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MAY 12, 2020

Picture, instead, fleets of utilitarian machines, squat, careful and not at all threatening, rolling through retailers’ aisles, hospital wings and other avenues of everyday human life. told Karen Webster that retailers and other firms are going to need to consider “cleanliness as a brand value.”. Brain Corp.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We’re charging forward on our journey to revitalize the chain drug store experience — store by store, community by community — and today we’re ready and excited to invite customers to join us on this journey,” said Rite Aid Chief Operating Officer Jim Peters. The company is also upgrading its digital experience.

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MARCH 11, 2020

With personal interactions under scrutiny due to the COVID-19 disruption, it’s a good time for retailers to take stock of their mobile and online commerce capabilities and technologies. It will now extend its augmented reality (AR) training app for free to promote continuity among owners and employees in the business.

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JULY 7, 2020

Now there’s the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) asking for help with mandating mask guidance regulations to protect store personnel. The patchwork of local mandates many retailers faced earlier this year made it incredibly difficult to focus on implementing the right safety protocols,” said the letter.

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JULY 24, 2020

When Indochino launched in 2007, the company wasn’t out to create a new template for the entire retail sector, just a better product with better prices and a better buying experience. We don’t require dozens of people at our store to have an operating four-wall showroom,” CEO Drew Green told Karen Webster in a recent conversation.

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JULY 9, 2019

Automated retail might conjure up images of robot cashiers, but beyond a few convenience stores in Japan and Korea, that sci-fi development hasn’t yet become reality for the wider world. The latest Automated Retail Tracker explores these trends and new developments in the unattended retail space.

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DECEMBER 5, 2023

BSA training and experience must be extensive to meet regulatory expectations of a BSA Officer being competent and able to execute all duties effectively. This includes training staff on BSA/AML policies and fostering a culture of compliance.

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JUNE 2, 2020

The list of positive retail brand attributes goes on and on, but one new post-pandemic value has become more important than all the others: cleanliness. Example: Ted Gallagher is vice president and partner at Environmental Hazards Control , a Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based company that disinfects retail locations and other business facilities.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are doubling down on digital as they look to staff their stores for the busy holiday shopping season. The retailer noted that all seasonal hires will have a minimum hourly starting wage of $13 an hour. Tom Ward, senior vice president of digital operations for Walmart U.S.,

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APRIL 16, 2019

Retail apocalypse? Whatever you want to call the decline of brick-and-mortar retail – and it’s getting worse, according to a few recent reports – it’s not good. Among the latest dim figures about brick and mortar (or, if you prefer, the latest bright news for eCommerce operators)? Mere culling of the herd?

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MARCH 9, 2018

Beleaguered toy retailer Toys R Us is in the midst of prepping plans to liquidate its U.S. operations, currently in bankruptcy, according to recent Bloomberg reports. The plans come as the company has yet — and the emphasis may be on “yet” — to find a buyer for those operations or finalize its debt restructuring plans.

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MAY 11, 2020

Retailers are opening their doors again during the pandemic to customers who have appointments. Fitness classes, such as Pilates, as well as personal training, will be reserved only for enrolled members. Call it the end of the walk-ins. At least for now.

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MARCH 11, 2020

The volatile, COVID-driven stock market has had a mixed effect on the retail IPO class of 2019. Chewy seems to offer protection against coronavirus fears that have afflicted retailers and other businesses that function as gathering places. Revolve, a high-end women’s apparel retailer, has had a tough year before the coronavirus crisis.

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

The pandemic seems to have had a strong positive impact on participation in the entire sport of running,” Fleet Feet’s Director of Retail Experience Matt Werder told PYMNTS. Even now that its stores are open, the retailer has discovered that its eCommerce, curbside pickup and virtual fitting services remain popular with customers.

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APRIL 28, 2020

Philippe also said per the report that limitations would remain for train travel of long distances and that Paris metro service would be bolstered to let individuals get to their jobs while still following social distancing. The HDE, which is a national organization of retailers, had panned the decision only to let smaller shops open again.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Digitally-native furniture and home décor retailer Article has launched an in-house delivery program in Los Angeles and New York. Major retailers are also taking control of getting their products directly to the consumer.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

But the same technology that enables those transactions also can bring the benefits of consumer intimacy to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that are often struggling to win more market share in a retail world dominated by the likes of Amazon, Walmart and other large retailers. That might sound obvious.

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MARCH 14, 2018

There is a growing need for professionals who install and support merchant payment systems to be aware of and trained on critical security controls, writes Mauro Lance, chief operating officer of the PCI Security Standards Council.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are expanding their efforts to provide customers with health and wellness services while taking steps to train their employees for healthcare roles. Beyond the training program, Walmart’s Sam’s Club is collaborating with multiple healthcare companies to offer discounts on routine care.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Retailers are bringing experiential stores to big cities, and Starbucks is no exception: The coffee chain was set to open its Starbucks Reserve Roastery New York City on Friday (Dec. According to AM New York , it has “the largest fully operational coffee roasting plant in Manhattan.” million pounds of coffee annually.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

The Hudson Group plans to add Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology to some of the popular convenience stores the chain operates at more than 1,000 North American airports, train stations and other landmarks and tourist destinations. . Checkout-Less Retail Is Becoming A Reality .

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APRIL 25, 2019

Might Macy’s be a better landlord than retailer? have been hurt as shoppers make more purchases online, forcing retailers to think of ways to either downsize their footprints or repurpose their stores. The year got off to a bumpy start for the retail chain, as holiday sales slumped when they were supposed to soar. Macy’s Woes.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Many organizations, from retailers to local governments, are turning to self-driving technology to help them reach their goals and to get purchases and people to their destinations. The company offers its autonomous vehicle-powered delivery services to retailers and other companies through a subscription service.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Koopman and Karen Webster recently engaged in a discussion about how those gaps apply to a very specific but lucrative part of the retail landscape: the health and beauty product space. That is a major gap, and speaks to the potential — and very real — lack of progress when it comes to innovating in a typically revenue-rewarding retail task.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Convenience stores are not only a staple of consumer life — they also operate under often bad reputations, as places where the coffee is supposed to be stale and the food unhealthy. But things are changing fast in this corner of retail. LISNR is one company involved with gas station, convenience store and general retail transactions.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. ABI Research predicts that one million automated retail units will be in the Asia-Pacific region by 2023.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

These moves come amid a push by China to encourage more cross-border commerce and retail. Cross-border eCommerce sales grew at a rate of 30 percent in 2018 in China and were expected to hit $175 billion, representing 10 percent of the online consumer retail across the globe. China’s Commerce Push. Alibaba Changes.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Providing a top consumer experience is becoming more important and is a rising trend in retail, and that will almost certainly increase in the 2020s. The new 19,700-square-foot space will feature a studio equipped for yoga and high-intensity interval training classes. “The Physical Retail Efforts.

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MAY 7, 2019

Walmart is the latest example of the power of pets in retail — a power that is having significant influence among various merchants competing for the loyalty and dollars of pet owners. As well, if done well, pet retail can serve to increase foot traffic into bricks-and-mortar stores at a time when it is dearly needed.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Fanatics , a company that sells Team USA merchandise, has taken a novel approach to Olympic retail this year with a physical store in a major U.S. The store marks a milestone for Team USA: It’s their first in-person retail store outside the Olympic Training Center in Colorado. Retail Gold.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

RIP retail. In a recent whitepaper, the firm noted that brick-and-mortar retailers face — and certainly feel — more pressure than ever to keep stores humming as centers of commerce. After all, over 90 percent of retail sales are still done in physical stores. Where Amazon treads, retailers tremble. Or, maybe not.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Loyalty is the Holy Grail of retail, with happy customers retained and spending all the while on goods flying off brick-and-mortar shelves. Karam said that the changes happening in retail are similar to what is going in software. In retail, a similar shift also has been transpiring, from transactional relationships to relational.

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MAY 21, 2020

As an indication of how much retail real estate owners are struggling amid the pandemic, The Mall of America has reportedly skipped two payments on its mortgage of $1.4 Research firm Trepp found that the Triple Five Group-operated shopping center missed the April and May payments for its mortgage, CNBC reported.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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MAY 31, 2019

The store will also be home to the Answer Desk, a dedicated area for customers to get tech support, repairs and training, as well as advice on the company’s products and services. Kumar served as a corporate vice president of cloud infrastructure and operations at Microsoft; he also worked at Amazon for 15 years in various senior positions.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Rosalind Brewer , Starbucks ' operating chief, has now accepted a job as Walgreens Boots Alliance 's chief executive, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). At Starbucks, Brewer was known for helping shift the company to a focus on to-go operations during the pandemic, WSJ writes. percent boost for comparable retail sales.

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