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Upscale UK Retailers Look To Land In US Market

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s most high-profile retailers is doing well in the U.S. and another one is ready to open, both of them seeking a new market as their home turf sees retail struggles. s fastest growing brick-and-mortar retailer, Wren Kitchens. And also in training our retail staff to offer the customer a fantastic service.”.

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Luxury Retail Finds New Avenues As Brick-And-Mortar Fades

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Luxury retail is being revised — and in some cases, reinvented — and those trends are worth attention as the 2019 holiday shopping season approaches. Not only that, but the luxury online consignment retailer opened a brick-and-mortar store on New York City’s famed Madison Avenue. Indeed, in its recent U.S. has notched $300 million.

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Kount, FreedomPay Join Forces To Offer Payments Platform, Fraud Prevention Package

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Fraud protection specialist Kount and Philadelphia-based payments platform FreedomPay are teaming up to offer “an integrated, complete solution to enable international expansion with fraud-free payments and frictionless customer” experiences. Before, they were limited to one or two areas. Today, they’re pretty much everywhere.”.

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How Ticketmaster Uses AI To Sort Fans From Fraudsters

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The holiday shopping season is kicking into high gear with retailers working aggressively to entice customers with deals and discounts. Fraudsters, sadly, are also taking notice and are looking to take advantage of heightened retail activity to steal data and goods. The city of Philadelphia, Pa., Around The Digital Fraud World.

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Organizations' Fraud Threats Rise This Holiday Season

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The holidays aren't always so cheery as the risk of fraud plagues consumers and retailers alike. Last week, Info Security reported that Philadelphia's largest food bank, Philabundance , lost nearly $1 million due to a BEC attack in which a scammer sent a seemingly legitimate invoice from one of the food bank's construction vendors.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

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billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. That is the most organic growth of any automotive retailer ever in the U.S. Orlando, Tempe, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Kansas City, Greensboro, Westminster (L.A.), Apparently that will get you in trouble on the Street. Ontario (L.A.),

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Soda Wars Summer

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The Ad Age story notes that it will also be supported by TV advertising, social media efforts and a summer-long “experiential” tour. The app will also allow users to record a 15-second “digital lip-sync video” that can be shared on social media using the hashtag #ShareaCoke, the brand told Ad Age.