Merchant Innovation

Target Shakes Up IT With More Staff, Smaller Spend
Target Shakes Up IT With More Staff, Smaller Spend
August 02, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Somewhere along the way from 1776 to today, America has adopted an ethos that bigger is almost always better — bigger office buildings, bigger staffs...

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FanDuel And DraftKings Cut Marketing Budgets
FanDuel And DraftKings Cut Marketing Budgets
August 02, 2016  |  Payment Methods

At the outset of last year’s National Football League season, it seemed like every other commercial was for DraftKings, FanDuel or some other daily fantasy...

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Robot Retail Is Now A Real Thing
Robot Retail Is Now A Real Thing
August 01, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Few harbingers of the future have managed to unsettle so many in retail as the advent of automation. To a pundit, it spawns examples of doomsday-esque...

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Chipotle’s Burger Experiment Lands This Fall
Chipotle’s Burger Experiment Lands This Fall
July 29, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Chipotle‘s 2016 did not get off to a great start, and the fast-casual chain is still trying to dig itself out of a PR nightmare...

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Why Dollar Stores And Fresh Groceries Won’t Spoil
Why Dollar Stores And Fresh Groceries Won’t Spoil
July 29, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Online retail has taught merchant and consumer alike a pertinent lesson for the age of digital retail: Everything might have a price, but the quest...

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Can Peek Monetize Tourist Traps?
Can Peek Monetize Tourist Traps?
July 29, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

There are more than a handful of countries out there that rely on tourism revenue to keep the entire government afloat, and then, there are...

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Online-Only Brands Come Of Age At The Right Time
Online-Only Brands Come Of Age At The Right Time
July 28, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

While a very real glass ceiling might be under assault in the political field, online-only brands that eschewed traditional methods of starting up are seeing...

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Chapter 11 Watch: Hastings Can’t Find A Date, Kmart Finds The Rumor Mill
Chapter 11 Watch: Hastings Can’t Find A Date, Kmart Finds The Rumor Mill
July 27, 2016  |  Risk Management

John Lennon and Paul McCartney sang that they got by with a little help from their friends, and when retailers are teetering on the brink...

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Walmart Confronts Grocery Delivery’s Biggest Challenge
Walmart Confronts Grocery Delivery’s Biggest Challenge
July 26, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Grocery delivery might have seemed like a peripheral service just a handful of years ago, but the niche market has ballooned into one where brands...

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