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Walmart to Host First-Ever Shoppable Livestream on Twitter

Last December, Walmart became the first retailer to launch a shoppable livestream on TikTok. Now the retailer plans to make livestreaming history…

Social Commerce: Retailers (and Platforms) Struggle to Catch up With Consumers’ Enthusiasm

Seemingly every day there’s another announcement about a new feature enabling purchases on one social platform or another. In the last two…

Study: Consumers Warm to Social Commerce, But Payment Mistrust Could Hamper Growth

Isolation was a defining characteristic of 2020: with stores, workplaces, restaurants, gyms and travel hubs closed, people around the world turned to…

Reports: Twitter Tests New In-Platform Shopping Feature

Twitter is quietly testing a new shopping feature that will allow brands to showcase products and link out to their ecommerce site…

Reports: Shopify, Stripe and PayPal Drop Trump Sites’ Support in Wake of Capitol Riot

In response to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Shopify has taken the Trump Organization and Trump campaign stores…

Staples To Reward 20 Top Teachers With $5,000 For Classroom Supplies

Staples is reprising the Thank A Teacher program it launched last year, and doubling from 10 to 20 the number of teachers…

#RIC18 Attendees Get Social: Top Tweets

What happens at the Retail Innovation Conference stays on…Twitter! During three days of Store Tours, keynotes and breakout sessions, RIC18 attendees took…

SocialVend Launches Socially-Activated Vending Machines

SocialVend has launched its first social media-activated vending machine, vendmini. Retailers can use the small-footprint machines for marketing campaigns, in-store sampling and…

Amazon’s First Drone Delivery: 13 Minutes From Purchase To Drop Off

One small step for Amazon, one giant leap for retail-kind. Jeff Bezos announced on Twitter that Amazon had made its first commercial…

IKEA, Best Buy And Amazon Make ’25 Worst Companies To Call’ List

Being stuck on hold is a drag at any time of the year, but it’s particularly irksome during the holidays, when demands…

Twitter And Instagram Execs Share Social Media Best Practices

I’ve been an advocate of social media since the early days of Myspace, but I didn’t realize how important platforms such as Twitter and Instagram are…

EBay Taps Crowdsourcing To Inspire Purchases Via Mobile App

As presidential election season heats up, eBay is giving consumers a chance to vote for one of two mobile offers on apparel,…

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