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925Recology’s CleanScapes And The Future Of Green Retail
Retail stores are rarely built by accident, particularly in the real world, if for no other reason than retail is sort of...
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820Fridays Flips On Alcohol Delivery For Apps Users
TGI Fridays is going where no restaurant chain has gone before. The fast-casual restaurateur is adding alcohol delivery to its repertoire of...
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679Can Millennials Save Brick-And-Mortar Retail?
Though many retailers have assumed millennials are behind the trend toward highly digitized, online-focused shopping experiences, baby boomers might be the real...
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1.1KA Second Act For Strip Malls
The times they are a’changing, and if consumers insist on using the internet to shop, shopping center landlords will have to repurpose...
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1.1KPumpkin Spice Simply Beyond Its Normal Limits
Fall has almost arrived (tune in tomorrow for the official autumnal equinox), which means the season for jeans, sweaters, football and early...
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1.0KToys“R”Us CEO Sees A Better Future With Smaller Stores
The brick-and-mortar experience of Toys“R”Us most millennials remember from childhood — with its massive supply and aisles upon aisles of toys — is looking...
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1.2KIs Whole Foods Getting Traditional Under Amazon?
The world has spent much time speculating as to how and when Amazon’s ownership would bring changes to Whole Foods Market, and...
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1.5KTarget Rolls Out Bluetooth-Powered Shopping Cart GPS
Target shoppers will always be able to find their target now – at least, that’s the hope with the new and improved...
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3.5KFIS: Why Retailers Must Put Payments At The Tip Of The Spear
As consumers, payments and channels evolve, many traditional merchants have been holding onto solvency by their fingernails. Most would not call the...
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1.9KWalmart Is Skipping Holiday Hiring This Year
Instead of adopting the retail standard operating procedure of reducing unemployment and hiring temporary extra workers for the holiday shopping season, Walmart has...
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1.5KLackluster Earnings Tank Bed Bath & Beyond’s Stock Price
Domestic merchandise retailer Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock took a 12-point hit after Wall Street got a look at its latest earnings...
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977Walmart Pilots Food Stamps Program For Online Groceries
Walmart is expanding its Online Grocery Pickup to more people, rolling out an option that enables customers to use their EBT card...
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2.1KKohl’s Now Accepting Amazon Returns
It looks like Kohl’s and Amazon are deepening the partnership announced earlier this summer. Expanding on the partnership that now sees Kohl’s...
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1.9KAmazon Pushes Retailers To Same-Day Delivery
In data that will likely surprise anyone who has avidly watched retail over the last few years, the market is trending strongly...
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Another One Bites The Dust: Toys ‘R’ Us Files For Bankruptcy
The retail death spiral drags on, and this week we have a new victim: Toys “R” Us. The eponymous toy store has...
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2.0KChipotle Says ‘Goodbye Chorizo, Hello Queso’
In restaurant news, the people have spoken and, apparently, they have had enough chorizo. That is the takeaway from Chipotle’s latest corporate...
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2.4KThe Prescription For Prescription Commerce
Think the neighborhood pharmacy is dead and gone? There are more than 22,000 reasons to think otherwise, and Deepak Thomas, CEO of Phil,...
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2.3KYelp’s Push To Build Relevant, Rewarding Commerce
Since it was founded nearly 13 years ago, the Yelp review site has ascended to the rare place among firms where its...
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1.8KDiscogs Achieves Sound Of Success In A Dying Marketplace
If you thought the iPod killed physical media years ago, think again. Sure, Nielsen reports that physical media sales are down (again),...
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1.4KWalmart Stays True To Arkansas
While Amazon is auditioning potential host cities in something that has turned into commercial real estate’s version of “The Bachelor,” Walmart has more...
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1.5KGap, Inc. Refocusing Means “Fewer, Better” Gap Stores
Times have been tough for Gap, Inc. in recent years, as an almost quintessentially mall brand finds itself scrambling as malls nationwide...
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1.5KNew School Commerce Meets (Extremely) Old School Production
Maybe it was a sweater, maybe it was socks — but, for most people with knitting-inclined relatives, Christmas wasn’t quite Christmas until...
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2.1KHow Alcohol Delivery Suddenly Stopped Being Amazon-Proof
Until Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, the logistics of alcohol delivery were mostly outside the grasp of what Amazon could efficiently cover. Intoxicating...
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1.7KMarie Claire and Mastercard Team Up To Launch Pop-Up Shop
Fashion magazine Marie Claire and Mastercard, the payments company, are teaming up to launch a pop-up store dubbed The Next Big Thing...
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1.4KUS Retail Sales And Industrial Output Suffer Declines Due To Harvey
U.S. retail sales fell in August, and industrial output recorded its biggest drop since 2009, due to the impact of Hurricane Harvey....
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1.5KNestlé Expands Into Coffee Market, Acquires Blue Bottle
California coffee chain Blue Bottle has just been slurped up by Nestlé, the world’s largest food and drinks company, based in Switzerland....
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1.4KTarget Team Switches From Apple To Android
Three years ago, retailer Target officially outfitted employees with Apple gear for stocking and other sales floor-related duties — specifically, iPod Touches in...
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792Cool, Comfort And Ecology — The Allbirds Secret To Retail Success
Claiming to have the “world’s most comfortable shoe” is a big statement. There are a lot of sneaker manufacturers out there ready...
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1.5KDoorDash To Acquire Rickshaw
In a recent TechCrunch article, on-demand restaurant delivery service DoorDash announced it is acquiring Rickshaw to boost same-day delivery offerings. Rickshaw is a Y Combinator...
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2.1KWhy Snacks Are Critical To Amazon’s Grocery Ambitions
In a nation where 25 percent to 35 percent of the population is on a diet, you might think that selling chips...
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3.1KMinding The Gap, Joining The (Old) Navy
It’s been said that in the stock market, equities are both voting machines and weighing machines. Popularity comes fast and furious, then...
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1.8KeBay Expands With Spring Partnership
These days in retail it seems like everyone is arming up and picking sides. And eBay wants in — why should Amazon, Walmart...
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1.4KNeiman Marcus To Shut Down 10 Last Call Stores
Neiman Marcus is refocusing its business plan to more intently promote its full-line stores. That focus has to come from somewhere, though,...
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1.5KHow Halloween Might Have The Secret To Saving Retail
Halloween might be the scariest holiday (unless, of course, you’re a parent, in which case Christmas is the hands-down winner every year),...
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1.3KAlibaba Launches Sales Promotion Day Geared Toward SMBs
Alibaba.com, the online wholesale platform owned by China-based Alibaba Group, announced Wednesday (Sept. 13) it is launching a new global “Super September” promotion...
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Walmart Reshuffles Operations As It Pushes To Stay Competitive
When the going gets tough, the tough restructure their retail operations in an attempt to better facilitate change. Well, they do if...
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2.1KIKEA ARKit App Lets Shoppers Virtually Try Before They Buy
Augmented reality (AR) is making itself right at home in the home furnishing retail space. IKEA, the Swedish home goods giant, has...
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2.3KThe Meal Kit Survival Guide
Gazing into the pantry, the kids whine that there is nothing to eat — and they’re partially right. There’s no ready food, only...
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1.5KWilly Street Co-op Thinks Small To Get Big Results
Everybody eats. A brief look at our nation’s Instagram feeds or BMI averages quickly confirms that Americans eat far more often than...
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2.2KNordstrom To Go Private in Potential Deal with Leonard Green
Nordstrom family members are closing in on an agreement with a private equity firm to assist in a buyout of the luxury...
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3.3KAlibaba, Paytm Could Make Joint Investment In BigBasket
Chinese eCommerce giant Alibaba and India-based digital payment company Paytm are gearing up to invest around $200 million in Indian online grocer BigBasket. According...
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5.4KMobile Commerce To Break $250B By 2020
After something of a slow start, mobile eCommerce is set to make up half of all online sales by the year 2020...
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2.9KGoogle Tracker: Calling For Backup From Smartphone Producer HTC
How could Google benefit from acquiring smartphone maker HTC? What is the company doing to help out in the wake of Hurricane...
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2.3KAptos And Billabong Surf The Cloud
Billabong is a bigger company than most people might imagine. Apart from its well-known namesake brand, Billabong is also the parent behind...
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2.1KFacebook Tracker: Slowdown Strategies
Facebook expects a slowdown in its core business in the near future, a prediction that has been cited as a primary driver...
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1.5KMissed Amazon Delivery Frustrate Floridians’ Irma Preparations
Retailers statewide have been disappointing Floridians in the run up and cool down from Hurricane Irma. More than 50 Floridians told The...
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4.2KNordstrom’s Inventory-Free Stores Are Coming Soon
Nordstrom is pondering a new type of location. Smaller, more intimate and with a greater focus on services than goods, the new...
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4.9KAre You Ready For Some Football (Commerce)?
Well, we had a totally different intro written for this piece before the New England Patriots blew it on Thursday night and...
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3.2KTarget Stock Falls More Than 3 Percent As It Slashes Prices
Target recently announced it has lowered its prices on thousands of items, a news report which resulted in its stock price falling more...
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2.1KAmazon Tracker: Cities Clamor To Become Amazon’s Home Away From Home
Amazon has come under fire for price gouging in the week leading up to Hurricane Irma. As the Category 5 storm drew...
