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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Walmart is still seeking the right combination of fashion and home, while its online shopping initiatives have been rewarded with an eCommerce grocery purchase boon. Lore was one of the company leaders who talked at the retailer’s investor day about how Walmart is joining its physical locations with its website and apps.

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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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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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JANUARY 9, 2020

The company also had record online sales over Black Friday in the U.S. During the quarter, the company’s first two of five VillageMD primary care clinics, Village Medical at Walgreens, opened in Houston and the Flagship No7 beauty brand experienced “sales growth in the mid teens in the U.S.” as well as the U.K.,

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JULY 14, 2016

Brick-and-mortar merchants are far from being free from the problems that plague their particular brand of retail, but even they have to look at online retail rising rents for warehouse space with a little bit of mirth. Of the 57 major retail markets studied, 37 of them posted decreases to warehousing availability.

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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. The retailer reported net income for the fourth quarter of $102.6 To keep tabs on the latest retail trends, check next week’s Retail Pulse. million compared to $323.4

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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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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. for the time being.

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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.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Just ask Carvana, the leading online automotive seller and a major force in changing the way people buy cars. billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. That is the most organic growth of any automotive retailer ever in the U.S. Wall Street is a tough master, especially for eCommerce companies. New Markets.

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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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MARCH 9, 2020

The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. What will factor into any restaurant or restaurant group’s success in tomorrow’s online world are the numbers and demographics of just how tourist-traveled your city, town, or region is going forward.

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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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DECEMBER 13, 2019

The clock is ticking — holiday shipping deadlines are approaching and the last of the holiday shopping procrastinators are either rushing to order online or resigning themselves to a last-minute trip to a crowded mall or shopping center to tough it out in line with all the other procrastinators.

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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. All 10,000 ExxonMobil locations are supposed to be online by the end of the year. Exxon is not the first brand to embrace Apple Pay.

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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. make online grocery orders for delivery or pickup. consumers who order groceries online for pickup or delivery is 12 percent.

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JULY 13, 2018

Celebrity brand endorsement is nothing new. In their hundreds of years of existence, the celebrity endorsement has become an increasingly prominent part of branding — so prominent, in fact, that by the end of the 20th century, they weren’t just endorsing products. Her fragrance was only sold online. It was a smash hit.

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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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OCTOBER 11, 2019

And its investment in MercadoLibre, a Latin American retailer, dropped 10 percent. At the same time, payment service providers (PSPs) are scrambling to find ways to authenticate these customers without bringing about more friction to online transactions. Domino’s Supreme Court Decision Spotlights Online Web Accessibility.

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MAY 8, 2018

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, AT&T and Verizon launched drones in Houston, Texas to inspect their towers — a process which would have been too dangerous and time-consuming to do manually. DroneCast has developed services for banner advertising and has delivered Ford-branded knickknacks to patrons at auto conventions.

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JULY 20, 2018

Children are the future — that’s just a biological fact, and the theme of an old Whitney Houston song. If those consumers stick to the brands they have known since childhood, that could pose a threat to Apple’s smartwatches, some observers say, as that product is made for adults, not kids. Wearable Questions.

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