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Sustainable e-commerce startup Olive now ships beauty products, in addition to apparel

TechCrunch

Earlier this year, a startup called Olive launched its new shopping site and app with the goal of making e-commerce more efficient, convenient, and sustainable by offering a way for consumers to aggregate their orders from across retailers into single shipments that arrive in reusable packaging, not cardboard. consumers on both coasts.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Holiday marketing tips, low-cost NFTs, SaaS sprawl study

TechCrunch

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. To gather advice and insights, she interviewed: Julio Lopez, director of client strategy, retail practice lead, Movable Ink.

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Amsterdam’s Crisp, an online-only supermarket, raises €30M Series B led by Target Global

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Crisp says its USP is seasonal products sourced directly from 600+ small and high-quality producers at an affordable price in the Netherlands. Crisp has now raised a total of €42.5 million to date. It plans to use the money to expand in the Netherlands, and eventually across Europe.

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Nigerian one-click checkout platform OurPass raises $1M pre-seed, wants to build ‘Fast for Africa’

TechCrunch

Seeing the same pattern happen with other friends and family, I had to dive into it and found that it was actually a major headache for consumers and online retailers.” . “ In many cases , she ended up dropping the card and moving on to a different online store.

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Retail & Distribution Software Development Services

Mobilunity

Arthur C Clarke’s well-known adage that “a sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” describes the essence of what we would expect of tomorrow’s retail & distribution technology. Retail companies are aiming to stay afloat and successfully deal with the ever-changing trade environment.

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Retailing Goes Mobile – Make A Good Retail App To Succeed

Xicom

Simply put, retail consumers are getting increasingly comfortable with purchasing their mobile devices. So, please don’t leave any slip-ups for your competitors to capture the attention of your potential customers by hitting the mobiles with their own retail apps. Retail Businesses Who Successfully Use Mobile Apps”.

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Grocery delivery startup Membo is hungry to build a Europe-wide, local food producer network

TechCrunch

So grocery freshness is an especially difficult USP for such apps to compete on. Membo isn’t relying on a retail model that requires predicting customer demand in advance — so its business can be leaner and more efficient. Spain’s Glovo inks real estate tie-up to add more dark stores for speedy urban delivery.

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