Cutting out the middleman has helped many retailers provide a quicker experience for consumers. Some may argue that it also enhances the quality of produced products. In today’s tech-savvy age, providing a direct-to-consumer (DTC) experience has slowly worked its way to becoming the norm. Merchants...
The CFPB managed to have an encouraging-looking day in court this week — while patent trolling most certainly did not. And millennials faced critiques for their brunch choices — and a mounting wall of data that indicates that a generational fizzle is not actually out...
Barnes & Noble‘s latest quarterly results are out, and they are less than spectacular. Net losses clocked in at $14.4 million, or $0.20 per share. Also in the falling-figure category, sales were down 6.6 percent to $913.9 million, missing pre-earnings forecasts of $958 million by...
As Barnes & Noble prepares to split into two separate firms, the ailing bookseller announced earlier today (July 2) that it has chosen Sears Canada Inc. Chief Executive Ronald D. Boire as the new head of its retail business. Boire’s selection follows B&N’s February announcement that it...
May 26, 2017
The CFPB managed to have an encouraging-looking day in court this week — while patent trolling most certainly did not. And millennials faced critiques for their brunch choices — and a mounting wall of data that indicates that a generational fizzle is not actually out of the question. Sizzles: CFPB: Depending on how you look […]
March 14, 2018
Betting that its popularity with shoppers online will translate into brick-and-mortar customers in Washington, D.C., Amazon opens an Amazon Books location in the nation’s capital. The store occupies a space that formally housed a Barnes & Noble store in Georgetown, The Washington Post reported. The opening is the eCommerce retailer’s first bookstore in the Washington, D.C., area. […]
July 02, 2015
As Barnes & Noble prepares to split into two separate firms, the ailing bookseller announced earlier today (July 2) that it has chosen Sears Canada Inc. Chief Executive Ronald D. Boire as...
