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MARCH 1, 2019

DSW began working with W Nail Bar in 2017; the two companies offer salon services at Columbus, Ohio’s Easton Town Center and the Polaris Fashion Place. They also create repeat visits to the DSW brand, where an exciting footwear assortment awaits.”. L Brands posted net income in the fourth quarter of $1.94 billion at $4.85

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. percent in 2017, Taco Bell has been drawing in customers with new food items, a Live Más marketing campaign and new nacho fries for $1. . But McDonald ’s Corp.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

This is evident with China’s JD.com snapping up luxury brand marketplace Farfetch for a cool $397 million this summer. This is due to the fact that hot spot destinations are more apt to have better access to high-end brands. The surprise luxury consumers who’re popping up, according to Bain’s research, are millennials and Generation Z.

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OCTOBER 6, 2019

ModCloth offers exclusive indie and vintage-inspired women’s clothing, shoes, handbags and accessories for 18- to 35-year-old women, while Go Global Retail is a brand investment platform for strategic investors in the consumer sector. Walmart acquired the assets and operations of ModCloth in March 2017 for an undisclosed amount.

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APRIL 25, 2019

In 2016, eGaming was a $493 million industry, and in 2017 (the last year for which data was available), that had jumped to $655 million. The term eSports can refer to a wide range of games in the competitive space, but in general the most popular ones are in the first-person shooter or multi-player online battle arena genres.

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JANUARY 17, 2018

When the iconic Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was looking to brand its bulk Brazilian coffee in 1919, it asked consumers when they drank coffee. so the A&P decided to name its house brand of coffee Eight O’Clock. As JCPenney grew, so did its private brands. Their answer was 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M.,

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

After its disastrous Q4 2017 and resulting meltdown , the toy industry’s dominant force now has one store (small, at Garden State Plaza) and plans for 10 more. This arrangement is an interesting experiment about brand equity and supply chain consolidation,” says Jason Grunberg, SVP of marketing at CM Group , a marketing tech company.

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APRIL 30, 2018

As Amazon adds established clothing brands to its platform, Chico’s FAS will become one of the latest companies to sell its merchandise on the eCommerce retailer’s site. The company’s brands include Chico’s, White House Black Market and Soma , CNBC reported.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Bridge millennials own slightly more devices than the average consumer in our study: six devices compared to the roughly five that most consumers own. This group of 60 million U.S.

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APRIL 19, 2018

The storied department store is a bit more than a brand at this point. Some have noted that Macy’s is a middle-market brand pitching to a middle class that no longer exists — or doesn’t exist in enough force to support its expansive business model. A lot has been written in recent years about everything that has gone wrong at Macy’s.

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MAY 12, 2017

As more brick-and-mortar locations struggle to keep pace with online shopping, Fidelity has taken notice and made the decision to focus its efforts on eCommerce. This young company sells clothes solely through its mobile app and website from 2,000 brands.

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MAY 28, 2019

With abundant choices in many aspects of their lives, consumers expect a range of options when it comes to online shopping, ranging from picking out clothes to making travel plans. Half of global online transactions are expected to take place in Asia this year. billion in 2017. That marked an increase from 2017’s $1.4

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MAY 22, 2018

This challenge is seen across the spectrum of consumers, but it’s most acutely noticeable among older or bridge millennials — consumers between the ages of 30 and 40 who are buying houses, having children and beginning to settle into their roles as the drivers of commerce in the U.S. So, what’s a brand to do?

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. “As As the retailer has dealt with deteriorating finances and a heavy debt load, it has been facing fortified competition from larger retailers that have the resources to invest in their online businesses,” that report added.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

In an ecosystem in which success is defined by scale and time to market, it’s no longer good enough to have a great product, a well-known brand or a compelling technology. For brands like General Mills, that’s a good news/bad news story. Once there, shoppers are introduced to a variety of brands, including private-label store brands.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

For its three years in operation, Brandless generated no shortage of buzz with its concept of “private label for less” and the idea that the best brand is no brand at all. Under his leadership, the plan for the brand was to pivot into higher-margin, bigger ticket products such as CBD oil and move Brandless onto store shelves.

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MARCH 9, 2017

With all of the connected devices enabling less interaction with others, the big struggle everyone has been talking about for the last year has been the online versus brick-and-mortar shopping. In its Evolution of Retail, 2017 Generation Z Shopper Survey, the company looked at shopping habits for the younger post-millennial generation.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

While one day a teen may be into shopping strictly online, another day may see an offline preferred experience or a mixture of both, and retailers must be at the ready to transform engagement efforts at any given time. It turns out that retailers geared toward this younger demographic are having a tough time engaging them online.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

While one day a teen may be into shopping strictly online, another day may see an offline preferred experience or a mixture of both, and retailers must be at the ready to transform engagement efforts at any given time. It turns out that retailers geared toward this younger demographic are having a tough time engaging them online.

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APRIL 30, 2018

QVC President and CEO Mike George said when the deal was announced,“By creating the leader in discovery-based shopping, we will enhance the customer experience, accelerate innovation, leverage our resources and talents to further strengthen our brands, and redeploy savings for innovation and growth. The Beauty & Wellness Makeover.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While much of physical retail struggled in 2017 from rapidly realigning consumer shopping habits, the team at Home Depot had an incredibly solid year, with same-store sales growing each quarter and a stock price that surged 42 percent. Despite retail’s slump, the stock market did well in 2017. A Stumbling Start to 2018.

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MAY 17, 2018

In an era that has seen physical retail locations — particularly large box stores — suffer from consumers becoming increasingly enamored with the online experience, it was still a bit of a surprise to see shoe retailer DSW log something of a bumpy 2017. The shoe retailer even tried to sell eBuys, but there were no takers.

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APRIL 18, 2019

As covered by PYMNTS , Neiman Marcus has acquired a minority stake in Fashionphile, an online company that sells pre-owned designer handbags and other similar products. The move follows a failed relationship, one that ended in 2016, with The RealReal, an online luxury reseller that is mulling an initial public offering for this year.

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William Mills

MAY 4, 2017

With the proliferation of communication channels available today—from traditional print media and broadcast to online and social media—effectively managing a credit union’s communications strategy is a complicated business. Both millennials and Gen X tend to consume content in the evening hours (8 p.m. Time of Day Matters.

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Social Assurance

JULY 20, 2017

Why Millennials Need Banking Security and Compliance. Then it hit me, I just placed an extreme amount of personal trust on strangers that I selected based on their online profiles. This is why Millennials and Gen X-ers like me are some of the highest people at risk for financial theft and fraud. Seriously, like everything.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. The millennial generation has already shown its love for all things mobile, but big financial institution mobile wallets were not in the mix, begging the question: Are the banks too late off the mark to deliver mobile wallets to this generation? But the similarities end there.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

That’s because they’ve trained consumers over the last half decade that walking into a store isn’t as nearly as satisfying or productive an experience as shopping online—and not necessarily from those same traditional players. That won’t be a slam-dunk for traditional retailers. The Danger in the Data . Reading the Right Retail Tea Leaves.

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APRIL 13, 2018

But the nine new defaults on the list now go up on the scoreboard with the 13 retail bankruptcies logged in in 2017. percent at the end of 2017, according to Moody’s. “A By the end of 2017, there had been 13 retailer defaults for the year, second only to the oil and gas industry.”. Now you can buy a Sears store online.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Discogs operates as an online, crowdsourced avenue through which individuals can list their popular and rare audio recordings for sale. million records in the first half of 2017, generating an estimated $100 million in sales the previous year, according to Billboard. Each new listing adds to the overall database. Current Climate.

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JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. As PYMNTS readers know, that 2017 IPO was anything but glorious. Social Media’s Role.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

Every few weeks, another story about the dreaded generation surfaces: millennials are killing casual dining; millennials are killing breakfast cereal; millennials are killing home ownership. Millennials aren’t shunning luxury goods; they’re just renting them instead of buying. Millennials are in debt.

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JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. As PYMNTS readers know, that 2017 IPO was anything but glorious. Social Media’s Role.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. Take PayPal, for example. consumers showed that of the 7.75

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MAY 11, 2018

Marriott began working with Fliggy in August 2017. A recent report from the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) said that millennials in China are the “forerunners” of mobile apps and “revolutionary” payment methods — a finding not lost on tourism officials. Travelers access Fliggy via web or mobile devices. So is WeChat.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Messenger taps brands for beauty bots. Instagram powers digital beauty brands. Google’s search data helps brands understand beauty shopper preferences. YouTube powers beauty influencers.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2018

Driven by Lore, Walmart acquired e-commerce platform Shoebuy in January 2017, followed by outdoor apparel retailer Moosejaw in February, womenswear site Modcloth in March, direct-to-consumer premium menswear brand Bonobos in June, and last-mile delivery startup Parcel in September. Increase in-store efficiency. E-commerce.

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MARCH 21, 2019

came via online sales in 2017, and by 2018 that had grown to 62 percent. During Thanksgiving week alone, she reportedly pushed $12 million in online sales. The service features live shows from Amazon’s talent pool and from brands through an app called the Amazon Live Creator. Hard to say this early on.

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