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AUGUST 21, 2020

When Walmart announced Q2 earnings earlier this week, the nation’s largest retailer announced twin blowout performances in both its eCommerce and same-store sales. Stop & Shop owner Ahold Delhaize NV announced plans earlier this week for putting more resources toward online shopping operations. Same-store sales rose 9.3

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JANUARY 18, 2017

One might imagine that mall operators nationwide take a rather jaundiced view of the internet, since online shopping has more or less killed the mall. But perhaps that is the old conventional wisdom — the emerging idea is that online retailers are giving back some of what they’ve taken away these days. “We

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JANUARY 18, 2020

They say the perfect crime is hard to commit, but last week in Spokane, Washington an intrepid burglar managed to pull it off at the Yuppy Puppy pet store, according to local law enforcement officials. What makes the story stand out among the reams of local retail crime reporting is that the crime was actually committed.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. There are also digital price tags for every item, and Prime members can pay the discounted online price for their selections at the store. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

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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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Group Seeks to Block Maryland Online Advertising Tax. At issue is the eCommerce retailer’s parallel responsibility to third-party merchants as an online shopping ecosystem and to itself as a competitor on the platform with rival products. Maryland legislators ratified the tax earlier in 2020, but Gov.

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JUNE 21, 2018

States can collect sales taxes from online retailers thanks to a U.S. The 5-4 decision essentially overturns the court’s 1992 ruling that states can collect sales taxes only from retailers that maintain a physical presence in those states. retail sales. retail sales. Billions of Dollars at Stake.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This year, apps aimed to make it easier and more convenient for consumers to order their favorite foods and sundries, with restaurants and other retailers tapping into delivery. To help bring these options to more consumers, retailers and technology companies decided to join forces. and Chicago.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Supermarket chains dominated a list of hottest retailers in 2015, according to information released by the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) STORES magazine. The NRF released its annual list of Hot 100 Retailers on Aug. domestic sales with sales of at least $300 million based on figures compiled by Kantar Retail.

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MAY 5, 2020

With the retail industry sliding into Mother’s Day in just a week, the return issue is bound to raise its head. Some stats around the issue show just how substantial it is for retailers. And if a retailer charges too much (or charges at all) 57 percent of millennials will bail on future business. Now add a pandemic.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Online brands are stepping into the world of brick-and-mortar, opening their own physical locations to help consumers experience their concepts in real life with the help of digital technology. Custom eCommerce framing startup Framebridge is opening its own in Washington, D.C., Starbucks Coffee.

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APRIL 13, 2018

It was a record-breaking first quarter for retailers in the U.S. According to a report issued by Moody’s earlier this week, the retail sector managed to notch a record number of defaults during Q1 2013, with nine retailers defaulting on their debt. As a result of the series of retail fails, the default rate of high-risk U.S.

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JUNE 11, 2019

comes after the online retailer opened one of the concept locations in New York City in a mall, CNBC reported. The retailer has been experimenting with the offering through an arrangement with Starbucks in Seattle.) (The retailer has been experimenting with the offering through an arrangement with Starbucks in Seattle.)

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JUNE 15, 2020

News came Monday (June 15) that Walmart has joined with eCommerce company Shopify in a bid to boost its online marketplace presence. For Walmart, adding Shopify sellers to its online operations helps give a bit of scale, and third-party sales do not carry the same costs as seen in other marketplace models.

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MAY 15, 2020

Amazon has filed suit against two companies that are allegedly operating a global tech support scheme targeting Alexa users, CNN reported. The online retail giant said it has received a number of complaints about Robojap misleading victims into believing they are affiliated with Amazon, and selling them unwanted services.

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JULY 6, 2020

A new Amazon Go grocery store will soon open in Bellevue, Washington, and the tech giant has further plans to expand its cashierless Amazon Go grocery stores in Seattle, California, Chicago and Washington, D.C. The rules would also require that the government have access to online companies’ sources and algorithms.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

News of Amazon ‘s acquisition of online pharmacy startup PillPack have had analysts assuming the eCommerce conglomerate is ready to introduce an online pharmacy to its suite of services. However, new reports from CNBC on Wednesday (Nov. 21) said Amazon may first be gearing up to introduce the service to its own employees.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

According to Chain Store Age , the legislation requiring all brick-and-mortar retailers to accept cash was unanimously approved by the N.J. The bill, which is set to go before the full state Senate, excludes retailers inside airports from the cash requirement, as well as sales made online and by telephone or mail.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

As for Walmart’s buy online/pick-up curbside program for groceries, McMillon was much more verbose, noting that the program’s runaway success is pushing Walmart to double down on it – literally. We’ll lean in this year by nearly doubling the number of online grocery locations in the U.S.,” It will not be an area of unitary focus.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

But Foxtrot, a small company out of Chicago, is reinventing convenience store retail and taking it uptown. This spring it will launch two Washington, D.C. Foxtrot is also slated to open its eighth location in Chicago to bring its total to 12 locations across three markets (Chicago, Dallas and Washington, D.C.),

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

But Foxtrot, a small company out of Chicago, is reinventing convenience store retail and taking it uptown. This spring it will launch two Washington, D.C. Foxtrot is also slated to open its eighth location in Chicago to bring its total to 12 locations across three markets (Chicago, Dallas and Washington, D.C.),

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The eCommerce operator reportedly is leasing some 500,000 square feet of space in a three-story warehouse in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle, according to The Wall Street Journal. That might not sound like such a big deal, but it really is – at least when it comes to Amazon and retail fulfillment in the U.S. eBay Program.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Dutch global grocery conglomerate Ahold Delhaize — the firm behind grocery behemoths Giant and Stop & Shop — has acquired a majority stake in supermarket delivery startup FreshDirect in an attempt to up the level of its digital grocery offerings amid the online shopping surge created by COVID-19. “We Farmstead Picks Up $7.9M

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AUGUST 30, 2018

India-based eCommerce marketplace Paytm Mall wants to work more closely with regional retailers and team up with eCommerce grocery service BigBasket to compete with Flipkart and Amazon, according to recent Reuters reports. It is currently the third-largest company competing in the country’s retail space. “We

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JANUARY 18, 2019

At Kroger’s two high-tech test stores in Cincinnati and Redmond, Washington (near Kroger and Microsoft’s respective HQs) the shelves can interact with the Kroger’s mobile app to guide them through the store to the items they’ve selected. And so while Kroger is testing its new smart shelf technology, so are several other retailers.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

For years, Walmart has dominated the brick-and-mortar retail sector in the U.S., But the retail giant seems increasingly uneasy to sit on the sidelines and allow Amazon and other eCommerce retailers to carve up the world of online retail. First, there’s Walmart’s $3.3 Prior to the deal, Yihaodian only had a 1.5

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In a twist on contemporary retail trends toward online channels, consumers still largely prefer to return in-store. One logistics technology startup is working to solve the problem of physical returns for digital retailers. If all’s well, Happy Returns signals the retailer to refund the customer. “We’re

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JUNE 29, 2018

Google is getting into the grocery delivery market, with NBC News reporting that it is testing a same-day delivery service that will bring food and other online orders to consumers’ doorsteps. The idea behind it, noted NBC News, is for Google to make people even more reliant on the Internet so it can turn around and sell more online ads.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Businesses are understandably following suit, adjusting their operations to cater to customers’ growing preferences for digital-first everything. Some firms are setting up websites for the first time, while others are enhancing their existing online channels by rolling out new payment features. Orchestrating Payments To Manage Costs.

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

Washington state became the latest example late last month, as reported by Eater Seattle , and joins New Jersey and cities such as New York City, as PYMNTS reported. DoorDash is branching out to other services, such as a “ghost convenience store” that is a nod to operating a brick-and-mortar service.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Wayfair Supreme Court decision continue to rattle online merchants, as three states (California, Louisiana and South Carolina) are now trying to collect eCommerce sales tax retroactively, as far back as five years. To date 43 states and Washington, D.C. Aftershocks from the South Dakota v. Implementation.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

However as is often the case with old things made new by retail needs, the microhotel deserves a second glance. And candidly, they’re right,” Jim Abdo told The Washington Post. Abdo’s firm, Abdo Development, built Washington, D.C.’s In many locations outside the U.S. And millennials are a very interesting group to watch.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Similarly, industry and society are moving on to new experiences in futuristic online “worlds” with functioning economies where real-world and virtual events commingle in an evolution of social media-style community offering safety from COVID and, increasingly, commerce. Murmurs From The Metaverse.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Just ask Carvana, the leading online automotive seller and a major force in changing the way people buy cars. billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. That is the most organic growth of any automotive retailer ever in the U.S. Wall Street is a tough master, especially for eCommerce companies. Ontario (L.A.),

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

That comes in the wake of BEC scams that are growing as a threat to companies of all sizes and industries as they conduct B2B operations. Reports from various news sources said this week that scammers who posed as city vendors bilked nearly $700,000 from the Washington, D.C. city government.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Fast-casual restaurant chain Sweetgreen is facing a class action lawsuit from blind customers and a Washington Lawyers’ Committee (WLC) for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. The lawsuit alleges the company failed to make its online ordering platform accessible to blind customers, thereby violating the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).

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