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5.6KRetailAT&T Says It’s An ‘Essential’ Retailer – And GameStop Does, Too
The watchword in retail right now is “essential.” It is a critical issue for many retailers as federal, state and local governments...
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1.5KCommerce ConnectedThere’s More To The Store With Connected Commerce Innovation
Here’s something: Spending in brick-and-mortar stores actually grew at a rate of 4.2 percent year over year in 2019 – an increase...
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2.6KToday In DataThe Evolution Of Brick-And-Mortar Retail And Loyalty Programs
Physical retail is evolving to meet the needs of shoppers who expect the same convenience and speed of mobile and online environments. Large shares...
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1.9KToday In DataThe Brick-and-Mortar Strategy Of Discount Retailers
Businesses that rely on the old-school, brick-and-mortar business model are turning away from eCommerce. Burlington, in one case, announced on its last earnings...
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4.4KRetailDiscount Retailers Move Away From eCommerce
If it weren’t for a certain pandemic that is dominating most news, the two biggest stories in retail over the past week...
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14.4KRetailWhy 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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2.3KRetailIKEA 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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2.9KEarningsTarget Posts Surprisingly Sluggish Same-Store Sales Growth
Retailers having a less than festive holiday season saleswise has become an increasingly repetitive storyline in early 2020, as the earnings results...
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2.1KRetailCan Sports And Entertainment Really Spark Mall Revivals?
Long live physical retail. That’s the thought one gets when reading news via Bloomberg, which reported “when shoppers visit the long-awaited American...
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1.9KRetailTapping Into The Power Of Pop-Ups To Help Those In Need For The Holidays
There are all kinds of pop-up shops that have, well, popped up over the last several years. Pop-up bars, pop-up candy shops,...
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2.6KRetailBehind The Drive To Bring Better Consumer Experiences To Physical Retail
Providing a top consumer experience is becoming more important and is a rising trend in retail, and that will almost certainly increase...
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3.9KRetailIs ‘Walking In A Live Instagram Account’ The Future Of Physical Retail?
Remember those first giddy days of eCommerce? If so, one can probably remember the fantastical predictions that, before too long, brick-and-mortar retail...
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12.4KPayments InnovationWhy Search And Logistics Will Shape The Future Of Retail Payments
The two most powerful forces shaping the future of retail payments have nothing to do with payments at all. At least at...
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5.6KOmnicommerceMaking Sense Of The New Omnichannel Experience
As far as buzzwords go, one must tip their hat to the enduring power of “omnichannel.” Take a time machine and travel...
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4.4KRetailKiosks Flourish In International Markets
Kiosks are gaining more power in retail, especially as it becomes ever more obvious that consumers are not quite ready to cut...
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7.5KRetailHow Neighborhood Goods Is Breathing New Life Into The Department Store Model
For physical retail, and department stores in particular, it’s both the best of times and worst of times. The headline topping the...
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23.7KRetailAlibaba Bids For Metro Brick-And-Mortar Stores In China
One of the hottest battlegrounds in eCommerce these days — and that includes global, multi-pronged, behemoth eCommerce operators — is a firm in...
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5.0KeCommerceFresh Holiday eCommerce Data: Another Nail In Physical Retail’s Coffin?
Online retail and mobile commerce had their shining moments over the 2018 holiday shopping season — the latest evidence of that comes from...
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4.3KToday In DataToday In Data: The Global Digital Commerce Reset
With the new year now up and running, it’s becoming obvious that a few big sea changes are underway. Physical retail, as...
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4.9KRetailMystore-E And An AI Assistant For Physical Retail
Creating the correctly personalized in-store experience is much easier said than done in most cases – consumers want salespeople who are knowledgeable...
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26.0KPayment MethodsWhy The Physical Store Model Is Dead
It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it...
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6.5KPayment MethodsWhy QSRs Like Amazon Pay
Quick-service restaurant (QSR) managers are a conservative bunch when it comes to payments, new PYMNTS research found. It makes sense — the process...
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24.8KMobile CommerceWhat Black Friday Tells Us About The Future Of Retail
The verdict is in. Black Friday was a boon for online retail. Nostalgia still drove consumers to physical stores to snag and...
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7.7KRetailWhy Sam’s Club Expanded Its Instacart Footprint
A recent deal that expands Instacart’s same-day grocery delivery for Sam’s Club members stands as more than good news for the delivery...
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12.9KAlternative FinancesHow Affirm Wants To Push ‘Honest Financing’ Into Physical Retail
Despite the nearly continuous drumbeat of doom and gloom from the world of physical retail, there is, according to Affirm CRO Rob...
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10.9KMatchmakersJOOR CEO: Why Digital Wholesale Ordering Is Fashion’s Latest Trend
What’s more fashionable than efficiency? Yet, until recently, it wasn’t a trend the luxury fashion market had really tried on. Kristin Savilia,...
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6.6KRetailCanada Goose Outerwear Company Is Flying High
The Canada Goose is migrating. Canada Goose Holdings Inc., a premium outerwear brand known for its goose-down jackets with fur-trimmed hoods, has...
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17.8KMatchmakersAppear Here And How Brands Can Rethink Physical Retail
“We want to saturate the cities we are in, in terms of number of places, before moving on to the next place....
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The Not-So-Sweet Smell Of Brick-And-Mortar
With physical retail taking a hit in so many areas from eCommerce, some brick-and-mortar businesses might be ignoring a simple but very...
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The Mystery Of The Vanishing Retail Staff
Why employees of major retail chains are disappearing in large numbers isn’t the mystery — that’s the result of low sales, thanks...
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Brick-And-Mortar Vs. Brand Names
Online commerce has made it a heck of a lot harder than it once was for brick-and-mortar retailers to compete on pricing...
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Former Saks CEO Says It’s Omnichannel Or Bust For Physical Retail
He may no longer be the Saks chairman and CEO, but Steve Sadove still has plenty of ideas for saving the floundering...
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eBay’s Retail Tech Patent Spree
Recent patent filings by online retailer, reseller and auction mega-site eBay have pundits guessing at whether the company intends to take its...
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Macy’s CEO Says Death Of Physical Retail Exaggerated
Macy’s Chairman and CEO Terry Lundgren recently sat down with CNBC’s “On the Money” to discuss the reported “death” of brick-and-mortar shopping....
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2.5KCoolServing This Generation’s ‘Tweener’
Men between 20 and 30. Rising professionals. Refined sense of fashion. That’s this generation’s “tweener” and emerging retail opportunity. Max Schmidt, co-founder...
