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While the CEO of the country’s biggest mall owner thinks that retail store closures will slow down this year, he added that he “can’t guarantee it.”. “I His latest comments come after Simon admitted in February that he was “nervous” about additional retail bankruptcies happening during the first quarter.

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV) , the incubator that relaunched Pier 1 Imports and Dressbarn in 2020, noted that the migration to eCommerce in addition to trends such as the “quest for comfort at home” fueled formidable sales at the two brands, according to an announcement.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

eCommerce business president and chief executive officer, said the merchant is dedicated to providing shoppers with an attractive assortment of online goods, and, for that reason, it bought brands such as Bonobos, CNBC reported. As of that time, it has purchased online home and apparel brands, with the inclusion of Eloquii and Bonobos.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retailers have sought to reduce their retail footprint in hard times, and Mattress Firm, Inc. The brand could close between 600 to 1,000 of its 3,000 locations this year, according to some predictions – and is reportedly considering bankruptcy, people familiar with the matter have told Reuters. is no exception.

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MAY 7, 2020

Neiman Marcus has filed for bankruptcy as the “great resettling” continues for retail. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division.”. A statement from CEO Geoffroy van Raemdonck said that the filing will not affect store reopening plans, and that the company expects to be in a stronger position when it does.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Neiman Marcus Holding Company Inc. has completed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection process and emerged from one of the highest-profile retail collapses since COVID-19 began, the Dallas-based company disclosed. We emerge from Chapter 11 as a stronger, more innovative retailer, brand partner and employer.”.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Wall Street is a tough master, especially for eCommerce companies. billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. That is the most organic growth of any automotive retailer ever in the U.S. According to Carvana Chief Brand Officer Ryan Keeton, opening new markets brings an uptick in overall business. “We New Markets.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Fanatics , a company that sells Team USA merchandise, has taken a novel approach to Olympic retail this year with a physical store in a major U.S. The store marks a milestone for Team USA: It’s their first in-person retail store outside the Olympic Training Center in Colorado. Retail Gold.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Brookstone , a specialty retailer known for massage chairs and gadgets, used to be a must-see mall retailer. malls, Brookstone is now the latest major brick-and-mortar retailer to announce that it has filed for bankruptcy protection. Both have operations online under new owners, reported The Wall Street Journal.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In a potential challenge to Apple at brick-and-mortar retail, Samsung Electronics is looking to move beyond pop-up shops with its own full-scale U.S. The company will reportedly open three stores on Feb. 20, which is the day that the brand is expected to announce a foldable phone and the Galaxy S10, Apple Insider reported.

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JUNE 26, 2019

They may enjoy strolling the aisles of physical retail, but many customers still want support features that enable them to quickly and easily find and buy items, through self-serve offerings and other automation technologies. The June Automated Retail Tracker charts all the latest developments and deployments of these models and more.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Retailers are aiming to help consumers manage chronic diseases as well as their overall health and wellness through new brick-and-mortar experiences. Through HealthHUBs, consumers are at the center of an unmatched retail health experience. The company says the concept features a broader selection of health and wellness items.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

per an announcement from the company on Wednesday (Jan. The company also had record online sales over Black Friday in the U.S. As Walgreens made “substantial progress” on accelerating its digitalization, among other strategic priorities, the pharmacy chain had fiscal 2020 first-quarter revenues of $34.3 as well as the U.K.,

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MARCH 15, 2019

As it stands, mobile ordering is available at the chain’s Denver, Boston and Houston locations — and more markets are said to be in the works for this year. By the close of the summer, the company is looking to offer the feature at 150 AMC and AMC DINE-IN locations. The retailer reported net income for the fourth quarter of $102.6

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JUNE 10, 2016

Randy Newman probably doesn’t get a lot of play in boardrooms around the retail sector, but that doesn’t mean that companies haven’t taken the message behind his hit “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” to heart. Walmart Gears Up Grocery Delivery With Uber, Lyft And Deliv. for the time being.

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JUNE 1, 2018

A much wider world: The Pentagon, Houston Space Center, as well as various airports, malls, corporate headquarters nationwide — and even a children’s hospital — are all home to Reis & Ivy’s double-barrel, fully automated yogurt-making machines. The average machine can dispense 245 servings of froyo before needing be refilled.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

But that doesn’t mean the money doesn’t flow during the baseball playoffs – evidence of that comes from Jim McIngvale, a Houston furniture store owner known as “ Mattress Mack ,” who just put $3.5 million on the Houston Astros to win the 2019 World Series. You have enormous brands and massive amounts of consumers involved.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Bulletin — described as “WeWork for retail” — opened its second New York City retail space this week while also raising funds in anticipation of opening additional NYC locations as well as eventually branching out to other cities.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Retail is undergoing a transitional time and merchants are starting to implement more innovative ways of attracting consumers. One of the latest companies looking to take a new approach to reaching consumers in a more convenient fashion is Japan-based clothing retailer Uniqlo with the launch of its vending machines.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Tide, the laundry brand owned by CPG Detergent, is introducing a service called Tide Cleaners, an on-demand dry cleaning and laundry service, at 1,000 locations in cities across the country, according to reports. The company’s goal is to have Tide Cleaners at more than 2,000 spots across the United States by the latter part of 2020.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

The offering will debut in Houston, Louisville, Nashville and Kroger’s hometown of Cincinnati, Chain Store Age reported. With the service, consumers can buy 4,500 private-label products from the retailer, which are not otherwise available online, along with 50,000 different grocery items and household products.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The program, dubbed Restock, was launched earlier this year in an effort to adjust product choices, rearrange store layouts and highlight private-label brands. According to a report in Reuters , Kroger is changing the way it stocks merchandise in the stores, which it blamed for the decline in foot traffic. percent during the second quarter.

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JULY 11, 2018

As of today, the international media titan has announced an investment in True Food Kitchen , a healthy eating startup based out of Houston. The size of Oprah’s equity investment is unknown, but apart from money, she is offering her literal presence – she will be joining the brand’s board and acting as a consultant.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Sometimes even the fastest runners need to take a break, and after the 16-week continuous retail sprint that is the annual holiday shopping rush, it is no great surprise that both Amazon and Walmart were relatively quiet in the first week of the new decade. The brand has also promised greater investment and marketing.

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JULY 16, 2019

Domino’s CEO Richard Allison said on a call with analysts that he was pleased with the second-quarter performance, but noting “we are a work-in-progress brand,” he said there have been and will always be many areas where the brand can improve. The fleet from Nuro is said to serve certain customers in Houston who place online orders.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Staples and Office Depot saw months of hard work go up in smoke when their long-expected merger was denied by regulators and both brands had to take long, hard looks in the mirror before deciding how to proceed. For Staples, the answer wasn’t to sulk around for months.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality. The world’s largest retailer announced it has acquired the crowdsourced, on-demand delivery marketplace Cornershop for $225 million. Same-store sales, one of the favored metrics for judging retail, excluding fuel, increased 1.6

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Walmart is signing on to a recent trend and has announced it will be partnering with autonomous vehicle company Nuro to launch a new pilot program to test autonomous grocery delivery in the Houston market. When I joined Walmart in the summer of 2017, my goal was to leave the company better than I found it,” Dunn said in the post.

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MARCH 11, 2016

According to its survey of 507 vendors of merchant processing systems, Apple Pay is the most requested mobile digital payments service among retailers. ExxonMobil is the world’s biggest oil and natural gas company. Exxon is not the first brand to embrace Apple Pay. The team at Piper Jaffray published some good news on Apple Pay.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

According to The NPD Group , a global market research company, roughly half of all Super Bowl viewers are not even football fans and are tuning in to watch the halftime show, the TV ads that are some of the most highly anticipated and buzzworthy of the year or are simply watching the game with a large group of people as a social gathering event.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Currently exiting beta in New York City, Fahmy’s new company, DineVite, claims to put the discounts back where they belong — with the restaurant owners. As the year rolls on he expects to launch in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Boston and Miami.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

With technology for cashierless checkout and robotic-powered order fulfillment, automated retail is changing how consumers shop for groceries and how supermarkets fill their eCommerce orders. And grocery retailers are expanding their delivery efforts. make online grocery orders for delivery or pickup. The share of U.S.

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JULY 13, 2018

Celebrity brand endorsement is nothing new. The first recorded case of it dates back to the 1760s when Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, producers of pottery and chinaware, marketed their wares with endorsements from Britain’s royal family, hoping to show off the company’s inherent value and the high quality of their products.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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APRIL 11, 2017

This past week, the big box retailer’s shares got a boost upon the bell on Thursday morning, with prices up early—3 percent in the first hour of trading—to $171.45. Investor optimism in spite of the news perhaps indicates faith in the cost-cutting measures Whole Foods has pursued, along with boosting its less-expensive 365 brand.

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MAY 8, 2018

As more companies look to capitalize on these commercial opportunities, investment into the drone space continues to grow. Below, check out the ways companies are harnessing drone technology for commercial purposes across industries. Startup companies and universities are also designing systems intended for search and rescue.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

And its investment in MercadoLibre, a Latin American retailer, dropped 10 percent. Subscription-based offerings can be essential with helping business-to-consumer (B2C) companies create long-running relationships and lock down more predictable streams of revenue. What’s The Future For NBA-Related Retail In China? .

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