“Mastercard’s Spending Pulse data for holiday 2020 found that while department stores’ overall sales fell 10.2 percent during the season, their eCommerce sales only rose 3.3 percent. Amazon enjoyed a 14.3 percent market share for all clothing and apparel sales during 2020’s third quarter versus just 9.5 percent a year earlier. By contrast, Walmart’s share…
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Walmart’s star e-commerce exec Marc Lore is leaving the retail giant to build a ‘city of the future’ modeled on a ‘reformed version of capitalism’
“Marc Lore, the head of Walmart eCommerce US, will leave the company at the end of January, Recode reported. Lore originally joined the company when he sold his startup, Jet.com, to Walmart for $3 billion in cash in 2016. Walmart’s e-commerce boomed under Lore’s leadership. The retailer’s annual sales growth in ecommerce surged to 50%…
How AI and ML are changing the landscape of app development
– The number of enterprises investing in AI and ML is estimated to double over the next five years;– 40% of US marketers use ML to improve their marketing strategies; and– 76% of companies have hiked their sales because of ML. https://www.geospatialworld.net/blogs/how-ai-and-ml-are-changing-the-landscape-of-app-development/
Google launches suite of AI-powered solutions for retailers
“Google today announced the launch of Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, a suite of services deigned to enhance retailers’ ecommerce capabilities and help them deliver personalized customer experiences. Product Discovery Solutions for Retail brings together AI algorithms and a search service, Cloud Search for Retail, that leverages Google Search technology to power retailers’ product-finding tools….
From artificial intelligence to drone delivery and more ecommerce – retailing is changing, like it or not
“Cyber-buying was almost non-existent a decade ago, accounting for only 4.5 percent of retail sales. The latest data for 2020 show it now accounts for 16.5 percent of retail sales in 2020. That’s an amazing almost four-fold increase within a decade. there will be three big enhancements to cyber-buying that will be applauded by some,…