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Vitamin Shoppe Parent Company Franchise Group Enters Chapter 11, Plans to Close American Freight

Franchise Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a restructuring agreement with its primary lenders…

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American Independent Business Alliance Brings Back Annual ‘Shop Indie’ Holiday Campaign

The American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) has launched a new holiday campaign to motivate shoppers to support locally owned…

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Goodwill Spearheads Initiative to Boost Textile Reuse and Recycling

Goodwill will work with environmental solutions provider WM to develop pilot programs to collect, sort and grade discarded…

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Target Unwraps Immersive Store and Digital Experiences for Holiday Shoppers

Target has transformed its aisles and app into a “fantastical destination” for the holidays, designed to capture the…

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Pigskin-Day Purchasing: The CW Makes ACC College Football Games Shoppable

The CW Network has teamed up with Shopsense AI to make its weekly broadcasts of ACC college football…

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Starbucks Lays Out Plans to Reestablish Itself as the ‘Community Coffee House’

Following a Q4 that its new Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol termed “very disappointing,” Starbucks will make a…

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Princess Polly Plots NYC Debut with Plans for SoHo Store

A.k.a. Brands Holding Corp. will open a Princess Polly store in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood in early…

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Primark to Open First of 5 Texas Stores Next Month

Irish apparel retailer Primark is continuing its brick-and-mortar expansion in the Southwest U.S. with the opening of its…

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Amazon Opens Immersive Virtual Holiday Shop

Amazon may be pulling back on brick-and-mortar, but stores, at least the digital kind, are clearly still a…

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