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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. With the expanded partnership, the companies will bring the offering to brick-and-mortar stores in Washington, D.C.; billion at $4.85

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Returns Come Back To Haunt eCommerce Amid Pandemic

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With the retail industry sliding into Mother’s Day in just a week, the return issue is bound to raise its head. Some stats around the issue show just how substantial it is for retailers. And if a retailer charges too much (or charges at all) 57 percent of millennials will bail on future business. Now add a pandemic.

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Signatures Sizzle (Because They Fizzle) And Retail Defaults Alarm

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It was a record-breaking first quarter for retailers in the U.S. According to a report issued by Moody’s earlier this week, the retail sector managed to notch a record number of defaults during Q1 2013, with nine retailers defaulting on their debt. As a result of the series of retail fails, the default rate of high-risk U.S.

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Recreating The Hotel As A Social Hive 

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small hotel rooms are the rule, not the exception, and even here in the states the idea has been floating around since 1989 when the Microtel brand began first offering its half-sized, half-priced hotel rooms in Rochester, New York. However as is often the case with old things made new by retail needs, the microhotel deserves a second glance.

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Nestlé Expands Into Coffee Market, Acquires Blue Bottle

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by adding Blue Bottle to its holdings, a robust portfolio including the Nespresso coffee capsule and Nescafé brands. Meanwhile, Blue Bottle, founded in the early 2000s, is currently expanding in California, New York, Washington, Miami and Tokyo, bringing its total retail presence to more than 50 locations by the end of the year.

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Costco Rounds Out 2016 With Sharp Sales

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Sales for the 40-year-old, Washington State-headquartered company in the last 18 weeks boosted 2 percent overall, with stores in the U.S. Both millennials and Gen Z shoppers, no longer tagging along with mom, have been popping into stores to get their own membership cards. and more in Canada (7 percent). Canada, the U.K.,

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Could Grubhub Become The Amazon Of Restaurants?

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And before there was Chase, there was LevelUp, the branded mobile payments platform that used those same cube-shaped readers to enable QR code payments at the physical POS for consumers with the LevelUp app. Brands franchisees who are now being asked to get on board the Grubhub delivery platform. In February of 2018, Yum!

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