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Caleres to close 133 Naturalizer stores in shift to digital

Dive Brief: 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...
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Four Things Premium Brands Should Know Before Selling on Amazon Vendor Central

In May 2020, eCommerce platform Shopify became Canada’s most valuable company. Regardless of the company’s ability to maintain its top position, the unexpected change...
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Online commerce helped boost digital ad platforms like Meta and Google

Major tech companies reported an increase in ad revenue at their most recent quarterly reports, driven by e-commerce advertisers that continued to spend on...

12 retailers walking a dangerous line toward bankruptcy in 2019

From J. Crew and Neiman Marcus to Francesca's, Pier 1 and Ascena Retail Group, the retail space remains rife with troubled businesses. espite a big...
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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...
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Personalized marketing in a competitive environment for brands and e-commerce retailers

Personalized marketing is all about offering improved user experience (UX) by serving relevant content, or targeting key messages in the funnel, based on your...

Registered Nurse explains medical information in Award-Winning Children’s Book Nurse Florence®, I’m Having Trouble...

Nurse Florence®, I’m Having Trouble Sleeping by Dow Creative Enterprises has won the Distinguished Favorite with the Independent Press Award program.  The Independent Press...

The over-under on inventory buying

Forty-three percent of respondents in a recent survey choose "overbuying inventory" as a challenge within their company, and 36% said the same for underbuying....
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Senreve appoints chief operating officer and new board members

Luxury handbag brand Senreve has named Jenny Oh as its new chief operating officer, effective November 11, alongside the appointment of two new board...
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The Xbox has been transformed into a highly designed object

The last quarter of 2020 saw the global launch of two major next gen products, Sony’s PlayStation 5 and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X, together...

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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,...
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American Express expands small business perks as it reportedly falls under federal investigation

Dive Brief: Days before The Wall Street Journal reported federal investigators were looking into American Express' sales to business owners, the company introduced more incentives...
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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 ......