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Yutori Taps PLM Software to Prepare for Rapid Growth and Future IPO
Japanese DTC fashion startup yutori has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. yutori develops and sells many products in collaboration with suppliers, and chose the PLM to improve…
News February 17WHSmith Opens First U.S. Location at NYC Airport Leveraging Amazon’s Cashierless Tech
Global travel retailer WHSmith has opened its first North American retail location inside the redesigned Terminal B concourse at New York City’s LaGuardia airport. The store is equipped with Amazon’s…
News February 17Chico’s Forms Partnership to Speed Development of Technological Innovation
Chico’s FAS has entered a strategic partnership with solution provider fabric to improve its speed-to-market for initiatives designed to accelerate growth. Chico’s will leverage fabric’s technology, including omnichannel order management…
News February 17DemandTec Launches Platform to Help Retailers Enable AI-Powered Merchandising
Price and promotion optimization solution provider DemandTec has launched Unify by DemandTec, an autonomous unified merchandising platform for retailers. The cloud-native platform was created to unify disparate data and fragmented…
News February 17Why Latin America is Poised to Become the Next Last-Mile Delivery Battleground
In the last 18 months, the infamously poor state of last-mile logistics in Latin America has carried a heavier price than ever. As anxious, confined populations turned to online transactions…
Executive Viewpoints February 17RetailROI Virtual SuperFriday Event Raises $285K for Vulnerable Children
Despite a last-minute move from an in-person to a virtual event necessitated by the COVID-19 omicron variant, the Retail Orphan Initiative’s annual fundraising event raised more than $285,000 for orphans…
News February 16January Retail Sales Climb 3.8% Over Previous Month
The $649.8 billion in January 2022 U.S. retail sales represented a 3.8% gain over sales in December 2021 and a 13% increase compared to January 2021’s sales. These figures from…
News February 16Kohl’s Unveils Next 400 Sephora Shop-in-Shop Locations
Kohl’s has identified the next 400 stores that will be adding Sephora at Kohl’s shops this year as it continues toward its goal of 850 shop-in-shops by 2023. From Alaska…
News February 16Samuelson Furniture Debuts New Lifestyle-Focused Showroom
Samuelson Furniture, a manufacturer of casegoods (interior storage solutions) and seating for the hospitality and senior living sectors, has opened reimagined showroom curated by its in-house design studio and Creative…
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