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318Afterpay CEO: How ‘Contact Us’ And The Kardashians Ignited Afterpay In The US
Never underestimate the value of the “Contact Us” form that every merchant and service provider places somewhere on its website — because...
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434Fiserv: What The 2019 Holiday Shopping Data Says About 2020 Spend
’Tis the season for … looking back at 2019 holiday sales trends, and figuring out what they mean for payments and commerce...
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2.5KRetail Numbers Underscore US Consumer/eCommerce Strength
Three in a row. In data provided by the U.S. Commerce Department, retail sales were up for the third consecutive month as...
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2.2KRetailers Increasingly Turn To AI For Security And Efficiency
Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from cool concept toward everyday consumer reality, and signs of that innovation are increasingly appearing in the...
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1.3KCVS Health Unveils Atlanta HealthHUBs; Target’s Digital Sales Rise Despite Slow Growth
Retailers are aiming to help consumers manage chronic diseases as well as their overall health and wellness through new brick-and-mortar experiences. CVS...
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2.3KBeyoncé Relaunches Ivy Park With Adidas Collaboration
With her new adidas x Ivy Park activewear collection, which gets its start online and in Adidas stores at midnight, Adidas is...
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2.3KASOS Debuts Augmented Reality Online Shopping Tool
Augmented reality (AR) can now be a factor in one of the most traditional, physical aspects of clothes shopping: trying the items...
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1.3KLate Holiday Shoppers Made More Use Of Store Pickup
This past Christmas was one for the procrastinators, as people seemed to be more comfortable shopping for gifts much later in the...
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1.0KGap To Keep Old Navy In-House
Iconic modern retailer Gap officially stated this week that they will keep the Old Navy brand and will not spin it off...
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1.7KBose To Shutter 119 Tech Stores
Audio equipment company Bose has announced it is closing 119 retail locations due to changing customer demand, according to a report. Part...
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1.4KAmerican Apparel Eyes Comeback After Bankruptcies
After two bankruptcies and a messy controversy regarding its founder, American Apparel is trying to make a comeback, according to CNBC. American...
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1.8KRecreating The DTC Candle-Buying Experience
A good scented candle can be harder to find that the near ubiquitous availability of scented candles would indicate at first glance....
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1.4KDec. Holiday Shopping Rush Boosted 2019 US Retail Sales
With a late shopping rush around the holidays that ended a more moderate spending year, retail sales in the United States strengthened...
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997Food Boxes Introduce Families To New Cuisines
To help families discover the foods and cultures of other countries through culinary adventures, eCommerce innovators are assembling family cooking kits. Take eat2explore,...
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1.2KAuto Sales Race Toward A New Retail Future
Close the door and buckle up – retail automotive sales are getting an upgrade. Some of the changes are coming via artificial intelligence...
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1.1KTesla Looks To Set Up Research And Design Center In China
To make “Chinese-style” vehicles, electric automaker Tesla reportedly intends to bring a research and design center to China per a recruitment notice...
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1.2KIKEA Plans Urban Megastore With No Parking
As the retail landscape adjusts to more online shoppers, traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are reacting to customers’ changing lifestyles – including how they...
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2.3KSettling Into Sofas On Subscription
Millennial consumers are a mobile group – according to data analysis by FiveThirtyEight, the average millennial makes 12 moves between moving out of their...
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1.7KCVS Health On Track To Rehab Over 1,000 Stores
With CVS Health on the path to meeting its goal of revamping more than 1,000 of its stores, the health retailer is...
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1.9KNew Tech Combines To Make Grocery Shopping More Innovative
The grocery battles are heating up in retail, and that is sparking innovation and could lead to even more disruption. Some of...
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1.2KCatering To Millennial And Gen Z Travelers With Digital Innovation
Consumers have always wanted to explore and see the world, but they have had a constant need for comfortable transportation as well...
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1.2KTarget’s Digital Sales Spike Despite Sluggish Same-Store Growth
As more shoppers are using same-day options such as curbside pickup when making eCommerce purchases, Target’s digital sales have increased 19 percent. The...
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2.8KH&M Customers Can Buy Now, Pay Later With Klarna
H&M customers will be able to shop now and pay later with a new payment option. According to a press release, the...
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1.8KEven Times Square Losing Shops To Changing Retail Landscape
Times Square, one of the most famous places on the planet, where hundreds of thousands of people live, work and visit any...
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2.0KStrip Malls Gaining An Edge Over Traditional Shopping Malls
Open-air shopping centers – also called strip malls or strip centers – are replacing malls as retail juggernauts, offering necessities like grocery...
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1.7KInstacart To Offer Grocery Pickup Nationwide By Year-End
Instacart is expanding the Instacart Pickup offering to all 50 states by the end of 2020, following a year of sizable growth...
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1.2KParlaying A Pivot Into Digital Grocery Delivery Success
That grocery has gone digital in the last few years is at this point undeniable. Once widely considered an eCommerce-proof vertical because...
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960PC Market Notches First Year Of Growth In Years
As Microsoft concludes its support for Windows 7 and companies need to upgrade their legacy devices, the PC market has reportedly had...
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1.2KAs Retail Tech Advances, Associates Become More Important
Retail is about more than the products being sold or the technology being used. Increasingly, store associates are becoming more important to...
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1.0KCrafting eSpecialty Food Boxes For Avid Home Cooks
Before Ben Simon began sending handpicked pantry essentials and delicacies from around the world to his customers with his eponymous Ben to Table boxes,...
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3.9KOYO Reduces Hotel Room Count, Begins Layoffs
As it encounters pressure from SoftBank, its largest investor, to cut back on operating losses, budget hospitality company OYO is quickly scaling...
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1.9KNRF Retail Show Highlights Importance Of Amazon, Data And Store Workers
Creativity and making better use of consumer data are among the early but big ideas to emerge from the ongoing NRF convention...
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3.8KAbercrombie & Fitch To Slash Store Sizes
Retailer Abercrombie & Fitch is shrinking its footprint as it makes plans to exit top malls and shopping centers, Bloomberg reported on...
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2.4KKohl’s CEO Defends Amazon’s Role In Helping Drive Traffic, Sales
How good of a pal is Amazon to other retailers? That’s the question getting traction over the last few days, thanks to...
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1.7KWalmart Will Add Shelf-Scanning Robots To More US Stores
As it grows its collection of robots, Walmart will bring shelf-scanning robots to 650 additional stores in the United States by the conclusion of...
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1.8KAuthenticating Luxury Goods, Remotely And Reliably
There is no shortage of online marketplaces for consumers seeking luxury goods, slightly used. The challenge, however, is knowing they are actually...
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1.6KWhy Health And Fitness Are Driving More Retail Change
Fitness and wellness are helping to change the face of retail in 2020. Consumers are creatures of habit — but those habits...
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1.2KKnitters Expand Their Craft With Subscriptions
Before Megan Graddy co-founded the PostStich knitting subscription service, she had served as a publicist and had segued into small business marketing. Her mother,...
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1.4KIndia’s Antitrust Body Calls For Investigation Into Flipkart, Amazon
In an order on Monday (Jan. 13), the antitrust body of India said it has called for a probe into potential competition...
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1.8KEsports Venue Coming To Mall of Georgia
Allied Esports and Simon announced that the Mall of Georgia, located in Buford, Georgia, will host the companies’ initial esports venue, according...
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1.6KDespite Amazon Relationship, Kohl’s Has Sour Holiday Season
The year is off to a less-than-stellar start for Kohl’s. The retail chain has yet to report its fourth-quarter or full-year 2019...
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1.7KRetail Pulse: Luckin Taps Into Automated Retail; Little Caesars To Team With DoorDash
Coffee retailers are tapping into digital technology that helps them grow their reach beyond their stores, especially in China, where competition has...
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1.6KRobots Are Just One Way Big-Box Retail Is Driving Innovation
Big-box retail is getting a refresh for 2020, at least in some parts. Take Costco. The big-box membership retail store saw its...
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1.7KZomato Notches $150M In Funding From Ant Financial
As part of a fresh raise from a current investor, India’s Zomato has notched $150 million in funding. The total valuation of...
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1.5KBed Bath & Beyond’s Shares Plummet On Q3 Earnings Miss
After Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. pulled its year forecast following its missed Q3 estimates, the home goods retailer’s stock fell to...
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3.1KHow Mom-and-Pops Can Survive Retail’s Apocalypse
Serving the needs of Americas millions of micro-merchants and mom-and-pop shops is one of those business plans that always sounds much easier...
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2.3KAs Amazon Re-Enters High Fashion, New eChallenges Abound
It’s all the fashion these days to battle it out online for more market share when it comes to selling clothes to...
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1.8KHow Cars, Streaming And Sign-Ups Make For Better Subscription Commerce
Subscription commerce is undergoing changes in 2020. For one change, that form of retail is expanding to include new and fresh areas,...
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1.6KBringing Allergy-Friendly Seed Bars To Consumers Via eCommerce
Blake Sorensen grew up with a nut allergy that limited his diet long before he started the Blake’s Seed Based food brand....
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1.4KDepartment Stores Report Lower Holiday Sales Due To eCommerce Shift
As Americans continue to move their purchases to eCommerce, robust consumer spending and a formidable U.S. economy weren’t sufficient to bolster holiday...
