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JUNE 18, 2020

Designer Brands Inc. The company operates almost 1,000 retail stores under names like DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse and The Shoe Company. The retailer said it has put into place many procedures to safeguard the wellness and safety of shoppers as well as staff members as retail locations open again. percent to $482.8

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AUGUST 1, 2017

To say direct-to-consumer retail practices have had an impact on the manufacturing industry would be an understatement. With eCommerce a major proponent of the direct-to-consumer (DTC) channel and showing no signs of slowing down, the retail industry landscape has been forever changed.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Walmart is selling two of its online brands in a continuing goal to concentrate on its website. 27) that the Arkansas-based retail giant is scrapping Shoes.com and Bare Necessities, the intimate apparel brand. Also last year, Walmart shuttered its Jet.com eCommerce website and phased out the brand.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Brands Inc. , The policy relates to the just under 50 stores owned by the company in the most industrialized nation in Africa, while the other restaurants on the continent are franchisee-operated Bloomberg reported. South African attire retailer The Foschini Group Ltd. Wheatley and Yum!

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

The hot new thing in “Big Retail” is offering in-house advertising on your website to your vendors – because why get paid only once on a purchase if you can get paid twice? In short, retailers get paid to place the ad, and then get paid again when the merchandise is sold. “We

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We’re charging forward on our journey to revitalize the chain drug store experience — store by store, community by community — and today we’re ready and excited to invite customers to join us on this journey,” said Rite Aid Chief Operating Officer Jim Peters.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

banks accounted for 81 of the 500 most valuable and strongest bank brands around the world on Brand Finance’s Banking 500 2019 list, released this week. Led by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world’s most valuable banking brand (at $79.8

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

retail picture is bleak in this time of COVID-19. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said on Thursday (March 26) that its monthly survey of retailers showed the weakest outlook since April 2009. These are extraordinary times for the retail sector. retailers are not ready for digital transformation.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In the life of any brand, a pivot – or even a series of pivots – is normal. Times change, tastes expand and brands that don’t evolve generally don’t survive – a lesson that any number of retailers have spent the last several years learning the hard way. The big changes weren’t quite done, however.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

Retail reopening events continued to draw light foot traffic on Monday, as Florida joined Texas in allowing non-essential stores to reopen. percent of consumers shop for retail goods online more often than they did on March 6, the first day of our study, and that continues to climb — up 10.5 percent from 35.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Oracle has announced new enhancements for its Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service , which will enable retailers to monitor the integrity of their materials and end products. The biggest names in grocery rely on Oracle Retail Brand Compliance to meet these expectations, while protecting their customers and brands.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When Miami-based Retail e-Commerce Ventures (REV) recently announced that it purchased the remains of twice-bankrupt RadioShack , it wasn’t some one-off strategy to acquire distressed assets for pennies on the dollar. It’s a plan the company describes as “transforming well-known, distressed retail brands into eCommerce success stories.”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Major retailers are pitching premium baby care products at a less-than-premium price tag with the help of exclusive brands: Walmart is offering Hello Bello exclusively at its stores and its website (and that of the brand). It is also reportedly the inaugural brand rolled out under a platform called Launched.LA.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless. And Amazon and 7-Eleven aren’t alone.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

Automation has come to several industries. Over the last few years, chatbots have taken the retail space by storm, helping to automate several key aspects of customer service. With 100,000 branded chatbots and growing on Facebook Messenger alone, it doesn’t appear that chatbots have any intention of going away any time soon.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2020

New Report: Helping Retail Treasurers Navigate The Digital D2C Shift (“How To” Playbook). Not only have retail sales shifted online, but more consumers are buying more of what they want directly from the brand. Report: Helping Retailers Solve The Payments Piece Of The eCommerce Puzzle (Anatomy Of A Consumer Payment Playbook).

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Brookfield , which owns stake in numerous malls and related properties, is going to spend $5 billion to try and get the industry back on track after the coronavirus pandemic. Brookfield has been moving in on mall-centric retail for some time, acquiring all of the stake for U.S. Last year, over 9,000 retail stores closed in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

Beleaguered toy retailer Toys R Us is in the midst of prepping plans to liquidate its U.S. operations, currently in bankruptcy, according to recent Bloomberg reports. The plans come as the company has yet — and the emphasis may be on “yet” — to find a buyer for those operations or finalize its debt restructuring plans.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Inspire Brands announced that it will acquire Sonic for approximately $2.3 He continued,“As one of the largest owner-operators of company-owned and franchised restaurant brands, Inspire appreciates the unique culture of collaboration between Sonic and our franchisees. Sonic will continue to operate as an independent brand.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Part of the future of retail is playing out inside hotels — and that’s happening as the wider part of the travel-and-tourism industry is undergoing its own significant disruption. One of the latest — and perhaps wildest — examples of the hotel-retail trend comes from Taco Bell, of all places. Unattended Retail.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The robot offers beverages in an establishment operated by the Yoronotaki restaurant firm, Reuters reported. Service companies that don’t have the ability to move internationally or tap into automation have greater vulnerability than industrial companies. Testing of the robotic bartender will take two months.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Kroger and Walgreens are expanding their partnership to create a new group purchasing organization (GPO) called the Retail Procurement Alliance, which will pool resources to cut costs and advance innovation, the companies said in a press release on Wednesday (Dec. The food industry is a $1.5 trillion market. “It

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

It’s a tale of two kinds of brick-and-mortar retailers amid the rise of eCommerce: Some traditional department store chains like JCPenney and Macy’s are shuttering stores, as some retailers with other business models are more than surviving. TJX, the owner of off-priced retailers like T.J. Senior Brand Apparel Analyst John D.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Brick-and-mortar retailers are testing convenience store designs that let consumers skip the checkout line and pay for their purchases with their mobile phones. 7-Eleven President and CEO Joe DePinto said in an announcement , “Retail technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and customer expectations are driving the evolution.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The legal cannabis industry is large as of the start of 2019 – and, according to most experts, it’s on track to get even larger. Somewhat less apparent, however, are the complexities that the “legalish” status of cannabis consumption creates for retailers that one might not immediately associate with legalized marijuana.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

So-called fast fashion has been a big player in retail for years, but that part of the commerce-and-apparel world is facing some serious challenges. Other signs of distress in the fast fashion industry come from outside colleges. In 2018 alone fast fashion as a segment of the apparel industry brought in over $35 billion.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

The myth of the lone (and possibly mad) scientist died out a long time ago, as the industrial age led to teams of researchers working together (or at healthy cross purposes) to enable innovation. That experience is one that is hard to gain as a vendor with new and exciting retail technology in the market.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. More than six in 10 health and beauty firms — or 61.7

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

You’ve probably gotten the memo already, but in case you missed the message, here you go: Mere retail is boring. Mere retail is not enough. According to the report, he said that “Greenhouse will operate as a separate unit that sits outside of our walls, both figuratively and literally. Incubator Aims. Take the Walmart example.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

In a way, watching the emergence of legal retail marijuana in North America is like watching someone grow up. Not really a toddler or baby — even black-market sale of recreational and medicinal pot took on many traits of legitimate retail — but more like a once gawky teenager growing into a graceful, confident person. and Canada.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2020

The divide between essential and non-essential retail grows bigger by the day as deep discounters and dollar stores continue to add stores, employees and revenue during the COVID-19 crisis. We’ve had pretty much 100 percent cancellation from all major retailers,” he said , naming Macy’s Inc., Nordstrom Inc., TJX Companies Inc.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While both companies will remain separate entities and will continue to operate as such, a Walmart spokesperson has confirmed that its everyday brands, including Great Value, Equate and Sam’s Choice, will soon begin to appear on Jet’s website. Following its $3.3

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APRIL 19, 2019

Nor is there anything bad about the vodka, tequila and other liquor brands found in mainstream stores across the country. liquor industry), who has combined the ongoing consumer desire for online subscription retail with the rise of craft distilleries. We had to buy a retail store to fulfill this dream. Distillery Gains.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

The retail industry is in the midst of an evolution in the way it does business. Thanks to connected technology, consumers’ expectations on the retail experience have changed. Square Root CEO Chris Taylor commented on the retail landscape and what’s needed to improve brick-and-mortar success down the line.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

The increasing pressure posed to the pizza chain by third-party delivery services — unlike Pizza Hut and other operations, Domino’s has decided to handle its own delivery, and has embarked upon an effort to build more brick-and-mortar locations so that it can be closer to more real and potential customers, reducing its own delivery times.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Finding a new consumer segment called “kidults” has led the toy industry to a positive first half of the year, and there’s no better evidence of the trend than the growth of Lego. Consumer sales grew 14 percent compared with the first half of 2019 and the brand’s global market share increased. Operating profit was $3.9

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The lingerie business is booming, thanks in part to Adore Me — a startup that has posted double- and triple-digit growth over the past few years and has shaken the lingerie industry to the core with its fast-fashion model, savvy digital strategies and inclusive “customer-first” mentality. Experts are starting to say yes.

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