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Vans Skates Into LA With Community-Driven Concept

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Youth-oriented shoe and apparel brand Vans has found the intersection of both, as seen in its most recent store opening this past week in Los Angeles. The experiential retailer b8ta is also launching a new community-driven store, this one aimed at fashion and lifestyle apparel. The concept doesn’t always have to be altruistic.

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Unattended Retail Lessons From Caviar Dreams

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Those who travel to some of the wealthier parts of the world, however, will discover the well-to-do have much more expensive unattended retail tastes. shoppers got their own taste of unattended luxury retail when vending machines dispensing caviar were installed in several Los Angeles-area malls. A few years ago, U.S.

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Digital Spaces As Virtual Makeup Studios, Augmented Reality Style

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To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers in the U.S. AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology.

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Five At Five: Facebook Hit By GDPR On Monthly Users

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Facebook, the world’s leading social media platform, reported last week that it lost about 1 million monthly active users (MAU) in Europe due to the new regulations, leaving it with 376 million. cities — like New York, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Dallas — by early 2019. GDPR Takes Toll on Facebook Engagement Figures.

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Wardrobe: Recommerce Meets The Sharing Economy In Bid To Become The ‘Airbnb of Fashion’

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From what they call the “lender’s” point of view, suppose a 40-something woman in Los Angeles looks in her closet and notices that there are three great blazers, three great skirts and two pairs of Louboutins that don’t get much usage. And it has renters who are encouraged to share their experiences on social media.

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What Evine’s Surprisingly Dramatic Journey Means For The Future Of Home Shopping

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Its areas of focus include cable TV, telecom and retail, and many analysts have said STARTEK is exactly the type of firm a player planning to go into cable home shopping might buy. It has been a fairly dramatic piece of the retail landscape for the last few years — albeit a quiet one. real estate. Evine is getting ready to expand.

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Kim Kardashian Sues Amazon, MasterCard, Lucova Over ‘Selfie Pay’ Tech

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Representatives for all three companies were quick to dismiss the grounds of Kardashian West’s lawsuits out of hand, expressing confidence that Los Angeles Superior Court will do the same in short time. All three suits were filed — in effect simultaneously — at Santa Monica (California) Municipal Court on Thursday morning.