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Alibaba Offers $2.6 Billion For Chinese Department Store Intime

As Walmart continues to set itself up to compete with Alibaba on its home turf of China both online and offline, the e-Commerce giant has taken a big step into…

News January 11

RTP Editors’ Top Takeaways From CES 2017

The CES (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show) is renowned for showcasing the latest and (potentially) greatest technologies. Given that there are so many applications and real world uses…

Executive Viewpoints January 11

Walmart Canada Lifts Visa Card Ban In 19 Stores

Walmart Canada will continue accepting Visa credit cards within all 409 of its Canadian stores, ending a months-long stalemate in which the retailer threatened to ban the payments network from…

News January 11

Holiday 2016: The Best Of Times Or The Worst Of Times? Experts Weigh In

Multiple choice quiz: The 2016 holiday season was: A) Great! B) So-so C) Rough It’s a trick question: all three answers are true, depending on which retailers and verticals you’re…

Features January 10

Gildan Wins American Apparel Auction With $88 Million Bid

Although Amazon and Forever 21 both reportedly showed interest in bidding on American Apparel during its bankruptcy auction, Canadian apparel manufacturer Gildan Activewear won the rights to the brand after…

News January 10

Yahoo Trims Board As It Preps For Verizon Acquisition

The feel-good 1990s dotcom era is truly over. Verizon, which purchased AOL in 2015, has agreed to pay $4.83 billion for Yahoo. But not all of the once-dominant web portal…

News January 10

Sephora, Ahold USA Adopt Product Discovery Platform

Sephora and Ahold USA, the parent company of supermarkets Stop & Shop, Giant and online grocery service Peapod, have partnered with online product discovery platform RangeMe. With the platform, both…

News January 10

Zebra Launches SmartSense To Optimize Inventory Visibility

Zebra Technologies Corporation has unveiled Zebra SmartSense for Retail, a solution designed to deliver deeper visibility into retail operations. The platform provides visibility of the entire store, with real-time location…

News January 10

Urban Outfitters CEO Joins Eponym Board Of Directors

Trish Donnelly, CEO of Urban Outfitters, Inc., has joined the Board of Directors of eponym, an open platform provider that empowers contemporary brands including Steven Alan, alice + olivia and…

News January 10
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