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How consumers find what they want to buy and buy it in a world that is no longer defined by a physical place but what a consumer wants to buy and how she wants to buy it. Connected devices and the integration of payments into this now digital-led shopping journey is creating new ways for merchants and consumers to interact and disrupting traditional retail business models.

With The End Near, Toys R Us Requests Halt Of Vendor Payments
With The End Near, Toys R Us Requests Halt Of Vendor Payments
March 16, 2018  |  Retail

As Toys R Us wraps up its U.S. operations, a lawyer for the retailer has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to allow the company to halt...

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How Analytics Can Help Fashion Brands And Retailers
How Analytics Can Help Fashion Brands And Retailers
March 16, 2018  |  Retail

What does it take for a fashion brand to stay on top of the trends? A lot of market data. But not all brands excel...

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New Rules For Tech Giants Google, Apple In EU?
New Rules For Tech Giants Google, Apple In EU?
March 15, 2018  |  International

New rules loom in the European Union for tech giants like Apple, Amazon and Google, Reuters reported. The European Commission is at work on a...

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March Madness: Payments And Commerce Style
March Madness: Payments And Commerce Style
March 15, 2018  |  News

Is your bracket ready? Beginning today, the annual March Madness college basketball tournament officially kicks off. While the best 64 teams in amateur basketball will...

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How Grocers Are Taking On Amazon With Instacart
How Grocers Are Taking On Amazon With Instacart
March 15, 2018  |  Retail

BJ’s Wholesale Club has an ambitious goal: It plans to offer same-day delivery from all of its brick-and-mortar stores by the end of April. But...

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Retail Sales Take Another Unexpected Monthly Dip
Retail Sales Take Another Unexpected Monthly Dip
March 14, 2018  |  Retail

U.S. retail sales continue to disappoint in early 2018, with an unexpected drop in February. For those keeping score at home, that represents the third...

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Toys R Us Moves Toward Asset Liquidation
Toys R Us Moves Toward Asset Liquidation
March 14, 2018  |  Retail

The end, it seems, is near as far as Toys R Us is concerned, as reports are emerging that the liquidation of the retailer’s assets may be...

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Amazon Opens Bookstore In DC
Amazon Opens Bookstore In DC
March 14, 2018  |  Retail

Betting that its popularity with shoppers online will translate into brick-and-mortar customers in Washington, D.C., Amazon opens an Amazon Books location in the nation’s capital. The...

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Behind Whole Foods’ Vendor Summit, New Landscape For Sellers — And Buyers
Behind Whole Foods’ Vendor Summit, New Landscape For Sellers — And Buyers
March 14, 2018  |  Retail

When it comes to the grocery business, relationships are as easy to bruise as an overripe apple. Such is the case with Whole Foods, which...

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