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Retail Pulse: DSW Expands In-Store Experiences; L Brands Plans Store Closures

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Brick-and-mortar fashion retailers are developing in-store experiences to encourage customer loyalty. markets, aiming to generate repeat visits as part of its experiential retail efforts. They also create repeat visits to the DSW brand, where an exciting footwear assortment awaits.”. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. per share.

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Smart Retailers Inspire Confidence Via Cleanliness

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The list of positive retail brand attributes goes on and on, but one new post-pandemic value has become more important than all the others: cleanliness. Fitting rooms have been strictly regulated or even shut down by some retailers. Red Roof isn’t far behind on the branding front with its program, RediClean.

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Brookfield Asset Earmarks $5 Billion To Help Struggling Mall Retailers

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Brookfield has been moving in on mall-centric retail for some time, acquiring all of the stake for U.S. Brookfield also spent time grabbing Las Vegas-based Fashion Show and Illinois’ Oakbrook Center in recent years. Last year, over 9,000 retail stores closed in the U.S.,

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Luxury Brand Barneys New York Seeks Bankruptcy Protection

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Struggling to compete with online brands, famed Big Apple luxury retailer Barneys New York has put itself up for sale and filed for bankruptcy protection, according to a report by Reuters. . Barneys wants to keep its main store in Manhattan, and also four other locations.

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Goldman Sach’s Marcus: Partnerships Beyond Intuit

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EXCLUSIVE- With two products and a recently announced partnership with tax preparation software provider Intuit, Marcus by Goldman Sachs is keen on growing its brand through more new partnerships and products in 2018. The future of finance is not technology,” Harit Talwar, head of Marcus by Goldman Sachs, said at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas.

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Powering Innovation With Wedding, Transportation Technology

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Data: 100K: Minimum number of self-driving rides Lyft has provided to users in Las Vegas. 2K: Minimum number of Macy’s private brand and exclusive home gifts that bridal customers can register for on Zola. All this, Today in Data. 301: Number of David’s Bridal brick-and-mortar stores.

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Facebook To Open Small Biz Pop-Up Concept In Select Macy’s

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The move will bring 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Market @ Macy’s helps both emerging and established brands reach new audiences by showcasing them in a physical space inside Macy’s.

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