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Shop offsets carbon emissions through new initiative

Shop, the newly launched consumer app from Shopify, has announced a new initiative to offset 100 percent of the carbon emissions from package deliveries. The app was originally created to add ease to the mobile shopping experience, as it aggregates every piece of information the consumers need from discovery to order tracking into one place....

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Shopify highlights Black-owned businesses on ‘Shop’ app

Shopify has announced that it will be making a change to its mobile shopping assistant ‘Shop’ to spotlight Black-owned businesses. “Shopify’s mission has always been to help all people - no matter their race, religion, gender, sexuality or otherwise - achieve independence by making it easier to start, run and grow a business,” Shopify said in a...

Retail

Instagram launches its own e-commerce account

Hot off of the announcement that influencers can sell directly to their followers on Instagram, the photo-sharing platform is expanding with their own e-commerce curation of product suggestions. With its new account simply named “@shop,” Instagram will be sharing various fashion, beauty, and home brands to shop, according to an announcement from...