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JUNE 26, 2019

In the digital age of shopping for clothes and accessories, modern-day consumers don’t want retailers to entertain them: Instead, they want these merchants to bring them an easy experience, offering seamless shopping in store and online. Just under 15 percent – or 14.3 Walmart U.S.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

Mastercard has teamed up with retailer Fred Segal Sunset and Made to sell limited-edition products that showcase female artists and designers, as well as demonstrate Mastercard’s blockchain-based Provenance solution, which illustrates the journey of a product from start to store.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

The jackets use the owner’s smartphone to connect with smart NFC and QR tags hidden in the left sleeve, with serialized codes connecting to data profiles in EVRYTHNG’s IoT cloud. The jacket is part of a partnership with Avery Dennison’s Retail Branding and Information Solutions (RBIS) and Internet of Things platform EVRYTHNG.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” The company owns 458 stores in the U.S., Another one seems ready to bite the dust. Larger Trends.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Retailers are starting to tap into the camera,” said Ted Mann, CEO of visual search technology provider Slyce. They expect the retailers to be able to support it.”. Slyce is working with retail partners to embrace events outside the store and developing new kiosk technology to work within the store.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. There are also digital price tags for every item, and Prime members can pay the discounted online price for their selections at the store. The used-fashion market in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

There are few things more fashionable in 2017 than a progressive woman — but why stop at politics? A lot of wearable tech misses the fashion mark for the simple reason that it’s designed for athletic purposes rather than for style. While she certainly made a statement, it wasn’t a fashionable one. BornDigital.

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AUGUST 21, 2018

One might assume it is the ladies who are most into the Insta-fashion (Insta-return) way of life – but as it turns out, the gentlemen are most inclined to shop, snap and return. And yes, men have, on the whole, become more fashion-conscious. And now, it seems, they are taking photo mementos of all those times they tried.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

But retail will not be any less busy for it, as there is still the rush to return gifts that didn’t quite make the cut. On the shoe front, both Nikes and Louboutin heels were returned at a much higher than average rate with tags still on, in the box and never worn. Christmas is over and the rush of holiday gift giving has ended.

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APRIL 15, 2016

Could everyone’s favorite image-based social network be transformed into the world’s largest crowdsourced retail catalog? This coming Thursday (April 21), Alexis Maybank, Gilt Groupe cofounder and its first CEO, will launch a new foray into digital retail: Project September. One woman hopes the answer is yes.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Toy retailer Cubcoats has partnered with Amazon to create a pop-up experience at the Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, California, open now through Jan. Digital price tags alongside every product show the Prime price and list price. The eCommerce giant hasn’t given up on brick and mortar, though.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

In retail, inventory is what you’ve got and you hope they want. Technology, as it does so often with every corner of life, can help augment that (retail) judgement. Technology, as it does so often with every corner of life, can help augment that (retail) judgement. We understand that the retailers are concerned about inventory.

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APRIL 20, 2016

Today’s 5-In-1 has the latest numbers from Google about sites being hacked, some pretty big price tag potential for the future of unattended retail, the latest figures from the CFPB about hidden payday lending fees, what the EU is accusing Google of, and numbers that show the impact of Amazon’s latest fashion tie up.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

In addition, shoppers can find products by scanning their price tags, allowing them to check size and color options. The fashion retailer is using algorithms to gain insights from returns, receipts and data from loyalty cards to improve its bottom lines, according to Retail Dive.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Designer resale retail online does not lack for options or enthusiasm. That further admonition to “buy better” has been fertile ground for a host of reselling eCommerce retailers offering the discerning customer access to high-end fashion brands at costs that are not quite stratospheric. Tradesy can tell you.

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MAY 28, 2019

Fiverr says in the filing , “We started with the simple idea that people should be able to buy and sell digital services in the same fashion as physical goods on an eCommerce platform.”. Smartphones contributed one trillion dollars to overall retail sales in the United States during 2018. Just under 40 percent – or 39.1

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AUGUST 24, 2016

Fast fashion retailer Zara is facing a lawsuit from U.S. We remain focused on providing excellent customer service and high-quality fashion products at great value for our customers. Inditex — Zara’s parent firm and the largest apparel company on Earth — is considered the firm that put fast fashion on the map.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

And, generally speaking, they’re buying big — in terms of both the number of items they buy and the price tags on those items. The Resetting Retail Landscape. But as goes physical retail, so go physical design centers: busy interior designers don’t have the time to visit multiple design centers to find what they need.

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JUNE 18, 2018

As reported by Reuters , Mercari is set to bow on the public markets in Japan, and while observers of the stock market are watchful of a billion-dollar price tag — which means, of course, unicorn status — the enthusiasm underpins a business model of a different sort.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

But before we shut the door on 2019, it bears taking a moment to note how much the world of retail has changed in the last year, a fitting capstone on a decade that has seen retail as the American consumer commonly knew it taken to the ground and rebuilt nearly from the foundations. Lesson 1: Think Big . “We

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FEBRUARY 7, 2018

News photos can showcase the latest in fashion and style of Hollywood actors, but it’s not so easy to purchase items from a celebrity’s wardrobe. To purchase the items, a reader simply clicks on the links, which come in the form of shopping tag icons embedded in the photo. Beyond Photos and Music. Perhaps more shoppable videos.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Clarifai offers customers an image and video recognition API that users can teach to automatically tag, organize and search visual content using machine learning. “If For video, Clarifai’s API doesn’t just send back one set of tags. “We We have them for travel, weddings, food, and fashion is coming up soon.”.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

Urban Outfitters was beginning to look like a lot of other physical retail brands that were getting into hot water in the digital age. Sleekly packaged in super minimalist whites, with whimsical names and a very affordable price tag ($8 – $24), ohii offers up various masks, cleansers, creams, palettes, mascara, lip glosses and more.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. According to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. Online Resale.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

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). Hello Bello, in particular, seeks to focus on value through its pricing. billion in 2018 to $13 billion in 2021.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

“Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life,” said fashion photographer Bill Cunningham. Why should luxury fashion be any different? As the company claims in the F-1: “Farfetch is the leading technology platform for the global luxury fashion industry. The who and how much — yes, but where?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The world is full of people who want to look nice but don’t have the kind of enthusiasm (or time) for retail commerce that would keep them hitting the malls. For that world of emerging high-style, low-energy, low-time shoppers, there is StichFix : an online fashion retailer that comes with a built-in personal shopper.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

There are a few innovators trying to solve the problems of fashion fit and style, both online and in physical or omnichannel environments. Fashion Tech. A companion mobile app enables tagging of favorites, style comparisons and, of course, shopping recommendations. That means the retailer sees more sales and fewer returns.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

Despite that fact, however, eight of the retailer’s top 10 best-selling brands are Revolve private label, which according to its latest SEC filing provide 27 percent of the firm’s revenue. It’s been described as a “fancy price tag,” particularly for an eCommerce up-and-comer most people have never heard of. Worth it to Revolve?

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

There are many, many good things to be said for buying designer fashion items or high-end beauty products. The designer items on the site come with designer price tags – consumers who are looking to bargain shop will probably not find much to purchase on Olivela. Boyd said she stumbled on the idea of Olivela in a rather unexpected way.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

Buyable Pins were simple transactionally, according to Weingarten, and though they allowed consumers to make their purchase directly from Instagram, that wasn’t much of a priority for customers, who were tending to go to the retailer’s page anyway. “And we’re using these recommendations on products for the first time.”

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AUGUST 22, 2018

Known for its shea and almond bath products, lavender scents and its tastefully muted color scheme, L’Occitane is very much about what its tag line says it is: natural beauty from the south of France. . 22), it seems L’Occitane has decided to lean in all the way in an attempt to create those robust retail experiences. .

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AUGUST 28, 2019

The answer may hold lessons for other retailers eager to do more in the Chinese market. Last year, the China-based firm was involved with fashion brand GUESS on a temporary store at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. As well, other foreign retailers have stumbled on the general path Costco seems to be taking in China.

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MARCH 2, 2019

The problem was, she couldn’t find her size in the style she wanted on the Canada Goose website, or on other retailers’ sites. Fake fashion items and accessories alone represent a $500 billion global business annually. And besides, if she died before getting her money’s worth, she could bequeath the coat to her eldest daughter.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

The answer may hold lessons for other retailers eager to do more in the Chinese market. Last year, the China-based firm was involved with fashion brand GUESS on a temporary store , located at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Demand has been slumping in China for Apple products in part because of the hefty price tag.

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MARCH 29, 2016

When it comes to retailers dissuading theft from external sources, consumers, more or less, expect such attempts to be highly visible — or, at least, they aren’t bothered when they are. By that same token, however, is it as reasonable for a retailer to treat its own employees with, more or less, that same, highly visible lack of trust?

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