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Keeping Customers’ Digital Identities Safe This Holiday Season
By Kevin von Keyserling, Keyfactor As the retail industry gets underway for this year’s holiday season, it’s expected that hackers will follow suit. In fact, 80% to 90% of login…
Executive Viewpoints December 10What Retailers Learned In 2018: It’s All About Customer Data-Driven Strategy
At a recent industry event, I quipped that this is “the best of times and the worst of times” for retailers. Implicit in my comment — which was a paraphrase…
Executive Viewpoints December 10Americans Give $13 Billion In Unwanted Gifts Annually
Polite people who are presented with a gift they don’t want say things like “It’s the thought that counts,” but a new survey has counted the dollar value of these…
News December 7Walmart Expands Home Products Footprint With Art.com Acquisition
Walmart will be decking the walls with the latest addition to its e-Commerce portfolio: Art.com, an art and home décor retailer with more than two million curated images. Walmart will…
News December 7Balance Convenience And Experience To Create The Ultimate Holiday Destination
Despite the growing dominance of mobile, shoppers still enjoy shopping in-store. What’s changed, however, is their expectations around the brick-and-mortar experience, according to a pair of studies by GPShopper. Some…
News December 7The Retail Reinvention: Goodbye Apocalypse, Hello Opportunity
By Jamus Driscoll, Moltin We’ve all read the “retail apocalypse” headlines about the imminent end of in-store shopping, and it’s easy to accept the demise of brick-and-mortar retail at the…
Executive Viewpoints December 7Extinction Event Or Golden Opportunity?
There is no question that we live in a data-fueled marketplace, and no better illustration of how the retail landscape has changed than the fact that Walmart employs more data…
Executive Viewpoints December 7Klarna And Shopify Partner To Increase Global Payment Options
Klarna has become one of the first payment service providers to join the Shopify Plus Technology Partner Program. The integration will allow retailers in the U.S., the UK and Germany…
News December 6Gymboree To Shutter 265 Crazy 8 Stores, Begin Strategic Review Under New CEO
Gymboree has initiated a strategic review of its brands, which will include closing its 265 Crazy 8 locations and shuttering some of its 380 Gymboree stores in 2019. Additionally, the…
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