2020 Operations Retail 
PYMNTS
JANUARY 3, 2020
Call it a crisis that crosses the pond, will last into 2020 and, likely, beyond. Looking past the cheerful numbers tied to holiday shopping and the tens of billions of dollars spent on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and into Christmas, the decline of retail, at least the traditional retail model, continues into the new year, and across oceans.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands came in two flavors during 2020. The first were the Pepsis, Heinzes and Krafts that either didn’t like their retail distribution or saw a pandemic-driven opportunity to get new products in new configurations to the consumer. That group is more exciting. Green Goo: Funny name with a serious mission.
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PYMNTS
JANUARY 24, 2021
The paper cited positive data from a large swath of UK tour operators. Bus operator National Express reported a 185 percent increase in bookings for spring and summer trips compared with bookings made during the same period in 2020. The vaccine is definitely part of it,” said the chief executive, Henrik Kjellberg.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 24, 2020
When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. They and others have succeeded because they entered the market independent of traditional retail, and because their business model fit the needs of the pandemic.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 23, 2020
In fact, 2020 opened with retail reports decrying the great toy sales slump , citing the 4 percent fall-off in toy sales, the rather tepid holiday sales season reported between 2018 and 2019 and the fact that toy sales came up short during last year’s holiday season. Barbie gross sales rose 29 percent in Q3, to $532.2
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
But in other ways, it was business as usual, as the two biggest retailers in the world – Walmart and Amazon – posted stellar earnings numbers and competed in more muted ways for the U.S. percent of total consumer spending in Q2 (spanning all categories, including retail) and 9 percent of total retail spending. billion to $110.5
PYMNTS
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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