Digitally native brands on the power of brick and mortar
Founders and CEOs at digital-first businesses at Shoptalk predict their business models will need to move beyond early strategies like social media marketing...
Black Friday’s too late this year. Is Prime Day just in time?
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...
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...
Importance of Investing In Marketing During Economic Downturn
When inflation rises, and when economic signals are bad, businesses typically cut costs. This is a natural and wholly understandable progression — if the...
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...
How to Choose a Perfect Mobile App Development Company
Sometimes having a plethora of options makes choosing the best solution for your project even more difficult. In 2019, the United States alone had...
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...
Men, women not so different when it comes to shopping behavior
Over two-thirds of men and two-thirds of women do the majority of their shopping online and more than two-thirds of men and women are...
Analysis: Surviving and thriving in the new retail
“If you’re selling stuff, you’re knackered, frankly.” Not so long ago, those words might have got backs up at Retail Week Live. But not...
Brandless expands health and wellness assortment
Brandless on Wednesday announced an expansion of its wellness products, including 17 items ranging from organic superfood powders and organic vitamins to non-GMO supplements...
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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 ......
