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JULY 30, 2019

One of the biggest retail stories as we head into 2020 is how India is a battlefield of digital commerce, along with a hotbed of retail innovation. The eCommerce retailer is said to be working with Catamaran and has started hiring workers for the operation per unnamed sources, Reuters reported. Amazon’s Moves.

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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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JANUARY 16, 2020

Close the door and buckle up – retail automotive sales are getting an upgrade. The app is a replacement for the previous eBay Motors app, which was discontinued in 2015, and it is available in the U.S. The app is a replacement for the previous eBay Motors app, which was discontinued in 2015, and it is available 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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APRIL 25, 2016

Twenty years later we still see double-digit growth rates, including 20% in 2015. Retail advertisers continue to represent the largest category of Internet ad spending, responsible for 22% percent last year, followed by automotive and financial services which each accounted for 13% of the year’s revenues,” the report states.

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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.”

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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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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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JANUARY 22, 2019

Munchery came on the scene in 2010 and hit a valuation of $300 million in 2015 after raising $87 million in a venture funding round. We have also enjoyed giving back to our community through meal donations, volunteer service, and so much more.”.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Many retail companies rung in the new year with a new CFO. Or, at least, many retail companies wanted to. Turns out, at least 45 retail companies have had their CFO exit in the past year. This means that CFOs have to participate in the strategy and operations of some organizations, where they didn’t used to.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

Semiconductor giant Intel has committed to invest more than $100 million over the course of the next five years in the retail industry to connect the physical and virtual components of retail operations. In retail, though, the advantages are especially profound.

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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.

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JANUARY 15, 2015

The retail banking industry has seen major changes occurring in the industry over the last few years with the adoption of mobile banking, the rise to prominence of the millennial demographic, narrowing margins, stagnant top line revenues, the future of the branch and continued regulatory changes. Digital Banking. Cyber vulnerabilities.

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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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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

According to the Eastern Europe B2C E-Commerce and Online Payment Market 2019 report, online retail sales in Eastern European countries continue a trend of double-digit growth rates this year, a release said. Alibaba opened its first office in Russia in 2015 and has focused on the country as a key growth market.

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MAY 2, 2017

UPS looks to test a new pricing model in which the cost of empty space during the holidays is covered by retail partners. The move, part of broader negotiations with retailers over peak delivery seasons, looks to address major retailers who order capacity for forecasted shipments but then fail to meet expected volumes.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Brookstone , a specialty retailer known for massage chairs and gadgets, used to be a must-see mall retailer. malls, Brookstone is now the latest major brick-and-mortar retailer to announce that it has filed for bankruptcy protection. Both have operations online under new owners, reported The Wall Street Journal.

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MAY 22, 2017

A new study has found that retail global expansion has lost some steam, and while the United States remains the most active, Europe is now the preferred spot for expanding retailers, according to Chain Store Age. The results found that retailers’ expansion into new markets increased by 2 percent in 2016, down from 3.1

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MARCH 18, 2016

billion in 2015, while net shareholder profit sank 4.6 To his credit, Fung did attempt to assuage concerns about all of his company’s operations. percent more revenue in 2015 than the year before. The changes happening [in] retail are impacting everyone along the value chain,” Fung said, according to FT.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

The business of retail apps is booming. In 2015 alone, app sales increased to $59.86 And 303 of the world’s top 500 retailers now have an app. In 2015 alone, 50 those retailers generated $29.46 But what separates a good retail app from a bad one? Groupon topped all retailer apps on the list coming in at 83.0

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The former CFO of Zalando SE, one of Europe’s most successful eCommerce retailers, Kemper was instrumental in leading the company’s IPO in 2014 on the Frankfurt stock exchange. Dropbox leader Adrienne Gormley will become the chief operating officer. The company operates in 25 countries and employs more than 1,500 people.

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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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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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JULY 8, 2016

Especially when a company like Amazon seems to operate above and beyond what other merchants are capable of, stealing a page from its playbook doesn’t seem like such a terrible idea. Imitation might the sincerest form of flattery, but sometimes, it’s also not a terrible way to run a business.

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MAY 31, 2016

And while one could perhaps quibble with the exact phrasing there — misery probably, more accurately, likes company but would, on the whole, only love not being miserable anymore — the recent run of numbers in retail certainly brings the old adage to mind. Now is the change-or-die point in retail. Total revenues decreased 2.3

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Account takeovers are becoming bigger business for criminals — or, at least, the business of preventing account takeovers in the digital retail and payments realm is becoming an increasing focus of companies and security experts. Castle, founded in 2015, said it has raised $9.2 Fraud Case Study.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Western retailers are just now starting to see daylight at the end of a long winter of discounting discontent, and many standbys like Macy’s and JCPenney haven’t come out unscathed. 2015 report by Statistics Korea, via eMarketer , found a striking disparity in growth between physical and online retail in South Korea last year.

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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 16, 2017

Retail sales increased 4.1 According to a report , retail sales during the month of December increased 0.6 Among the retailers that led the charge in terms of sales, it was squarely in the eCommerce camp, with sales at Amazon and eBay seeing strength. For all of 2016, retail sales came in up 3.3 percent increase in 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Ask a brand, retailer or marketer, and they’ll all probably say the same thing: Brick-and-mortar retail stores are dying thanks to the rise of eCommerce and online shopping. And if brick-and-mortar retail really is dead or dying, then maybe somebody should tell that to the retailers themselves? And DSW’s U.S.

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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. Stitch Labs’ unique insight on what retailers need comes from the company’s roots. The Omnichannel Age.

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APRIL 26, 2016

Not that too many major sports retailers are in a joking mood currently, but the easy joke to make — were one so inclined — about the spate of closures and bankruptcies in the space of late would be to attribute it to modern consumers’ laziness and lack of athleticism. A vicious circle if ever there was one.

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JULY 5, 2018

As digital technology keeps bringing new efficiencies to transactions, and more consumers around the world turn to eCommerce for retail and other purchases, an accompanying trend is making life interesting for merchants and payment providers. Much of North America remains anchored to major-brand credit cards.

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MARCH 9, 2016

Everybody likes to talk about the addiction that brick-and-mortar retailers have developed for deep, and often destabilizing, discounts, and they usually point to store closings and executive board shakeups at Macy’s and other chains as clear proof of these practices’ consequences. Still, the label indicates that the $99.99

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FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The operation will likely include savings and lending products, and it comes just two years after U.S. Chase has usually not done international operations, preferring to nurture its huge and profitable domestic market. Adamson also has experience as a retail lender, chairing the risk committee at Virgin Money until last November.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Warehouses, though still manually operated, are in need of more automation and robotics technology to accommodate the massive challenges and demands created by the prevalence of online platforms. Nike, through the new partnership, aims to introduce more robots to help speed up their operations.

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DECEMBER 12, 2019

The company, which was founded in 2015, uses artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision and sensor technology to provide a 100 percent cashier- and checkout-free experience. It has four autonomous stores and is currently in the pilot testing phase with several retailers around the world.

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