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ALDI has announced that it is expanding its online grocery delivery service to all of its stores in the United States. ALDI partnered with Instacart in March, first launching the service in greater Chicago, in areas as far as Rockford, Illinois, after testing it out in three markets – Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles — in August.

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AUGUST 28, 2020

New Report: Helping Retail Treasurers Navigate The Digital D2C Shift (“How To” Playbook). Not only have retail sales shifted online, but more consumers are buying more of what they want directly from the brand. Report: Helping Retailers Solve The Payments Piece Of The eCommerce Puzzle (Anatomy Of A Consumer Payment Playbook).

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JULY 27, 2020

Digital commerce has skyrocketed at Albertsons , as the supermarket giant posted a triple-digit increase in online sales for its most recent quarter amid soaring demand for grocery delivery and curbside pickup. The increase in online sales also helped offset declines from the closure of some stores and a drop in fuel sales. “We

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The retail giant is starting “a fashion essentials-inspired brand for both men and women created by our in-house design team,” the company said in a news release. Walmart can “give our customers more of what they want — quality, stylish and accessible fashion,” she said, pointing to the retailer’s work with thredUP. Today (Sept.

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MAY 19, 2020

The results reversed a trend from last quarter, where the chain was one of many physical retailers facing a tepid holiday season that missed analyst expectations for sales, comparable-sales growth and earnings across the board. But things have reversed dramatically for the retailer amid the COVID-19 pandemic. percent to $134.6

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Carvana , the eCommerce platform for buying and selling used cars, opened its latest Car Vending Machine in the Westminster area of Los Angeles, the company announced today (Aug. The company says customers can save time and money by skipping the dealership and shopping online at Carvana.com. 15) in a press release. .

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Walmart is selling two of its online brands in a continuing goal to concentrate on its website. 27) that the Arkansas-based retail giant is scrapping Shoes.com and Bare Necessities, the intimate apparel brand. Bloomberg reported Thursday (Aug. Also last year, Walmart shuttered its Jet.com eCommerce website and phased out the brand.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are taking small-format, inventory-free locations to big cities: Nordstrom , for instance, is bringing its Nordstrom Local concept to the Big Apple. Beyond New York City, Nordstrom Local has three locations out west in California — Melrose, Brentwood and Downtown Los Angeles.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

Mastercard and Next Retail Concepts announced a new way to shop online this holiday season, with a new digital environment that lets shoppers browse and buy as if they were in a physical store. In a press release , the two companies announced they are launching the platform with Fred Segal, the retail brand. ”

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

grocery stores with locations in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. The company has inked over one dozen leases in the Los Angeles area, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources. . The eCommerce retailer is also reportedly eyeing grocery spaces in New Jersey, Connecticut and the New York metro region.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. The company also opened a permanent store in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California last year. to pick up online purchases via curbside services.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Retailers are doubling down on toys amid a gap in the market left by the bankruptcy of Toys R Us. toy retailer Hamleys , for instance, is eyeing a potential New York City location for a flagship store. The atmosphere comes as brick-and-mortar retailers have to differentiate themselves from their eCommerce counterparts.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

B2B online commerce technology company NuORDER has unveiled its NuORDER Payments offering. NuORDER is a wholesale online commerce platform through which purchasers can peruse merchandise, map out collections and “make smarter buys in real time,” according to the announcement. 26) announcement.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Retailers are looking to do more in smaller spaces, a trend that seems ready to increase during the holiday shopping season and beyond. Among the latest examples of that comes from kids’ eyewear retailer Fitz Frames , which offers face measurements via its mobile app, and a subscription commerce plan for consumers.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Traditional retail locations, ranging from fashion and home furnishings to hardware and department stores, have been forced to make significant changes in the face of heightened competition from eCommerce giants like Amazon and omnichannel powerhouses, like Walmart and its online unit, Jet.com.

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JANUARY 28, 2020

Nike ’s online store has sold out of all of its Kobe Bryant-related merchandise, according to numerous reports on Tuesday (Jan. No Kobe Bryant items were pulled from being sold and Nike didn’t ask retailers to send them back, as had been previously reported.

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APRIL 25, 2019

Might Macy’s be a better landlord than retailer? have been hurt as shoppers make more purchases online, forcing retailers to think of ways to either downsize their footprints or repurpose their stores. The year got off to a bumpy start for the retail chain, as holiday sales slumped when they were supposed to soar.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

Alipay, the Chinese digital payment arm of Alibaba, announced news that it has teamed up with online review website Yelp to bring Yelp’s local content to millions of Chinese travelers directly within Alipay’s mobile lifestyle and payment app. Additional cities and countries will be added in 2017, Alipay said in the release.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

It’s a good time to be a retail chain. Retail Ascent. Retail is on the ascent. In July, retail sales increased 0.5 Economists had only forecasted retail sales going up 0.1 percent, online and mail-order retail sales increased 0.8 Retailer Woes. Yeah, really. percent, and grew 6.4

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FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Two industries forever changed by eCommerce — restaurants and malls — are coming together to develop an affordable system to meet the rising demand for online meal delivery. So-called “ghost” kitchens can take over retail, mall and warehouse space abandoned by struggling merchants. Accor has a 50 percent stake in SBE.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

It’s a tale of two kinds of brick-and-mortar retailers amid the rise of eCommerce: Some traditional department store chains like JCPenney and Macy’s are shuttering stores, as some retailers with other business models are more than surviving. TJX, the owner of off-priced retailers like T.J.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Caught somewhere in the middle is a category that has had a tough run this lost summer of 2020: bridal retailers. A minimony , as the name suggests, is hardly as lucrative as its bigger cousin, matrimony – and that difference has taken a bite out of bridal retail. Smaller retailers are focused on safety as well as agility.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Lie before you buy: Casper, the online bed-in-a-box startup selling mattresses by mail order, will soon allow customers to try those beds before having one shipped to their home. These shops will be open in cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago through spring 2018. in October.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

This year, apps aimed to make it easier and more convenient for consumers to order their favorite foods and sundries, with restaurants and other retailers tapping into delivery. To help bring these options to more consumers, retailers and technology companies decided to join forces. and Chicago.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Walmart acquired the online indie and vintage-inspired women’s apparel retailer in March 2017 for somewhere between $50 million and $75 million. But Los Angeles-based Modcloth has yet to turn a profit and has gone through three CEOs since early 2018. “We are in the process of exploring potential opportunities.”.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

FedEx is launching a new late-night shipping option that will allow retailers to deliver next day — that is, when items are purchased online as late as midnight. Online sales currently comprise about 15 percent of U.S. retail, growing at three times the pace of brick-and-mortar stores. That’s very, very competitive.”.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

The drop was tied to closings at its two New York City physical locations and reduced supply for its consignment business model in New York and Los Angeles. The RealReal operates four stores, two in New York and one each in Los Angeles and San Francisco. And Los Angeles is picking up.

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MAY 5, 2020

As retailers contend with the continuing COVID-19 crisis and the inevitable resettling of the business, one of the most popular pieces of advice has been to reformat existing stores. After launching 10-day and month-long installments in NYC’s Soho last year, Pop Up Grocer opened in Los Angeles in February.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

With roughly 17 million active users each month and 30,000 diverse online retailers, Honey has delivered some $1 billion in savings to shoppers in the past year. PayPal shares that vision, and together we can build powerful commerce capabilities that create real value for both consumers and retailers around the world.”.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

An old Los Angeles gas station is getting a new life as a drive-thru authentication hub for eBay , according to a company statement on Friday (Nov. The online marketplace sold more than two million watches last year; 54 percent of the inventory is pre-owned. Rolex accounts for 40 percent of luxury watch sales on eBay.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

Retail is undergoing a reinvention with the rise of eCommerce, and merchants are trying new approaches to their brick-and-mortar stores. Overall, retailers such as Nordstrom are changing their models as an increasing amount of retail spend is now being completed away from physical retail stores. Retail spending saw a 1.6

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

Customers in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. All stores will be open on Christmas Eve for online order pickup, the company said. will have a wider merchandise selection for same-day and next-day pickup. .

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

With this week’s Nordstrom Local debut in New York City and Starbucks’ plans for pick-up only cafes , it’s a new age for inventory-free retail. times more and account for 30 percent of online order pick-up in Los Angeles.”. These new retail hubs are more experiential than traditional brick-and-mortar stores.

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MARCH 29, 2016

” That’s the lesson former JCPenney CEO and Apple executive Ron Johnson conveyed to The New York Times about his time at the struggling retail giant (Penney, not Apple) in a recent article focused on his newest venture, Enjoy, which may just end up being his most successful to date. “You really don’t want to be in a hurry.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

At the same time, the app differs from other online retailers in that it doesn’t have unlimited space to list products. Some retailers may put a product on their site even if just 2 percent of shoppers would be remotely interested in a product and one person buys it, Sacks said.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

To break into the brick-and-mortar world, some digitally native retailers have opened shops inside department stores. However, as in a traditional retail store, staff called “in-store stylists” are on hand to give recommendations tailored to each customer. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News…. billion on U.S.

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APRIL 28, 2020

FIs and FinTechs are promoting social distancing by providing online card applications and virtual payment cards to help customers avoid using cash or visiting bank branches. Indian FI Paytm launched virtual and contactless plastic debit cards to help customers circumvent using cash or having to hand over physical cards to retailers.

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