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Retail Labor Shortage Concerns Deepening

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A good economy is good news for retailers in a variety of regards. But for retailers going into the holiday season 2016, a good economy is creating yet another headwind for physical retailers who’ve spent much of the year being buffeted constantly by market pressures. Employment, according to the latest figures, hit 4.9

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Retail Pulse: Brookstone Files For Bankruptcy; Kroger Launches New Delivery Service

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Brookstone , a specialty retailer known for massage chairs and gadgets, used to be a must-see mall retailer. malls, Brookstone is now the latest major brick-and-mortar retailer to announce that it has filed for bankruptcy protection. Both have operations online under new owners, reported The Wall Street Journal.

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Kroger Rolls Out New Grocery Delivery Offering

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The offering will debut in Houston, Louisville, Nashville and Kroger’s hometown of Cincinnati, Chain Store Age reported. With the service, consumers can buy 4,500 private-label products from the retailer, which are not otherwise available online, along with 50,000 different grocery items and household products.

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Why Panera Does Its Own Delivery

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Current CEO Blaine Hurst was the prime mover behind Panera’s first large-scale delivery test in Louisville, Kentucky, four years ago. I said, ‘Just let me finish the Louisville test. Digital — including online pick-up and kiosk orders — makes up 31 percent of its sales, or about $1.75 It will either work, or it won’t work.

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Kroger Same-Store Sales Miss Views As It Overhauls Stores

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In August, the company rolled out a delivery service called Kroger Ship that uses third-party carriers, which will debut in Houston, Louisville, Nashville and Kroger’s hometown of Cincinnati, Chain Store Age reported at the time. The choices were informed by data from Kroger’s 84.51° customer insights division.

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5G, Biometrics Lead The Way At Mobile World Congress

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Indeed, new evidence recently emerged about the deployment of the latest generation of mobile technology – one that promises to bring significant changes to retail and payments thanks to bandwidth expansion and faster processing, along with new challenges and questions as early 5G case studies loom. 5G Expansion. cities by the end of 2019.

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Amazon Tracker: By Land, Air, Sea

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Analysts expect the online retail giant to report a 25 percent increase in fourth-quarter sales to $44.7 Think of it as a subscription extensions of extension of the online retail giant’s popular STEM Toys & Games store, which launched in 2015. Amazon is expected to report its fourth-quarter 2016 earnings on Feb.

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