Let’s bust some myths today. You know how price is the most important factor in retail purchase decisions? Not so according to ForeSee research: just 6% of shoppers chose their last merchant because of price while 45% said it was driven mostly by retailer preference. They also found about 27% of people who start their purchase on Web and mobile shoppers end up buying in-store. Interesting.
CDP BlueVenn has added a connector for consumer and business data aggregator FullContact. BlueVenn users will be able to enrich existing customer profiles with FullContact data, including cross-channel identifiers to improve identity matching. FullContact has been expanding enrichment partnerships: its Web site lists an existing connector for the Lytics CDP and a planned connector for Segment.
You know a tech trend is old news when it reaches the New York Times.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.