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230Cars.com Traffic Revs Up With Carmakers’ Super Bowl Ads
The Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl, but Cars.com is claiming a different kind of victory. Although it didn’t run its...
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589Fighting The Friction In Retail Returns
Free returns have become something of a standard offering for eCommerce consumers. What better way to compensate for an improperly fitting clothing item...
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507Taking Laundry Off The To-Do List With On-Demand Apps
Everyday chores are a challenge for working parents who have to balance their lives between jobs and families. They spend time away...
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516Social Shopping Struggles With The Burden Of Potential
2020 just might be the year that the long-awaited social shopping business actually shows up. Ever since Facebook and Google put their...
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443Analyst Reduces iPhone Supply Predictions Due To The Coronavirus
With concerns that the coronavirus in China will impact the supply of iPhones, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said his company, TF international...
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778Forever 21 Could Be Sold To Real Estate Firms, Licensing Co. For $81M
With an offer that establishes a minimum price on the assets of the bankrupt merchant, Forever 21 Inc. came to a deal...
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2.5KWhy Consumers Are Firing Traditional Retailers
“Jobs to be done” – a theory popularized by the late Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen – is the notion that...
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2.0KSuper Bowl Commerce Preview: Avocados, Spiteful Beer And A $6M Thank-You
The Super Bowl is nearly upon us – the Kansas City Chiefs are headed to their first “big game” in 50 years...
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2.2KCasper IPO Could Mean Reduced Value For Prior Investors
Target’s venture investment in mattress company Casper could prove to be a case of overspending for the retail giant. Casper pitches itself...
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1.8KMacy’s To Open New Store Format With Beauty Focus
Macy’s is planning to test a new kind of store with a focus on apothecary and beauty products, which could lead to...
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1.4KBuilding Micromobility At A Global Scale
The electric scooter and bike race in Washington, D.C. has gotten complicated in the last few months, as the nation’s capital has...
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1.6KMagazines Dive Into Retail Again — This Time With Pot, Fashion And Delivery
Retail and magazines have always had a relationship, mainly through advertising, but also via some other methods over the years. Indeed, during...
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1.6KBlibli.com Debuts Cashierless Store; Nordstrom Pilots Resale Concept
eCommerce merchants are tapping into brick-and-mortar retail with cashless and cashierless stores. Indonesia’s Blibli.com, in one case, has opened the first location for...
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1.5KEA Video Game Publisher To Focus On Subscriptions, Services In 2020
As next-generation gaming consoles are set to come to market, Electronic Arts will have a narrow release lineup in 2020, after the...
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1.5KOla Plans London Rollout In February As It Takes On Uber
As it broadens its competition with Uber, Ola plans to official start operations in London in February after establishing its office in the city in...
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1.4KFilling The Customization Gap In The Cosmetics Market, On-Demand
Given the abundance of beauty products of all makes, formulations and descriptions on the market worldwide, not to mention the limitless hours...
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1.3KCurating Vinyl For Record Collectors Via Subscriptions
Kyle Matthiesen has always been an avid fan of music, with a passion for playing instruments and attending concerts. He expanded his...
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1.4KFast Fashion Isn’t Dead Yet — And Could Find Retail Rebirth
So-called fast fashion has been a big player in retail for years, but that part of the commerce-and-apparel world is facing some...
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1.3KAmazon One-Day Shipping Investments Could Impact Profits
As investors monitor the impact of Amazon’s one-day delivery investments on profit, the eCommerce retailer is set to report its Q4 earnings....
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1.2KFabletics Backs Brick-and-Mortar Growth With OmniSuite Platform
To create a frictionless commerce experience across channels, Fabletics, which was co-founded by Kate Hudson, is bolstering its physical presence with the...
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1.4KKFC To Offer Meatless Fried Chicken At Select Locations
Fried chicken fast-food restaurant KFC is partnering with Beyond Meat to bring meatless fried chicken to stores in Tennessee and North Carolina,...
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1.1KOrganic Garage To Use Cornershop App For Grocery Orders, Deliveries
Canadian supermarket company Organic Garage has entered into a partnership with Uber affiliate Cornershop to boost online grocery deliveries, according to a...
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1.3KPopeyes Creates Beyonce-Inspired Fashions Based On Its Uniforms
Beyonce’s Ivy Park clothing line for Adidas is sold out, but fashionistas can get the look by turning to Popeyes and its...
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1.7KVictoria’s Secret Sale Explored As CEO Could Step Down
After almost six decades as chief executive, L Brands CEO Leslie Wexner is reportedly in talks to leave his position as head...
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1.7KBeyond Amazon: How Smaller, Mom-And-Pop Retail Operations Can Thrive
Big chains and eCommerce operators tend to drive retail innovation — or make the most news when commerce fails — but small,...
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1.7KNordstrom Pilots Upscale Resale With ‘See You Tomorrow’ Concept
As the newest traditional merchant to try the expanding resale market on for size, Nordstrom is intending to sell secondhand clothes at...
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1.9KNike Web Store Sells Out Of Kobe Bryant Merchandise
Nike’s online store has sold out of all of its Kobe Bryant-related merchandise, according to numerous reports on Tuesday (Jan. 28). Demand...
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2.3KCan Harry And Meghan Make Canada An International Style Destination?
When one thinks of the world’s great cities for fashion, a few likely suspects always seem to make the list. Milan, Paris,...
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1.3KTapping The Contextual Commerce Power Of TikTok
As recently as a few years ago, experts were predicting the era of social media platforms was over, and that new entrants...
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1.3KCan Retail Investments Keep Up With Changing Consumer Desires?
Thinking about the future, even in the most optimistic of times, is not always a pleasant exercise in crafting dreams and goals....
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1.5KFraming Smartphone Memories Via Mobile Apps
To help consumers remember their favorite moments, eCommerce innovators are making it possible for them to order framed prints from pictures they...
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1.1KNew Pinterest Feature Lets Consumers Virtually Try Out Lipstick
To help consumers see what they would look like with different lipstick shades before buying them, Pinterest has rolled out a new...
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924Investors Focus On Apple’s Services Results Ahead Of Quarterly Earnings
After Apple’s stock market value tapped $1.4 trillion and its multiple trades at 10-year highs, investors will seek new proof that the...
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912Restaurant Competition Forces Bakers Square, Village Inn Into Bankruptcy
The Village Inn and Bakers Square restaurant chains, after years of losses, filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Jan. 27), The Wall Street...
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1.0KFood Startup Thistle Raises $5.65M In Funding For Healthy Meal Delivery
Food startup Thistle aims to be something different in the field of culinary businesses as it delivers thrice-weekly bags full of healthy...
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1.7KRetail CFOs Tighten Purse Strings Over Physical Store Uncertainty
Retail chief financial officers (CFOs) are in for a bumpy road ahead, sitting in the eye of a storm with the presidential...
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4.6KVitamin Shoppe Opens Stores Inside Nine LA Fitness Gyms
The Vitamin Shoppe, a nutrition product retailer, has teamed up with LA Fitness to open shops inside the fitness centers, according to...
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1.9KMaking A Market For Water With A Caffeinated Kick
Americans are heavy consumers of caffeine. While we are not the world’s most coffee-enthused people – the average American drink less than...
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1.4KSpreading eCommerce Innovation With Nut Butters And Jams
When Zach Fishbain and his now-wife, Val, were planning their shoes-optional wedding, they didn’t outsource much of the unique event to anyone....
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2.2KWhy Amazon And Other Retailers Are Turning To Biometrics
Retail keeps embracing numerous new technologies, and biometrics is not only one of them, but an area of recent growth and development,...
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2.0KCasper’s Unicorn Ambitions In Jeopardy After S-1 Filing
eCommerce mattress merchant Casper Sleep Inc. forecasts that its initial public offering (IPO) valuation will be far under the approximate $1 billion...
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1.4KSprint Benefits From Less Expensive Subscriptions
As it enjoyed the upside of less expensive subscriptions before a merger with bigger U.S. competitor T-Mobile US, Sprint Corp. reported a...
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2.9K1200+ Retail Store Closings Announced So Far In 2020
The new year has not been kind to retail stores around the country, as the trend of accelerating store closings continues, according...
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2.7KMaking Money When It Rains Iguanas
Dale Carnegie, America’s first self-help guru and author of “How To Win Friends & Influence People,” famously coined the phrase “when life...
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1.2KMacy’s Teams With Zola To Add Exclusive Products To Registries
To help engaged couples register for more than 2,000 Macy’s exclusives, one-stop wedding commerce site Zola rolled out a registry partnership with...
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1.4KMusic Crafts New Melodies For Retail Innovation
Some of us go through life humming tunes as we walk down the sidewalk, or with what amounts to a personal soundtrack...
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1.7KRetail Pulse: Shipt Teams With Office Depot; Express To Close Brick-and-Mortar Stores
On-demand delivery services are expanding their offerings beyond takeout from restaurants or groceries from supermarkets to carry additional categories of merchandise. Shipt,...
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1.2KMars Taps Into Experiences Market With Interactive M&M’s Stores
As the retail industry faces a string of closures, Mars Retail Group is bucking the trend by growing its M&M’s candy stores...
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3.7KBurger King’s Impossible Whopper Cools Off — What’s Next?
One moment you’re hot. Fortunes turn and then you are cold. So it goes in life, business and the world of plant-based,...
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2.4KByteDance’s TikTok Strikes Deal With Merlin To Take On Spotify, Apple
To take on streaming services in the class of Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Spotify, ByteDance’s TikTok has been creating a new...
