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European Mall Operator Citycon Works On BOPIS Service

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To enable customers to shop from the complete selection of multiple mall offerings and retrieve their purchases from one place, European mall operator Citycon is creating a buy-online-pick-up-in-store (BOPIS) service. Ball said he doesn’t think that online shopping will “ever replace bricks and mortar.”. “At

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Retail 2020: Looking Back On D2C Brands

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The first were the Pepsis, Heinzes and Krafts that either didn’t like their retail distribution or saw a pandemic-driven opportunity to get new products in new configurations to the consumer. Formed in 2008, Green Goo is a women-owned, family-operated company that started out making skin products and first aid salves for friends and family.

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Philly Mall Owner Sets The Tone For Digital 3.0

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A Philadelphia-based mall owner is taking a proactive approach to the digital shift and back-to-school shopping. PREIT (Philadelphia Real Estate Investment Trust) is curating its first eCommerce offering in what it says is a unique avenue to engage consumers from a multi-retail perspective. In a trade publication. “We

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Will eSports And Other Online Businesses Spike Digital Taxes?

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The latest issue involves eSports – one of the rising trends in digital commerce , and one of the ways through which some mall and brick-and-mortar operators hope to revive those retail properties. The realm of eSports is not the only place in the greater online world where taxes are a new and sometimes confusing issue in 2020.

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Today In Digital-First Banking: MercadoLibre Gets License From Brazil, Alacriti Collaborates With Glia On Customer Service

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The new license from the nation’s central bank will let it have independence in making and directly operating financial services there, along with accessing new kinds of financing. More than 3 million retailers harness its technology. MercadoLibre’s credit division MercadoCredito was started in 2017 in Brazil.

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Pandemic Primer: How SMBs Can Embrace The Digital Shift

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Small to medium-sized retailers, the denizens of Main Street , are facing an existential crisis in the face of the pandemic. SMBs – and any other retailer, for that matter – recognizes the urgent call to embrace the digital shift. SMBs – and any other retailer, for that matter – recognizes the urgent call to embrace the digital shift.

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Retail Pulse: Shopify, Warby Parker Open The Doors On Digital-First

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Online brands continue their march into the offline world as Shopify and Warby Parker announce plans to open brick-and-mortar locations in the coming months. For Shopify, a Canadian eCommerce platform that helps artisans and other small merchants do business online, this will mark its first foray from the virtual world into the real one.

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