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Retailer Gap Partners With BNPL Platform Afterpay To Boost Holiday Shopping

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Buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform Afterpay is teaming up with retailer Gap to offer flexible spending options as the holiday shopping season gears up. When consumers shop Gap brands online, they can choose Afterpay at checkout and pay for purchases in four interest-free installments. “We We are proud to partner with Gap Inc.

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Farfetch IPO Shows Luxury Retailers Ready To Ware Online

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The online marketplace has disrupted any number of verticals, changing the way we shop and spend, and where we grab must-have items — from books to rugs to lamps, and sometimes from across international borders. As the company claims in the F-1: “Farfetch is the leading technology platform for the global luxury fashion industry.

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Online Fashion Site Moda Operandi Raises $100K For Expansion

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Online fashion marketplace Moda Operandi announced a $100,000 funding boost that it will use to invest in its technology and bolster business overall. But some fashion retailers have begun riding new trends, such as relying more on third party messaging apps to reach those interested, rather than traditional websites.

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South Korea’s Online And In-Store Retailers Play Discounting Chicken

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Western retailers are just now starting to see daylight at the end of a long winter of discounting discontent, and many standbys like Macy’s and JCPenney haven’t come out unscathed. 2015 report by Statistics Korea, via eMarketer , found a striking disparity in growth between physical and online retail in South Korea last year.

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Chinese eCommerce Firm JD.Com And Google Debut Online Store

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JD.com, one of the biggest eCommerce retailers in China, has teamed up with Google to launch a store on Google Express, according to a report by Reuters. . Even though Google search hasn’t been accessible in China since 2010, the company maintains sales and engineering teams in the country.

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PYMNTS’ 2016 Roundup: Retail Edition

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This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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Is There An Empty Retail Store Crisis?

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Layoffs in the retail sector have soared high this year. The number of layoffs has already well surpassed April’s projection of 37,000 retail positions cut by year’s end. The retail sector lost over 43,600 jobs as of mid-August alone, a number already towering over the 30,273 retail jobs shed back in 2010 and previous estimates.

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