Retail

Retail is the process of selling consumer goods or services to customers through multiple channels of distribution to earn a profit. Retailers satisfy demand identified through a supply chain.

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Amazon Takes On Alibaba Through Its Japanese Portal
Amazon Takes On Alibaba Through Its Japanese Portal
August 01, 2016  |  Amazon Commerce

Chinese tourists shopping in Japan is not an unusual site – for many years consumers from mainland China have been a mainstay of Japan’s various...

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Walgreens To Shutter Beauty.com And Drugstore.com
Walgreens To Shutter Beauty.com And Drugstore.com
August 01, 2016  |  Retail

In this week’s eCommerce retreats, Walgreens has announced that it will be pulling the plug on Beauty.com and Drugstore.com in favor of focusing on its...

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Amazon Is Opening 18 New Fulfillment Centers (Vows To Be Ready For Christmas 2016)
Amazon Is Opening 18 New Fulfillment Centers (Vows To Be Ready For Christmas 2016)
August 01, 2016  |  Amazon Delivery

For most people, Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. For Amazon, it is the busiest, hardest and most full of logistical nightmares....

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Does Amazon Hold The Key To Omnichannel’s Data Impasse?
Does Amazon Hold The Key To Omnichannel’s Data Impasse?
August 01, 2016  |  Omnicommerce

There was a time when no matter what, the customer was always right. That kind of obsequious business philosophy might have worked when mom-and-pop shops...

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Robot Retail Is Now A Real Thing
Robot Retail Is Now A Real Thing
August 01, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Few harbingers of the future have managed to unsettle so many in retail as the advent of automation. To a pundit, it spawns examples of doomsday-esque...

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Why Lowe’s Is Pushing Hardware Digital
Why Lowe’s Is Pushing Hardware Digital
August 01, 2016  |  Retail

Most retailers had nothing good to say about the mild winter of 2016, except that maybe it was somewhat less terrible that the snowpocalypse that...

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Pokémon GO: Game-Changing Game Or High-Tech Pet Rock?
Pokémon GO: Game-Changing Game Or High-Tech Pet Rock?
July 30, 2016  |  International

A little over 40 years ago, the Pet Rock was a national phenomenon. The Pet Rock was the brainchild of an advertising executive sitting in...

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