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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. The company is aiming to compete directly with Amazon , which launched its online Brazilian operations in 2012.

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Can Visual Search Help Retailers Find New Sales?

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Voice-assisted retail has commanded most of the spotlight in recent months, a reasonable development given the sales of voice-enabled devices, especially during the 2018 holiday shopping season. Take one example from apparel retail (this one without any sweaters). Like so much else in digital retail, success comes down to data.

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Retail Chains Find New Ways To Fight

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It’s a good time to be a retail chain. Retail Ascent. Retail is on the ascent. In July, retail sales increased 0.5 Economists had only forecasted retail sales going up 0.1 percent, online and mail-order retail sales increased 0.8 Retailer Woes. Not every retailer is experiencing good times, of course.

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How Retailers Drive Innovation With Subscriptions (And Payments)

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Brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as online merchants, are offering consumers all sorts of products and services through the subscription business model, from movies to tea. Subscription companies based in the Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America experienced more than 300 percent growth in subscription sales from 2012 to 2019.

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Telltale Signs: Warehouse Leasing Vs Retail Leasing

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It’s a good time in America to have a retail space ready to rent out — eCommerce merchants are on the hunt and signing large contracts. The supply chain arms race is as competitive as it’s ever been,” said Adam Mullen, CBRE’s senior managing director of industrial and logisitics, Americas leader. “The

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How Retailers Can Avoid Reinventing The Wheel In 2017

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The retail game has evolved so much over the last half decade that, in some ways, it might be unrecognizable to a traveler who somehow found herself on the wrong side of a time warp and now entering 2018. Merchants are not experts in inventory management. The answer, surprisingly, might be by doing less.

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Meal Kit Companies Reconsider Direct/Subscription Model In Favor Of Retail

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He said the company’s pilot program, which initially sold meal kits in 17 Costco stores and has expanded to 80 locations within three months, has “further validated to us the power of Costco’s retail platform.” Retailers have realized that consumers still like to come into stores,” Kilcourse said.

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