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Amazon Takes On Best Buy With Its Take On The Geek Squad
Amazon is taking on Best Buy in the home installation and service market where Geek Squad has dominated by quietly rolling out...
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RetailCostco Squeaks By Last Year’s Sales
After Amazon’s $13.7-billion acquisition of Whole Foods, others in the grocery industry saw their shares slide. One company that’s escaping the Amazon...
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RetailHobby Lobby Pays $3M in Iraqi Artifact Smuggling Case
Arts and craft megastore Hobby Lobby is in hot water. After buying Iraqi archeological artifacts back in 2010, the Christian-based retail chain...
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AmazonAmazon Trails Japanese Competitor Rakuten
Amazon isn’t giving up on Japan, despite trailing homegrown Japanese competitor Rakuten basically since it launched. The American eCommerce giant launched its...
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RetailSnapdeal Holds Out For A Better Offer On Flipkart Takeover
India’s second- and third-largest eCommerce firms, Flipkart and Snapdeal, have been in talks for months about a possible alliance to keep ahead...
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RetailCustomer Loyalty Programs Reach 3.8 Billion in U.S.
Loyalty programs are nothing new to retail. From collecting pieces for McDonald’s Monopoly to collecting stamps for free cookware at grocery stores and...
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RetailNike Mulls Selling Directly on Amazon
Nike has so far resisted direct sales on Amazon, but now it seems that, in the face of ebbing sales, the company...
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RetailInvestor Urges Saks Owner Hudson’s Bay to Refocus
In today’s retail landscape, there has been a lot of movement with regards to mergers, acquisitions and digitally influenced strategies. Owner of...
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RetailWalmart Is Buying Men’s Clothing Firm Bonobos for $310M
Turns out, Friday was a big day for big acquisitions. Amazon is buying Whole Foods, and Walmart is buying Bonobos. According to...
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AmazonAmazon ‘Prime Now’ Delivers To Denver In Two Hours Or Less
One-day shipping? Ain’t nobody got time for that. Amazon Prime is now introducing one- and two-hour delivery of Amazon goods, as well...
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RetailInstacart Tries Its Luck In East Coast Suburbs With Wegmans Grocery Stores
Instacart has eaten up another market sector by partnering with Wegmans, a family-run East Coast grocery chain with 92 stores and $8.4...
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RetailBack-to-School Retail Sales Expected to Grow, eMarketer Says
In one of the first forecasts for back-to-school retail spending in the United States, eMarketer has said that spending will be up 4...
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NewsMcDelivery Is McDominating In 1,000 New Markets
3,500 more McDonald’s markets are going to be lovin’ it by the end of June as delivery service rolls out to even...
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RetailSTRIVR Labs VR Tech Is Training Walmart Employees
The movies were wrong about holograms replacing teachers in the future, but they weren’t that far off. Walmart is introducing virtual reality...
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RetailCustomers Fed Up With High Burger Bills
So many burgers, s0 little money. The average person has between $4 and $6 to spend on lunch daily, and that’s just...
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RetailInstacart, Sur La Table Partnership Delivers
Ever been in the middle of cooking dinner, only to realize you don’t have the right tool for the job? You bought...
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RetailSmart Stoves And Robo-Waiters: The Future Of Food Prep And Service
“Food trend” doesn’t just mean avocado toast and grapefruit shandy. At the National Restaurant Association Show, more than 2,200 exhibitors painted pictures...
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NewsTech Over Taste Was No Recipe For Success At The Melt
The Melt’s business model has been a bit of a gooey mess over the past six years, its “Grilled Cheese Happiness” motto...
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RetailAmazon And Wayfair See Growth In Furniture Market
Furniture sales have become a pretty cushy business if you’re Amazon or Wayfair. For everyone else, it’s going to take some real...
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RetailBrick-And-Mortar Makes A Comeback With Generation Z
Teenagers shopping with friends? Well, duh – but only if they can bring all of their friends, carried in their pocket and...
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EconomyConsumer Spending In Japan May Be Buoyed By Labor Demand
Tight labor conditions in Japan may give a boost to consumer spending in Japan, Reuters reported. The demand for workers in the...
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RetailProfit Is Icing On The #Cake For Instagrammers
Chelsey White gets to ‘Gram her cake and have it, too. The 26-year-old Instagram celebrity has monetized her baking hobby to the...
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RetailPlacePass Unlocks Local Experiences For Marriott Guests
Why be an outsider when you could be an insider? Why simply “travel” when an immersive local experience is available at the...
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RetailCostco Sweeps Expectations With Fiscal Q3 Earnings
Costco shoppers might pay less, but the company was pleasantly surprised to learn it had made more, according to the earnings report...
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RetailCampbell’s, Chef’d Partnership A Recipe For Success
A new three-year partnership between Campbell Soup Company and online meal marketplace Chef’d will be serving up success for both companies. The...
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RetailAmazon And Wedding Prep: A Perfect Pair?
Couples tying the knot are already on Amazon. They need wedding shoes, or honeymoon luggage, or they’ve selected the e-commerce giant to...
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RetailCarvana, Auto eCommerce Startup, Drives Change In Car Market
Carvana, a leading eCommerce platform for buying used cars, has lapped the competition by allowing users to buy, sell, or trade in...
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NewsGoogle’s Big Card Data Play
Google has long claimed that the ads it shows users actually prompt them to make purchases online and in real life –...
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RetailFedEx Bridges Borders With BlueSnap
A partnership between logistics giant FedEx and online global payment gateway BlueSnap will make it easier than ever for merchants to ship...
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NewsNew Penney’s Marketing Chief Hails from Lowe’s
On Tuesday, (May 23rd), J.C. Penney announced that Marci Grebstein is joining the company as executive vice president, chief marketing officer, next...
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RetailAmerican Express Survey: As Diners Change, So Do Restaurants
A recent survey by American Express shows that, unsurprisingly, millennials have the biggest appetite for digital dining experiences, from ordering take-out through...
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RetailTarget Targets Young Shoppers In Partnership With Mattress Startup Casper
Bed-in-a-box company Casper Sleep wouldn’t shake hands on an acquisition offer from Target, but it will be selling some exclusive products through...
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InternationalAlibaba Growth Spurt Is Promising, Yet Portentous
Alibaba is getting consumers to spend more money online, and that would appear to be a good thing for the Chinese eCommerce...
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RetailQ1 Delivers More Good News Than Bad For New York & Co.
The bad news is, New York & Co.’s comp store sales and revenue are down as the company shifts strategies and moves...
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Investors Like What Brava Is Cooking Up
Venture capitalists just earmarked tens of millions of dollars for the stealth-mode startup Brava, an Internet of Things company with plans to...
- Retail
McDonald’s At Your Door: Fast Food Giant Now Delivers
Los Angeles, Chicago, Columbus and Phoenix are lovin’ it: on Wednesday, May 17, McDonald’s expanded its delivery service to customers in these...
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Amazon Delivers Housing to Seattle’s Homeless
Amazon, the nation’s largest online retailer, is taking home delivery to the next level: instead of just delivering goods to customers’ homes,...
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Wayfair Launches Visual Search, Pinterest-Style Boards
Wayfair has phased in a new way to “search by image.” Users can simply point their smart device’s camera at a piece...
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RetailJewel-Osco Scoops Up Indiana Strack & Van Til Stores
Nineteen Indiana Strack & Van Til stores are soon to become Jewel Food Stores. Jewel-Osco, a wholly owned subsidiary of Albertsons Companies and...
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NewsOnline Retailer Shares Lag Broader Markets In October
Shares of online retailer stocks managed to lag the broader markets in October, a performance that at least partially keyed into lackluster...
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eCommerceIndia To Leapfrog US As eCommerce Hub?
India may hurdle the United States as the world’s second-biggest eCommerce market over the next two decades, research from Worldpay estimates. That...
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RetailAhead Of Election, Cautious Holiday Shoppers?
Big data and analytics firm IRI said Wednesday (Oct. 26) that its third quarter IRI Consumer Connect findings showed that as many as...
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Menswear’s Bonobos Not Monkeying Around With Personal Service
Bonobos, the men’s clothing brand that began life online and has now pushed into the physical realm, is betting on the tactile...
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RetailSimplyTapp Launches Gane Mobile Payments App
The mobile proximity payments firm SimplyTapp said Monday (Oct. 24) that it has launched Gane, a new app that offers a range...
- Retail
Retailers Should Contact Shoppers By Email, Says Study
Retailers should take initiative in communicating with shoppers — especially younger ones — by email rather than social media channels, a new...
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RetailRetailers Lag When It Comes To Mobile, Says Study
The movement toward mobile payments has been a strong one, but brands and retailers have been slow to adopt to that change,...
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eCommerceSmartphone Shopping Driving 70% Of Mobile eCommerce
The mobile eCommerce wave has continued to grab top of mind — and top of consumer wallets — having made impressive inroads...
- Retail
Buyout Looms For American Apparel?
American Apparel is on the block and is in the midst of seeking a buyer for the firm, having hired Los Angeles...
- Mobile Payments
Fitbit’s Plans To One Up Apple Watch
Normally focused on exercise, Fitbit appears to be considering the (business) health benefits of mobile payments. Reuters reports that the fitness wearables...
- Loyalty & Rewards
Samsung Pay Makes Wallets ‘Loyal’
Samsung has seen the benefits of loyalty, and it is making it a part of its mobile wallet. The electronics company announced...
