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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But the challenge for retailers now is deciding what to do next, Amazon Pay Chief Marketing Officer Kelly Wenzel told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. Wenzel told Webster that what retailers need to think about is those things that actually aren’t going to change in an environment where it feels like everything is changing.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

To offer a new brand of medical devices to consumers, Arcadia Group is working with Amazon to sell products like glucose monitors and blood pressure cuffs under the Amazon-exclusive Choice name. The effort was started by Arcadia, though Amazon is becoming more interested in offerings around health, CNBC reported.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Amazon wants to get more exclusive — and it wants other companies to help with that effort by developing product lines meant to be sold only via the eCommerce operator. That move comes as Amazon has had trouble wooing some direct-to-consumer brands. Brand Resistance.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands drove into the pandemic and adapted to it to catch the digital shift. Adore Me, for example, was a thriving eCommerce brand before the pandemic.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a world where retail has changed and consumers remain at home, how do brands reimagine the task of getting products to customers? podcast , we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a rapidly changing digital-first economy.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

There’s a new king of the mountain in the seemingly endless tussle between the world’s four largest companies – Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Apple. 7), Amazon passed Microsoft as the largest company by market value, according to reports. The news gave Amazon stocks a shot in the arm; they rose about 3.5

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

Williams-Sonoma, a retail outlet that sells kitchenware and furnishings, has sued Amazon over a chair that is “strikingly similar” to the company’s West Elm brand, according to a report by Bloomberg. The chair that Williams-Sonoma alleges is a copy has similar features and retails for $299. ”

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

At a time when online retail sales are growing and accounting for a larger slice of the overall pie, the battle to deliver products as quickly and cheaply as possible has never been tougher. With large dominant players such as Amazon and Walmart grabbing half the business, smaller companies and retailers are looking for ways to compete.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Luxury brands are selling more and more on Chinese eCommerce sites like JD.com and Alibaba, while still keeping their distance from Amazon, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The idea of being listed along with batteries and windshield wiper fluid is not one that attracts luxury brands, the Journal reported.

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JULY 28, 2020

We’ve talked to a lot of enterprise companies and popular names and also companies that no one has ever heard of that are all wanting to offer direct selling,” Bhatia said. Many are currently selling already on Amazon , but they want to go direct to customers and develop channels outside of Amazon.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Consumers can buy furniture anywhere.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Well maybe, if Amazon has any say in the matter. News reports are emerging that the eCommerce giant launched its own exclusive beauty brand last week. The line, called Fast Beauty Company , comes to the market care of Amazon’s brand accelerator program.

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JULY 12, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are opening experiential concepts by working with other brands as they look to engage consumers with experiences instead of products. The installation will also be an experiential teaser campaign for a new online brand called Greendigs that is said to debut in the fall following its STORY run.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Nike announced that it is parting ways with Amazon and will no longer sell its products on the eCommerce marketplace, ending a pilot program that began in 2017, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday (Nov. The sneaker and sports apparel company said it is going forge new retail partnerships and concentrate on its direct business.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Drop the ‘os’ and add an ‘io,’ and it’s a company that personifies the fast track to digital commerce success. Thrasio has taken its Amazon-centric business model to a high level at high-speed, snapping up some of the marketplace’s hottest sellers and creating a company that one of its investors says is “revolutionizing eCommerce.”.

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MAY 15, 2020

Amazon has filed suit against two companies that are allegedly operating a global tech support scheme targeting Alexa users, CNN reported. Attorneys for Amazon say once customers download the faux Amazon-branded apps they were prompted to contact a customer support number and “could be charged $150 for useless protection plans.”.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As it aims to develop an online shopping portfolio, Boosted Commerce said it has notched $87 million in investment and has purchased six Amazon fulfillment (FBA) firms. The company intends to "acquire and develop" 100 online shopping consumer packaged brands in the four years to come, according to an announcement.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

In a new PYMNTS interview, David Roger, co-founder & CEO of Felix Gray , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) eyewear seller that is also trying to tap into broader wellness trends, talks about what’s coming next for this particular brand of online retail, and why Amazon may — or may not — get more involved.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Amazon has launched a new program to gain information about users' purchasing activity beyond on its own website, a post from the eCommerce giant states, through monetary incentives. Named the Amazon Shopper Panel, it will pay users in exchange for the data and answering some short surveys.

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MARCH 20, 2019

To offer solutions for various skin types, Amazon unveiled a line of skincare products called Belei that come in post-consumer recycled resin bottles. The collection has 12 different items, which range from vitamin C serums to retinol moisturizer, the eCommerce retailer said in an announcement. Kearney survey.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Tesla, the maker of green automobiles, is trying to get its branded merchandise to more consumers, reportedly by launching a store on Amazon. The outlet was alerted to the Amazon store by a tipster. The outlet was alerted to the Amazon store by a tipster. So, we have to be absolute zealots about this.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Here’s some news: Amazon is not unbeatable. No, that doesn’t mean that PYMNTS takes sides in the struggle for retail supremacy, but only that we like to note when someone or some organization mounts a challenge to the eCommerce and logistical behemoth. High-End Retail. The battle for Amazon retail supremacy also involves pets.

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MARCH 16, 2018

What does it take for a fashion brand to stay on top of the trends? But not all brands excel at crawling the web for information relevant to their businesses. “A Historically, large retailers tend to move more slowly. Brands and retailers work on a global scale, after all. A lot of market data. Fashion Analytics.

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JUNE 13, 2018

Amazon is replacing some of its retail veterans with software that predicts what shoppers want and how much merchants should charge for it. Despite this news, Amazon said it’s still creating jobs — as well as automation — across the company to better serve its customers.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It seems you can buy pretty much anything you want on Amazon these days. But when Perch CEO Chris Bell goes shopping on the world’s largest online retailer , he’s not looking for a deal on socks; he’s looking to acquire companies. Fulfillment By Amazon’s Coming Consolidation. The end goal? New channels and global growth.

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MAY 22, 2020

In their race to capture the consumer’s whole paycheck, Amazon and Walmart have focused this week on the “great digital expansion,” with the goal of finding new ways to reach consumer spend going forward. Prime Day’s postponement came when Amazon was struggling in the pandemic’s early days to resolve big shipping and staffing woes.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Other companies who were late to creating digital customer experiences suffered as people stayed away from traditional stores and shopped online. But even the best companies struggled to keep customer satisfaction levels high during 2020. The largest online retailer – Amazon – had a 7% decline in satisfaction.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Amazon will shutter all 87 of its pop-up stores in the United states by the end of next month, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. After much review, we came to the decision to discontinue our pop-up kiosk program,” an Amazon spokeswoman said. Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market and its 460 stores about two years ago.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This is the year that customer experience surpasses brand and price as the most important factor in retail. That’s just one of the conclusions drawn in the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) out of U Michigan’s Kellogg School, which focuses on retail. Online retail increased by 1.3 out of 100.

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JULY 3, 2019

With this year’s Prime Day approaching, Amazon is reportedly charging “additional funding” to some brands in the grocery space during Prime Day in the event that sales of their promotional items cause a loss for the eCommerce retailer. Last year, Amazon raked in $4.2

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

To help small companies safeguard their brands and tackle counterfeits, Amazon has rolled out Intellectual Property Accelerator (IP Accelerator) in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. IP Accelerator is available to every brand selling in the eCommerce retailer’s stores.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The top stories today in retail include merchants in the U.K. the mall companies, Philadelphia-based PREIT and Tennessee-based CBL & Associates both announced they would be filing for Chapter 11. Nonessential retail can only remain open for delivery and curbside pickup. While in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In today’s top retail news, holiday spending is expected to be flat this year, Bed Bath & Beyond rolls out same-day delivery and Target goes up against Amazon Prime Day with “Deal Days.” And the digital-first economy will drive the difference between success and failure for many retailers. But these are the easy points.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.

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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. Another one bites the dust.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

And retail and commerce-related payments are certainly a big part of that trend. It’s not just the direct selling of products to consumers that matters when it comes to cross-border retail. Several retail and retail-related trends are at play with this funding announcement. Amazon’s Role.

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JULY 8, 2020

Amazon will show the business names and addresses of merchants on their seller profile pages beginning at the start of September, according to an announcement. The eCommerce retailer said merchants can provide further information regarding their companies “and products that you think would be helpful to customers.”

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