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Retail Pulse: Luxury Brands Eye Airport Retail; Panera Bread Tests Dinner Menu

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Airports are providing luxury brands with access to consumers with extra time on their hands who want to buy unique and unusual items they can’t find near their residences. shopping malls are on the decline, are also becoming locations where brands are innovating with products. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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Why Online Retailers Go To Nordstrom To Try On Physical Retail

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Through a reasonable long game, Nordstrom has positioned itself as the department store du jour for hot young brands in real world commerce. Some 62 percent of Nordstrom’s 120-plus stores are in elite malls like Roosevelt Field in Long Island, Short Hills in New Jersey or The Galleria in Houston. That’s much better than No.

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Domino’s To Launch GPS Tracking, Falls Short In US Same-Store Sales Growth

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Domino’s CEO Richard Allison said on a call with analysts that he was pleased with the second-quarter performance, but noting “we are a work-in-progress brand,” he said there have been and will always be many areas where the brand can improve. The fleet from Nuro is said to serve certain customers in Houston who place online orders.

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Retail Pulse: Brookstone Files For Bankruptcy; Kroger Launches New Delivery Service

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The decision to close our mall stores was difficult, but ultimately provides an opportunity to maintain our well-respected brand and award-winning products while operating with a smaller physical footprint,” he said. Less than 10 years later, a consortium from China purchased the company for $136 million in 2014.

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Why Contextual Commerce Is The Next Big Thing

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This stand-alone food ordering and delivery app — now live in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. UberEats , which launched last month (March 2016) as a stand-alone app, was Uber’s first shot across the contextual commerce bow. plus other geographies.

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Where Pharmacy Giants Walgreens, CVS, Walmart, And Rite Aid Are Placing Private Market Bets

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For many consumers, the local pharmacy is long gone, replaced by big box retailers with significantly more cash and brand recognition. It later announced in October 2014 a partnership with DirectHealth.com, which provides in-store licensed agents to help consumers navigate health insurance exchanges.

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Surviving The Retail Apocalypse: The Technologies And Trends That Can Help Brick-And-Mortar Thrive Again

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We look into how stores are being transformed into showrooms, community gathering spots, and even event spaces as retailers leverage the physical store as tool for brand marketing. It was an experiment by Ikea to better understand what types of technology could attract customers, and more broadly to introduce them to the Ikea brand.

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