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Holiday Shipping Delays Fall Hard On Retail SMBs

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For example, investigative reporters from Detroit’s WXYZ found tractor trailers lined up around the street trying to deliver and pick up packages at the U.S. Postal Service Detroit Network Distribution Center in Allen Park. The station counted at least 50 of them trying to get into the Allen Park plant on Monday, Dec.

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Reinventing The Baby Care Market With Exclusive ‘Premium’ Brands

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Major retailers are pitching premium baby care products at a less-than-premium price tag with the help of exclusive brands: Walmart is offering Hello Bello exclusively at its stores and its website (and that of the brand). It is also reportedly the inaugural brand rolled out under a platform called Launched.LA.,

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Want To Build A Retail Experience? Get An Incubator

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You’ve probably gotten the memo already, but in case you missed the message, here you go: Mere retail is boring. Mere retail is not enough. According to Foot Locker , that store has 8,500 square feet of retail space and “is home to an activation space that will host regularly scheduled events and activations for the sneaker-obsessed.”

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More Retailers Are Checking Into Hotels In Search Of Innovation

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Part of the future of retail is playing out inside hotels — and that’s happening as the wider part of the travel-and-tourism industry is undergoing its own significant disruption. One of the latest — and perhaps wildest — examples of the hotel-retail trend comes from Taco Bell, of all places. Unattended Retail.

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Amazon Takes Territory In US And Beyond

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Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. Amazon is opening a 1 million-square-foot warehouse in metro Detroit and plans to hire 1,000 employees to fill it. Township leaders are ecstatic, yet some fear the company could kill more jobs than it creates because of its threat to the retail sector.

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Report: Amazon Slows Alexa Staff Hiring To Improve Margin

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A representative for the eCommerce retailer said in a statement cited by the outlet that it “did not implement a hiring freeze, and the pace for hiring across Alexa and our Devices organization continues to be very strong. And, in other Amazon news, the retailer is continuing its strong clamp-down on counterfeit items.

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Macy’s Spotlights Women-Owned Businesses With SoGifted

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The retailer is opening SoGifted shops in its flagship Manhattan store and six other locations. With the partnership at Macy’s, we’re taking this a step further and giving in-store shoppers across the country an opportunity to discover and support female-led small business brands.”. Lauderdale.

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