Other retailers or payment providers could follow Walmart and Amazon’s lead in developing a native stablecoin. This could further dampen Bitcoin’s future as a payment method, but based on Meta’s progress with Diem, there’s likely a long regulatory road ahead before company-backed cryptos achieve mass adoption and implementation.

Walmart, which has numerous remittance tie-ups, is also showing interest in the crypto space: In August, the retailer posted a job opening for a digital currency strategy lead. As the company dives further into fintech, crypto solutions could complement the push and make its financial solutions more attractive.

Not all seven of these companies are major ecommerce players, nor are they all in the top 10 for general retail (although Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and The Home Depot would be on that list). But these seven companies have been among the most successful at leveraging the 2020 spike in interest in click and collect.

The affiliate network manages $50 billion a year in ecommerce sales and added eBay and Walmart to its platform in 2019. Further, Partnerize found that US affiliate revenues grew even more strongly in 2020 for content publishers—up 75% YoY—than for publishers overall in its network. Partnerize also noted that this growth came at the expense of loyalty publisher partners.

Other major stores like Walmart, Best Buy, and The Home Depot will close again this year but haven’t committed to a future plan yet, per the Wall Street Journal. What this means: Early openings likely began as a way to get more consumers in stores to compete with the rising popularity of online shopping on platforms like Amazon.

“Existing Instacart partners like Walmart and Kroger are expanding their own delivery capabilities, which could slow growth coming from grocery delivery,” noted Blake Droesch, analyst at Insider Intelligence.

How Walmart Sourced Creator Partners for Its Shopping Livestream. When Walmart and TikTok teamed up for their 1-hour livestream shopping experience in December 2020, one challenge was finding the right set of creators to support the effort. The retailer’s strategy involved working with creators with large followings as well as those who were on the rise.

It offers a generous 5% cash back for online purchases for its Walmart co-brand program. JPMorgan’s opportunity: Instacart’s US grocery sales are expected to climb 16% year over year (YoY) and surpass $30 billion in 2022, per eMarketer forecasts from Insider Intelligence.

The move is the latest offline experiment by Amazon, which last year passed Walmart to become the largest apparel retailer in the US, per Wells Fargo research reported by CNBC. More on this: Amazon Style builds on a number of efforts that Amazon has taken over the past few years to boost apparel sales, including:.

Amazon, Instacart, CVS, Walmart, Kroger, and Best Buy are just some of the many retailers with in-house ad networks. Between 2020 and 2021, the number of CPG brands working with retail media networks to gain access to first-party data nearly doubled from 33% to 62%, according to an October 2021 survey by Merkle. Smaller Platforms Look to Alternatives.