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Retail Pulse: Amazon Grows 4-Star Footprint; Forever 21 Files For Bankruptcy

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Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. Amazon , in one case, has added a suburban Boston location to its roster of Amazon 4-star stores, marking the fifth location of its type in the United States.

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2019: The Year Of Retailer And Delivery App Collaborations

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This year, apps aimed to make it easier and more convenient for consumers to order their favorite foods and sundries, with restaurants and other retailers tapping into delivery. To help bring these options to more consumers, retailers and technology companies decided to join forces. and Chicago.

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Nordstrom Launches Same-Day Gift Delivery Service

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Customers in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Customers can have digital orders delivered or picked up curbside, or can have merchandise rush-shipped or delivered to a store. Same-day delivery is available in the NYC area for orders placed by 4 p.m.,

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And Then There Were 20 — The Amazon HQ2 Finalists

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Austin, Boston, New York and D.C. Boston, Massachusetts. Washington, D.C. When Amazon came to Seattle, Washington, it changed the region through a boom in development to keep up with growth in employees and higher rent prices. all made the cut, as did some surprises like Columbus, Ohio. Politicians across the U.S.

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The Retail Pulse: ‘Eat Fresh’ Goes Stale

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Store count isn’t everything,” CEO Suzanne Greco told The Boston Globe. It’s just not what people want anymore,” Bob Phibbs, CEO of New York consultancy The Retail Doctor, told The Washington Post. “If The retailer said it has secured $725 million in debtor-in-possession financing as the case proceeds through bankruptcy court.

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Nordstrom Faces More Brick-And-Mortar Closures

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While Nordstrom is planning to open two full-line locations this year, the fashion retailer intends to close two locations at the beginning of April. The outlet reported that the retailer has shuttered roughly two locations each year in recent times. area store in the middle of 2017.

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Site Visits Fuel Anticipation For Amazon’s HQ2

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According to a person with a understanding of the visits, the eCommerce retailer visited Chicago, New York City and Chicago, The Wall Street Journal reported. That could enable the retailer to keep its choice unknown ahead of an announced decision. Austin, Boston, New York and D.C.