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James Kehoe , Walgreens ’ chief financial officer, said he doesn’t think Amazon ’s push into the online pharmacy world is cause for concern, Bloomberg reported. Speaking at the Wolfe Healthcare Conference on Thursday (Nov. 19), Kehoe wasn’t fussed about the dramatic shock to the stock market once Amazon debuted the service.

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billion into the development of artificial intelligence (AI) for its Tmall Genie smart speaker, the company said in a statement on Wednesday (May 20) following a press conference. The investment will also help further research into IoT operating systems, edge computing and natural language processing (NLP). . “By

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AUGUST 16, 2019

Sources have revealed that Alibaba will acquire NetEase’s cross-border online shopping platform. One source told the Financial Times that Alibaba could pay around $2 billion for Kaola, which buys inventory from international brands. But neither happened, because both of them wanted to sell. Because it’s small scale.” trillon next year.

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AUGUST 17, 2018

More customers hit the stores and ordered from online. Grocery growth, particularly in fresh foods, and online sales prove that Walmart is now for every shopper across each demographic group. That is a bit down from this time last year, when Walmart reported a 50 percent surge in its digital operations. during a conference call.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. McDonald’s CEO and President Steve Easterbrook told the Bernstein Strategic Decisions Conference in New York that the company sees great potential in delivery.

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Fast fashion already claimed a victim this week as Lucky Brand filed for bankruptcy, and H&M announced it was shuttering 170 stores across the globe due to the pandemic-driven digital shift. “We We have increased our customer base online, and many of our customers — in-store customers — are now multichannel customers.”.

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AUGUST 25, 2019

The retail chain’s CEO, Brian Cornell, told reporters on a conference call this weekend that Target will open 25 Disney-branded stores starting Oct. In addition, Target launched a Disney-focused online experience on its site Sunday (Aug. In addition, Target launched a Disney-focused online experience on its site Sunday (Aug.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It can service these industries both online and offline through its Business Solutions Division (BSD), which offers products and custom procurement services, along with services from its own CompuCom technology division. The company’s Retail Division operates about 1,300 stores, but lost 54 stores in the last fiscal year.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Discount retailers like TJX operate differently than others in the market; they purchase leftover inventory from retailers that have cancelled orders or brands that have a surplus of a particular product. That means TJX can respond much faster to consumer trends. And Herrman said Marshalls would use T.J.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Zalando, Europe’s largest online fashion retailer, is making an ambitious foray into the €38bn luxury clothing market. David Schneider, co-chief executive at Zalando, said he’s seen younger shoppers mixing and matching high-value brands with sports and designer pieces.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

billion in sales during Prime Day on Amazon’s online marketplace, as eCommerce activity surges in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the tech giant reported. At Square’s fourth annual conference for developers, the Silicon Valley startup introduced Terminal API for seamless all-in-one-payments. But Sticky.io

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JUNE 30, 2019

Opendoor , the startup that operates an online platform for buying and selling homes, “is reshuffling staff and scaling back on a time-honored startup perk: free lunch,” according to a report from Bloomberg. The report went on to say that “Opendoor, most recently valued at $3.8 Earlier this year, Opendoor raised $300 million.

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The firm will shift its efforts to “brand-building and loyalty-enhancing marketing rather than traditional offers.” At the time of that announcement, VS noted it was looking “to align how customers engage with the brands.”. She’ll report to L Brands CEO Les Wexner. Singer, who had been CEO of Spanx Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Big brands have a complicated relationship with Amazon : The eCommerce retailer serves both as a potential competitor and as a retail partner that could open up new sales channels. Among others, J.Crew has joined the likes of Nike and Party City to become the latest brand to offer its products through the eCommerce site.

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1) that its eCommerce sales almost doubled during the third quarter, and that the company plans to invest in the channel in a big way to strengthen online and direct-to-consumer sales. . PepsiCo is using the sites to promote its Pepsi, Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Quaker Oats and other popular brands. .

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That’s because headless commerce makes it easier for retailers and brands to get a holistic view of front end and back end user experience and tweak consumer-facing touchpoints and payment processes as needed. Speaking at the UBS Global Consumer Retail Conference, Biggs stated , “Marketplace is going to be a big part of our business.

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JULY 2, 2020

s Centre for Retail Research, 2,123 stores operated by 38 large and medium-sized retailers – which employed 49,200 staff – fell into administration in the first six months of this year. And at a recent investor conference, Kohl’s showed some “Digital 3.0” which doesn’t sell online, and Burlington Stores Inc., billion in Q1.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

With a strong digital platform supporting its brands, The Gap, Inc. In an earnings conference call with analysts on Tuesday (November 20), Gap, Inc. President and CEO Art Peck noted that early feedback on the company’s newly-launched Hill City brand has been positive and customer engagement has been very strong.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s.

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MAY 3, 2018

Brands are optimistic about the future. Brands and Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc. Brands and Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc. Brands — which owns KFC , Pizza Hut and Taco Bell — delivered strong first-quarter earnings. The restaurant operator recorded earnings per share of $0.90 Here’s how Yum!

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MAY 2, 2019

Brands Inc. , the Louisville, Kentucky-based operator of KFC and Taco Bell. “We We are excited about our partnership with Grubhub,” Yum CEO Greg Creed said in a conference call, according to Bloomberg. “We The online food delivery service also reported gross food sales of $1.5 million.

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But even in an age where online retail sales are set to exceed $700 billion by 2022, analysts believe that only roughly 2 percent of TJX’s sales are made via eCommerce channels. In a November conference call with analysts. Senior Brand Apparel Analyst John D. Davidson & Co. That’s what keeps them coming back.

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voice) to interact with people, brands or services and bots that heretofore have had no real place in the bidirectional, asynchronous messaging context.”. Connecting consumers with brands at any time of the day for customer service and making purchases gives chat commerce the opportunity to shake up the retail industry.

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OCTOBER 30, 2019

Brands on Wednesday (Oct. 30) even as the quick-service restaurant (QSR) operator — which runs the Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC brands — touted its expansions in digital and mobile services. It also announced new leadership, and a new hire who will oversee the brand’s ongoing digital and mobile push. Delivery Trends.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For those who haven’t seen the news earlier this week, here’s what happened: Amazon reported that its online B2B operation , which launched in 2015 and is officially called Amazon Business, has achieved more than $10 billion in annualized sales — with more than half of those sales coming from third-party sellers using the company’s platform.

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AUGUST 14, 2019

Macy ‘s CEO Jeff Gennette said in the company’s second-quarter earnings conference call that as it communicated in its first-quarter call, “we walked into the second quarter with elevated spring inventory.” He noted that the second quarter got off to a slow start. He noted that the second quarter got off to a slow start.

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Mastercard , for example, said this past week that 70 percent of consumers plan to increase, or at least continue, online purchasing in a post-pandemic world, and 60 percent plan to use cash less often once the coronavirus is conquered. (In businesses did not have a website, and now more businesses are realizing they have to be online.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

Kohl’s Chief Executive Officer Michelle Gass said in an earnings conference call on Tuesday (Aug. Gass also noted that the company expects the Amazon returns program to make a positive contribution to operating income in 2019. Curation and Rewards. The department store retailer reported net sales of $4.17 billion and earnings of $1.55

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Roz Brewer, the company’s president and chief operating officer, said per reports at the time, “We’re building on key learnings from past delivery pilots, and by integrating our ordering technology directly with Uber Eats, we’ve unlocked the ability to bring Starbucks to customers for those times when they’re not able to come to us.”.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

They reflect “steady engagement metrics from our customers, during a period when operational stability took priority over product innovation,” CEO Brad Dickerson said Thursday during the company’s post-earnings conference call. The company said it emphasized “online advertising and brand activation investments” in Q2.

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MARCH 27, 2020

Guidance matters, in other words, and gauging how companies and their stocks are, and will, fare comes in part by mulling the guidance given on quarterly conference calls, in earnings reports, in Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings and at conferences. As noted in this space recently, discounting has come to luxury brands.

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MAY 17, 2016

One would expect that a event called the Retail Innovation Conference (RIC) would be a veritable brainstorm of big ideas as to how to improve the woeful retail space in the U.S.: mobile payments , beacons , online-to-offline and so forth. Retail operations are important. But logistics are important. Supply chain is important.

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JUNE 5, 2019

The real trick is to tie engaging consumer experiences to those cards, which is critical, as prepaid and reloadable cards continue to evolve — moving from plastic cards to mobile accounts that can adapt to an expanding portfolio of use cases, including payroll, online gambling or even consumer and business lending. Step back a bit first.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Just fewer than six in 10 – 59 percent – of Starbucks customers recently made their orders online or via app. company-operated transactions, the company said in its financial report. Borrowing from the strategy of fast food restaurants, Dine Brands is working on a new order-ahead technology. Only a few – or 3.3

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s.

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But mall owners and operators are occupied with a different focus: what to do with closing anchor tenants that once filled valuable space in their malls. While mall owners and operators face their share of challenges, Simon Property Group’s revenues clocked in at $1.4 We see tremendous potential for online ordering in the U.S.

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