Consumers have been snapping up everything from disinfectant wipes and robot vacuum cleaners to Barbie dolls and motorhomes over the last few months as the Covid-19 pandemic drags on and radically changes shopping habits.
Quarterly results from consumer products giants Procter & Gamble and Reckitt Benkiser this week showed demand for cleaning products, detergents and soaps remained robust, helping the companies beat sales expectations and lift their annual forecasts.
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AI Shopping Apps Are Booming—But Can They Change the Way We Consume Fashion? | Vogue
The pandemic has disrupted the fashion industry in a multitude of ways. One of the most obvious to those of us working from home and staring into our phones all day is the recent boom in AI shopping apps. Machine-learning fashion sites and apps have been around for some time—see: StitchFix and TrunkClub. But since the start of the pandemic, there's been a significant uptick.
This new wave of products aims to ease the frustrations of online shopping by coordinating outfits according to everything from a user's location, to her favorite brands, to what's trending, and so on. There's The Yes , whose simple "yes" or "no" algorithm calculates a user's style preferences and curates a selection of brands that ship through their own warehouses.
Disney California Adventure to reopen Buena Vista Street for shopping and dining – Orange
Disney California Adventure will partially reopen for shopping and dining along Buena Vista Street following the state issuing theme park reopening guidelines that could keep major California theme parks closed until early 2021 or next summer.
Buena Vista Street will reopen in November as part of the Downtown Disney outdoor shopping district while the rest of Disney California Adventure remains closed, according to Disney officials.
Disneyland, DCA and Disney's three Anaheim hotels closed in mid-March and remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Downtown Disney reopened in July.
Google Chrome tests shopping ads on new tab page - 9to5Google
Google Chrome’s new tab page is clean and simple on computers, but it seems that may soon change. An experiment in newer versions of Chrome shows that Google is working on a widget for the new tab page that would show, possibly among other things, what are essentially shopping ads.
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First spotted and enabled by the folks over at TechDows , a new flag has shown up in Chrome Canary. “NTP Shopping Tasks” is one of the first “modules” being worked on for this page. This new module shows ads for various types of products, but they’re not entirely random.
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Apple and Target Emphasize Curbside Pickup and Appointment Shopping for Holiday Purchases
Without even trying, in-store shopping in the pandemic era became a game: Trips can't last more than 20 minutes. Touch only what you need to buy. Everything else is lava.
Retailers noticed the mindset shift—and that Covid-19 cases are still rising . So some are tweaking their holiday store experiences for faster checkout times and overall safety.
The small format approach: Apple is opening 50 Apple Express stores , Reuters reports. It's like a Milk Bar stand, but for iPhones.
Pandemic could force 30-35% of U.S.
But after years of speculation over what might be the ultimate cause of their undoing — and when — it looks like the pandemic of 2020 will mark the point of no return for hundreds of malls across the U.S.
That's because the pandemic has forced consumers to learn to buy more of the things they like, want and need online, after strict social-distancing restrictions were ordered this spring to help stem a tide of rising COVID-19 cases.
Mall owners already were grappling with plunging retail rents and the migration of more U.S. shoppers online long before the pandemic, which in the first half of this year helped hasten U.S. retail bankruptcies as store closures hit a record .
Coronavirus pushes holiday shopping season earlier, including in St.
Mona Spiker, of De Soto, Mo., laughs as she hauls away her purchases during Black Friday at the West County Center in Des Peres on Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. She was shopping for family and coworkers. Photo by Cristina M. Fletes, cfletes@post-dispatch.com .
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Worley, 67, is usually done with her holiday shopping by Dec. 1, gifts wrapped and under the tree. This year, she already has presents for her great-grandchildren. Christmas lights were hung on her home in St. Paul, in St. Charles County, over the first week of October. And she's itching to turn them on.
75 percent of people prefer early holiday shopping online, survey finds | CBS 17
RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN)– Thanksgiving is still weeks away, but the holiday shopping season is already in full swing.
There was a time when people would flock to a mall on Black Friday looking for deals, but this year, experts tell us those holiday crowds at malls will be fading away because the pandemic is causing a huge change in consumer behavior.
A survey by RetailMeNot found 75 percent of Americans prefer to do their holiday shopping online this year.
Happening on Twitter
The new #BlackFriday — @RebeccaJarvis breaks down how retailers are rethinking the holiday shopping season during t… https://t.co/pkTy7OV17A GMA (from New York, NY) Fri Oct 23 11:46:11 +0000 2020
Hands up if your online shopping has gone through the roof since the start of the pandemic. 🙋🏾♀️🙋🏿♂️🙋🏻 Our gift… https://t.co/xeZz0ezseg HaltonPolice (from Halton Region) Fri Oct 23 14:37:33 +0000 2020
The pandemic shopping list: Dolls, detergent and campers https://t.co/LIuBOrm7qG https://t.co/FyDJ9DEE05 Reuters (from Around the world) Fri Oct 23 16:40:35 +0000 2020
The CDC suggests families partake in "virtual dinners" this year amid the pandemic. https://t.co/ByY9BsAxZg FOX5Vegas (from Las Vegas) Fri Oct 23 17:45:00 +0000 2020
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