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OCTOBER 26, 2018

To offer a new brand of medical devices to consumers, Arcadia Group is working with Amazon to sell products like glucose monitors and blood pressure cuffs under the Amazon-exclusive Choice name. The effort was started by Arcadia, though Amazon is becoming more interested in offerings around health, CNBC reported.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In today’s top retail news, Amazon Go stores in Seattle are reportedly being equipped with Amazon One palm-reading scanners, while automotive brands are taking control of digital purchasing platforms. Amazon Expands Palm Biometrics In Seattle . A year ago, PYMNTS research indicates, Amazon claimed 9.5

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JANUARY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis and the digital shift that it accelerated are making five lessons clear that tradition brick-and-mortar retailers must heed if they want to survive, according to Karen Webster. Everyone From Amazon To Poshmark Is A Rival . It’s Amazon.”. Failure to adapt to that reality won’t cut. percent a year earlier.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Amazon wants to get more exclusive — and it wants other companies to help with that effort by developing product lines meant to be sold only via the eCommerce operator. That move comes as Amazon has had trouble wooing some direct-to-consumer brands. Brand Resistance.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands drove into the pandemic and adapted to it to catch the digital shift. Adore Me, for example, was a thriving eCommerce brand before the pandemic.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Automated retail is a burgeoning space, with sales growth via many unattended retail devices significantly increasing. And in coffee retail, Starbucks is amplifying its brand with the Global Coffee Alliance and a new Starbucks Reserve Roastery location. All this, Today in Data.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Consumers can buy furniture anywhere.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

Williams-Sonoma, a retail outlet that sells kitchenware and furnishings, has sued Amazon over a chair that is “strikingly similar” to the company’s West Elm brand, according to a report by Bloomberg. Amazon’s version of the chair , which can no longer be found on the site, is an orb chair that is round with a hole in the back.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Luxury brands are selling more and more on Chinese eCommerce sites like JD.com and Alibaba, while still keeping their distance from Amazon, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The idea of being listed along with batteries and windshield wiper fluid is not one that attracts luxury brands, the Journal reported.

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MAY 20, 2020

The last several weeks have certainly made for unexpected and unprecedented times for consumers and all players in the retail ecosystem and left a lot of businesses standing at a crossroads as they face the back half of 2020 and questions about what to do next. In other words, trust has become a primarily valuable currency of late.

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JULY 28, 2020

Many are currently selling already on Amazon , but they want to go direct to customers and develop channels outside of Amazon. Brands that are either expanding existing DTC operations or have only sold through a marketplace can use channels like Amazon without creating potential conflicts in their path to selling directly to consumers.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a world where retail has changed and consumers remain at home, how do brands reimagine the task of getting products to customers? podcast , we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a rapidly changing digital-first economy.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Well maybe, if Amazon has any say in the matter. News reports are emerging that the eCommerce giant launched its own exclusive beauty brand last week. The line, called Fast Beauty Company , comes to the market care of Amazon’s brand accelerator program. Most of the products are available to buy for $5 and up.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

Online retail giant Amazon will start labeling certain products “Top Brands” in a pilot that will attempt to give big names the type of favorable positioning they get at physical retailers, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Aug. Brands won’t have to pay for the designation, an Amazon spokeswoman told the news outlet.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Bringing a brand directly to consumers over digital channels was an option to consider in the pre-pandemic world — but the question for brands today in our radically digitized world is not if, but when, according to sticky.io They have to optimize every touchpoint that the customer has with their brand.”.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Nike announced that it is parting ways with Amazon and will no longer sell its products on the eCommerce marketplace, ending a pilot program that began in 2017, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Tuesday (Nov. The sneaker and sports apparel company said it is going forge new retail partnerships and concentrate on its direct business.

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MARCH 16, 2018

What does it take for a fashion brand to stay on top of the trends? But not all brands excel at crawling the web for information relevant to their businesses. “A Historically, large retailers tend to move more slowly. Brands and retailers work on a global scale, after all. A lot of market data. Fashion Analytics.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Amazon is adopting a new approach to fighting counterfeits on its platform, announcing on Thursday (Feb. The new program, which the eCommerce giant laid out in a blog post , empowers brands to bring counterfeits to zero on Amazon properties. 28) the launch of Project Zero.

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MARCH 20, 2019

To offer solutions for various skin types, Amazon unveiled a line of skincare products called Belei that come in post-consumer recycled resin bottles. The collection has 12 different items, which range from vitamin C serums to retinol moisturizer, the eCommerce retailer said in an announcement. percent over the next six years.

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JUNE 20, 2019

Here’s some news: Amazon is not unbeatable. No, that doesn’t mean that PYMNTS takes sides in the struggle for retail supremacy, but only that we like to note when someone or some organization mounts a challenge to the eCommerce and logistical behemoth. High-End Retail. The battle for Amazon retail supremacy also involves pets.

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JUNE 13, 2018

Amazon is replacing some of its retail veterans with software that predicts what shoppers want and how much merchants should charge for it. Despite this news, Amazon said it’s still creating jobs — as well as automation — across the company to better serve its customers.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Amazon ’s reputation rests on providing consumers with almost anything they could want in one place — quickly — and with just a few clicks. This means consumers who flocked online due to the pandemic were in certain instances more likely to use D2C channels than marketplaces like Amazon. percent bought new retail product brands.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

While apparel sales have been uneven in 2020, as consumers have shown a greater preference for comfy loungewear to haute couture, Amazon’s battle to enter and drive the segment has continued apace. Currently, Amazon is forecast to bring in $7.5 The experience works on the web and inside the Amazon app and comes with a $25 price tag.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As it aims to develop an online shopping portfolio, Boosted Commerce said it has notched $87 million in investment and has purchased six Amazon fulfillment (FBA) firms. The company intends to "acquire and develop" 100 online shopping consumer packaged brands in the four years to come, according to an announcement.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Tesla, the maker of green automobiles, is trying to get its branded merchandise to more consumers, reportedly by launching a store on Amazon. The outlet was alerted to the Amazon store by a tipster. The outlet was alerted to the Amazon store by a tipster.

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MAY 15, 2020

Amazon has filed suit against two companies that are allegedly operating a global tech support scheme targeting Alexa users, CNN reported. In court documents, Amazon argues the companies developed a fraudulent technical support platform to trick customers seeking to set up Alexa-enabled Echo smart speakers at home with faux Amazon apps.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Thrasio has taken its Amazon-centric business model to a high level at high-speed, snapping up some of the marketplace’s hottest sellers and creating a company that one of its investors says is “revolutionizing eCommerce.”. . To date, Thrasio has acquired more than 50 Amazon businesses, including 17 in Q2.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Amazon is introducing its “Go” concept to other merchants interested in its “Just Walk Out” technology, Reuters reported on Monday (March 9). The eCommerce giant is in talks with other retailers and has “several” signed deals with unnamed customers. Amazon Go’s cashierless technology could grow into a $50 billion business, U.S.

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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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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Amazon has launched a new program to gain information about users' purchasing activity beyond on its own website, a post from the eCommerce giant states, through monetary incentives. Named the Amazon Shopper Panel, it will pay users in exchange for the data and answering some short surveys.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Amazon’s relationships with big brands on their platform is looking quite a bit less healthy than it once was, while Walmart has seen grocery services lose some ground in terms of consumer appreciation, according to a recently released ranking. Big News of the Week: Another Big Brand Break-Up. Another one bites the dust.

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Branding Retail Meeting Report 139

PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

With this year’s Prime Day approaching, Amazon is reportedly charging “additional funding” to some brands in the grocery space during Prime Day in the event that sales of their promotional items cause a loss for the eCommerce retailer. Last year, Amazon raked in $4.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

There, right inside the front door, was a nice, young Whole Foods team member, who let me know that the store would soon be offering special discounts to Amazon Prime members who shopped there. He then asked if I would like information about how to become an Amazon Prime member so that I could take advantage of those deals.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Amazon will shutter all 87 of its pop-up stores in the United states by the end of next month, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. After much review, we came to the decision to discontinue our pop-up kiosk program,” an Amazon spokeswoman said. Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market and its 460 stores about two years ago.

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MAY 22, 2020

In their race to capture the consumer’s whole paycheck, Amazon and Walmart have focused this week on the “great digital expansion,” with the goal of finding new ways to reach consumer spend going forward. Prime Day’s postponement came when Amazon was struggling in the pandemic’s early days to resolve big shipping and staffing woes.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

And retail and commerce-related payments are certainly a big part of that trend. It’s not just the direct selling of products to consumers that matters when it comes to cross-border retail. Several retail and retail-related trends are at play with this funding announcement. Amazon’s Role.

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