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JCPenney Woos Plus-Size Millennial Shoppers
April 13, 2016

As high-fashion houses get dinged for employing models that might or might not be construed as too thin, less-highfalutin retailers are going after the plus-sized market that’s often had to search for clothes outside the normal halls of fashion power. Get the Full Story Complete the...

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Warby Parker’s Physical Retail Transformation
April 13, 2016

Why can’t eCommerce and brick-and-mortar just get along? Retail pundits have created a whole lexicon for when they sometimes do — omnichannel, online-to-offline, click-and-collect — but one of the darlings of the eCommerce age just poked a big hole in the theory that online and...

Are Retail Sales Set To Rebound?
April 13, 2016

While the economy has all the signs of a healthy spring in store, consumers are proving to be late bloomers so far in 2016. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

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Does Virgin America Sale Help Or Hinder Discount US Airfare?
April 13, 2016

It’s not often that a merger between two companies engenders such strong reactions from the buying public, but if investors thought the Alaska Airlines purchase of Virgin America was big news, the airborne adherents of Virgin are wringing their hands in anxiety over what might...

Sears Gets $500M Loan For Omnichannel Reinvention
April 13, 2016

Is $500 million the magic number for Sears? Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing this form, you...

Prada Steps Up Digital Luxury Push
April 13, 2016

Could Snapchat be the key to helping struggling designer label Prada get out of a two-year rut? Perhaps. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to...

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Ulta Looks To Take On Department Stores With Aggressive Growth
April 13, 2016

Calling Ulta Beauty an up-and-coming firm feels a bit funny, given that the business first opened its doors 25 years ago. If a business could rent a car on its own were it a person, it is hard to think of it as a newcomer....

Pizza Is Winning The Online Food Delivery Wars
April 13, 2016

With the myriad of high-tech, high concept options out there for getting food to a customer’s door, the natural assumption might be that the winner in the food delivery wars would be the business that could deliver the most deliciously cutting-edge services, technologically and offering...

CFPB Constitutionality Aggressively Questioned By Appellate Court
April 13, 2016

Yesterday, The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau found itself in the unfamiliar position of being on the receiving end of an aggressive line of questioning from a panel of judges on a federal appeals court. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...