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Five Fast Facts On The SMB Scene As 2020 Turns Into 2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has been hard on everyone – consumers, businesses, government officials and healthcare workers – but the pain has been far from evenly distributed over the past nine months. Roughly the same reported stable demand, but 30 percent experienced a decline in sales. SMBs Are Highly Aware of the Vaccine News.

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New French Lockdown Prompts Amazon To Stop Black Friday Ads

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Amazon is suspending advertising related to pre-Black Friday campaigns in France after coming under fire from at least one government official who said it was unfair for the online giant to flex its digital retail muscle just as a new pandemic shutdown forces small shops and restaurants to close, Reuters reported.

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Digital-First Economy Redefines Retail And Consumer Behavior

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eCommerce spiked because consumers demanded it and drove it. One was driven by demand; the other was driven by necessity. When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. The numbers speak for themselves. D2C Explodes.

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Generation House Arrest? Retailers Anticipate Reinvention And Reopening

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It’s that day that several states, and now the federal government, have set as an unofficial day to begin reopening the economy. It requires identifying the key stakeholders, understanding their interdependencies and then devising a strategy to build critical mass on all sides while aligning supply with demand.

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New Data: What COVID-19 Is Doing To Main Street SMBs

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For them, it all depends on how long the current lockdown/shutdown lasts and when consumer demand will return — and at what level. At that point in time, only 20 percent of SMBs we talked to that asked the government (at any level) for assistance received any, and only 17 percent that asked their banks for more funding had gotten it.

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India's GDP Shrinks 24 Pct In Second Quarter

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The government agency said shutdowns imposed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus since late March caused the decline, the worst it has been in two dozen years. But consumer demand and manufacturing have not improved, the AP reported. Among the problems is a history of bad lending decisions and poor governance.

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US Jobless Claims Fall Slightly To 860,000

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Companies which have helped to provide a bridge to some semblance of normalcy, principally in technology, have seen increased demand for their services,” Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst with Bankrate.com, said in a statement. For the week ending Sept. Department of Labor (DOL) reported on Thursday (Sept.