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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 3

Report: 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 3

Glossier 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 3

Accel 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 3

Plan 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 3

PicWicToys 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 2

Destination 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 2

Mobile 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 2

Costco 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…

News December 2
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