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Trust And Speed Light A New Path To Omnichannel Retail

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For retailers, nothing really ever comes easy — and things aren’t getting any easier, at least when it involves gaining and retaining customers. Indeed, as the recently completed National Retail Federation (NRF) retail show in New York City demonstrated, commerce keeps moving to what Webster called in the webinar a “customer-centric approach.”

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Reseller Market Maintains Momentum With Nordstrom’s Entry

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Called See You Tomorrow , its “re-commerce experience” will include an online marketplace and brick-and-mortar location housed in the Nordstrom New York City flagship store on 5th Avenue. It is playing the sustainability card this year, with Fashion Footprint Calculator. an independent environmental research firm.

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What Happens If COVID Prompts Consumers And Businesses To Flee Cities?

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Bloomberg also reported that page views for Zillow’s suburban listings outside of formerly hot urban areas like New York City and San Jose, Calif., There’s [also] a lot of demand for rental homes that we’re seeing because people are fleeing especially hot spots like New York.”. rose as much as 10.5 million U.S.

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Millionaires, Millennials And The Great Avocado Debate

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Are millennials eating too many avocados on toast for their own good? The crux of the debate is this: are first- time home sales down because, given the choice of a two car garage and a yard in the suburbs, millennials have, en masse, decided they’d rather enjoy a more richly-delicious brunch experience, week in and week out?

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NYS Covers Grocery Worker Vaccine Eligibility; Instacart Leads Debate Over Gig Economy Employees

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For grocery workers, who are deemed in the “essential” retail category, relief has been slow in coming. 11), New York State became the first to act on behalf of them. New York’s vaccine eligibility pool has been expanded to include grocery store workers, among other groups, according to the state’s Department of Health.

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What’s Your Commerce Horoscope?

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Better algorithms , visual search tools and concierge services are just a handful of the ways retailers young and old are attempting to ensure customers get the “right” products. If Mercury is in retrograde, should we let that affect our retail choices? But are they really the right products? Not All Horoscopes Are Good Horoscopes.

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Subscriptions As The Ticket To Filling Empty Airplane Seats

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SkyHi’s bread and butter is leisure travelers, particularly millennials between the ages of 23 and 27. That population tends to have disposable income, lives in larger cities and has largely gone untargeted by airlines, Poola said. “However, there are just so many planes running that route that there a lot of empty seats.