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Faire said: “This has raised a common question for brands and retailers: How can we safely connect and continue doing business under this new set of risks?”. According to the statement, Faire brands and retailers will receive year-round access to the following: Virtual showrooms that will allow retailers to view entire catalogs.

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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. Managing director since 2017, Dobbie is leading Vocalink in the expansion of B2B payment services in the U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are taking small-format, inventory-free locations to big cities: Nordstrom , for instance, is bringing its Nordstrom Local concept to the Big Apple. Through local retail hubs, merchants are aiming to provide locations closer to where consumers live or work with convenient access to services such as returns.

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APRIL 9, 2019

On Perennial’s website, the company seeks to make its brand purpose front and center. The United Nations 2017 World Population Prospects found that 13 percent of the global population is over 60, and that figure is forecasted to rise to 16 percent by 2030. It’s super functional,” she said. “It It has a clean taste.”.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Those two retail trends have recently collided in Southeast Asia, where Carro, an automotive marketplace and financing provider, reportedly has bought Jualo, an online marketplace for used goods from some 300 product categories. The deal is not the only recent news involving the online retail sales of automobiles. Retail Waste.

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OCTOBER 6, 2019

Go Global Retail announced its plans to acquire the assets of ModCloth from Walmart. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Ask a brand, retailer or marketer, and they’ll all probably say the same thing: Brick-and-mortar retail stores are dying thanks to the rise of eCommerce and online shopping. And if brick-and-mortar retail really is dead or dying, then maybe somebody should tell that to the retailers themselves? And DSW’s U.S.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Retailers are set to clean up this Halloween, as 2017 is looking to be a record-setter for consumer spending during the holiday. Halloween is no longer just for the kids and those with kids,” wrote Allison Zeller, director of research for the National Retail Federation (NRF). brand manager, in an interview with VinePair.

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billion annually in retail, entertainment and hotel sales. It’s also the city’s second most valuable retail real estate, behind only Fifth Avenue from 49th to 59th street, according to the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY). Retail real estate in Times Square rents for $2,363 a square foot. That amounts to $4.8

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

These laws were meant to make online sellers face sales tax requirements similar to those for retailers with on-the-ground locations, putting both types of businesses on equal footing. in 2017 had a 52.75 Small tobacco retailers can therefore struggle to build visibility among consumers when entering new markets.

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JANUARY 4, 2019

Digitally native retailers are opening stores to bring their virtual experiences into the real world, and Zola is one of the latest merchants to test out the brick-and-mortar waters. The wedding retailer opened a store in New York City’s Flatiron District that is billed as a “one-stop-shop for wedding planning.”.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

Walmart-owned men’s retailer Bonobos laid off staff on Monday (Oct. These decisions are not taken lightly, but we believe they are necessary to set the brand and business up for long term success,” a spokeswoman said. Walmart bought Bonobos for $310 million in 2017. In 2018, it bought Elloqui, a plus-size women’s fashion brand.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

Macy’s is going to China — digitally speaking — with the 2017 launch of a Chinese eCommerce portal in the largest eCommerce market in the world. Macy’s announced the planned move last week at an event in Shanghai. Chinese consumers want to know many details, while U.S consumers only want to check out quickly,” Jones said. “We

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

She told investors during the earnings call that Pepsi’s investment in “eCommerce across multiple channels, from e-grocery, to direct to consumer, to pure play, helped drive exceptional growth in 2017.”. And the numbers in this regard don’t lie: Physical retail is growing at a rate of about 3.6

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MAY 31, 2019

Louis test market reportedly saw foot traffic that exceeded the national average by 18.5 The brand has said it would roll out the burger later in the year nationwide. The retailer is going head to head with Amazon in numerous channels, including logistics, eCommerce and others, as it seeks to be viewed as more of a technology company.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Retailers are starting to tap into the camera,” said Ted Mann, CEO of visual search technology provider Slyce. They expect the retailers to be able to support it.”. Target has incorporated Pinterest’s visual search tool since 2017. National Research Group reports that the global interactive kiosk market size was valued at $23.11

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MAY 11, 2018

That’s one of the driving ideas behind a new service that Marriott International recently launched for Chinese travelers going overseas — a service that also helps to demonstrate how the country’s growing tourist class is changing payments and retail. Marriott began working with Fliggy in August 2017. Last year, the U.S.-based

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

billion in financing, a big vote of investor confidence for the toy and game retail brand which had recently declared bankruptcy. 18, 2017, with an overall goal of restructuring its operations and substantial outstanding debt, Chain Store Age reports. Toys“R”Us has just managed to secure $3.1

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JUNE 20, 2018

Online retailer Brandless has expanded its offerings in its clean beauty product line. Launched in 2017, Brandless is an online platform where everything is off-brand, and it all costs $3 or less. Brandless isn’t the only retailer getting in on the clean beauty action.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The last few years have been tough on Payless: the shoe retailer filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in April 2017, which led to the closure of 800 stores and CEO W. The retailer was, however, able to exit bankruptcy still open for business, an accomplishment in the current retail environment. Paul Jones stepping down.

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MARCH 15, 2019

The retailer reported net income for the fourth quarter of $102.6 million in 2017. Our core business performed quite well, as our athletes have responded positively to many of our initiatives, resulting in comp sales gains across key categories and double digit percentage increases in eCommerce and private brand sales.”.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

percent of teen’s wish lists, with the top four consumer brands being the iPhone, Apple Watch, MacBooks and Airpods. The next closest brand is Gucci , which only accounted for 0.6 holiday sales are expected to top $1 trillion this year, nearly 6 percent more than 2017. The top item on U.S. in the upcoming holiday season.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Along with the growth of Prime and web traffic, well-known brands have joined Amazon’s platform, such as Chico’s FAS. The company’s brands include Chico’s, White House Black Market and Soma. But the brand said it will still make marketing, pricing and promotions decisions. Private Label And Celebrity Brands.

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MARCH 30, 2017

This year’s Retail Banking conference took place at the Trump National Doral in Miami March 22-24. The first day was dedicated to credit unions with sessions about Best Practices for Credit Unions, Omni-Channel Banking – Is the Branch Dead or Is it the Future and How to Best use Branding.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

All that’s left now, more or less, is the rush of returns that will all but overwhelm some retailers. However, after almost 50 years, it began to fade in the 1980s, disrupted by the emergence of store-branded credit cards. In 2017, price discounts were about 19 percent. Big Brands. Top Sellers.

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JULY 12, 2019

Paris-based Filorga is a brand for anti-aging skincare mostly focused on facial care. It is sold in over 60 nations with continental Europe its base, and was started in 1978 in France. The brand is said to join a bevy of company brands such as Speed Stick, Softsoap and Ajax cleaner in addition to oral care products.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

In a recent trend, eCommerce mattress brands have been moving into the world of brick-and-mortar retail by opening their own stores and pop-up shops to help let customers test-drive their products in real life. At the stores, customers will be able to choose to take their mattresses from the store or have them delivered.

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MAY 4, 2018

Blue Apron faces ongoing challenges, with its customer base dwindling 24 percent year over year and increasing 5 percent quarter over quarter “following the deliberate pullback in marketing spend in the second half of 2017,” the company said in an earnings press release. The company will sell them under the “WW Healthy Kitchen” brand name.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

This week, Ellen DeGeneres launched her very own pet brand line with PetSmart. Consumers can now have outfits branded with the talk-show host’s name, as well as buy home decor design options. In 2016, the national retailer opened 60 new locations, with plans to double that in 2017.

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APRIL 21, 2017

CVS looks to revamp its image and up wellness game in an effort to position itself as a health retailer. The national drugstore chain recently announced plans to reboot more of its physical stores to promote new lines of health and wellness products to do its new(ish) corporate name, CVS Health, proud.

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DECEMBER 5, 2017

Owned by Yum Brands, the Pizza Hut QSR pizza chain already serves both beer and wine in many locations. This meant the brand was well positioned to extend alcohol delivery services to its delivery line-up. Yes, Phoenix is the new Peoria, according to Stacy Lynn Bourgeois, director of brand marketing for Pizza Hut.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Retailer JCPenney has decided to end a clothing subscription service as it continues to struggle financially, according to a report by Reuters. JCPenney started the menswear subscription service in 2017 with Bombfell.com. The migration of shoppers online has hurt the retailer’s business, and it’s had to close stores and cut jobs.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

“The gross merchandise value (GMV) of apparel and footwear that was sold on Amazon’s platforms approached $25 billion in 2017 — representing five to six times the amount of softlines sold on the site just 5 years earlier,” he added. Don’t count Walmart out yet, though. said in an announcement.

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APRIL 15, 2019

To help build customer loyalty, eCommerce and brick-and-mortar retailers have a myriad of tools on hand: Cashiers can sign customers up for loyalty cards at brick-and-mortar stores, and eCommerce sites can send customers special offers and coupons by email. Europe’s 2017 share of the coin-operated vending machine production market is 30.3

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

To keep up with the pace of innovation as competitors move toward mobile ordering, delivery and payments innovations, Restaurant Brands International (RBI), which owns Burger King and other brands, hired CFO Josh Kobza as its new czar leader in January. But not all QSR chains are so focused.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

The operator of over 2,000 grocery stores nationwide, the company is the second-largest physical retailer in the U.S., according to a National Retail Federation ranking. With its size, Kroger packs a private label punch: The retailer carries around 30,000 SKUs (stock keeping units) for 8.2 The Power of Size .

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