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Retail Reopening Hinges On Dangerous Discounts

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retail reopening. Most reports of mall reopenings and other retail post-pandemic debuts in the U.S. Down the street at Altar’d State, during the store’s shutdown, employees posted videos of their clothing marketed to young women. The station also reported that retailers who did see crowds followed strict guidelines.

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Retail Bankruptcies, Closures Faster This Year Than Last

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And additional retail bankruptcy filings are expected in the second half of the year, while brick-and-mortar stores will continue to close at a higher rate, according to a report by professional services firm BDO USA LLP. The reported noted that a subpar 2018 holiday season was a main factor, with December retail sales dropping 1.6

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How Analytics Can Help Fashion Brands And Retailers

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A lot of market data. A lot of brands are having a hard time keeping up with the pace of consumer changes,” StyleSage ’s Director of Marketing and Digital Strategy Elizabeth Shobert told PYMNTS in an interview. Historically, large retailers tend to move more slowly. Historically, large retailers tend to move more slowly.

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Reseller Market Maintains Momentum With Nordstrom’s Entry

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While “reselling” or “secondary market” are more likely to keep ownership of this burgeoning market, the reselling market is reinventing itself for 2020. Nordstrom joins other department stores in the resell market. More data on the market comes from sneaker and streetwear reseller StockX. We like the handle.

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The Compliance Beast Of Food Retail Supply Chains

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This is true for any industry, but perhaps even more so in the food retail space, where regulations can be as much about public health and safety as they are about money laundering and fraud. food retail market with the adoption of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), introduced by legislators in 2009 and signed into law in 2011. .

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Why Rent The Runway Wants To Become The Amazon Prime Of Retail

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A decade ago, the concept of building a retail operation around shopping in other people’s closets was something of a hard sell. We were kind of the original disruption in the fashion retail space, as it brought the concept of sharing a closet to the forefront in 2009.

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Reading Retail’s Tea Leaves Via Retail’s Resale Market

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Given the massive and in many cases seismic shifts in the retail landscape because of the coronavirus pandemic, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that retail’s shadow side of B2B overstock sales and liquidation is also rapidly shifting. Keeping the System Moving Now.

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