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Brazilian Retailer Magazine Luiza To Compete With Amazon

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Brazilian retailer Magazine Luiza has announced that it will be selling books online, which could be picked up in one of its almost 1,000 stores. After two of the country’s biggest booksellers — Saraiva Livreiros SA and Livraria Cultura — filed for bankruptcy protection last year, Magazine Luiza saw room in the market.

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NEW DATA: Consumers Like Cashier-less Retail But Retailers Aren’t Hitting The Mark

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who would like to buy a wide variety of products and services through unattended retail channels, such as vending machines, self-service kiosks and even fully automated stores. This indicates not only a major gap between the demand for and supply of unattended retail options, but a huge potential for market growth. There are 48.7

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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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AI Takes The Measure Of Fashion Retailing

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Iconic Vogue magazine editor Diana Vreeland once said, “Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time.” Artificial intelligence (AI) is now one of the tools at the retailer’s disposal to keep pace with those changes. “It For retailers the concept of taxonomy — naming and classifying items — has been transformed by AI.

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Retailers Find New Innovation Fuel Against Amazon

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No, that doesn’t mean that PYMNTS takes sides in the struggle for retail supremacy, but only that we like to note when someone or some organization mounts a challenge to the eCommerce and logistical behemoth. High-End Retail. The battle for Amazon retail supremacy also involves pets. Retail Challenge.

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More Than Pretty Pictures: The Rise Of Visual Commerce Boosts Retail

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For fans of retail or marketing history — or just fans of how people communicated in the past — reading old magazine and newspaper advertisement from, say, before the 1960s can be fun and illuminating. Already, retailers, telecoms and others are mapping out that 5G AR future (and beyond). Retail Benefits.

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How (And Why) Major Retailers Are Embracing Print Catalogs Again

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The holiday season is the time for nostalgia and tradition, and that is the case here at PYMNTS, where even amid our coverage of the newest retail trends, we sometimes get the warm-and-fuzzies. It led us to wonder, going into the heart of the fourth quarter and then into 2020, about the status of that old standby, the retail catalog.

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