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FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Is retail just the land where shelves are stocked with goods, where salespeople appear at your elbow to inquire about your quest to buy? Is retail the purview of the buy button, the screen, and should it be defined as tied to the big screen (laptop) or small screen (smartphone)? Check out Innovation Project 2017.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

2017 looks like it’s shaping up to be a solid year. Between consumer confidence trending upward and more people spending — and racking up some debt — retailers are slated to be pleased when the ball drops and the confetti settles. Buy online, pick up in-store is happening … more. The cost of shipping matters.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. The move is one of several that Tilly’s has been pursuing recently to draw additional foot traffic in an era when, like many youth-focused retailers, it is seeing its sales constantly shifting online.

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MAY 8, 2017

The UK’s top retailers are facing tough competition online from U.S.-based According to eMarketer , February 2017 data from comScore MMX shows Apple and Google Shopping placed fifth and sixth, respectively, among the U.K.’s s top 10 retail companies as ranked by unique visitors to their desktop brand sites.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

It was a good holiday season for online retailers in 2017 — particularly Amazon. According to Gartner, online retail sales rose 14.7 percent year-over-year during the 2017 holiday season to $108 billion. Nearly 85 percent of holiday sales were in physical stores in 2017.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

As it aims to tap into its massive digital subscriber base to take on worldwide eCommerce companies, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries is launching an early version of its online retail offering. The company has reportedly emerged as the strongest rival to the existing online shopping leaders India, Flipkart and Amazon.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

The business advisory firm FTI Consulting has forecasted that online retail sales in the United States will top $1 trillion by 2027 , CNBC reports. The firm expects eCommerce to grow from the current figure, $445 billion, as consumers continue to move away from traditional retailers.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Plenty of famous retail chains have collapsed both before and during a pandemic that has slammed brick-and-mortar stores, but some iconic names like Pier 1 , Barneys New York and others are coming back – at least in some fashion. Other well-known brands have died in the physical world, but reopened under new owners as online-only storefronts.

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APRIL 29, 2017

The e-commerce industry is rapidly changing with ever-evolving trends and an increasing number of online shoppers every year. Convenience is attributed as the biggest factor in the growth in the.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

InTime is one of the biggest retail chains in China, with department stores as well as eCommerce sites. InTime was acquired by Alibab a in 2017. In the current climate, about 20 percent of sales are online. . The streams were facilitated by thousands of retail sales employees who signed on as hosts. billion in 2019.

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APRIL 16, 2018

The retailer’s website has 55.9 million average monthly visits, retail news source Retail Dive reported. The think tank found a decline of 410 basis points in the retailer’s apparel share as its revenues declined by $3 billion from 2012 to 2017.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Consumers are firing brick-and-mortar retailers from the jobs they held years and decades before. To get their shopping jobs done, consumers are now hiring retailers that make it convenient to do business – anywhere, anytime, through any channel and on their terms. When Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store Goes Horribly Wrong.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

The online marketplace has disrupted any number of verticals, changing the way we shop and spend, and where we grab must-have items — from books to rugs to lamps, and sometimes from across international borders. We operate the only truly global luxury digital marketplace at scale, seamlessly connecting brands, retailers and consumers.

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APRIL 19, 2017

PetSmart is boosting its digital offerings through the acquisition of Chewy, the leading online retailer of pet food and products. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of PetSmart’s second fiscal quarter of 2017. “We

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

These are tough times to be tangible — as in brick-and-mortar, in retailing at least. The physical retailer is constrained by square footage, the hybrid retailer joining on an eCommerce platform less so, especially with the drop shipping. The upshot is that, through the drop-ship model, they do not need to hold more inventory.

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MAY 26, 2020

Faire said: “This has raised a common question for brands and retailers: How can we safely connect and continue doing business under this new set of risks?”. According to the statement, Faire brands and retailers will receive year-round access to the following: Virtual showrooms that will allow retailers to view entire catalogs.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

The 31st instantiation of the the annual poll of consumer desires indicated that retailers should be getting ready to batten down their eCommerce hatches, because a wave of customers will soon be upon them. Consumers are also planning to spend more of their budget online than ever. The parking lots will still be full for some reason.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Retailers seeking to provide rapid deliveries face an ever-moving target as consumers’ definition of speed evolves. A significant share of Generation Z consumers — those aged 18 to 25 — are turning to buy online, pick up in store ( BOPIS ) purchasing models to meet their speed needs. Quick Access and Impulses.

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MARCH 16, 2017

What’s keeping bankers awake at night in 2017 – and what’s helping them leap out of bed in the morning, ready to help make customers’ financial dreams come true? We got a glimpse of this at Bank Innovation 2017, our invite-only event in Silicon Valley earlier this month. (If If you missed the action and are […].

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Women in 2017 will do the bulk of the family’s holiday shopping – to the tune of 75 percent. But in some ways, 2017 is a very different year than the last few, Quinlan noted – a much merrier and brighter year on the commerce front. She’s not known for putting an unnecessarily chipper gloss on the story of retail trends.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Amid a change in shopping habits from brick-and-mortar to eCommerce, online spending is expected to reach $124.1 To arrive at the forecast, Adobe Analytics took a look at transactions at 80 of the top 100 retailers in the United States along with visits by consumers to U.S. retail websites. retail websites. billion.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Per a JLL report, the number of service-based retailers rose 20.5 percent between 2002 and 2017, coming in at 1.2 million spaces, while retailers offering goods declined 4.5 JLL Director of Retail Research James Cook said that the growth in service-based companies “will plateau at some new percentage.” percent to 1.1

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JUNE 18, 2018

Amazon ’s furniture sales are on the move: A One Click Retail study found that the eCommerce retailer has more than tripled sales in that category since 2015. And, in 2017, furniture brought in approximately $4 billion, retail news source Chain Store Age reported. with only groceries ahead of it.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. You will observe grocery, as a retail category, is very fragmented. billion fine onto Google, claiming that their product carousel ads created an unfair advantage to small guy retailers who didn’t have the money to advertise. Investors put $2.65

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JANUARY 27, 2017

26) that online sales for retailers in France may rise as much as 11 percent in 2017 to $85.85 During 2016, French shoppers spent €72 billion making purchases online. That was offset by an increase in the frequency in which French consumers purchased things online. The most popular retailer?

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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. In 2017, the merchant needs to understand where the consumer is, what they want, and how to make any type of offering available to them.

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JUNE 24, 2020

Merchants are focusing on re-engaging shoppers now that brick-and-mortar retailers are reopening across the United States. In eCommerce, in an effort to attract and retain online customers, Amazon’s The Big Style Sale is serving as something of an event filler as Prime Day has been delayed due to the pandemic.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

With unemployment at new lows, staffing has become a challenge for retail companies. Retailers had 757,000 job openings in July, which is roughly 100,000 more than they had a year before, The Wall Street Journal reported. Retailers are hosting “recruiting marathons” to help hire thousands of people.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

Bebe, eCommerce, online store, loyalty program, clubbebe, website, online shopping, women’s fashion, women’s clothing, retail, news. The retailer bebe has launched a new online store and an enhanced customer loyalty program, partnering with Branded Online on both projects.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Those promise to stand as two main traits of the 2018 holiday shopping season , and retailers that gain an edge and increase revenue during the all-important fourth quarter will likely have exploited such tactics during this period, at least according to new data that strives to paint a detailed picture of U.S. Offline And Online Cozy Up.

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JULY 25, 2017

Within the retail industry specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) is moving the ball for a lot of merchants looking to not only streamline their business operations but provide a more personalized experience for consumers. In 2016, online financial fraud hit 15.4 In a sense, machine learning is the autopilot for the digital arena.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the ride-hailing company could potentially offer courier services for retail businesses in the future, according to a report by Reuters. Khosrowshahi was speaking at a meeting at the Economic Club of New York, and he talked about his tenure at the head of Uber, a position he took in 2017.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

This Cyber Monday could be the biggest online shopping day in history, according to Wednesday (Nov. Rather, it indicates a strengthening economy and an overall increase in spending both online and in physical store locations. By comparison, just 48 percent of survey respondents said they planned to shop online on Cyber Monday.

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JANUARY 4, 2017

Soon, online payments might get more frictionless. Amazon’s patent on its 1-Click payment system will expire this year, meaning online buyers could soon see many other online stores adopting similar methods throughout 2017. The frictionless payment option is one of many reasons so many online customers frequent Amazon.

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APRIL 11, 2019

As online food delivery services proliferate amid the battle for customer loyalty, and as grocery and related stores strive to gain more digital footholds, the online sale of alcohol is growing and becoming a bigger part of all those plans. Online food delivery is in the midst of what might one day be called a golden age.

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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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JANUARY 29, 2018

grocery shoppers may purchase at least some of their groceries online within five to seven years, according to a Food Marketing Institute and Nielsen report, CNBC reported. There is a fundamental shift in retail, and we are seeing an acceleration,” said Thom Blischok, global retail strategic advisor to Nielsen.

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