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Return Season Hits Hard; Some Retailers See Bright Side Of Customer Experience

PYMNTS

The dreaded returns season has hit retail with a predictable but painful thud. With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. In the brick-and-mortar retail era it was a nuisance to be avoided.

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Designer Brands Reports 44.7 Pct Drop In Net Sales Amid Pandemic

PYMNTS

Designer Brands Inc. The company operates almost 1,000 retail stores under names like DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse and The Shoe Company. ” Designer Brands said it has successfully opened roughly 90 percent of its overall store base, and it foresees having almost all of its North American locations open by the conclusion of June.

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Shogun Brings Big Retail Tech To Digital-First Retailers

PYMNTS

Four years and $35 million in venture capital funding later, Taylor’s company is expanding and simplifying the ability for eCommerce companies to build sophisticated yet simple web stores. Some retailers are just excellent about telling stories about themselves and about the products that they're selling,” Taylor told PYMNTS.

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Steal This 5-Step Banking Innovation Playbook from Gentle Monster

South State Correspondent

Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example. The Banking Innovation Playbook – Step 1: Find a Niche Kim looked at the market and knew he needed traction in at least a single segment where he could create a brand and a following for Gentle Monster. Find the gap in one segment and build success from there.

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Report: Instacart Is Mulling IPO

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8) that it had received $200 million in new capital from existing investors Valiant Peregrine Fund and D1 Capital Partners, boosting Instacart's valuation to $17.7 Instacart states in promotional materials that it has relationships with 500 retailers that have 40,000 locations in the United States and Canada.

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Yotpo Gets $75M To Help Brands Capture The Digital Shift

PYMNTS

Yotpo’s outlook is so bullish – from both its CEO’s perspective and from the venture capital perspective – because the company is creating a compressed marketing stack for eCommerce, whether it’s for Patagonia or for an up-and-coming DTC sneaker brand like Brooklyn, New York-based GREATS.

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Returnly Raises $19M To Help Retailers Handle Returns

PYMNTS

In a press release , the company said the Series B round of funding was led by Craft Ventures, the venture capital fund co-founded by serial entrepreneur David Sacks. Returnly said it will use proceeds from the fundraising to help retailers compete against Amazon by growing its merchant services and expanding its product offering.

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