Merchant Innovation

Newegg Hatches Real-World Commerce Plans In Canada
Newegg Hatches Real-World Commerce Plans In Canada
July 13, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Just when it looked like online-only brands would take every last penny of brick-and-mortar retailers’ lunch money, digital merchants started opening up B&M store fronts...

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Microsoft Pitches ‘Surface As A Service’ To SMBs
Microsoft Pitches ‘Surface As A Service’ To SMBs
July 13, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

The power suit and a pen and paper might have been the essentials of business a few decades ago, but now, a good computer is...

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Retail’s Hottest Job? Working For Kanye
Retail’s Hottest Job? Working For Kanye
July 12, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Retail employees rarely choose their workplaces based on the distant CEOs that might drop by the office once or twice out of the year, but...

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Fast Fashion Is Even Faster On Four Wheels
Fast Fashion Is Even Faster On Four Wheels
July 12, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Despite the rise of online shopping in just about every retail market imaginable, fashion brands are still somewhat confident that their business model primarily relies...

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Alibaba’s Global VR Tech Ambitions
Alibaba’s Global VR Tech Ambitions
July 12, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Some of the biggest eCommerce companies in the world — Amazon, Alibaba, JD.com — got that way by perfecting buying and selling in an online...

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Vending Machines Are Retail’s Newest Frontier
Vending Machines Are Retail’s Newest Frontier
July 08, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

It was only a decade or two ago that you’d be laughed out of the room for suggesting someone buy clothes or shoes online without...

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Target’s Childish Plan To Rule Kid-Focused Retail
Target’s Childish Plan To Rule Kid-Focused Retail
July 08, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Kids can say the darndest things, but with more parents than ever before turning to their kids for advice on every purchase from clothes to food,...

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Retailers Push Back Against Prime Day With Their Own Sales
Retailers Push Back Against Prime Day With Their Own Sales
July 08, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

Imitation might the sincerest form of flattery, but sometimes, it’s also not a terrible way to run a business. Especially when a company like Amazon...

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Walmart Goes Upscale Online
Walmart Goes Upscale Online
July 07, 2016  |  Merchant Innovation

One of the principles of the still-in-progress omnicommerce handbook is that, in an ideal world, inventory is a fluid commodity that flows across channels as...

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