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MARCH 11, 2019

With a rise in discretionary spending and building materials purchasing, retail sales in the U.S. At the same time, however, it was noted that retail sales fell by 1.6 During the month, mail-order and online retail sales notched their largest gain as of December 2017 at 2.6 increased by 0.2 percent in January.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

you could be gearing up to buy gifts in store or online. In a season where tradition is key, retailers are setting new ones with the help of emerging products and services on this Black Friday. Rethinking Conventional Retail Wisdom . Shoppers weren’t done with physical retail; they just wanted something different.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Close the door and buckle up – retail automotive sales are getting an upgrade. For instance, online marketplace and auction site eBay has released eBay Motors, a new app that uses AI to list a car in under five minutes, according to a report by The Verge. million vehicles were purchased in 2014. for both iOS and Android.

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APRIL 18, 2019

Big news is in the offing for Walmart , Amazon and other chains that offer grocery ordering online – they have gotten a formal “green light” from the USDA to offer that service to recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Reports indicate other retailers will join the program next month.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Retail furniture giant Ikea’s recent acquisition of handyman site TaskRabbit shows that it’s aware of competition from other online-only furniture retailers, and their push of services like installation and delivery, according to a report by Reuters. percent in 2014 and much lower than its share in Germany, at 12 percent.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Apple announced that its retail chief, Angela Ahrendts, is stepping down, while Deirdre O’Brien is taking on an expanded role as senior vice president of Retail + People. She joined the company in 2014 from Burberry Group, and was in charge of revamping Apple’s stores and boosting employee morale.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Listen closely to recent news — including news coming out of the ongoing NRF retail show in New York City — and you’ll hear ample talk about omnichannel commerce. It became clear that we shared the same vision of how technology can improve local retail businesses. “It The acquisition comes amid increasing focus on omnichannel retail.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

That arguably describes the recent acquisition of Seattle-based Blueprint Registry , an online universal gift registry, by David’s Bridal , the privately held wedding retail chain that traces its roots back to the first years after World War II. The retailer has a $520 million term loan due in Oct. When in doubt, bet on digital.

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MARCH 16, 2016

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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AUGUST 12, 2019

Subscription commerce is attractive to entertainment platforms as well as retail businesses because it locks in revenue streams, and customer data can help with planning and forecasting. Subscription commerce isn’t immune to the retail data breaches that have become widespread, though it does have different payment issues.

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JUNE 7, 2019

Single consumers are a force of nature as well when it comes to retail. Single people, often neglected by many retailers – at least based on complaints and stereotypes found online – seem to be getting fresh attention in this era of online and mobile shopping, and shopping clubs. Take Costco, for instance.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

Among the ongoing trends in retail is the funding for online used car platforms, and the ongoing rise of eCommerce and digital payments in Latin America. Consumers who want to sell their cars via that platform reportedly seek an online price estimate. “If The latest evidence of that comes via Japan-based SoftBank. The reasons?

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JANUARY 18, 2017

One might imagine that mall operators nationwide take a rather jaundiced view of the internet, since online shopping has more or less killed the mall. But perhaps that is the old conventional wisdom — the emerging idea is that online retailers are giving back some of what they’ve taken away these days. “We

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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JUNE 19, 2019

The connected vehicle ecosystem is taking shape, and that brings new opportunities to retail. Some of the latest developments from the retail side of the ecosystem come from the world of QSRs. Domino’s had already enabled in-car ordering with Ford’s Sync AppLink back in 2014. Commerce Wave.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

This holiday season, consumers are boosting their expectations when it comes to their eCommerce retail. Cloud-based operations solution provider Voxware released consumer survey data that points to the increased standards consumers are holding online retailers to during the 2016 holiday shopping season. percent in 2014.

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JANUARY 8, 2021

Amazon has ended one of its first efforts to sell food online, with the eCommerce retailer closing its Prime Pantry service. Prime Pantry rolled out in 2014 and showcased an array of consumables in addition to cleaning items. In separate recent Amazon news , the eCommerce retailer has purchased Boeing wide-body airplanes.

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MAY 16, 2016

The retail sector in the region grew by 209 percent from $4.4 billion in 2014, more than tripling in fewer than five years. As the online economy booms, many are rushing to make predictions about continued growth, The Economic Times reports. billion in 2010 to $13.6 Compare this with Australia (90 percent), the U.S. (87

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

percent from 2014-2019. Amazon’s plan for one-day Prime delivery is further burdening logistics providers and retailers. Urban developers confront “competition with other uses such as retail, multi-family apartments, offices and mixed-use developments that generate higher taxes and higher rents,” Walaszek added. percent from 11.3

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as online merchants, are offering consumers all sorts of products and services through the subscription business model, from movies to tea. And retailers are offering innovative subscriptions for all sorts of products. per month.

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JUNE 21, 2019

These hubs for travel retail, which are providing an audience of on-the-go travelers as U.S. However, the company’s luxury unit is continually on the uptick — and travel retail is said to be partly responsible. The New York City Soho men’s store, which opened in 2014, was consolidated into a nearby larger format location.

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MAY 29, 2020

Both Walmart and Amazon made some big add-ons and/or acquisitions this week as they attempt to widen their sphere of retail influence in a post-pandemic world. Accounts can be opened online or via a starter kit at a brick-and-mortar Walmart location’s Money Center. The retailer had been negotiating with ThredUp for about a year.

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JULY 25, 2019

Recent days have brought new evidence of the importance of robust loyalty and rewards problems in retail, an areas of ongoing innovation, and a way for merchants of all types to stand apart in a fiercely competitive industry. Retail Card Programs. The move adds to Trax’s stable of retail tech.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

The retail apocalypse is fake news if you ask Mark Cummins, co-founder of Irish startup Pointy. Brick-and-mortar retail is changing, no doubt, but Cummins noted that it still makes up around 91 percent of all retail spend, while eCommerce claims just 9 percent of consumer dollars. Department and apparel stores are closing.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Supermarket chains dominated a list of hottest retailers in 2015, according to information released by the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) STORES magazine. The NRF released its annual list of Hot 100 Retailers on Aug. domestic sales with sales of at least $300 million based on figures compiled by Kantar Retail.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Back-to-school shopping has started earlier than usual this year, and retailers have Amazon to thank. According to a report, shoppers took advantage of Amazon’s Prime Day to stock up on back-to-school supplies, which is leaving retailers playing catch-up if they want to cash in on what is a lucrative time of year for them.

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MAY 15, 2017

retails sales are showing some signs of warming up with the weather. Sales online and in store were up a seasonally adjusted 0.4 That is the biggest pick-up to retail sales in the last three months, according to the Commerce Department. The report stands in contrast to the latest run of retail sales results out of various U.S.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

Mastercard is collaborating with four eCommerce retailers — WHSmith.co.uk, Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery — to offer the Pay by Bank app to online shoppers, Mastercard announced in a press release on Friday (Oct. Dobbie will be in charge of infrastructure and applications that power the U.K.’s

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Grocery retailer Winn-Dixie opened a second location of its next-gen, upscale store concept in Tampa, Florida, in the beginning of November. Overall, online retail in the U.S. In 2015, grocery purchases accounted for less than 2 percent of the $341 billion spent online. has seen uninterrupted growth since 2011.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

How cumbersome and annoying do you find the return process for items that you ordered online? The growth of online commerce continues at a rapid pace. The online shopping experience gets better every day. All online returns today are some version of ‘put in mail.’ shopping malls. One area has lagged behind — returns.

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JUNE 19, 2019

The connected vehicle ecosystem is taking shape, and that is bring new opportunities to retail. Among the latest developments from the retail side of the ecosystem comes from the world of QSRs. Domino’s had already enabled in-car ordering with Ford’s Sync AppLink back in 2014. Commerce Wave.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

A study conducted by Pew Research Center shows that 92 percent of teenagers use the internet daily, and 24 percent of teens are online “almost constantly.”. Among teens, Amazon is the most popular retailer, with 41 percent of teenagers favoring the eCommerce giant for online purchases (up from 31 percent in spring 2014).

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JUNE 21, 2016

Online clothing retailer, ModCloth, has been stepping up its efforts recently to lobby for passage of H.R. ModCloth’s anti-Photoshop stance has always been something of a cause célèbre for the online retailer, who in 2014 was the first to sign a pledge to not make any post-production changes to any of its models or images.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Retail technology is undergoing big changes in the restaurant world, and that includes the drive-thru. The latest development in retail camera use comes from the drive-thru lanes of the fast-food industry, according to the Financial Times. Domino’s had already enabled in-car ordering with Ford’s Sync AppLink back in 2014.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Lord & Taylor is mulling a bankruptcy filing as the coronavirus lockdown continues to negatively impact nonessential retail, while JCPenney recently skipped an interest payment. But in grocery, GrubMarket is taking the hybrid model to the farmers’ market and has seen higher online grocery business since the crisis began.

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JUNE 7, 2018

The goal for all retailers is, of course, to deliver an excellent experience, both online and in stores, and to find ways for those disparate experiences to mesh seamlessly with one another. The Swedish furniture retailer seems to be making the opposite transition. IKEA is slowing the growth pace it has sustained in the U.S.

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MARCH 6, 2020

To bring online shopping visibility to fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), Greece-based Convert Group has notched €1.2 eRetail Audit,” which is the central offering of the upstart, is said to be a digital platform that offers online retail market share information for “sell-out” consumer merchandise in units, value and volume.

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