was also visible on social media posts with the hashtags #ShopSmall and #SmallBizSat. The event, created by American Express as an offshoot to Black Friday , brought in an estimated $17.8 An estimated 2.2

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Coronavirus: AliExpress Warns Of Potential Delays; Marketplaces Tackle Overpriced Listings

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It noted in a social media post per the report, “Some shipping and logistics are experiencing longer waiting times for processing orders.” AliExpress was rolled out in 2010 and is especially popular in the U.S., Brazil, Russia, France and Spain, with merchandise like wireless headphones and jeans.

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Here’s What IBM Thinks Retail Will Look Like In 2020

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The rise of eCommerce , the push toward omnichannel shopping platforms, the increasing relevancy of social media on shopping habits and the development of the Internet of Things to plumb every last morsel of data on customers and what they spend money on are all rapidly and drastically altering the face of retail.

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