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Nike Is Entering The Subscription Business With A Kids’ Sneaker Club
14 Aug 2019
KEY POINTS Nike is launching a subscription service for kids called Nike Adventure Club. It’s the first time the No. 1 sneaker retailer in...
Target, Walmart, and Amazon Will Only Get Bigger as Tariffs Hit Retailers
14 Aug 2019
With retailer earnings gearing up, get ready for another round of the grocery and discounter wars, featuring extra pressure from tariffs. Th...
Tesco CEO Spearheads Online Sales Tax Campaign
14 Aug 2019
Tesco CFO Alan Stewart has sent a letter to the C-suite leaders of rival bricks-and-mortar retailers, drumming up support for an online sale...
David Staples out as SpartanNash CEO
14 Aug 2019
Chairman Dennis Eidson takes over as interim CEO; Fresh Kitchen to be phased out Citing poor execution, food distributor and retailer Sparta...
Kohl’s, Facebook, And A Sad STORY
14 Aug 2019
On Tuesday, Kohl’s announced a partnership with Facebook to use the social media giant’s consumer information to select a mercha...
Giant Eagle to Deploy Higi Health Stations
14 Aug 2019
Giant Eagle aims to help its customers get a better read on their health with the rollout of higi health stations to all of its supermarkets...
Adidas Boss Warns Currency War Will Hurt More Than Tariffs
14 Aug 2019
Adidas AG said it’s more worried about a currency war between the U.S. and China than the possibility that President Donald Trump will inc...
Subscription Commerce Is Expanding Beyond Retail
14 Aug 2019
News came last week that Facebook is trying to get into the video streaming subscription business and attempt to steal market share from You...
Department Stores could have a ‘sobering’ Christmas, Credit Suisse Warns
14 Aug 2019
Credit Suisse expects a “wave of lowered guidance” as Macy’s, J.C. Penney, Nordstrom and Kohl’s start to report fiscal second-quarte...
Walmart Is Taken To Task for Pro-Gun T-shirts Sold On Website by Third-Party Vendors
14 Aug 2019
Walmart, already facing pressure for being a major vendor of guns and ammunition in the U.S. after a pair of shootings inside its stores, is...
Amazon And India’s No. 2 Retailer Are Close To A Deal
14 Aug 2019
Amazon.com Inc. is in late-stage talks to acquire as much as 10% of India’s Future Retail Ltd., as the U.S. company moves to bolster its s...
A grand reopening for Price Rite stores
08 Aug 2019
The retailer expands its rebranding with revamped stores in Connecticut As Price Rite Marketplace continues the rebranding initiative it lau...
Retail Malls Look For New Innovations, Commerce And Otherwise
08 Aug 2019
What to do with retail malls? How about making them into doctors’ offices? That is among the latest trends as retail reinvents itself, and...
Flipkart To Compete With Amazon Via Video Streaming
08 Aug 2019
Borrowing from the playbook of Amazon, Walmart’s Flipkart reportedly intends to begin a free video streaming service in India in the comin...
Why Airbnb, Target, and Walmart are Betting on the Experience Economy
08 Aug 2019
Consumers are increasingly choosing to spend their money on experiences rather than material goods. To keep up, retailers are trying to sell...
Why Best Buy Thrives In The US But Died In The UK
08 Aug 2019
Best Buy has received a lot of praise for being one of the few traditional brick-and-mortar retailers to survive the retail apocalypse that ...
How An Online Automotive Deal Is Fueling A Retail Trend
08 Aug 2019
Automotive sales are increasing going digital — and more consumers are buying more used products of all types online. Those two retail tre...
Nike Acquires A.I. Platform Celect, Hoping to Better Predict Shopping Behavior
08 Aug 2019
Nike announces its acquisition of Boston-based predictive analytics company Celect. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. The deal is the lat...
Barneys Is Talking With Another Lender for Chapter 11 Turnaround
08 Aug 2019
Barneys New York Inc. is talking with another lender about financing the chain’s operations if it decides to file for bankruptcy, a move t...
J.C. Penney’s Financial Woes Might Be Eased With a Debt Swap
08 Aug 2019
J.C. Penney Co. creditors are pushing for discussions on a possible debt swap that would give the company’s new managers more time to turn...