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3.6KRetailRetail’s “Next Big Thing” Is Aimed At Women
Generally speaking, if you’re trying to get a consumer’s attention, offering them access to “The Next Big Thing” is a pretty good...
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2.3KResTechWhat To Do When Mobile Ordering Eats Up Too Many Resources
At PYMNTS, we love mobile order ahead, but what happens when mobile ordering isn’t enough – or rather, when it’s too much?...
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2.3KRetailThe Power Of Invisibility In Retail
Immediacy in retail is no small advantage. In fact, immediacy is what the brick-and-mortar players of the world indisputably do better than...
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2.2KRetailNordstrom And Everlane Pair Up For A Pop-Up
High-end department store Nordstrom will be offering a unique in-store shopping experience, featuring an in-store pop-up shop with the ethical fashion e-tailing...
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2.2KRetailMastercard, Swarovski And Virtual Reality Crystal Commerce
In recent virtual reality (VR) news, Mastercard, Swarovski and VR have come together to make living rooms more tasteful places, according to...
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1.9KGoogleGoogle Tracker: Keeping Its Frenemies Close
The lines are blurring between competition and collaboration as Google reaches across enemy lines to partner with Apple. Or, if “partner” is...
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1.9KRetailPinterest Brings Visual Search To Target
Retail makes for interesting bedfellows, and Pinterest and Target this week have announced news of their own plans to cozy up. The...
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2.0KFacebookFacebook Tracker: Taller, Wider, Smarter
Facebook adds 33 stories of San Francisco office space and a 4,000-mile trans-Atlantic cable to its assets. Plus, the social media giant...
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3.0KMobile ApplicationsRe-Packaging Apps To Sell: What Will It Take?
Is the app marketplace dying a slow death? Consumers have certainly gotten past the novelty phase, with more than half of U.S....
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1.6KRetailHalloween Spending Forecast To Break Records
According the National Retail Federation (NRF), Halloween this year will see record-breaking shopping numbers. More people will be celebrating, which will mean...
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3.3KRetailSam’s Club Swaps Out Accountants For Robots
While there has been lots of talk about robots stealing jobs and prompting layoffs of American retail workers, most people probably weren’t...
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2.9KAmazon InvestmentsAmazon Ups India Brick-And-Mortar Investments
Amazon has announced news that it is investing in Shoppers Stop, Ltd., an Indian retail firm looking to boost revenue and increase its store...
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2.2KRetailHow UsTrendy Is Helping Teenage Girls Believe In Themselves
While for many adults, fashion is a passion, for teenagers, fashion can be a way of life. UsTrendy wants to support their lifestyle....
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2.2KRetailWalmart Wants A Bite Of The Meal Kit Market
Walmart is getting into the prepared meal market, gearing up to sell a variety of meal kits from different vendors. Michael McDevitt,...
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5.7KOmnicommerceDoes Amazon Plus Kohl’s Equal Retail’s Future?
Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Robert Frost was famous for using rural country metaphors when examining important philosophical issues of the modern world....
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3.8KeCommercePrice Matching: Retail’s Ruination — Or Revival?
Instead of searching a few dozen sites to make sure someone else doesn’t have an item for a lower price, or having...
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3.3KToday In DataToday In Data: Mobile Order-Ahead
As the popularity of mobile devices continues to rise, speedy and convenient on-demand services are becoming mandatory for restaurants and other food...
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2.2KAmazonAmazon Tracker: Strategies And Partnerships Deliver
In this week’s tracker, Amazon slowly spreads into trickier territory: prescription pharmaceuticals, smart glasses, and shipping alcohol (which is a logistical nightmare)....
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2.1KRetailRecology’s CleanScapes And The Future Of Green Retail
Retail stores are rarely built by accident, particularly in the real world, if for no other reason than retail is sort of...
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2.9KDeliveryWalmart Tests In-Home Delivery Service
Walmart and smart door lock maker August are collaborating on a new service that will make it easier for Walmart shoppers to receive...
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1.9KRetailCan Millennials Save Brick-And-Mortar Retail?
Though many retailers have assumed millennials are behind the trend toward highly digitized, online-focused shopping experiences, baby boomers might be the real...
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2.7KAmazonAmazon Kicks Off Restaurant Delivery With Olo Partnership
Would you like a side of fries and instant gratification with that? Amazon’s got you covered. Friday morning, Sept. 22, Amazon and...
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2.1KAmazon InnovationsAmazon Could Meld Shopping With Live Videos
Amazon, the eCommerce giant that is in hiring mode in New York, is looking to add positions to one of its startups...
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1.7KRetailPumpkin Spice Simply Beyond Its Normal Limits
Fall has almost arrived (tune in tomorrow for the official autumnal equinox), which means the season for jeans, sweaters, football and early...
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1.6KRetailToys“R”Us CEO Sees A Better Future With Smaller Stores
The brick-and-mortar experience of Toys“R”Us most millennials remember from childhood — with its massive supply and aisles upon aisles of toys — is looking...
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2.1KAppleApple Tracker: New iPhone, Watch Fail To Impress
Even though it’s not available yet, the iPhone X already seems to be overshadowing its brother, the iPhone 8, pre-sales for which...
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2.7KRetailTarget Rolls Out Bluetooth-Powered Shopping Cart GPS
Target shoppers will always be able to find their target now – at least, that’s the hope with the new and improved...
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3.2KToday In DataToday In Data: Yelp Boosts Commerce
Merchant review website Yelp has a unique status in the eCommerce landscape, allowing customers the opportunity to peer review their favorite — and...
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2.7KRetailWalmart Is Skipping Holiday Hiring This Year
Instead of adopting the retail standard operating procedure of reducing unemployment and hiring temporary extra workers for the holiday shopping season, Walmart has...
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3.5KSecurity & Fraud1,300 Bad Apps Spoil The Bunch
If you liked it, then you should’ve put a dollar on it: words Beyoncé might sing to someone who didn’t want to...
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2.7KAmazonOops. Amazon Bungles Baby Registry Email To Customers
Normally an email from Amazon telling you someone paid for a gift off your baby registry is good news — another need met,...
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2.5KPartnerships / AcquisitionsHy-Vee Kicks Into Hy-Gear With Wahlburgers, OrangeTheory Partnerships
Could the secret to winning the grocery wars lie not in groceries, but in adjacent brands and services? That’s the strategy Hy-Vee...
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1.9KRetailLackluster Earnings Tank Bed Bath & Beyond’s Stock Price
Domestic merchandise retailer Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock took a 12-point hit after Wall Street got a look at its latest earnings...
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3.8KResTechBurger Bots Could Flip The QSR Industry On Its Head
Pasadena, California-based startup Miso Robotics is ready to introduce Flippy, the automated fast-food burger-flipper — and, according to many, the beginning of the...
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2.7KRetailAmazon Pushes Retailers To Same-Day Delivery
In data that will likely surprise anyone who has avidly watched retail over the last few years, the market is trending strongly...
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2.9KGoogleGoogle Tracker: Making Allies And Enemies
ExpensiveWall A massive malware campaign infiltrated Google Play last week, sending fraudulent text messages and charging up to 21 million people for...
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2.1KRetail
Another One Bites The Dust: Toys ‘R’ Us Files For Bankruptcy
The retail death spiral drags on, and this week we have a new victim: Toys “R” Us. The eponymous toy store has...
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2.4KChatbotsCan Chatbot Concierges Save The Mall?
Physical retail has had its share of problems recently, and consumers are finding it increasingly easy to shop digital and save themselves...
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2.7KRetailChipotle Says ‘Goodbye Chorizo, Hello Queso’
In restaurant news, the people have spoken and, apparently, they have had enough chorizo. That is the takeaway from Chipotle’s latest corporate...
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7.6KMerchant InnovationUsing AI To Power The Retail Experience
When is milk not milk? This is no trick question — it’s a distinction that artificial intelligence (AI) is going to have to...
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3.2KRetailYelp’s Push To Build Relevant, Rewarding Commerce
Since it was founded nearly 13 years ago, the Yelp review site has ascended to the rare place among firms where its...
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2.3KRetailDiscogs Achieves Sound Of Success In A Dying Marketplace
If you thought the iPod killed physical media years ago, think again. Sure, Nielsen reports that physical media sales are down (again),...
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1.8KFacebookFacebook Tracker: Advertising Crackdown
In this week’s Facebook tracker, the social media giant amps up community vibes with its new standalone group video chat Bonfire app,...
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1.9KRetailWalmart Stays True To Arkansas
While Amazon is auditioning potential host cities in something that has turned into commercial real estate’s version of “The Bachelor,” Walmart has more...
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2.3KRetailGap, Inc. Refocusing Means “Fewer, Better” Gap Stores
Times have been tough for Gap, Inc. in recent years, as an almost quintessentially mall brand finds itself scrambling as malls nationwide...
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1.9KRetailNew School Commerce Meets (Extremely) Old School Production
Maybe it was a sweater, maybe it was socks — but, for most people with knitting-inclined relatives, Christmas wasn’t quite Christmas until...
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2.7KRetailHow Alcohol Delivery Suddenly Stopped Being Amazon-Proof
Until Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, the logistics of alcohol delivery were mostly outside the grasp of what Amazon could efficiently cover. Intoxicating...
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4.2KAmazon DeliveryAmazon Enables One-Hour Delivery Of Runway Fashions
Amazon is bringing instant gratification to a new level, offering customers the ability to purchase clothing directly from the catwalk at a...
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2.9KRetailMarie Claire and Mastercard Team Up To Launch Pop-Up Shop
Fashion magazine Marie Claire and Mastercard, the payments company, are teaming up to launch a pop-up store dubbed The Next Big Thing...
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2.1KAmazonWhy Amazon Wants An Emmy
Emmys weekend is upon us, meaning for the 69th year in a row, millions of Americans will sit in front of their TVs...
