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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

A common, enduring fantasy for many consumers — a group that likely includes many PYMNTS readers and writers — is walking into a high-end retail store, chain or boutique that sells luxury brands , and spending vast sums on the best clothes, shoes, handbags, watches and other items. Different Proposition. That’s a very hard job.”.

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MARCH 17, 2020

retail economy is unprecedented. Terror attacks on 9/11 happened well before the internet was a factor, and are therefore not relevant as a comparison. What are some of the retailing changes that could last beyond the end of the coronavirus crisis? Suddenly, this issue is front and center for every retailer and every customer.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Enter Shping , an Australian startup seeking to change the way consumers research products — and the way brands market them. But the product evolved into a mobile product search engine for consumers and a marketing tool for brands. In those cases, brands pay a website for access to their audience. Changing Customer Behavior.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Digitally native brands are trying on a new brick-and-mortar model for size: Instead of opening the doors to cavernous stores, they are opting to create smaller-format locations. In turn, brands such as Indochino can benefit by not having to stock many items. The Omnichannel Advantage.

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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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JANUARY 22, 2020

For retailers, nothing really ever comes easy — and things aren’t getting any easier, at least when it involves gaining and retaining customers. The webinar featured Karen Webster from PYMNTS and Amy Parsons, senior vice president of global acceptance at Discover Financial Services and its payments brand, Discover Global Network.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Digitally native brands, especially those that sell tactile products like footwear, are seeing an offline opportunity in opening flagship stores in major cities. Shoe brand Allbirds , in particular, has brought a large retail space in New York City. The brand, however, has since begun to serve Canada and Australia.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

The team at my Mystore-E believes they can solve that problem, with an AI tool called Tore-E that is specifically designed for retail environments. Our goal is to create a personalized shopping experience that benefits retail stores, while also catering to the customers’ wants, needs and style preferences.”.

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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 Some other gluten-free or vegan mixes use almond flour, by comparison, which someone with a nut allergy may not be able to eat. It also has an email marketing strategy and does festivals to gain brand recognition.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Conventional wisdom about online shopping says that the average consumer would rather test a product out in store before pulling the trigger and ordering it online. It hasn’t been a very good year for conventional wisdom, though, and a recent Internet Retailer survey just poked a big hole in the aforementioned theory.

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JUNE 7, 2018

The goal for all retailers is, of course, to deliver an excellent experience, both online and in stores, and to find ways for those disparate experiences to mesh seamlessly with one another. The Swedish furniture retailer seems to be making the opposite transition. IKEA is slowing the growth pace it has sustained in the U.S.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what they do once they get there. The list goes on, but suffice it to say, the jokes about digital retailers knowing more about customers than they know about themselves didn’t appear in the culture out of nowhere.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Showing the continued struggles of retail stores in the pandemic era, Nordstrom reported a 22 percent net sales decline for the nine-week holiday period that ended Jan. In 2019, by comparison, they only represented 34 percent. The Nordstrom Rack store and online inventory had previously been integrated in October.

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MAY 3, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are changing the way they manage their workforces in the age of Amazon: Walmart , for instance, is testing multiple versions of a new team structure called the “Great Workplace” in some of its locations. billion for its stores in comparison to $1.63 billion in the year prior. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

In comparison, nearly a third of millennials and bridge millennials (those born between 1979 and 1988) express the same level of interest in getting vaccinated.”. Consumers’ interest in the vaccination is largely generational. Interest is particularly high among older generations, with 46.5 Many Digital Shifters Keeping Their Distance.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Can good food restore consumers’ appetite for brick-and-mortar retail? Luxury brands seem to hope so, with several designers introducing food experiences in an effort to gain an edge in the increasingly challenging realm of physical retail. Only 5,000 of the tins will be produced, and each will retail for $110.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Gobble claims that approximately half of their customers are between the ages of 35 and 44 years old — by comparison, only about a quarter of Blue Apron’s customers fall into that age range. Walmart customers can buy them in the store or through its online grocery pickup service.

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JUNE 20, 2019

One of Kroger ’s most powerful competitive advantages is the company’s own brand products, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rodney McMullen said in the company’s first-quarter 2019 earnings conference call. During the first quarter, for instance, it introduced 219 our brand items. Omnichannel Retail.

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JUNE 2, 2020

The company had also reopened roughly 80 percent of its retail locations per an announcement. Dick’s Sporting Goods said that eCommerce penetration for Q1 2020 was roughly 39 percent of total net sales in comparison to roughly 13 percent during Q1 2019. Net sales for the first quarter were roughly $1.33

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

When it comes to a retailer protecting its assets — digital and otherwise — the intrinsic assumption might be that the focus ought to look outward. But the reality is that the greatest security threat facing retail companies, according to a number of recent surveys, often comes from within. In a story posted yesterday (Feb.

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JUNE 5, 2020

percent of consumers were shopping for retail goods online as of May 23, up from the 32.5 percent increase of consumers who shopped online for retail goods on April 11 and 24.1 million consumers are now shopping online, compared to the 66.4 However, even the high end needs to be online. This is a 29.4

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JANUARY 14, 2021

The 2020 holiday shopping season is shaping up to be a tale of two kinds of retailers. While Target crushed eCommerce and even reported decent in-store sales volume, others like Nordstrom and Urban Outfitters had weak in-store traffic that even fairly good online volume couldn’t overcome. cities were too much to overcome,” he wrote.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Amazon remains the reigning champion in online holiday sales, but Walmart and Target are vying for greater pieces of the U.S. But Walmart and Target are pushing further into the space ahead of the holiday shopping season as the traditional brick-and-mortar retailers invest more heavily in eCommerce initiatives.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

Amazon ’s furniture sales are on the move: A One Click Retail study found that the eCommerce retailer has more than tripled sales in that category since 2015. And, in 2017, furniture brought in approximately $4 billion, retail news source Chain Store Age reported. billion, marking a jump of 82 percent in comparison to 2016.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

The gloves are off in the retail landlord leasing battle, with Simon Property Group now suing mall tenants who aren’t paying their rent. On Tuesday (July 14), the country’s biggest retail real estate investment trust filed a lawsuit against Eddie Bauer for $6.2 Other retail real estate analysts are a bit more optimistic.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

There’s no denying that consumers of all ages are increasingly comfortable shopping online, but when it comes to younger, digitally native customers, it turns out they’re also increasingly comfortable selling online, too. So, Curtsy by comparison is, like, dummy-proof.”. Building The Brand. Resale Versus Rental. “I

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

percent of online sales came from social channels. Brand advertisers, it says, need to justify social media ROI. Instagram is a preferred platform for 92 percent of retailers engaged in social commerce, followed by Facebook (77 percent), Twitter (57 percent), and Pinterest (47 percent). Savvy Brands. ” Amazon.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The retailer is inviting specialty and national brands alike to offer items online, CNBC reported. By comparison, the hurdles to become a third-party seller are lower on Amazon and Walmart; on those sites, sellers ask for approval to sell through an application.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. Nike and Adidas would also like to be the world’s best running brand, and both are much larger. And those collaborations are even more on display in New Balance’s new brand of physical stores. The Run Hub.

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MARCH 17, 2016

With O2O quickly proving to be the future — if not already the present — of retail, why are so many luxury brands lagging behind in blending their own online and in-store shopping experiences? Doesn’t seem classy enough, maybe? It is estimated to account for about 40 percent of growth in the space within the next four years.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

percent of all consumer retail spend. The MacBook Air, by comparison, sells for $999 on Amazon as well as in the Apple Store. 15, no one could fault the retailer for putting the full weight of its brand behind Walmart+. Census research team. That accounts for 2.3 The Best Buy issue is more complicated.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2017

A bad quarter has sent fashion retailer H&M scrambling to adjust its strategy. The Swedish group said that strategy now includes closing more stores and opening fewer new ones, as well as beginning to sell its brand’s offerings on Chinese eCommerce platform Tmall.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

airline would suddenly announce that it is launching a brand new wine delivery service, given the many other pandemic-related challenges that it is currently facing. By comparison, even in its current reduced capacity, American still did $3.2 At first blush, you might wonder why the largest U.S. million per day.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Founded in 2016, Bootler is an online marketplace modeled on the likes of travel aggregators Kayak.com and Trivago: it lets consumers compare delivery fees, times and services used by different restaurants all in one online location, and in real time. Building A Brand. Listen to the full conversation in this week’s podcast.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

That is, retailers are taking a page out of a playbook set by retailers like the now-closed B. Saks Fifth Avenue is one of the retailers falling into this trend with a new eatery called L’Avenue at Saks in New York City, which is the same locale where Lord & Taylor is closing to make way for a WeWork headquarters.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Today, the “membership has its privileges” mantra is at the core of the latest face-off between the two retail behemoths vying for an increasing portion of consumer spend: Walmart and Amazon. The Prime, Plus Membership Face-off: In-store Versus Online. A PYMNTS study of a census-balanced sample of 2,165 consumers conducted Oct.

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