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Amazon Pushes Retailers To Same-Day Delivery

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In data that will likely surprise anyone who has avidly watched retail over the last few years, the market is trending strongly toward same-day delivery. According to the β€œ2017 Digital Commerce Benchmark Survey,” conducted by Boston Retail Partners (BRP), some 65 percent of retailers will offer same-day delivery within the next two years.

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Why Consumers Are Firing Traditional Retailers

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Consumers are firing brick-and-mortar retailers from the jobs they held years and decades before. To get their shopping jobs done, consumers are now hiring retailers that make it convenient to do business – anywhere, anytime, through any channel and on their terms. But it’s more than that.

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Ouai Prepares For Ulta Beauty Store Rollout; Reliance Industries Launches Retail Service

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Ouai , a hair and body care brand founded by celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin, will roll out some of its merchandise in 1,200 Ulta Beauty locations in addition to the retailer’s website on Sunday (Jan. The retailer wrote in a tweet , β€œWe’re starting off the decade with a big announcement: β€œ@theouai by Jen Atkin is launching at Ulta Beauty!”

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Retail Personalization May Not Come Soon

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Retailers are scrambling to figure out the best ways to provide a more tailored and engaging experience. The study, which surveyed 500 retailers in North America and Canada, was conducted in November and December 2016. Welcome to the age of instant gratification.

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Tracksmith: Taking DTC Running From Heartbreak Hill To The Global Market

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Boston is home to the world’s β€œstatement race” β€” the Boston Marathon. you’d be hard-pressed to find a Chowdahead who doesn’t think Boston is the running capital of the world. you’d be hard-pressed to find a Chowdahead who doesn’t think Boston is the running capital of the world. He studied psychology and biology at Yale.

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Saving Main Street: How A Business School Is Helping Toronto SMB Retailers

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In an interview with Karen Webster, Chris Carder , co-director of Entrepreneurial Studies at Schulich School of Business, outlines the story of how innovation can become teamwork. A partnership was born, and the students could then help retailers get onto the Shopify program and generate precious revenue.

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Why A Chicago Startup Is Tying Its Future To Physical Retail

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Brick-and-mortar retail oftentimes gets a bad rap in 2018. Last year saw store closures spike 200 percent to 7,000 β€” the worst retail bloodletting since the dark days of the 2008 recession. The widely shared consensus is that this could all get quite a bit worse for physical retail before it gets better.

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