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JANUARY 3, 2020

Online brands are growing their presence in the physical world by bringing their products into brick-and-mortar stores. Ouai , a hair and body care brand founded by celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin, will roll out some of its merchandise in 1,200 Ulta Beauty locations in addition to the retailer’s website on Sunday (Jan.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

The world got a look at that new vision this week when Coached rolled out its new name — Tapestry — as it tries to reintroduce itself to the market, not as a single brand but one of the multiple labels it represents. European fashion houses LVMH and Kering are now both home to many fashion brands. billion earlier this year. “In

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JANUARY 2, 2020

In some categories, the return rate is near 50 percent due to inconsistent sizing across brands, per IHL Group Founder and President Greg Buzek. He estimated that yearly worldwide losses from retail returns are almost $1 trillion – higher than 2015’s $600 billion. million gifts and other products back to U.S.

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JUNE 29, 2018

Though the exact data of the Amazon annual shopping holiday remains up in the air, analysts are becoming increasingly confident that whenever it actually happens, Amazon’s Private Label brands will likely get a starring role in the show. Prime Day, since its inception 2015, has been big business for Amazon. . ”

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

A common, enduring fantasy for many consumers — a group that likely includes many PYMNTS readers and writers — is walking into a high-end retail store, chain or boutique that sells luxury brands , and spending vast sums on the best clothes, shoes, handbags, watches and other items. Different Proposition. That’s a very hard job.”.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The once pure play eCommerce business will open 12 new physical locations next year, adding to the 18 existing Fabletics locations that began launching in the Fall of 2015.

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JUNE 13, 2018

Amazon is replacing some of its retail veterans with software that predicts what shoppers want and how much merchants should charge for it. The shift to automating retail team jobs started several years ago with an initiative called “hands off the wheel.” Brands need to have strategies.”.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

Under Armour acquired the business for $475 million in 2015. Patrik Frisk, president and CEO of Under Armour, told The Baltimore Sun that the company is focused on returning to profitability and is planning to invest in eCommerce and company-owned retail outlets. . The deal is valued at up to $345 million.

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MAY 8, 2020

Samsung introduced its payments tool in 2015 with MST (Magnetic Secure Transmission) technology as well as Near Field Communication (NFC), a newer technology. Growth is being fueled in part because more retailers are participating. By 2018, about 50 percent of retailers and restaurants starting accepting Apple Pay.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

By fully activating services at OXXO, Western Union’s retail Agent network has nearly doubled to more than 26,600 locations, from approximately 13,500 at close of 2015. “We “Our innovative self-service feature in Mexico in collaboration with OXXO is part of our strategy to digitalize our retail network. .

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JUNE 25, 2018

I’ve been writing about the impact Amazon would have on the consumer’s grocery shopping journey and disruption to the grocery segment since Amazon introduced Dash buttons in March of 2015. As a long-time Whole Foods customer, I know, like and trust the Whole Foods brand and the quality of the products they carry in-store.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

N26, the digital-only banking brand based out of Berlin, began a staged rollout of its app in the U.S. The brand launched in Europe in 2015 and has since gained 3.5 earlier this summer before becoming widely available to American consumers in August. million customers in 25 countries, according to a company statement.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In an organized retail crime (ORC) survey, the National Retail Federation found that 92 percent of respondents were victims of the practice in the past year. These criminals find new ways to expand their networks and manipulate the retail supply chain every day.”. The practice can come in a variety of forms.

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JULY 25, 2019

Recent days have brought new evidence of the importance of robust loyalty and rewards problems in retail, an areas of ongoing innovation, and a way for merchants of all types to stand apart in a fiercely competitive industry. Retail Card Programs. The move adds to Trax’s stable of retail tech.

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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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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Petpal was officially launched in 2015 and offers more than 1,000 products to some 50,000 users primarily located in the country’s three most affluent cities. The current online market has no single leader and is split up between Walmart ’s Flipkart , Amazon.in and the 10-year-old PetsWorld platform. Launch Then Grow.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

“Retail isn’t dead; it needs a revival.”. With a list of bankruptcies growing ever longer, suburbs hosting the carcasses of scores of dead and dying shopping malls and foot traffic on an ever-falling curve, it’s not hard to draw the conclusion that retail — or, at least, the brick-and-mortar version of it — is dead.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Brands is buying a 3 percent ownership stake in Grubhub and is teaming up with the company to provide delivery from two of its brands. Grubhub paid $288 million for the company — in cash — which Bloomberg noted was twice what Yelp paid when it acquired the smaller food delivery company in 2015. The news comes as Yum!

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In retail, the Flat Tummy Instagram brand was able to make an effective algorithm that could accurately predict the effect an influencer would have on pushing its line of teas. 500,000: Number of Instagram followers Flat Tummy had on its own in 2015. All this, Today in Data.

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JUNE 7, 2018

The goal for all retailers is, of course, to deliver an excellent experience, both online and in stores, and to find ways for those disparate experiences to mesh seamlessly with one another. The Swedish furniture retailer seems to be making the opposite transition. IKEA is slowing the growth pace it has sustained in the U.S.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

In a new PYMNTS interview, David Roger, co-founder & CEO of Felix Gray , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) eyewear seller that is also trying to tap into broader wellness trends, talks about what’s coming next for this particular brand of online retail, and why Amazon may — or may not — get more involved. But it’s a double-edged sword.”.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Brands that will be featured include Champion, Jordache, Kendall + Kylie and Walmart private label brands, including Free Assembly, Scoop and Sofia Jeans. Livestreaming for marketers is no longer a novelty — live video is changing the way brands interact with their audiences,” New York based video platform Vimeo said.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

To say direct-to-consumer retail practices have had an impact on the manufacturing industry would be an understatement. With eCommerce a major proponent of the direct-to-consumer (DTC) channel and showing no signs of slowing down, the retail industry landscape has been forever changed. billion in 2015 and up to $16 billion by 2020.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Sustainable notions of commerce are moving ever more to the forefront of retail, and judging by shifting consumer trends — especially the preferences of younger consumers coming into their own — you can bet the trend will only get more intense in the coming years. And recent retail innovations would seem to bolster that point.

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JULY 29, 2020

billion and intends to combine the iconic retailer with the Belk department store chain, the New York Post reported, citing an unnamed source. Belk, which Sycamore acquired in 2015, and JCPenney have grappled with decreasing sales as they face rivalry from eCommerce merchants and newer brands.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Alibaba is warning China’s retailers that it plans to revolutionize the nation’s retail sector. According to Internet Retailer , in a letter to shareholders sent on October 13, CEO Daniel Zhang outlined plans to make product manufacturing, distribution and service more efficient by “upgrading” traditional systems and processes.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Mid-sized retailers are missing the mark when it comes to investing in their omnichannel initiatives, according to a new research report from Freestyle Solutions, a provider of order management software for retailers and brands. What’s more, less than half, 44 percent, had an in-store product locator.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

According to the BDO Retail Compass Survey of CMOs, nearly 60 percent of marketers plan to leverage mobile in their marketing strategies this holiday season. Although less than 10 percent of marketers say they plan to focus on generic mobile coupons, retailers will be offering bargain hunters other ways to get a deal.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Those are the types of retailers that Bulletin, a retail tech firm looking to disrupt brick-and-mortar retail, wants to work with – because they are the brands that are most interested in offering the types of highly curated physical experiences that Branston’s company specializes in building.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

After almost six decades as chief executive, L Brands CEO Leslie Wexner is reportedly in talks to leave his position as head of his retail empire. Shares of L Brands Inc., The company, which also owns the Pink and Bath & Body Works chains, has a sub-$6 billion market value, a far drop from its $29 billion peak in 2015.

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MAY 11, 2018

That’s one of the driving ideas behind a new service that Marriott International recently launched for Chinese travelers going overseas — a service that also helps to demonstrate how the country’s growing tourist class is changing payments and retail. Last year, the U.S.-based Marriott began working with Fliggy in August 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Online bank Aspiration, which has a socially conscious mission, recently announced it would give customers 3 to 5 percent back on purchases from socially conscious brands, according to a report by Bloomberg. There are more than a dozen companies in the deal, including eyeglass brand Warby Parker and Brandless, a household goods retailer.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

As the results from the nation’s most prominent names in retail came rolling in for Q2, one could not help but think back to high school and recall what is probably the best-known start to a novel in the English language: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The Winner’s Circle — And How They Got There .

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JUNE 5, 2020

The world of retail might not be quite getting back to normal, but people are starting to pick up some pieces of their old day-to-day lives again. A few big-ticket purchases of digital apparel retailers like ModCloth and Bonobos didn’t turn out as planned. That’s a big leap forward.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

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. The merchant’s focus is on the products and brands they’ve created,” she said. Today, those questions have become more urgent.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Those two retail trends have recently collided in Southeast Asia, where Carro, an automotive marketplace and financing provider, reportedly has bought Jualo, an online marketplace for used goods from some 300 product categories. The deal is not the only recent news involving the online retail sales of automobiles. Retail Waste.

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