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Stein Mart Plans Amazon Locker Rollout; Dressbarn Stores To Close
May 24, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are joining forces with Amazon in moves that could help bring shoppers into their stores: Stein Mart, for instance, announced this week that it plans to roll out Amazon Hub Lockers at stores in 28 states. Through the service, Amazon customers will be...

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H&M Tops Ranking Of Most-Visited eCommerce Fashion Sites
May 24, 2019

In a study of the most visited eCommerce fashion websites, online visibility management platform company SEMrush found that H&M was the most frequented site around the globe. Fashion retailers Macy’s and Wildberries followed H&M in the ranking, according to the study’s results. Get the Full...

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How Down To Shop Channels Infomercial Love Into A QVC-For-Gen-Z App
May 24, 2019

Home shopping tends to take a lot of teasing. However, even in the eCommerce world of 2019, it still manages to be a surprisingly lucrative and competitive space. For example, Qurate Retail, Inc. — parent firm of the two largest home shopping networks, QVC and...

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Lawn Care In A Box? It’s Subscription Season
May 23, 2019

Entrepreneurs are sometimes inspired to start a company for one or two reasons, but the co-founders behind lawn care subscription box Lawn Serv had a few observations to start their company. After talking with friends, family and co-workers, co-founders Troy Scarbrough and Nick Morwood discovered...

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Retail Cozies Up To Mass Transit — Via Payments
May 23, 2019

Mass transit sparks a range of emotions: resignation after just missing that last subway, frustration upon encountering that mysterious smell in that last car, and pleasure from the ability to go back and forth to work without worrying about traffic, parking or bad weather. What...

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Democratizing Luxury With Affordable Cashmere
May 23, 2019

Sometimes getting lost — even in an incredibly foreign or hostile place — can turn out to be a surprisingly profitable experience. That was a lesson learned by Naadam Founder and CEO Matthew Scanlan when he found himself lost in Mongolia’s Gobi desert and taken in...

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Office Depot Experiments With Coworking
May 23, 2019

With coworking spaces as a growing commercial real estate category, Office Depot is reportedly experimenting with the concept. The retailer is “quietly” creating three spaces for coworking within existing brick-and-mortar locations, Fortune reported. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and...

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Amazon Develops Voice-Activated Device To Recognize Emotions
May 23, 2019

Amazon is reportedly developing a wearable device that is activated by voice to recognize human emotions. The effort is a collaboration between the Alexa voice software team and Lab126, which is a group behind the Echo smart speaker as well as Amazon’s Fire phone, Bloomberg...

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Treasury Sec., Walmart CFO Discuss China Trade War Price Effects
May 22, 2019

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Congress on Wednesday (May 22) that he spoke with Walmart Chief Financial Officer Brett Biggs about the effects of the U.S.-China trade war on prices, according to a report by CNBC. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...