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Fast and free: How shipping expectations are changing retail
Customers have come to expect speedy delivery from their favorite stores, but only some can keep up. Here are the three moves Retail Dive is watching.
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SponsoredEmpathy: the key to marketing to millennials
To connect with millennials, marketers blend digital and traditional media, with an empathic understanding of what motivates individuals day-to-day.
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Gen Z's worries about emotional health affect shopping habits
Young adults prefer in-store shopping to disconnect from social media and digital news, which are sources of stress, an A.T. Kearney study shows.
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Stein Mart introduces BOPIS at all its locations
The retailer expects the move will shift about 15% of its e-commerce orders to in-store pickup.
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Can J.C. Penney's Jill Soltau pull off the ultimate retail Hail Mary?
The retailer's CEO is tasked with turning the company around, but recent setbacks show just how difficult that's going to be.
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Walmart reimagines once-defunct Scoop as private label fashion line
The boutique retailer, which closed its last stores more than three years ago, has a new life as an owned value brand for the retail giant.
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Destination Maternity considers possible sale after dismal Q2
The struggling retailer said it was mulling strategic alternatives, both a possible merger and stand-alone options, as top-line, comparable and e-commerce sales fell.
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Deep DiveHow TikTok can help brands get on Christmas wish lists
Hashtag challenges are one way to boost awareness with the app's younger audience ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
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Bluemercury founders to depart Macy's
Barry and Marla Beck are leaving the beauty operation that has been a boon to the department store since its acquisition four years ago.
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Holiday sales growth could top 5%
Early prognostications of the retail season are coming in fairly robust, but some are accompanied by nerve-wracking asterisks.
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Target looks to Good & Gather to define its grocery business
The private label line will be the company's biggest own brand ever, Stephanie Lundquist, executive vice president of food and beverage, said at Groceryshop.
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Crate & Barrel to expand in-store restaurant concept
The first Table at Crate opened in Chicago in July and turned a profit by the second month, according to CEO Neela Montgomery.
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Amazon announces Chicago tech hub expansion, 400 new hires
The company has created more than 11,000 full-time jobs and invested more than $4.4 billion in Illinois since 2010, it said.
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ColumnRetail Therapy: Neiman Marcus' new arrivals, frankly, miss the mark
For a retailer that's not in the best financial health, we're not sure a $7,000 hot dog couch is the path to success.
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L'Oréal's Color&Co adds AR hair color try-ons
The "See Yourself in Color" feature lets customers view before-and-after photos through Modiface, which L'Oréal acquired last year.
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Michael Kors led NYFW social media engagement
Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger took a distant second and third, according to data from ListenFirst.
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Spinoff means expansion for Old Navy as Gap Inc. goes lean
"These are two very different business models," Gap Inc. CFO Teri List-Stoll told analysts Thursday morning.
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J. Crew losses mount ahead of Madewell IPO plans
The company said on Friday that proceeds from going public will go to pay down its growing debt.
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Charming Charlie IP sold for $1.1M in bankruptcy
The asset sale to a company owned by the retailer's founder comes after the liquidation of brick-and-mortar operations in Chapter 11.
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OpinionBalancing 'safe' and 'welcoming' in the era of mass shootings
Being prepared today can save lives — as well as significant business costs — tomorrow, writes Vice President of Pinkerton, Jason Porter.
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Retail sales gains moderate in August
News of surging oil prices Monday isn't likely to calm increasingly edgy U.S. consumers.
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Madewell files for IPO
J. Crew Group Inc. said it plans to spin off the denim brand, according to an SEC document filed Friday afternoon.
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At long last, evolution at Victoria's Secret?
As L Brands executives try to reinvigorate the brand, they also wouldn't rule out a spinoff of better-performing Bath & Body Works.
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Verishop introduces free 1-day shipping
The feature comes as other retailers invest in their own delivery and fulfillment options.
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Smart cart company Caper raises $10M in Series A funding
The cashierless tech competitor stated that it has increased basket sizes by 10% and obtained high customer satisfaction ratings among its users.
