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Retail’s Ups And Downs: Rate Hikes, Dollar Stores And EpiPens

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And nothing is worse than a bad product launch or poorly planned marketing strategy. Let’s just say, the pics weren’t well-received by the sneaker-loving community, and Harden’s been hearing it on social media ever since. With that said, PYMNTS decided to take a look at some of retail’s biggest winners and losers of the moment.

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Blazing A Trail Of eCommerce Innovation With Cargo Bikes

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The company markets those bicycles to daycares, small preschools and small family-owned centers that can use a couple of the bikes to take a class on a field trip. The Philosophy and Market. In terms of marketing, Powell noted that there is a very small number of people looking for these types of bikes.

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How Urban Outfitters Was A Q1 Sleeper Success Story

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It has been a particularly grim retail season for the mall staples that defined landscape of the late ’90s and early 2000s. Karen Webster described this scenario in 2014 as The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral. “So Same-store sales in retail locations were up on average 1 percent from the same time in 2015.