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COVID-19 Has Retailers Nudging Black Friday Shoppers Online

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Instead of opening on Thanksgiving, Walmart has been promoting a plan to " spread out the savings ” from a single day to three events held throughout November, both in-store and online. Meanwhile, Best Buy has also been pointing customers online during the pandemic, saying that “this year, we’re doing Black Friday all season long.”.

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Auto1 Online Car Marketplace Plans To Go Public

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Auto1 said it would put about three-quarters of that back into its business, which includes its Autohero website brand. At the time, Auto1 said the investment was in the form of “convertible notes,” which could become shares of stock in the event of an initial public offering. billion) from the stock sales. billion euros in 2019.

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Path To World Series Brings Changes To Online Gambling

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It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. College and U.S.

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Alibaba Gets Into The Garment Manufacturing Business

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As most companies rush to grow their online presence, Alibaba is actively seeking to expand its offline footprint through its new manufacturing division, Xunxi. The Chinese tech giant recently opened three new “smart” factories catering to online brands that need to boost their manufacturing capabilities.

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Beyond Amazon: How Smaller, Mom-And-Pop Retail Operations Can Thrive

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Big chains and eCommerce operators tend to drive retail innovation — or make the most news when commerce fails — but small, local and even mom-and-pop operations are getting more focus these days via various forms of change, innovation and disruption. Ready to Buy.

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thredUp’s Remade And Resetting Its Consignment Brand

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Online consignment hub thredUP has a special name for this time period — the Purge Surge, when all the gifts that didn’t quite live up to expectations flood onto its marketplace for attempted resale. Last year, in January 2018, 250,000 brand new items appeared on ThredUP, a 60 percent increase over the rest of the year.

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Walmart Boosts Store Hours, Rolls Out Phase 2 Of Black Friday Deals

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Stores with more reduced hours will keep current hours of operation. The extension continues a trend that began in August of the chain reversing operational cuts put into place when COVID-19 first struck. Then in August, the retailer extended most stores’ operating hours to 10 p.m. pic.twitter.com/mNFDhtWej8. to 8:30 p.m.

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