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Tommy Hilfiger to transition design process to digital
Tommy Hilfiger on Thursday announced it has established STITCH, a tech incubator dedicated to digitizing the company's design process. The company plans to completely transition...
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What is Brand Marketing and Why Is It Crucial in Your...
When you’ve only got a limited marketing budget, and let’s face it, all budgets are limited, you want to get the biggest bang for your buck....
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Sunshine Contacts is an invite-only address book app from Marissa Mayer’s...
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has just revealed her first major product since stepping down back in 2017: a new contact management application for...
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Has Omnichannel Retailing Made Malls More Relevant?
A study from Coresight Research found traffic at U.S. shopping malls has strongly recovered to surpass pre-Covid levels. The research firm believes brands within malls are...
Porsche collaborates with Huawei on new smartwatch
Geopolitics and technology make very poor bedfellows, if you believe everything you read. However, more and more of us are happy to sally forth...
Is Instacart Showing How AI Will Transform the Grocery Experience?
Instacart announced a series of AI-driven upgrades to its websites, apps, and smart carts that promise to help grocery shoppers with education, discovery, and checkout.
On...
Chipotle’s expansion plans include adding ‘digital-only’ restaurants to its menu
Chipotle Mexican Grill has announced plans to open its first “digital-only restaurant” tomorrow. The Chipotle Digital Kitchen, as it is being called, is located “just outside...
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Caleres to close 133 Naturalizer stores in shift to digital
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Shoe seller Caleres plans to close 133 stores under its Naturalizer women's footwear brand by the end of fiscal 2020 and pivot to a digital...
The government just blocked another razor startup from getting acquired
The Federal Trade Commission announced it would sue to block Proctor & Gamble’s purchase of razor and body care company Billie on December 8th, citing P&G’s...
5 retailers winning despite the pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic disrupted virtually every segment of the retail industry and created an incomparable sense of uncertainty.
Between dealing with both supply and demand...
Urban Outfitters announces disappointing holiday sales, group CEO departure
Urban Outfitters, Inc. reported total company net sales for the two months ended December 31, 2020, decreased 8.4 percent over the same period last...
Alibaba in crosshairs of growing antitrust scrutiny in China
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s dominant position in the online retail and digital payments markets make it the most likely target of growing antitrust scrutiny...
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Black Friday’s too late this year. Is Prime Day just in...
After months of speculation around just when Amazon would go through with its annual Prime Day sale, usually held in July, it has finally landed in mid-October. That...
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Will Self-Checkout Ever Win Over Its Critics?
Self-checkout stations show little signs of slowing their expansion across retail, yet critics only appear to be getting louder.
In a recent article in The Atlantic,...
American Express expands small business perks as it reportedly falls under federal investigation
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Days before The Wall Street Journal reported federal investigators were looking into American Express' sales to business owners, the company introduced more incentives...
Digital Shift Leads Mastercard To Take Contactless Payments To The Cloud
If the sky’s the limit for contactless payments, which the pandemic has certainly shown, and if the technology is deployed across mobile devices ......
