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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

As traditional mall merchants go under, online brands are expanding into brick-and-mortar, the New York Post reported Saturday (Nov. One example is New York’s UNTUCKit , which started as an online men’s clothing store and grew into a global brand. That was more than all of 2018, which had 5,900 closings.

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APRIL 1, 2020

Customer engagement firm Paytronix Systems said its online ordering software, using the software-as-a-service model, has what it takes to beef up food-delivery revenues. Paytronix said its online ordering saves time by taking brand information directly from Toast’s POS system, including menus and hours.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Glenn Fodor, SVP and head of First Data Insights, contributed the following piece as part of PYMNTS’ 2018 year-end eBook. Other Amazon-branded stores comprising the company’s physical footprint include Amazon Books, Amazon pop-ups and AmazonFresh Pickup. These are but a few examples of 2018 successes in physical retail.

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JANUARY 19, 2020

Mumbai, India-based online business-to-business (B2B) marketplace Beldara is planning a global expansion to link more international suppliers with overseas buyers, reports said on Thursday (Jan. The two-year-old startup connects more than 5,000 brands in 30 categories, and has 450,000 products listed on its platform.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

From kiosks to online ordering and drive-through lanes, these merchants sought to provide their customers with digital alternatives to ordering at the counter in 2018. These are just some examples of how restaurant technology innovations powered convenient restaurant experiences this year: Online Ordering Expansions.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Amazon’s relationships with big brands on their platform is looking quite a bit less healthy than it once was, while Walmart has seen grocery services lose some ground in terms of consumer appreciation, according to a recently released ranking. Big News of the Week: Another Big Brand Break-Up. for smart lighting in 2018.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

Amazon is now promoting its own products inside the listings of competitive brands. According to CNBC , some users searching for various products in beauty, health and household and baby items have reported seeing the link “Similar item from Our Brands” show up at the bottom of the listing.

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MARCH 13, 2019

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,” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Edward W. Stack said in a press release.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

London-based online retailer ASOS offers a new feature, “See My Fit,” that allows shoppers to see how over 800 items would look on up to 16 specific body types, the Mirror reported. Yael Vizel, CEO at Zeekit, said, “Together with ASOS, we have a shared mission to make online fashion as personalized and easy-to-use as possible for customers.

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DECEMBER 27, 2017

Here are my picks for the top 3 PR trends in 2018. The number of brands that consider a content strategy effective in raising revenue increased from 74% in 2016 to 83% in 2017. It should come as no surprise then that the ability to craft a content strategy is the number one skill CMOs are looking for in 2018. Content strategy.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Walmart will no longer carry Danskin brand apparel products in its stores or on its website, according to New York Post reports from Tuesday (Oct. Danskin is a 135-year-old brand owned by parent company Iconix Brand Group and generating $15.5 The retailer will remove the products from its shelves in 15 months. . On Monday (Oct.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

The data-driven “Restock Kroger” initiative will largely take the place of new growth in the coming year, according to Supermarket News , with improvements to customer service and assortment winning out over expansion in 2018. The retailer is also expanding online ordering and delivery options available through Shipt and Uber.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But since it’s the data point that most use to define the online/physical retail sales split, let’s use it to project, based on historical trends what the world looks line in twenty years. Amazon, of course, owns Whole Foods and operates its own branded book stores and convenience stores. Investor activists think it should be eBay.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Online consignment hub thredUP has a special name for this time period — the Purge Surge, when all the gifts that didn’t quite live up to expectations flood onto its marketplace for attempted resale. Last year, in January 2018, 250,000 brand new items appeared on ThredUP, a 60 percent increase over the rest of the year.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

When it comes to retail, recollections seem likely to linger upon the ongoing (and significant) growth in eCommerce, the developing relationship between online and physical stores, a big boost in apparel sales, and the role of mobile in the journey from browsing to purchase. Online shopping grew 19.1 But that’s not all.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Two famous North American-based quick-service restaurant (QSR) brands are preparing to duke it out in China for chicken-meal supremacy, the most recent sign of how Western brands are trying to increase their footholds in that massive country. The news comes as more Western brands – including those based in the U.S. –

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JANUARY 29, 2018

grocery shoppers may purchase at least some of their groceries online within five to seven years, according to a Food Marketing Institute and Nielsen report, CNBC reported. You can now find the basics of living online pretty easily.”. With a faster pace of adoption than previously expected, the majority of U.S.

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JUNE 24, 2019

Luxury brands are increasingly using chat app WeChat in China to reach customers and sell big-ticket items, according to a report by TechCrunch. Brands like Bulgari, Cartier and Louis Vuitton are on the platform and connecting with millions of customers. Part of the appeal is that customers can create relationships with brands.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

According to its Securities and Exchange Commission stock registration statement, as cited by CNBC , the online mattress retailer said it lost $73.4 million in 2018. Walmart and Amazon have incubated their own brands of mattresses that they sell via the web. Privately held Casper Sleep filed regulatory paperwork on Friday (Jan.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Teri List-Stoll said Q3 was a “challenging quarter” and traffic remained soft across the company’s brand with continued product acceptance challenges, particularly Old Navy. During the quarter, the brand reduced the number of all-box discount events in store and online versus last year.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

2) that Toys R Us has partnered with global marketplace solutions provider Mirakl to create a new online marketplace. The new online marketplace will launch in 2018, offering increased product selection and decreased time to market for new merchandise, Chain Store Age reported. One week after reporting a $3.1

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online Resale. Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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JULY 23, 2019

Today, Lam said her concept is a “vegan and gluten-free lifestyle brand and baking mix company that gives back.” (The These shoppers also want to support brands that are making a difference — or a brand that has more than just a product. It also has an email marketing strategy and does festivals to gain brand recognition.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Amazon Stores, a program that lets Amazon sellers curate pages for their brands and products, has helped more than 50,000 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) do more than $500,000 in sales across the globe in 2018, the company announced on Friday (Jan.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

That was on top of news that Walmart’s increased profit-margin pressure was pushing an annual revenue estimate for 2018 that missed investor expectations. McMillon assured investors that 2018 should see an average eCommerce sales growth rate of 40 percent. This issue, among others, is on Walmart’s priority list for 2018.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Legacy retail company Foot Locker has invested $100 million in Goat Group, an online platform that sells and resells rare and classic sneakers, according to reports. Eventually, the two companies will collaborate for an online presence as well as in physical stores, to offer customers exclusive shopping opportunities. million so far.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

In a blog post , the company noted that “nearly half of all items” purchased through online grocery involve fresh products such as meat and produce. Amazon might have kicked off the year of cashierless checkout with its Amazon Go store in January , but the concept took off in other parts of the world in 2018. The offering comes as 4.9

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to a report in The Financial Times , citing Stephen Scherr, the bank’s head of Strategy, Goldman Sachs is preparing to rollout an online deposit business across the pond by the middle of 2018. The business will be launched under its Marcus brand but may buy deposits if opportunities should arise. by the middle of 2018.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

As one estimate put it, “in 2018, the global eSports market was valued at nearly $865 million, (and the) global eSports market revenue will reach $1.79 The issue isn’t really about brand-new taxes, but is about enforcing existing tax laws and applying them to eSports. billion in 2022.”. State Pressure. Taxing Confusion.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

“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. It started online and soon added stores where people could go and try on clothes and then place orders for them to be delivered. The decision for the layoffs came from Bonobos, she said.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Which brands will blow it? For payments and commerce , there’s another uncertainty that hangs in the air: Will legal online sports betting keep going forward, despite a recent decision by the U.S. First, a review and update about the online sports gambling situation in the U.S. More about that in just a bit, though.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Since we would hate for anyone to go into the end of 2018 behind the eight ball, we decided to pay tribute to both a great bit and a great deal of news with our own top 10 list of the biggest news of summer 2018. It is not an exaggeration to say that 2018 has been the summer of movie subscription service MoviePass ’ discontent.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Here at PYMNTS our resident expert in thinking outside of the lines as laid out by conventional wisdom is Karen Webster — and summer 2018 has been a particularly good time for drawing long and unexpected lines way outside the box, and into a rapidly changing future. AKA thinking outside of the box.

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APRIL 19, 2018

By 2022 online retail sales will go beyond $712 billion. According to news from Retail Dive , the study, released this week by Forrester Research, shows that 98 percent of American adults already go online at least once a day. retail sales will be impacted by smartphones in 2018. A recent study says that U.S. trillion U.S.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

To serve travelers from China who want to shop in-store and online, retailers thousands of miles away from Asia are accepting Alipay in brick-and-mortar stores and on the web. Apparel brand GUESS?, for instance, partnered with Alipay to bring the payment option into select locations across its brands last year.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

million international subscribers in 2018 and now boasts 137 million global users, according to the PYMNTS Connected Commerce Playbook. In fact, Alibaba led SenseTime’s Series C round and was said to be the company’s biggest investor in 2018. Netflix, for instance, added 6.4

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