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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

During his college career, he used various tools to challenge him during individual training outside of practice. Coaches start by selecting what level they train: youth, high school or collegiate. Coach Crates has teamed with nearly 30 brands. As analytics and technology have gotten more involved, Wodzis noted, so has training.

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JUNE 2, 2020

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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MARCH 11, 2020

With personal interactions under scrutiny due to the COVID-19 disruption, it’s a good time for retailers to take stock of their mobile and online commerce capabilities and technologies. It will now extend its augmented reality (AR) training app for free to promote continuity among owners and employees in the business.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The new branding centers on pharmacists and a more holistic approach to health and wellness. The new branding and ad campaign position Rite Aid pharmacists as whole health advocates within their communities. The new branding and ad campaign position Rite Aid pharmacists as whole health advocates within their communities.

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JUNE 29, 2020

And it’s stunning that Nike sees a need to reboot a brand that just took second-place to P&G in the Marketer of the Decade award during the virtual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The first is the OneNike platform, which attracts consumers to apps, like its Nike Training Club or the SNKRS eCommerce app.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

“By working collaboratively with these retailers, we’ve created a way for businesses to take proactive steps to prevent scams,” New York State Attorney General Barbara Underwood said in a statement. With the new policies, changes include lowering the transaction limits on the sale of store-branded gift cards.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Early Warning Services, the bank-owned company behind peer-to-peer payments service Zelle, is on a path to position the brand as part of a solution to financial health challenges, particularly among Gen Z users. Its latest move is a partnership with education company EVERFI, announced Thursday.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Retail is about more than the products being sold or the technology being used. That change is being reflected at the NRF annual event commonly called “Retail’s Big Show,” which ends on Tuesday (Jan. We built all of these mobile commerce things, but retailers still had all these physical stores,” Levene told NRF. Teen Workers.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

The pandemic seems to have had a strong positive impact on participation in the entire sport of running,” Fleet Feet’s Director of Retail Experience Matt Werder told PYMNTS. Even now that its stores are open, the retailer has discovered that its eCommerce, curbside pickup and virtual fitting services remain popular with customers.

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APRIL 10, 2020

Fruit Street – a virtual one-stop-shop specializing in digital diabetes diagnosis and treatment – has partnered with vegetarian meal kit purveyor Purple Carrot to add a retail angle to its health advisory service. We support billing, scheduling, credit card processing, unlimited training and customer support.”.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

When it comes to retail innovation, you can usually count on consumers’ constant need for clothes to help drive new trends. At the start of the 2010s, retail merchandising was, at base, a lot of guesswork. If things went well and brands guessed right about consumer tastes, that was all well and good. Better Smells.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

In a nutshell, consumers don’t particularly care how companies get orders to their doors as long as it’s quick and the order is the proper brand. Consumers care more than ever about what brands they’re consuming,” Southworth said. The explosion of eCommerce and on-demand is training consumers to be brand-specific but channel-agnostic.

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APRIL 16, 2019

Retail apocalypse? Whatever you want to call the decline of brick-and-mortar retail – and it’s getting worse, according to a few recent reports – it’s not good. merchants this year already have said they will shutter nearly 6,000 physical retail locations – that’s more than the nearly 5,900 closings for the entire year of 2018.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

There are brands that claim to take the customer experience to the max — and then there are brands that redefine what exactly the max means. When one teenaged customer wrote to the brand to complain about his beloved Chubbies shorts, which had been pilfered from his locker by a local bully, Chubbies sprang into action.

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JULY 13, 2018

Fabletics is seeking aggressive growth, with the activewear retailer planning to open 75 new brick-and-mortar stores in the U.S. Such an expansion would dramatically increase the retailer’s footprint – and bring its store count to a total of 100 locations. QSR brands. and other countries. And it seemed to really resonate.”.

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APRIL 14, 2016

Everybody wants brand names, right? The upshot for the wholesale manufacturers behind those brands is, of course, that they are able to set their suggested retail prices a little bit (or, sometimes, a lot) higher than items bearing lesser-known labels. And that has become something of a problem for brick-and-mortar retailers.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Providing a top consumer experience is becoming more important and is a rising trend in retail, and that will almost certainly increase in the 2020s. The upscale apparel brand, according to a recent report , is opening an “experiential store” in the Mall of America in Minneapolis on Wednesday (Nov. Physical Retail Efforts.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Two decades ago American Girl was one of the players that introduced the world to a whole new concept — experiential retail — the idea that a store isn’t just a place to hold goods, but to showcase an entire brand lifestyle. These days, the rest of the market has caught up to the idea, and the brand is slipping behind.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

RIP retail. In a recent whitepaper, the firm noted that brick-and-mortar retailers face — and certainly feel — more pressure than ever to keep stores humming as centers of commerce. After all, over 90 percent of retail sales are still done in physical stores. Where Amazon treads, retailers tremble. Or, maybe not.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Retailers are bringing experiential stores to big cities, and Starbucks is no exception: The coffee chain was set to open its Starbucks Reserve Roastery New York City on Friday (Dec. With premium coffees, teas, mixology and the iconic Milanese Princi Bakery, it serves as a Starbucks brand amplifier and a platform for future innovation.”

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Social influencers could promote brands through their channels and direct users to “swipe up” or click a link in their bio to purchase. By giving a channel for this social proof use case, Instagram allows customers to interact and purchase brands that their favorite influencers represent.

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MARCH 14, 2017

voice) to interact with people, brands, or services and bots that heretofore have had no real place in the bidirectional, asynchronous messaging context.”. At this conference, Facebook announced it was partnering up with the likes of CNN, 1-800-Flowers and other retailers to provide a more enhanced offering.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

Sporting Goods retailers continue to win the OmniReadi championship, with an Index score of 76. The Index also features a conversation with Tobias Hartmann, president of Radial, an omnichannel commerce and technology provider that helps retailers improve upon their post-click commerce and customer experience. this quarter.

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MAY 7, 2019

Walmart is the latest example of the power of pets in retail — a power that is having significant influence among various merchants competing for the loyalty and dollars of pet owners. As well, if done well, pet retail can serve to increase foot traffic into bricks-and-mortar stores at a time when it is dearly needed.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The deal applies to all Nike products when purchases are made using the Apple Card through the Nike website, retail stores, Nike Training Club and more. Nike and Apple have historically had a close relationship with retail partnerships and co-branded products like the Apple Watch Nike+ edition. customers in August.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Does this online brand have a chance at overtaking Victoria’s Secret? s Top 5,000 list in 2015 overall and took the number two ranking for top retail brands. But besides a wide selection and inclusive mindset, what’s the secret to the brand’s success? Experts are starting to say yes. price point.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

TotalSocial measures social conversions online and offline, as well as word-of-mouth around brands. The strength by Adidas comes as the firm is pushing a comeback after financial struggles in 2015 and a loss of its top spot among athletics retailers to Under Armour.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Fanatics , a company that sells Team USA merchandise, has taken a novel approach to Olympic retail this year with a physical store in a major U.S. The store marks a milestone for Team USA: It’s their first in-person retail store outside the Olympic Training Center in Colorado. Retail Gold.

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MAY 23, 2017

A new study has found that more pet owners are shopping for products online and traditional retailers will have to do more than boost their online presence in order to compete. Brick-and-mortar retailers and manufacturers are scrambling to regroup to avoid losing ground.

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MAY 11, 2017

One of the industries that is likely the most difficult to vet for employees is retail. As such, retailers’ staffing needs are likely to fluctuate as the industry navigates itself for the foreseeable future. AllWork ‘s sole purpose is to help locate, vet, manage and pay workers on the retail floor.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Big brands are opening pop-up shops chock full of digital commerce technology and experiences for fans, and Nike is no exception. Beyond the pop-up shop, the retailer is opening a “Studio of Dreams” Super Bowl Content Studio on the same block. The sportswear company said the store would feature limited-edition styles that will rotate.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

A new generation of retailers are making use of these new forms of customer data, and applying advanced technology like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to anticipate the types of products their customers will want to buy. It’s that certain retailers are not paying close enough attention to consumer preferences.

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JULY 28, 2016

While a very real glass ceiling might be under assault in the political field, online-only brands that eschewed traditional methods of starting up are seeing themselves approach a limiting barrier of their own kind. Rather than be held back, though, more than a few brands are proving strong enough to break through.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

There was a time when you trained there if you considered yourself a serious runner, although Kenya has taken that spot. Matt Taylor, co-founder and CEO of running apparel brand Tracksmith has found himself and his company a little slice of Boston’s running history. Bostonians take their running seriously.

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MAY 18, 2018

And, according to research inside the latest Omni Usage Index , mobile applications and features have become particularly crucial in the health and beauty retail business. Consumers gave retailers an omnichannel satisfaction score of just 37.9 Large format retailers received a score of 36.4 out of 100). out of 100).

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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