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How Experiential Retail Is Giving Physical Stores An Edge

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As 2020 unfolds, the retail business has been dramatically altered. But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. And retailers that deploy experiential tactics drive repeat purchases at rates nearly twice those who don’t.

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Discount Retailers Move Away From eCommerce

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If it weren’t for a certain pandemic that is dominating most news, the two biggest stories in retail over the past week would have been stunning at any other time. Burlington has also been rewarded by Wall Street, with its stock nearly doubling over the past year before the recent massive sell-off in the market driven by coronavirus fears.

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Retail Pulse: Amazon Grows 4-Star Footprint; Forever 21 Files For Bankruptcy

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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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Risk-Aware Marketing to Personalize Telco Customer Engagement

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Risk-Aware Marketing to Personalize Telco Customer Engagement. Innovators are shoring up their market share by opting for cloud-hosted platform technology more typically favoured by banks. Here's how technology from the banking space can help telcos compete with aggressively competitive sales and retention tactics. FICO Admin.

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Mall Vacancies At Highest Level In Eight Years

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Some geographies are coping with the upheaval in retail better than others, as vacancies in U.S. Reis data indicates that the proportion of units sitting empty in some cities – with the inclusion of Birmingham, Alabama and Indianapolis, Indiana – is roughly four times higher than San Francisco, the Financial Times reported.

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Fabletics Announces Brick-and-Mortar Expansion

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Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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US Unemployment Rate Drops To 11 Pct And Jobless Claims Fall To 1.4M, But Troubles Persist

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These improvements in the labor market reflected the continued resumption of economic activity that had been curtailed in March and April due to the coronavirus pandemic and efforts to contain it,” the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in releasing the numbers. Retail jobs also rose by 740,000 in June after a 372,000 May gain.

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