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Amazon Opens Bookstore In DC

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Betting that its popularity with shoppers online will translate into brick-and-mortar customers in Washington, D.C., The location is stocked with books, electronics and toys, among other items, but this bookstore is unique from other brick-and-mortar stores, in that there are no price tags.

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TRENDING: Robots And Humans Join Forces To Speed eCommerce, Together

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Customers who shop online want their goods fast, if the more than 100 million consumers who have signed up for Amazon Prime are any indicator. In the latest IoT Tracker, Cacioppo spoke to PYMNTS about how warehouse robot assistants can be a safer bet to help warehouses up their speed while staying flexible to changing business trends.

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How Clothing Stores Are Driving Retail Innovation

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With the small store concept, shoppers can access personal stylists and on-site tailoring, and customers can tap into omnichannel features such as buy online, pick up in-store. Of course, you can see online players such as Amazon and Flipkart growing,” Juvencio Maeztu, IKEA’s CFO, said earlier this year.

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Grappling With FinTech, Banks May Reconsider Build Vs. Buy

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The affordability goes beyond the price tag. But as to the price tag: Valuations are coming down, and though still lofty, could get to the point where traditional banks would want to, and even feel compelled to, pull the trigger. So in a way, as minority stakeholders, banks may be giving more than they get back in turn. .

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Why No Brand May Be The Best Brand

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Offering a $3 across-the-board price tag has a somewhat dollar store feel, and its streamline assortment and design recall an era before private label packaging was an exercise in artistic design. Brandless is betting that variety has it limits, and that the modern customer will reach next for them. There aren’t sales either.

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Visual Search Hits The Runway At Fashion Week

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Shoppable tags on each displayed product redirect to shop the item in its own eCommerce environment. Slyce is also placing a bet on in-store visual search kiosks. Users can visit a virtual pop-up merchandise shop, browse products on backstage dressing racks and shop styles worn by models.

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Costco’s First China Store Signals Broader Retail Trend Into Foreign Markets

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According to the South China Morning Post , Costco opened its first brick-and-mortar store in China this week in the Shanghai area, “five years after making its first online foray into China.” To get an online store running on Alibaba will reportedly cost U.S. A Challenging Time. Alibaba is hoping to win over U.S. China trade war.