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Reliance Retail Fires Shot Against Amazon In Battle For India

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There’s a storm brewing in the Indian retail scene, with Amazon at its center. Over the weekend, Reliance Industries – the company owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani – purchased Future Group ’s 2,000 retail stores and the Big Bazaar grocery chain. Whole Foods has 497 stores. billion consumers. “At

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Online Mattress Retailer Casper Sleep Files IPO

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According to its Securities and Exchange Commission stock registration statement, as cited by CNBC , the online mattress retailer said it lost $73.4 Casper refers to itself as a “pioneer of the sleep economy” and values the worldwide market at $432 billion. Privately held Casper Sleep filed regulatory paperwork on Friday (Jan.

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Retail 2021: The Five Things Retailers Should Be Talking About At NRF This Week

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Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.

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Retail Rents Falling From Manhattan To Los Angeles

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retail rents falling in many locales by percentages even greater than those seen in or after the 2007-08 Great Recession. These decreases are historic,” the Real Estate Board of New York wrote in a new report showing that average Manhattan retail asking rents fell in all of the island’s 17 retail corridors during autumn.

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A Referred Customer Is A Better Customer

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That’s an axiom that Extole , a San Francisco-based company that offers a refer-a-friend platform for mobile and web devices, has built an entire company around. Advocate marketing is the most reliable and effective method of digital and social marketing for retailers today,” Roche said in a statement. You’re not reaching them.”.

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Retailing 2020: Five Things To Watch

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The pandemic was unprecedented when it showed up in February and March; the phases of its aftermath will also be without a reference point. While it’s clear that the digital shift will stick in the retail ecosystem, other elements of the landscape are harder to predict. Be Like Nike. Was it the shoes? No — it was the strategy.

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Could TJX, Other Offline Retailers Regret Their eCommerce Abandonment?

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It seems like a year ago, but it was actually only March 8 when discount retailer Burlington announced that it was abandoning its admittedly watered-down eCommerce offering. On one hand, the best way to get people in stores and avoid the fate of other brick-and-mortar retailers was to make online sales the only option.

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