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Brown Thomas, Arnotts Empower Store Associates To Personalize Shopping Journeys
Venerable Irish retailers Brown Thomas and Arnotts, both part of Selfridges Group, will equip their store associates with a clienteling solution designed to provide 360-degree views of customers’ preferences and…
News December 3Report: Lord + Taylor To Open Holiday Pop-Up In NYC
Lord + Taylor will return to New York City with a holiday pop-up, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The 2,400-square-foot store is scheduled to open in mid-December…
News December 3Glossier Pops Up In Seven Nordstrom Stores
Glossier is entering its first retail partnership, opening temporary shops in seven Nordstrom stores, including the new Nordstrom flagship location in Manhattan, from Dec. 3 through Feb. 16, 2020. The…
News December 3Accel Robotics Raises $30 Million To Fund Manufacturing And Deployment Expansion
Accel Robotics, an AI and computer vision solution provider focused on technology for checkout-free stores, has raised $30 million in a Series A round of funding led by SoftBank, with…
News December 3Plan On Paying Tax On More Gifts This Season
(Pictured: Left: Dustin Jensen, Right: Robert Peters) Since June of 2018, the tax world has been saturated with speculation and news about the landmark ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court…
Executive Viewpoints December 3PicWicToys Implements Mobile Self-Checkout To Help Harried Parents
PicWicToys, a French toy retailer, is launching a mobile self-checkout solution that will allow customers to scan and pay for items on their smartphones, letting them exit the store without…
News December 2Destination Maternity Would Close All Stores If $50 Million ‘Stalking Horse’ Bid Wins Out
Destination Maternity has approved Marquee Brands as the leading “stalking horse” bidder of several remaining assets of its business. Under a proposed $50 million sale, Destination Maternity would shutter its…
News December 2Mobile Dominance: Smartphones Generate 61% Of Black Friday E-Commerce Traffic
Black Friday online sales reached a record $7.4 billion, up 19.6% from 2018, with the average order value (AOV) rising 5.9% to $168, according to data from Adobe Analytics. The…
News December 2Costco Thanksgiving Day Site Outages Cost An Estimated $11 Million
Costco’s e-Commerce site went down for more than 16 hours on Thanksgiving Day, according to outage tracking web site Down Detector. The outage impacted an estimated 2.65 million customers who were trying…
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