Retail

Shopify today announced it will deprecate as of August 13, 2024. Merchants using Shopify Scripts need to migrate to Shopify Functions.

Comscore yesterday released the 2023 State of Digital Commerce Report stating the internet recorded the largest year of digital commerce in its history in 2022, exceeding $1 trillion in online retail consumer spend for the first time in the U.S. A 21% increase in spend year-over-year (YoY).

Amazon last week launched Sponsored ads and Stores in Belgium. Merchants and vendors can now create Stores and pay for Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Display on Amazon.com.be

Criteo this month announced a new partnership with one of the United States’ largest food, fuel and pharmacy retailers, Giant Eagle, Inc.

Amazon this week launched RxPass in the US, a new monthly subscription for Prime members, providing patients with access to generic medications that treat over 80 common health conditions. RxPass costs a flat fee of $5 a month.

Samsung Electronics this month announced the launch of Samsung Wallet in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. Samsung Wallet is an app that enables users to do payments with Samsung mobile devices.

According to Microsoft, PromoteIQ Offsite will start in February, first in Microsoft Advertising Platform and in Meta Ad platform.

Microsoft last week announced retailers using PromoteIQ platform are now able to monetize their websites with demand from thousands of brand advertisers using Microsoft Advertising platform.

The Buy with Prime for BigCommerce app will be available in Q1 2023 to all BigCommerce merchants in the US.