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Shooting For The Moon, Landing Among The Stars

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E-commerce Juggernauts Going Further For Longer

Search. Click. Pay. Collect. 

While the online shopping market segment has seen a bit of normalization since the decline of the pandemic; e-commerce continues to dominate the retail market, quite literally. In fact, the pandemic years were only the beginning, as it’s looking to be yet another eventful year ahead for some of the biggest and most successful names in the business. 

Don’t believe me? Well, listen to the numbers talk. Globally, there are more than 26 million e-commerce sites. In the United States, there are already more than 9.5 million e-commerce platforms, and the number is only growing. 

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Buy Sexual

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The big economic data point for this morning was Retail Sales, and, for the 4th month in a row, American consumers have beaten forecasts, gobbling up stuff they don’t need with money they don’t have. (As a side note, I learned that about 50% of credit card balances are NOT paid each month, meaning these poor bastards are shelling out 20%+ interest to the likes of Jamie Dimon).

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