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428Retail’s Challenges And Opportunities Amid The Pandemic
Retail’s recovery continues along its inconsistent path, as new reports suggest that upstream ordering challenges will begin to negatively impact suppliers and intermediaries...
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749Retail’s Responses And Adaptations To The Pandemic
Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and other food service companies are quickly changing their operations during COVID-19. A number of these enterprises are putting...
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1.4KEmerging Trends In Retail, Healthcare And Payment Methods
Two new companies, Popshop Live and Glamhive, have come on the scene to provide the needed technology to broadcast, sell and monitor...
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1.4KFocus On Contactless Payments And Leases Emerges In Retail
Attention is turning to retail leases, as it has in the first week of each month during the pandemic, with one of the...
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1.4KThe Impact Of Payments Innovation On SMBs, App Users
Payment providers are offering alternatives to cumbersome and opaque correspondence banking protocols with cross-border payments. Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are some of...
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1.1KDriving Innovation In Digital Commerce, Gig Retailing And Mall Redevelopment
The vicious cycle of physical retail is meeting the virtuous cycle of digital, at a time when companies are aiming to chart a course...
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1.2KConsumers Stay Close To Home, Stick To Digital Orders
The pandemic has muted demand for vacation getaways, with AAA numbers forecasting that overall travel will be on the decline from July...
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2.1KSMBs, Department Store Chains Contend With Pandemic’s Impact
The pandemic continues to put usual business operations on unsteady ground across several industries, bringing about disastrous financial effects. Small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs)...
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1.9KThe Pandemic’s Effect On Subscriptions And Luxury Goods
Orders to stay at home have consumers spending more on subscriptions – from streaming services to purchasing retail merchandise for day-to-day use. Merchants that...
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1.8KFitness Platforms Expand Offerings As Consumers Work From Home
Fitness and wellness platforms are expanding their offerings as Americans continue working from their residences and gym facilities have limited operations because...
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1.6KThe Pandemic’s Impact On The Digital Shift And Payments
The pandemic created a digital-first customer in a matter of 12 weeks amid a massive shift to digital in categories such as grocery and...
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1.9KRetail Brands And FIs Move Toward Digital Offerings
The news about Nike’s fourth-quarter earnings announcement focused on what would be a large loss at any other time, but the real story...
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6.6KRetail Challenges And Opportunities Amid The Pandemic
The coronavirus is magnifying the challenges that troubled retailers faced before the pandemic as they continue to seek financial lifelines. GNC recently declared bankruptcy as well...
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1.5KRetail Expansions In Social Commerce And D2C Business Models
Instagram is providing social shopping to additional businesses, including its own community of influencers, as social commerce maintains its pandemic-fueled momentum. And Newegg is mastering the art...
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849Taking New Approaches To Retail And Microbusiness Banking
Merchants are focusing on re-engaging shoppers now that brick-and-mortar retailers are reopening across the United States. In eCommerce, in an effort to attract and...
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1.6KDigital Retail Innovation With Shopping Festivals And Mobile Checkout
China’s 618 shopping festival was closely observed for signs that the consumer will help spend the nation out of COVID-19, and the success of...
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1.8KThe Emergence Of Digital 3.0 Via eCommerce, Mobile
Target has found itself perfectly positioned for the in-store essential goods that kept consumers shopping during the pandemic amid a shift in...
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2.4KConsumers Turn To Digital Ordering During The Pandemic
The coronavirus is strongly impacting restaurant operations and interactions with possible customers, while it is also highlighting services that provide fast and...
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1.8KThe Future Of Buy Now, Pay Later And eCommerce In Retail
Consumers want to invest in high-end items and home improvement projects to enhance their surroundings even amid economic concerns. This desire has...
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2.3KThe Growth Of Digital Marketplaces And Livestreaming In Retail
Walmart has teamed with Shopify to bolster its online marketplace presence. The retailer will add Shopify sellers to its marketplace and will especially aim to have...
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2.8KThe Rise Of Digital Commerce Amid The Pandemic
Retailers are aiming to play catch-up with shoppers by moving resources from brick-and-mortar and stacking them against digital technology and abilities. In eCommerce, Adobe’s Digital...
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2.6KRetailers Consider Store Closures Amid The Digital Shift
The pandemic’s harsh impacts on retail continue to show themselves as brands report plummeting quarterly earnings and eye additional store closings. Inditex revealed what...
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2.0KTransforming Retail With The Digital Commerce Shift
California became the first state in the country to declare a lockdown 11 weeks ago to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Now,...
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1.7KPredictions For Retail Footprints And Gift Cards Amid The Pandemic
A retail apocalypse could turn into a retail Armageddon, with tens of thousands of storefronts projected to close by 2020’s end, but the prediction...
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3.0KPowering Retail Innovation With Digital Technology
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) medical device company Lumen seeks to have Americans look to metabolism as an important factor in weight loss and nutrition. The company brought...
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1.8KThe Growth Of ‘The Starbucks of South Korea’ In North America
Paris Baguette, the casual pastry and coffee chain that is known as “the Starbucks of South Korea,” is growing its North American footprint. The primary...
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1.5KImplementing Pandemic Safety Measures For Shoppers’ Comfort
Grocers have implemented safety measures to make sure shoppers and workers can safely interact in retail locations. An increasing number of U.S. consumers,...
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1.6KThe Pandemic’s Impact On Shopping Habits And Gaming
Most consumers don’t have any plans of reverting to their pre-pandemic shopping habits, even as portions of the U.S. economy continue to reopen....
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2.5KThe Acceleration Of eCommerce During The Pandemic
The digital shift during the pandemic has been substantial, and new evidence indicates that the eCommerce market share could easily double by the end...
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2.6KBright Spots In Retail Rent And Restaurants Amid The Pandemic
Mall owners are reporting a slight uptick in retail rent payments as the coronavirus crisis enters its fourth month. Two new earnings reports...
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1.5KDTC Sports Uniform Companies Pivot For The Pandemic
School sports uniforms have been brought into the digital age by direct-to-consumer (DTC) companies such as SquadLocker. The company took an innovative business model and...
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2.0KThe Rise Of eCommerce Social Selling Tools
Self-service retail technologies have gained momentum over the last week, as small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) aim to make a digital shift a...
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2.8KMain Street’s Pandemic-Led Shift To Digital Innovation
The lockdown of the United States economy, which was designed to slow the coronavirus’ spread, changed the way consumers browse, shop and...
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2.7KTapping Into Mobile Payments And Retail Technology Amid Digital Shifts
As retailers scramble to capture the digital shift, it’s easy for some overlooked details, such as unanswered customer complaints, to harm their...
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4.7KEmerging From The Pandemic With eCommerce And IoT
Chinese eCommerce firms last worked together for an online shopping holiday called Singles Day on 11/11. China is now tallying its take...
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2.2KNew Paths For Small Businesses And eCommerce Sites
A sizable share of small to medium-sized businesses have failed or don’t see a path forward because of the pandemic. But a Philadelphia group...
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2.1KBright Spots In Retail Earnings And Cosmetics Sales
TJX reported earnings that showed a fast uptick for store opening traffic after having closed all of its retail locations globally in March, without an eCommerce...
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1.9KMall Traffic Drops As Online Sales Jump During Pandemic
All eyes have been on the reopening of malls this week and shoppers’ reactions. Mall traffic at eight reopened shopping centers reached record lows,...
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2.1KThe Rise Of BNPL And Digital Couponing Amid eCommerce Shifts
Consumers are spending online instead of making potentially risky visits to physical stores, and they are also paying for purchases in different...
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5.8KPandemic-Led Shifts To eCommerce, Off-Premise Dining
The pandemic has disrupted the lives of millions, yet not all areas of life have shut down. Consumers are engaging in many of the...
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4.1KThe Growth Of Off-Premise Dining, Subscriptions During The Pandemic
The pandemic is impacting industries globally, but fewer verticals have been harder hit than restaurants. Stay-at-home mandates and social distancing have led...
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3.4KThe Rise Of eCommerce Wine Sales And Shipments Amid The Pandemic
Consumers might not have returned to their pre-pandemic shopping habits yet, but they are setting records for wine. Online wine retailers are reporting large...
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2.7KThe Pandemic’s Influence On Connected Fitness And Smart Cities
Peloton is not the only connected fitness company benefiting from pandemic-related stay-at-home orders, with ICON Health & Fitness and Nautilus also finding new demand. In technology initiatives, Toronto’s Digital...
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3.3KPandemic’s Digital Shift Spurs Pet And Fashion Retail Innovation
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) pet brands are navigating changes in the market caused by a pandemic-led digital shift. Pluto Electronics, in one case, has created a unique...
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2.1KThe Pandemic Fuels SMS, Social Commerce, Independent Bookstores
Retailers are finding new methods to stay in contact with customers during the pandemic, such as SMS messaging, which has also given a...
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3.9KThe New Reality For Main Street, Freelancers Amid The Coronavirus
The post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail even though the crisis is hardly over, while Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan guidance issued in...
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2.0KReopening The Economy Following COVID-19 Restrictions
COVID-19 has taken an unprecedented toll on the livelihoods and wellness of consumers. But many policymakers are making a push to lift the...
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3.8KThe Impact Of The Coronavirus On Retail Earnings, Reopenings
The coronavirus had a strong impact on Disney for the first three months of this year, with falling overall revenue that largely stemmed from its closed...
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4.9KChallenges For Retail Reopenings, eCommerce
Retail reopening efforts continued to bring in light foot traffic, as Florida joined Texas in letting nonessential stores reopen. In online shopping, returns are the...
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2.2KCOVID-19’s Impact On Retail’s Reopening And The Healthcare System
Policymakers, economists and epidemiologists have been modeling the cost/benefit of reopening the economy, and consumers have been making their own calculations. In retail, Macy’s and Simon Property Group are...
