shopping

How consumers find what they want to buy and buy it in a world that is no longer defined by a physical place but what a consumer wants to buy and how she wants to buy it. Connected devices and the integration of payments into this now digital-led shopping journey is creating new ways for merchants and consumers to interact and disrupting traditional retail business models.

Walmart Tests In-Home Delivery Service

Walmart Tests In-Home Delivery Service
Walmart Tests In-Home Delivery Service
September 22, 2017  |  Delivery

Walmart and smart door lock maker August are collaborating on a new service that will make it easier for Walmart shoppers to receive retail purchases and...

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Can Millennials Save Brick-And-Mortar Retail?
Can Millennials Save Brick-And-Mortar Retail?
September 22, 2017  |  Retail

Though many retailers have assumed millennials are behind the trend toward highly digitized, online-focused shopping experiences, baby boomers might be the real culprits. Get the...

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A Second Act For Strip Malls
A Second Act For Strip Malls
September 21, 2017  |  Retail

The times they are a’changing, and if consumers insist on using the internet to shop, shopping center landlords will have to repurpose their retail properties....

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Pumpkin Spice Simply Beyond Its Normal Limits
Pumpkin Spice Simply Beyond Its Normal Limits
September 21, 2017  |  Retail

Fall has almost arrived (tune in tomorrow for the official autumnal equinox), which means the season for jeans, sweaters, football and early Christmas shopping for...

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Walmart Is Skipping Holiday Hiring This Year
Walmart Is Skipping Holiday Hiring This Year
September 20, 2017  |  Retail

Instead of adopting the retail standard operating procedure of reducing unemployment and hiring temporary extra workers for the holiday shopping season, Walmart has decided to stick...

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Hilton Rewards Points Can Be Used On Amazon.com
Hilton Rewards Points Can Be Used On Amazon.com
September 20, 2017  |  Amazon

Hilton Hotels, a hotel operator, announced Tuesday (Sept. 19) that Hilton Honors loyalty rewards members will now be able to redeem their Hilton Honors rewards points...

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Google Offered To Display Rival Comparison Shopping Sites To Appease EU
Google Offered To Display Rival Comparison Shopping Sites To Appease EU
September 19, 2017  |  Regulation

Google, aiming to prevent more fines from the European Union (EU), is offering to display competing comparison shopping websites through an auction, reported Reuters. Get...

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Using AI To Power The Retail Experience
Using AI To Power The Retail Experience
September 19, 2017  |  Merchant Innovation

When is milk not milk? This is no trick question — it’s a distinction that artificial intelligence (AI) is going to have to learn to make...

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How Halloween Might Have The Secret To Saving Retail
How Halloween Might Have The Secret To Saving Retail
September 14, 2017  |  Retail

Halloween might be the scariest holiday (unless, of course, you’re a parent, in which case Christmas is the hands-down winner every year), but it’s not...

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