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Sales are activities related to selling or the number of goods or services sold in a given time period.
(source: en.wikipedia.org)
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4.1KB2B PaymentsAllSurplus Launches Program For SMBs To Sell Excess Equipment
AllSurplus, the marketplace for selling off various extra assets and items, wants to help businesses list and sell their own surplus items...
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2.6KRetailSmartphone Sales See Biggest Drop Ever In Feb.
Research and consulting firm Strategy Analytics has released a report stating that global smartphone shipments dropped 38 percent year on year in...
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1.7KRetailUS Retail Spending Dropped 0.5 Pct. In Feb.
As consumer spending started to decelerate prior to COVID-19 containment measures, U.S. retail sales declined last month in the biggest drop in...
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1.9KRetailDollar Tree Plans Renovations Amid Strong Q4 Results
Dollar Tree’s fourth-quarter earnings were better than expected, as the company continues its upgrades to the Family Dollar portfolio and launches new...
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1.8KRetailSales Of Plant-Based Foods Hit $5B In 2019
Consumers’ appetites for plant-based food is apparently surging, as the market for those products hit a new high of $5 billion last...
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1.5KEarningsSame-Day Services Soar In Mixed Q4 For Target
Target’s Q4 earnings report was something of a mixed bag in terms of outcomes. Earnings per share came in ahead of expectations at...
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1.5KRetailSmileDirectClub Aims To Boost Growth Via Healthcare Partnerships
After SmileDirectClub Inc registered a larger-than-expected loss with greater spending to market its teeth aligners, the eCommerce dental firm said it is...
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1.7KRetailLowe’s Posts Mixed Results Amid Online Revamp
As Lowe’s homes in on growing online shopping and bringing in more professional contractors and homebuilders, the home improvement retailer registered mixed...
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1.5KEarningsThe RealReal Tops $1B In GMV In 2019
As its gross merchandise volume (GMV) topped $1 billion for 2019, The RealReal Inc. reported a contribution profit per order of $19.72 and buyer...
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1.7KRetailStreaming Makes Up 80 Pct Of Music Industry Sales
Streaming services from companies like Spotify, Apple and Amazon have helped to fuel an increase in sales and profitability for the music...
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2.6KEarningsMacy’s Touts A Turnaround After Q4 Earnings Beat
After four consecutive quarters of progressively declining results, Macy’s managed to surprise the markets on Tuesday (Feb. 25) with an unexpected beat...
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3.9KRetailDomino’s Established US Restaurant Sales Rise 3.4 Pct
With a focus on new marketing efforts and quicker delivery, Domino’s Pizza Inc. has seen its profit and same-store U.S. sales come...
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2.5KRetailGroupon To Stop Merchandise Sales And Concentrate On Experiences
As it faces a competitive retail market, Groupon Inc. intends to discontinue its sale of merchandise by the close of 2020. The...
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4.0KRetailCereal Makers Aim To Move From Sweet Tooth To Healthy Profit
You better eat your Wheaties. At an average of $3.74 a box, even with Russell Wilson or Serena Williams on the cover,...
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3.1KEarningsWalmart Sees 37 Pct Growth In eCommerce, In-Store Sales Remain Tepid
After eight consecutive earnings beats, Walmart finds itself at the start of 2020 in the unusual position of missing analyst targets, as...
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3.5KSubscriptionsHubble: Contact Lens Prescriptions Go Subscription
One might assume they could easily guess the biggest competitor for a startup focused on selling contact lenses direct to consumer (DTC)...
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2.2KEarningsDunkin’ Ends 2019 With 146 New Stores, 13M+ Loyalty Members
As it reaped the benefits of its digital investments, Dunkin’ Brands added 146 net new Dunkin’ and Baskin-Robbins locations around the world in Q4,...
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3.4KEarningsAmazon Hits 150M Prime Users And Commits Billions To One-Day Shipping
Back to the trillion-dollar club they go. Amazon’s stock price shot up in after-hours trading, as the eCommerce company blasted past expectations...
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1.7KRidesharingLyft To Lay Off ~90 Sales And Marketing Employees
Lyft announced upcoming job cuts on Wednesday (Jan. 29) as part of what it termed a “corporate restructuring.” The change comes as...
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3.1KEarningseBay Teases Sale Of Classifieds As Q4 Earnings Slide
As eBay seeks to right its ship with its search for new leaders, as well as new revenue from its recent sale...
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1.8KInnovationSubaru CEO Says Electric Vehicle Demand Is Lagging
Americans don’t seem to be showing much interest in electric vehicles, according to Subaru CEO Tomomi Nakamura, cited by The Wall Street...
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7.1KRetailFiserv: What The 2019 Holiday Shopping Data Says About 2020 Spend
’Tis the season for … looking back at 2019 holiday sales trends, and figuring out what they mean for payments and commerce...
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2.5KEarningsTarget 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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3.1KCommerceLenovo Leads PC Sales Spike With 24 Pct Market Share
The annual global sale of PCs saw its first gain since 2011, when sales went up 1.7 percent, according to the International Data...
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2.3KRetailDespite Amazon Relationship, Kohl’s Has Sour Holiday Season
The year is off to a less-than-stellar start for Kohl’s. The retail chain has yet to report its fourth-quarter or full-year 2019...
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2.0KAppleChina Sees 18 Pct. Jump In iPhone Sales
There was an 18 percent spike in iPhone sales in China in the month of December, according to a report by Reuters....
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1.7KRetailHoliday Shoppers May Have Favored Non-Mall Retailers
Department store chains in the United States might have experienced another disappointing holiday season, with the category of retailers that includes Macy’s,...
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2.1KEarningsPier 1 To Close Nearly Half Its Stores On Big Q3 Loss
Pier 1 said on Monday (Jan. 6) that it intends to close nearly half of its 942 locations, according to CNBC, fueling...
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3.0KAppleApple Shares Spike To Record High
The new year started off well for Apple, which saw its share price crossing the $300 mark for the first time on...
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2.2KNext-Gen Sales TaxDeep Dive: How Not To Lose A Bundle On Bundled Taxes
Merchants frequently package products together into eye-catching bundles, selling everything from laptops with preloaded software to charcuterie gift baskets. Bundling can give...
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1.9KRestaurant innovationNew Chipotle Stores To Feature Drive-Throughs, Walk-Up Windows
Chipotle announced on Thursday (Dec. 19) that it is testing out a different restaurant design in effort to keep its billion-dollar digital...
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2.8KEarningsFedEx Sees Shares Slide After Slashing Profit Forecasts
FedEx saw a drop in its shares during after-hours trading in New York on Tuesday (Dec. 17), with shares dipping 6.5 percent...
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3.0KRetailCostco Sees Sales Boost Amid Brick-and-Mortar Focus
Costco, the big-box membership retail store, has seen its sales continuously rise throughout the holiday season, according to a report by The...
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1.5KRetailDiscounts, Lower Same-Store Sales Hit Hudson’s Bay Results
The latest results of the department store operator Hudson’s Bay Company showed the impact of discounts at its Saks Fifth Avenue operations,...
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1.5KRetailOct. Retail Sales Drop 0.6 Pct. In Euro Zone
With the negative impact from trade, the economy of the eurozone expanded at a modest rate in Q3, as retail sales dropped...
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4.8KInternationalStarbucks Expects To See Slowing Growth In China
Starbucks has, once again, warned that its China comparable sales could rise 1 percent during the fiscal year. “We have picked up...
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1.7KRetailCyber Monday Sales Expected To Reach $9.4B
Seeking to maintain the momentum of a record $11.6 billion in online sales on Black Friday and Thanksgiving, U.S. retailers started Cyber...
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2.9KNext-Gen Sales TaxThe Economic Case For Remote Sales Tax Uniformity
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) struggle to meet new remote sales tax laws that vary across 43 states — a consequence of...
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2.1KEarningsSluggish Sales Sink Macy’s Earnings
The mall has not been kind to Macy’s, or at least that was the takeaway from the retailer’s earnings report released earlier...
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1.7KRetailTarget’s Online Sales Jump 31 Pct. In The Quarter
Offering a “safe haven” of sorts after multiple retailers unsettled investors, Target Corp. increased its full-year outlook on profitability as well as strong sales....
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2.9KRetailQ3 Retail Earnings Show Mixed Bag Of Consumer Spending
Consumer spending shows mixed demand as the holiday shopping season gets underway, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday (Nov. 19)....
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2.6KRetailLoyalty Firm Punchh Raises $40M For Brick-and-Mortar Analytics
As eCommerce rises in popularity – currently accounting for about 11 percent of retail sales, which is an increase of about 14.8...
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4.9KAmazonNike To Pull Product Listings From Amazon
Nike announced that it is parting ways with Amazon and will no longer sell its products on the eCommerce marketplace, ending a...
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1.9KeCommerceAlibaba: First Hour Of Singles’ Day Rakes In $12B
China’s Alibaba rang up over $12 billion in sales in less than 90 minutes during its Singles Day shopping bonanza, Reuters reported...
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2.7KRetailWith Fewer Shopping Days, Retailers Ramp Up Sales, Delivery
Thanksgiving lands on Nov. 28, which is six days later than last year. That means retailers have a whole week less to...
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3.4KeCommerceEastern Europe Online Retail Sales Continue Double-Digit Growth
According to the Eastern Europe B2C E-Commerce and Online Payment Market 2019 report, online retail sales in Eastern European countries continue a...
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3.7KEarningsDunkin’ Doubles Down On Digital With Rewards, Ordering
With digital initiatives in multi-tender rewards and mobile guest checkout, Dunkin’ ended the third quarter with over 12 million loyalty members contributing approximately...
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2.4KEarningsMondelēz Touts Q3 eCommerce Growth, Strives For Smaller-Portion Options
With strong eCommerce growth and improvements on its return on digital investment, Mondelēz International, Inc. posted better-than-expected third-quarter results. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer...
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4.5KVISAVisa’s Kereere: eComm Firms Say X-Border Growth Critical — But Daunting
A new study from Visa finds 87 percent of eCommerce execs see cross-border growth as critical for their top lines — but,...
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3.9KEarningsChipotle Drives Digital To Q3 Wins
Get ready for more digital drive-throughs in the world of quick-service restaurants (QSRs). That was one of the main messages on Tuesday...
