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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is stepping down. His successor’s AI experience may hold clues for the retail giant’s future.
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen a rise in digital localism — consumers using online local sites to buy and supply goods. Do platforms born during COVID-19 have a chance of survival?
Instagram’s Shop button signals the growing commodification of human interactions on social media.
Many businesses struggle with data security, but the new Privacy Act means they will have to make protecting customers’ personal information a priority.
Fraudulent sites are easy to set up and it’s easy to get fooled, according to a psychologist who has advice on how to check out online merchants.
Since its inception, Mountain Equipment Co-op has collected information on every single transaction of each of its five million members. In the current digital economy, this data is a goldmine.
Whether you like it or not, the globalised world will survive Donald Trump and the pandemic.
Retailers must focus on training customer-facing teams to succeed post-coronavirus.
China is re-inventing ways to make online shopping more fun, and it’s proving very successful indeed.
The recent seizures of counterfeit testing kits by U.S. Customs and Border Protection show that the counterfeiters have begun to take advantage of the coronavirus crisis.
The digital economy will, soon, become the ordinary economy as the uptake - and application - of digital technologies in every sector in the world grows.
Innovation is integral to the success of Canadian retailers and encouraging consumers to shop in stores as well as online. The big strategic risk is not innovating and failing, but failing to innovate.
Australia was hoping to get broader access to Indian markets as part of a new trade deal that covers almost half of the world’s population.
Some initiatives aim to develop more ethical and equitable models.
A retail expert explains why brick-and-mortar brands will continue to thrive in the age of e-commerce.
Countries in Africa have some of the highest rates of entrepreneurship in the world, yet their contribution to the economy is limited. Technology such as the blockchain, drones and AI could provide a way forward.
India’s furniture industry is worth US$32billion and is projected to double by 2023.
Even Amazon can’t defy gravity forever.
There’s a time cost and a risk of overspending for customers. For retailers, returns can be a massive headache.
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Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology
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Louise Grimmer is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director, Supply Chain Transportation and Logistics Center, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Michigan State University
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Professor, Director: School of Consumer Intelligence and Information Systems, University of Johannesburg
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Co-director, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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Senior Lecturer and Co-Director of the Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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Professor of Accounting, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Marketing and Innovation, Director, Marketing Innovation and The Chinese and Emerging Economies (MICEE) Network, Warwick Business School, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Senior Lecturer in Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford
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Professor of Marketing and Retail, University of Stirling
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Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Brock University
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Cartier Chaired Professor of Behavioural Sciences, Full Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship, ESCP Business School
