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T-Mobile And Sprint Merger Puts Spotlight On 5G At Retail

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For retailers, 5G stands to be an opportunity to get closer to consumers and amp up the in-store experience. Retailers won’t have to wait that long to see an impact because limited 5G networks will be a reality much faster than 2024. Interactive “ magic mirrors ” can recognize the products someone tries on through an RFID tag.

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The Robots Are Coming – And Some Are Already Here

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The Jetsons,” after all, promised us a bright future of flying cars and Rosey the Robot to make our meals, clean our messes, do our laundry and offer up snappy comebacks throughout the whole experience. Unfortunately, the future has not yet turned out the way the Jetsons promised. Such robots aren’t cheap. Robotic Hotel Workers.

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Why Consumers Embrace Life Lived Digitally ? And 23 Pct Will Leave Offline Behind

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Stimulus checks are being saved, not spent, as the future economic uncertainty looms. percent — said they do not plan to do any of those activities offline in the future. percent of the 12,000 consumers we studied say that they are shifting the retail spend once done in physical stores, to digital channels.

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Will Tariffs Make Retail’s Holidays Less Than Festive?

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It looks like tariff worries could take a bite out of retail spending this holiday season. We saw a dramatic drop-off in consumer sentiment and future outlook in this year’s survey,” Roshan Varma, a director in the retail practice at AlixPartners and a co-author of the study, said in a statement.

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Instagram Rolls Out Native Payments

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A spokesperson for Instagram told TechCrunch that users can now make payments to a limited number of businesses, such as restaurants and salons. In the future, Instagram said it would allow users to pay for items such as movie tickets. In 2016, Instagram rolled out shoppable tags on photos from as many as 20 retail brands.

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How Manufacturers Become Direct-To-Consumer Sellers Through Marketplaces

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While manufacturers make might products ranging from luxury handbags to jackets, they may only get paid a small percentage of the final retail price for those items. That is, a manufacturer might have a cost of goods sold of $16 and sell it to a brand for $20, which, in turn, might sell it for that $100 price tag. “In

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Move It Or Lose It: Apple, Amazon And Other Big Tech Rivals Square Up In Connected Fitness Smackdown

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After being introduced on a limited, invite-only basis earlier this year, Amazon’s Halo fitness band is now being sold to all takers for $100 plus a $4 per month service fee in a year-end holiday blitz of connected fitness. “The Amazon’s Halo Looks for Traction.