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Deep DiveRetailers lure shoppers with in-store holiday experiences
More physical stores are fighting to give consumers just what they crave — an experience.
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Walmart to open an in-store AI lab
The retail giant is exploring how artificial intelligence can be used for both store associate and customer-facing applications.
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Bluefly, NeWants team up on gamified shopping platform
Tech, home and lifestyle products are discounted through socially-driven flash sales.
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Deep Dive8 retailers that could go bankrupt in the next year
With Sears Holdings and Mattress Firm filing Chapter 11 this fall, Retail Dive looked at other retailers that have debt, cash and competitive issues, and may be vulnerable.
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Gap chooses Microsoft's cloud, as retailers avoid AWS
The retailer wants to use Azure for e-commerce operations and shy away from Amazon Web Services.
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Sears closing another 40 stores in bankruptcy
The ailing department store keeps shrinking as it looks to divest its assets and work toward some sort of sustainable form in Chapter 11.
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ColumnRetail Therapy: Frontgate's $5K deer in the holiday headlights
If being stared down by a family of animated deer is on your Christmas list, Frontgate should be too.
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Nike moves to dismiss claims in gender discrimination lawsuit
A motion filed in the District Court of Oregon claims that the plaintiffs "fail to plead sufficient factual matter" in the original lawsuit, filed this past August.
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Amazon to launch holiday pop-ups throughout Europe
The e-commerce giant continues to expand its brick-and-mortar footprint through a series of temporary locations during the holidays.
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OpinionA customer divided: The love/hate relationship with Walmart
The retail giant polarizes consumers in a way that Amazon doesn't, writes WD Partner's Lee Peterson.
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Sears bankruptcy hits Iconix brands hard
The brand group is also pressured by new private label initiatives in apparel and home goods by retailers like Target and Walmart.
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Tuft & Needle debuts Amazon exclusive mattress
In a competitive market, the recently-acquired startup is turning to Amazon for more sales, a retailer which itself has just gotten into the mattress space.
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WHSmith reportedly tried to buy Barnes & Noble. Why?
Unnamed sources told The Wall Street Journal the British book and travel chain was the mysterious bidder who ultimately walked away.
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American Eagle leads $3.45M investment in Dormify
The apparel retailer and college dorm decor pure-play share a fan base and have partnered before.
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FullBeauty misses debt payment, buys time with lenders
S&P Global analysts downgraded the plus-size catalog retailer and e-tailer to default levels, but they anticipate it could avoid Chapter 11 with a debt deal.
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Deep DiveWhy catalogs still have a hold on holiday marketing
Many retailers have turned into fourth-quarter catalogers to cash in on the season's sentimentality, while shoppers are crossing "irrelevant email marketing" off their lists this year.
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Zara expands online sales to 106 more countries
The fast-fashion retailer is expanding its e-commerce presence amid a changing apparel sector, with a goal of being available worldwide by 2020.
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Adidas e-commerce sales boom 76%
The athletics retailer faces some tough challenges in coming months, including a resurgent Nike, according to Wedbush.
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OpinionTo thine own selves be true: You have more customers than you think
Understanding shoppers' specific roles will better position you to give them what they need, writes Michael Solomon, a professor of marketing at Saint Joseph's University.
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Versace could pose 'distraction' for slowing Michael Kors
The company doesn't seem prepared for the kind of rehab its incoming Versace brand will require, analysts warn.
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Holiday sales poised to be best since Great Recession
B. Riley FBR added another optimistic holiday sales forecast, saying same-store sales for select retailers will increase 2.2%, the highest in a decade.
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Deep Dive7 retailers that made pivotal deals in 2018
Walmart made its largest deal ever — abroad — Amazon made moves in pharma and Macy's absorbed popular store concept creator Story. Here are the deals that have defined the year.
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CVS to debut 'health hub' store concept next year
The stores are among the new efforts the company will explore now that it owns health insurer Aetna.
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Amazon mails out 1st toy catalog
A Holiday of Play, the e-tailer's catalog, joins many others in the toy category, a market with considerable space in the absence of Toys R Us.
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ColumnRetail Therapy: For these jeans, third time is definitely not the charm
"The more the merrier" shouldn't apply to waistbands, especially when it means layering blue jeans under acid-wash blue jeans under white jeans.
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