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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. The seven-year-old D2C hybrid brand has received $4.7

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. Apple Pay’s Digital-First Disconnect. consumers — 47.2

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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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APRIL 17, 2020

To reportedly help it compete with Apple Pay and the Apple Card, Google is creating its own tangible and virtual debit cards. The tech company’s debit card will have the brand of Google along with its partnered financial institution; however, it is not known what the offering’s name will be.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In today’s top retail news, Amazon Go stores in Seattle are reportedly being equipped with Amazon One palm-reading scanners, while automotive brands are taking control of digital purchasing platforms. Plus, fashion-based small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are getting a new marketplace option.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Alibaba ’s 24-hour Singles Day not only broke records for the Chinese eCommerce leader, but Apple emerged as the top-selling mobile phone vendor during the shopping event. According to news from CNBC , citing Alibaba, Apple topped the list in the mobile phone category — one retailer among 237 others that surpassed $14.36

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MAY 22, 2020

If you want to know whether stimulus checks are working to rebuild the economy, just ask the world’s largest retailer. Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts the tech company saw an across-the-board uptick in the second half of April, at least in part due to the stimulus money. . Walmart U.S. Finance ’s morning market preview show.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

That’s a quote from department store maven John Wanamaker, illustrating a conundrum for retailers (and merchants in general): Namely, you’ve got to reach out to consumers if you are going to convince them to buy your wares. It is equally important to measure and iterate as the retailer continues to engage with its target audience.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Analysts and the media smelled blood in the water after CEO Tim Cook said Apple would stop reporting unit sales of its products, including its crown jewel, the iPhone, next quarter. For Apple, it was consumers not buying iPhones at the frequency they once did. So, how’s Apple going to make that up?

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APRIL 22, 2019

JCPenney ended support for Apple Pay in its stores and also removed the mobile payment option from its app, a surprising reversal for a brand that offered Apple Pay in 2015, within a year of its rollout. There are multiple factors in play here.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Nike is offering 3 percent cash back to Apple Card users when a Nike product is purchased using Apple Pay , TechCrunch reported Monday (Nov. The deal applies to all Nike products when purchases are made using the Apple Card through the Nike website, retail stores, Nike Training Club and more. Apple Pay went live on Oct.

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DECEMBER 8, 2019

The Apple Card is planning to offer 0 percent installment financing on iPhones by the end of 2019, 9to5Mac reported on Saturday (Dec. During Apple’s October earnings call , chief executive officer Tim Cook hinted that the Apple Card was planning 24-month 0 percent financing for iPhone purchases. Apple Card?

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JULY 6, 2020

Up until then, retail levels were improving somewhat since the all-time low in April while the country was on lockdown. But customers have begun retreating from retail for the second time due to the increase in cases. The decline comes alongside companies like Apple ‘s decisions to re-close stores.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Months after Apple CEO Tim Cook said CVS would be accepting Apple Pay, the retailer has brought support for the mobile wallet to stores across the country. The retailer had reportedly slowly brought the functionality to its brick-and-mortar stores, and the rollout has now been publicized, MacRumors reported.

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APRIL 10, 2020

Fruit Street – a virtual one-stop-shop specializing in digital diabetes diagnosis and treatment – has partnered with vegetarian meal kit purveyor Purple Carrot to add a retail angle to its health advisory service. The mobile application can sync various wireless devices, including Fitbit, iHealth, BodyTrace, Apple Health and Withings.

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APRIL 1, 2020

For the second consecutive month, Apple Inc. will allow its Apple Card users to defer April payments without interest or penalties to ease financial pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. The only requirement is that Apple Card users must opt into the program by messaging a support representative via the Wallet app on an Apple device.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. More than six in 10 health and beauty firms — or 61.7

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Consumers can buy furniture anywhere.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

But no matter the case, music is a big part of the retail world, and is helping to create new harmonies of innovation and disruption. The first bar of this story should probably include the streaming wars, which involved many major Big Tech players, including Amazon and Apple. New Partnerships and Services.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

For retailers, the fourth quarter of 2020 is likely to see a media blitz that will make other years pale in comparison. Unspent budget from big box retailers will be let loose as early as Oct. There are many critical aspects to SMB retail media strategy but two stand out this year: when to advertise and where to advertise.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Voice commerce may grab more headlines due to the presence of Google, Apple and Amazon, but conversational commerce – its younger cousin – is finding its own way as the information superhighway to a purchase. “We The voice activation may come back with one brand or a few, as well as suggested websites or stores. Herrick agrees.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

At a time when the coronavirus has already changed so many aspects of our daily lives, a revision of this post-Thanksgiving retail tradition only makes sense. That prompted the overwhelming majority of big-box retailers to follow suit, except for a few dollar stores and the major pharmacy chains. “Get Not Just Retailers Are Reacting.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

Williams-Sonoma, a retail outlet that sells kitchenware and furnishings, has sued Amazon over a chair that is “strikingly similar” to the company’s West Elm brand, according to a report by Bloomberg. The chair that Williams-Sonoma alleges is a copy has similar features and retails for $299. The lawsuit was filed on Dec.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Small menswear brands, even some that are considered to be medium or large, might face a challenge when it comes to marketing: How do they get in front of consumers? The idea is that brands don’t have to worry about competition or incentives to drive people to purchase their products. The Brand Experience.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Apple is hoping its new 5G iPhones will help it bridge a gap in sales in China, where it has been beaten out by rivals like Huawei, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. But in China, the phone wasn't seen on display at an Apple store in Shanghai. On Tuesday (Oct. in recent years.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In an effort to provide customers with access to items like the iPhone XR and the new iPad Pro, Amazon has reportedly inked a deal with Apple. The eCommerce retailer also plans to sell Beats headphones, which are part of Apple’s lineup, CNET reported. I’d say Apple is pretty safe there.”.

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JULY 22, 2020

A new advocacy group dedicated to direct-to-consumer retail was announced this week with representation from Google and several major retailers including QVC, Brooks Brothers and Lane Bryant. It foresees a short-term evolution of retailing to an all-DTC world.

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MAY 28, 2020

As retailers scramble to capture the digital shift, it’s easy for some overlooked details, such as unanswered customer complaints, to harm their brands. To prevent this, a new category is emerging around the area of online reputation management , with a luxury automaker among the latest brands to embrace the technology.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It would be “odd” for Apple Inc. and not with Synchrony Financial, MoffettNathanson analyst Lisa Ellis said, since Synchrony dominates the market for co-brand offerings. Goldman must be offering Apple a very good deal,” Ellis said by email. to offer a jointly developed credit card with Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Consumers shopping in droves via eCommerce channels is hardly a piece of breaking news — for the better part of a decade, that has been obvious to anyone watching the retail space. They are, Fiserv Senior Vice President of Retail Solutions John Nicola told Karen Webster in a recent conversation — and in great numbers.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The Apple Watch had a record-breaking 2019, outselling the entire Swiss watch industry, a report by Strategy Analytics indicated on Wednesday (Feb. Apple Watch shipped 30.7 million for all Swiss watch brands combined. Regardless, shipments of Apple Watches grew 36 percent between 2018 and 2019. million units.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Goldman Sachs said it doled out about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple -branded credit card, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Nov. According to regulatory filings made public this week, Apple Card? There are no fees with the card, and it integrates with Apple Pay and the iOS Wallet app.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

You’re Constellation Brands. One of your leading brands is Corona beer. Two: Corona is going full speed ahead with the launch of its hard seltzer brand extension. What we don’t know is whether or not the retailers that will sell this — or any product for that matter — will be hit domestically by fear of being in public places.

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MARCH 24, 2016

Is the expansion of Apple Pay’s functionality to include website functionality enough to enable the tech company’s payments venture to top PayPal, the reigning king of mobile payments?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Citing the deadly coronavirus, Apple has become the first major company to admit it won’t meet its projected revenue for this quarter because of the outbreak, according to published reports Monday (Feb. The fall in tourism from China has also affected luxury brands such as Estée Lauder Cos.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

A prominent analyst, JPMorgan’s Samik Chatterjee, has suggested that Apple may alter the way it currently releases iPhones every year, splitting them into summer and fall releases instead of lumping them all together near the end of the year, according to reports. There were three released this year, and four are planned for next year.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Goldman Sachs said it doled out about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple -branded credit card, Bloomberg reported on Friday (Nov. According to regulatory filings made public this week, Apple Card? There are no fees with the card, and it integrates with Apple Pay and the iOS Wallet app.

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