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268Walmart Announces Exec Changes To Support Omnichannel Retail
Walmart is making some organizational adjustments with its executives to help better integrate its retail store and digital operations, according to a...
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682Retail Pulse: Toys R Us Returns With Small Retail Stores
Iconic brick-and-mortar retailers are sometimes reinvented, and return to the world of retail with smaller-format concepts. The parent of the Toys R...
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582DTC Bikes In A Box, For The IKEA-Level DIYer
Buying a bicycle shouldn’t be an overly challenging task for a consumer, but often shapes up to be one, particularly if one...
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612Dressbarn To Close 53 Stores This Summer
Ascena Retail Group has announced it is closing 53 additional Dressbarn stores by the end of August. The news follows the May...
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648JCPenney Explores Debt Restructuring Options With Advisers
To look into debt restructuring options that would provide the retailer more time to make a turnaround, JCPenney Co Inc has reportedly...
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760How Pay Advances Affect The Retail Industry
In the gig economy, early payment—not just ease or speed—can be a differentiator. According to Pay Advances: The Gig Economy’s New Normal, employers...
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1.2KWhy Merchants May Need Multiple Processing Relationships
FinTech firms are keeping tabs on the optimization curve of eCommerce merchants — and how their payments needs evolve. Merchants might start...
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1.5KToys R Us Is Back With Experiential Retail
Tru Kids, the parent company of Toys R Us, is partnering with retail-as-a-service startup b8ta to launch a new curated store experience....
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1.2KNetflix Q2 Earnings: More Than 100K US Subscribers Lost
With an unusual loss in U.S. subscribers, Netflix posted slightly less-than-expected top-line results, but came out ahead of Wall Street’s estimates for...
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875Creating The Open Table Of Childcare Apps
Finding good, qualified and reasonably priced daycare in the U.S. is a challenge — particularly in expensive urban areas and remote rural...
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778Platforms That Give Travelers’ Luggage Local Sanctuary
To help travelers and locals navigate cities without needing to lug around their bags, digital platforms are connecting consumers with businesses for...
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890Restaurant And Delivery Provider Partnerships Prove Fickle
The competition among mobile ordering apps for share of stomach is fierce and shows no signs of letting up. According to the...
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987Dean & DeLuca Closes Stores Due To Increasing Competition
Gourmet grocer Dean & DeLuca continues to struggle due to increasing competition. After more than four decades in business, the grocer is...
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1.3KCuraleaf To Acquire GR Companies To Create World’s Largest Cannabis Co.
Cannabis operator Curaleaf Holdings has announced it will acquire GR Companies (“Grassroots”), the largest private vertically integrated multi-state operator, in a cash...
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1.2KPrime Day 2019 Was Amazon’s All-Time Biggest Shopping Event
Amazon said this year’s Prime Day was its biggest shopping day ever, even bigger than any previous Black Friday and Cyber Monday...
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1.0KCreating A Second Life For A Retail Classic
Heath Ceramics is not a newcomer to the world of retail. Founded by San Francisco artist Edith Heath in the 1940s, the...
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929SMBs Rake In Sales As Prime Day Wraps
Small and medium-sized businesses raked in sales during Amazon’s Prime Day extravaganza, as the now-annual shopping event spawned imitators with hundreds of...
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Creating A Second Life For A Retail Classic
Heath Ceramics is not a newcomer to the world of retail. Founded by San Francisco artist Edith Heath in the 1940’s –...
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689EU To Examine Amazon’s Use Of Third-Party Merchant Data
As scrutiny of tech firms grows on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Amazon will reportedly face a formal antitrust investigation from...
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876Giant Eagle Teams With Grabango For Checkout-Free Tech
To make a checkout-free payment experience at brick-and-mortar stores, grocery and pharmacy retailer Giant Eagle teamed up with California startup Grabango. Multiple...
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1.3KMany Retailers Aren’t Prepared for PSD2 – But Are Consumers?
The second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) groundwork laid out in 2016 is about to come to fruition in a few months –...
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2.4KBlue Apron Adds Beyond Meat To Recipes
Blue Apron has announced that it is offering seasonal recipes featuring plant-based proteins from Beyond Meat. Blue Apron x Beyond Meat recipes...
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1.4KRetailers See Big Rewards From Amazon Prime Day
Initial tallies of data from the 48-hour Amazon Prime Day show that other retailers have seen significant benefits, reporting online sales that...
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978Retail Packaging Recycling Innovation Goes Prime Time
As Prime Day continues to roll along, retailers are doing anything and everything possible to capture consumers suddenly inspired to go on...
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785SMZDM’s Shares Skyrocket 44 Pct On First Trading Day
Joining a small portion of internet upstarts trading on mainland China’s public markets, SMZDM’s shares skyrocketed almost 44 percent on its first...
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703Amazon Promotes Shopping Assistant With Credit On Prime Day
Through a promotion for new Amazon Assistant installations, Amazon is offering a $10 credit to U.S. Prime Day consumers who allow the...
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882Why Streaming Services Dominate Subscription Commerce
The streaming market is an increasingly competitive space. AT&T’s WarnerMedia is planning to launch HBO Max, while Disney+ and Apple TV will...
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758Ready, Set, Go: Here Comes 2019 Amazon Prime Day(s)
Only Amazon could alter the meaning of long-established units of time. We at PYMNTS occasionally employ benign exaggeration for journalistic purposes, but...
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1.2KHow Starbucks Elevates Online Ordering In China
Starbucks has designed a new store around order-ahead and delivery as the upstart coffee company Luckin Coffee takes hold in the Chinese...
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968Cannabis Firm Caliva Eyes National Growth With Jay-Z Partnership
In a move that is said to help the company grow across the nation, California cannabis firm Caliva has teamed up with...
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1.2KBarneys Looks Into Bankruptcy Amid Rent Increase
With a liquidity crunch brought on by a rise in rent at its flagship in New York City, Barneys New York is...
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1.9KUS Retailer Store Closures Could Top 12K By Yearend
So far this year, 7,062 retail stores have closed, and that number could reach as high as 12,000, which would be an...
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2.3KWalmart Looks For eCommerce Chief Revenue Officer
To help lay out its battle pay to take on Amazon, Target and other competitors, Walmart is on the hunt for a...
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2.1KColgate-Palmolive Strikes Deal To Buy Filorga Cosmétiques
In a sign that Colgate-Palmolive is looking to diversify its interests beyond soap and toothpaste with deals, the consumer goods group has...
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1.6KRetail Pulse: Macy’s Collaborates With Brands For STORY; Kohl’s Accepts Amazon Returns
Brick-and-mortar retailers are opening experiential concepts by working with other brands as they look to engage consumers with experiences instead of products. Macy’s,...
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1.4KLegal Pot Starts Pulling Its Retail Weight
Trends in legal cannabis retail are just now emerging, and fresh numbers from Colorado are providing insight into how the industry is...
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1.3KAmazon Works On Home Robot, New Echo Speaker
With its hardware foray keeping consumers connected to its ecosystem, Amazon is at work on a higher quality Echo speaker as well...
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1.5KSam’s Club To Offer Same-Day Grocery Pickup Across US
Walmart-owned Sam’s Club will now offer same-day grocery pickup for online orders, according to sources. The retailer’s announcement comes nearly a year...
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1.9KLululemon Brings Experiential Store To Chicago
As Lululemon looks to compete with Amazon and differentiate itself, the fitness apparel retailer is opening a massive store in Chicago. The...
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1.8KGrocery Retail Ups Its Autonomous Delivery Game
Get ready for autonomous grocery delivery — at least that’s the message from autonomous delivery services provider Udelv. The California-based firm reportedly has...
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1.5KThe Sharing Economy’s ‘Rotating Wardrobe’ Subscription Prescription
To help make fashion more accessible to consumers, eCommerce innovators are allowing shoppers to rent their clothes and accessories through subscription box...
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1.3KGo-Jek To Grow Thailand Food Delivery Business
With an investment from the top lender in Thailand, Indonesian ridesharing service Go-Jek will reportedly grow its Thai food delivery business and...
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1.3KMobile Card Services Give Users Real-Time Control Over Retail Purchases
Mobile devices have enabled monitoring and management to a degree once thought impossible. Consumers can now get alerted to someone ringing their...
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1.7KCan Cameras Remove Friction From The Fast Food Drive-Thru?
How does a retailer really expect to know a customer these days, especially if that that customer is shopping inside a physical...
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1.3KEU: Amazon Not Required To Offer Phone Support
The world’s biggest online retailer doesn’t have to answer your calls, Europe’s top court ruled on July 10. In fact, Amazon doesn’t...
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1.6KMicrosoft To Open First European Store In London
As Microsoft looks to bolster its physical presence and compete with other firms that offer unique brick-and-mortar experiences for shoppers, the tech...
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1.2KHow Beef Jerky Is Driving Digital Payments Innovation
Sometimes entrepreneurs start companies due to a confluence of factors: Prevail Jerky Founder and CEO Glen Kohn, for instance, was inspired to...
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1.4KWhy Prime Day Is About More Than Amazon
The annual retail event known as Amazon Prime Day is about more than Prime or the giant eCommerce operators. It’s also about...
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1.5KLady Gaga Beauty Line Coming To Amazon
In a move that bolsters the eCommerce retailer’s cosmetics business, Lady Gaga plans to roll out a line of beauty items that...
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1.3KCan Digital Platforms Solve The Fraud vs. Friction Dilemma?
Digital platforms facilitate everything from online shopping to ridesharing to booking a hotel. These platforms promise fast, seamless transactions, which most deliver...
