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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.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In today’s top retail news, holiday spending is expected to be flat this year, Bed Bath & Beyond rolls out same-day delivery and Target goes up against Amazon Prime Day with “Deal Days.” And the digital-first economy will drive the difference between success and failure for many retailers. But these are the easy points.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

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. . However, the company hasn’t been immune from the same market conditions that sent Sears and Kmart into bankruptcy.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Armoire is a young brand, about three years old, and a little under half of its customer base comes from its hometown of Seattle. We’re also high end contemporary from an inventory perspective — average MSRP is $250-plus — and we strive to work with women owned and ethical fashion brands.”.

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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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APRIL 15, 2020

That competition has also extended to high-end furniture market, which is starting to show some new activity with Crate & Barrell, CB2, West Elm and now a direct-to-consumer (D2C) Canadian brand called Article gaining momentum. Founded in 2011 as a high-end home décor brand, it turned a profit after just two years.

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MARCH 17, 2020

retail economy is unprecedented. What are some of the retailing changes that could last beyond the end of the coronavirus crisis? Contactless payments, however, will fit nicely into what will be a need to have low-touch or no-touch retailing experiences. The partial shutdown of the U.S. So what sticks? They want convenience.

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MAY 12, 2017

Seattle startup FLEXE looks to enable online retailers to compete against Amazon’s logistics capabilities. “For the first time in history, eCommerce brands have an alternative to Amazon,” said FLEXE cofounder and CEO Karl Siebrecht. It will be interesting to see if and how Amazon reacts.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retailers have closed flagship locations in recent times, but sometimes these landmark stores make a comeback. The new store, which will be located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, will feature multiple experiential retail components. The store will also offer magic shows and a grocery shopping experience designed for kids.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Digitally native brands, Casper among them, have turned to pop-up shops to introduce their products to consumers through an offline experience. Beyond the pop-up shop, the brand offers products tested by the magazine through an “ online boutique ” on the eCommerce retailer’s site.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

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. “The

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Outdoor apparel retailers are reinventing their brick-and-mortar spaces to connect with customers by making stores into destinations that offer experiences. In the updated retail space, the company said, customers will “immediately feel The North Face heritage and experience the brand’s values.”

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In the age of direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands, however, digital innovators are taking a new approach to bike shopping. The company’s DTC approach is not new: CEO and Founder David Engelstein noted that a similar company in Seattle sells bikes through that model, as well as a company called Canon in Germany. The Market .

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MARCH 22, 2019

Online brands are stepping into the world of brick-and-mortar, opening their own physical locations to help consumers experience their concepts in real life with the help of digital technology. The coffee chain, which operates in 78 global markets, opened its first store in Seattle in the 1970s. Starbucks Coffee.

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MARCH 16, 2016

While the Bieber effect is not something that sounds positive at a prima facie level and in fact sounds a bit like the name for a hysterical condition that effects primarily teenage girls, it is in fact a useful tool for marketers. Calvin Klein is an iconic brand and it’s been a dream come true to work with them.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. A data team from the eCommerce retailer determines what is sold at the locations, Amazon Physical Stores Director Drew Sheriff told MetroWest Daily News.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Traditional retail locations, ranging from fashion and home furnishings to hardware and department stores, have been forced to make significant changes in the face of heightened competition from eCommerce giants like Amazon and omnichannel powerhouses, like Walmart and its online unit, Jet.com.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

The Amazon Go prototype grocery stores will enable customers to make purchases without the need for a cashier, and are currently in testing in Seattle, Washington. In its first foray into grocery, the company purchased Whole Foods Market earlier this year for $13.7

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JUNE 11, 2020

The digital shift continued to show its dramatic potential to change retailing today, as three companies announced major changes to their business models. Zara was not among the retailers seen to be at risk from the pandemic, so the move was something of a surprise. The brand has about 15,000 U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Retail stores are rarely built by accident, particularly in the real world, if for no other reason than retail is sort of an intentional thing. But Recology CleanScapes — an operating company under Recology — is different from most of what is out there in retail. What does one buy at a Recology CleanScapes store?

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APRIL 19, 2018

Wendy’s , for example, planned to roll out self-ordering kiosks at about 1,000 of its retail locations by the end of 2017 in an attempt to both lure younger customers and to battle long lines at peak dining hours. billion is the projected size of the interactive kiosk market by 2023. Consumers want their orders faster than ever before.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It offers savings on products from small businesses and top brands for Prime members. a month, Prime members get free shipping, access to movies, music and 10 percent off select sale items at Whole Food Market stores. The Seattle-based global eCommerce giant introduced Prime Day five years ago to beef up typically slow summer sales.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Reports from Seattle and California say the company is adding a new format and expanding beyond its Amazon Go and Whole Foods brands. Although Amazon hasn’t commented, the strategy seems to be aimed at getting Amazon aligned with a more mass market customer segment than its other retail brands. billion in 2019.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The switch to a private designation for Nordstrom has been underway since 2017, though the brand ran into hurdles in securing sufficient financing to make the deal happen. The Seattle-based retailer does not have the massive store fleet some of its competitors have, making a closure a much more notable event.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

Magazines have been testing the waters of brick-and-mortar retail by opening temporary stores in major cities, and New York Magazine is no exception. They will include home goods and skin care products, among others, from brands such as home goods company East Fork and luxury bedding company Parachute. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News….

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JULY 23, 2019

Amid the slew of real estate startups coming to market, with any number of approaches in changing the way real estate transactions are made, there are also new initiatives to change the way homes function. The TurnKey program is indeed a lead generation service that functions for agents who work under Realogy brands such as Coldwell Banker.

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MAY 29, 2019

Easy because there is no shortage of “eco-friendly” products on the market. As one snarky Redditor pointed out on the r/ZeroWaste thread, in response to a poster showing off the bag they had sewed for their brand-new bamboo cutlery: “See that’s nice. The shop started out as a 10×10 stand in a local public market in 2017.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

Amazon has a brand-new product that will deliver packages right to consumers’ doors. Named Scout, it’s a robot on six wheels about the size of a small cooler, the retail giant said in a blog post on Wednesday (Jan. Earlier this month , Amazon passed Microsoft as the largest company by market value, according to reports.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Millennials, on average, are less brand-loyal than their parents or older siblings. They tend to like quality, have a strong preference for shopping online and enjoy a good bargain – but when it comes to buying from a specific brand? Not so much. They are packaged to limit waste and labeled for maximum transparency.

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JUNE 26, 2019

In the digital age of shopping for clothes and accessories, modern-day consumers don’t want retailers to entertain them: Instead, they want these merchants to bring them an easy experience, offering seamless shopping in store and online. The company’s other Go locations are mainly on the West Coast in places such as San Francisco and Seattle.

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JULY 6, 2020

The death knell for malls tolled loudly in the media during the Fourth of July weekend as retailers continue to assess their long-term prognosis from the pandemic damage. More bankruptcies both announced ( Lucky Brand ) and rumored continue to shake the format. Stores will still take up 90,000 square feet of Avalon.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The Treasure Truck was launched in Seattle last year — an actual truck that offers shoppers surprise daily deals on everything from steaks to home goods to paddleboards. Seattle residents can check the app to see the deal of the day (or “treasures”), make a purchase and then choose where to meet the truck to pick up the item.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

After Green’s innovative merchandising concept, stores opened with various names — “bantams,” “dairy stores” and “vest-pocket grocery stores,” for example — but Green established a brand that has stood the test of time. Enter Amazon Go, a brick-and-mortar convenience store the eCommerce retailer opened last week in Seattle.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Amazon has been hiring house cleaners in Seattle as direct employees in an effort to boost its home services marketplace. The new housecleaning service, Amazon Home Assistants, offers cleaning services in Seattle, with prices determined by the size of the home and the number of visits.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

MercadoLibre currently holds the top spot in the eCommerce market in Brazil, while Amazon.com.br Earlier this year, it was reported that the Seattle-based company was looking to lease a 50,000-square-meter warehouse near São Paulo. The move represents an early play by Amazon on the world’s fourth-largest market for beauty products.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

A sampling of the press coverage at that time shows that the Seattle crew might have been having a rough go of it. percent of retail spend. It’s also worth looking at Amazon’s take from Prime as Walmart+ flies out to the market. That line is defined by PYMNTS as Prime, the co-branded Chase credit card and advertising services.

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