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Charting New Retail Courses With Fitness And Beauty

PYMNTS

And, in beauty retail, online hair and body care brands such as Ouai are growing their presence in the physical world by bringing their products into brick-and-mortar stores like Ulta Beauty. iPhone app-enabled marketplaces such as Trainiac are letting consumers work one-on-one with a personal trainer.

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Retail 2021: The Five Things Retailers Should Be Talking About At NRF This Week

PYMNTS

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. Let’s hope the discussion isn’t much too little and way too late, but is more about how to respond to retail’s COVID-19 wake-up call.

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eCommerce Takes Half Of Pandemic-Driven Retail Growth

PYMNTS

The dramatic consumer shift to Digital 3.0 — predicted months ago by the PYMNTS COVID-19 tracker work — is accounting for almost half of the retail growth in the US. It found that eCommerce growth as of May 1 was up 68 percent, surpassing 40 percent of total retail sales. Overall Chinese retail sales of consumer goods dropped 2.8

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Retailers Are Getting Smarter About Artificial Intelligence

PYMNTS

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are starting to play a bigger role in retail, foreshadowing what’s to come in the new decade of the 2020s. According to PYMNTS research , AI and ML are blurring the divide between online and in-store shopping, and bringing an all-new human element into retail. Role of Data.

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Why China’s Consumer Rebound Might Not Boost Luxury Retail

PYMNTS

To that end, in China, retail data showed consumers snapped a seven-month streak decline. Retail sales posted their first gain amid the pandemic. All told, though, even with the positive reading last month, in China year to date, retail sales are down 8.6 Jobs, of course, pay the wages that underpin consumer spending.

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Retail banking trends to look out for in 2023

Independent Banker

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? According to a new report from PwC titled “Retail Banking 2025 and Beyond” (see sidebar), the retail banking industry is undergoing tremendous change—but, of course, community bankers already know that.

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Peloton, Connected Fitness Companies Chart New Course And Face New Problems

PYMNTS

The pandemic will of course be over someday, but will consumers go back to the gym? We already know that the early reopening period has been a rocky road for gyms so far — a road that will likely only be made rockier as the second wave continues and consumers remain concerned about their own health and the health of those around them.

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