E-Commerce
Shopify’s Shop app will be front and center this holiday season
The company is planning to run a much longer holiday season campaign, with different phases from now until December.
Vidhi is a reporter for Retail Brew covering e-commerce and retail media. She was previously a senior reporter at Digiday's Modern Retail. Her work has also been published in TheStreet, Forbes, Nikkei Asia and TheCity. Vidhi has a master's degree in business and economics journalism from Columbia Journalism School.
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E-Commerce
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