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Amazon’s New Food-Store Rollout

There is a lack of clarity of details surrounding Amazon\’s upcoming development of a food-store format that will be entirely distinct from its Whole Foods ...
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The Surprise of e-Commerce Delivery

E-commerce brands\’ business models are getting more interesting. If you are an investor, these are fundable businesses. The most popular models are direct-to-consumer brands like ...
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Is Right-Tailing Here to Stay?

To the retail lexicon that includes all manner of subsets and offshoots from e-tail to mobile retail to resale retail to re-retail, perhaps it\’s time ...
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Customers Are Voting with their Feet

As retailers and manufacturers are scrambling to find and grow alternative revenue streams as a result of their failing core businesses, there is a solution ...
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Traditional Loyalty Programs are Passé, Here\’s What\’s Next

Card-based customer loyalty programs in the retail industry–LOL. These days most customers that belong to nine additional loyalty programs with different retailers, and few consumers ...
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Sprouts Discovers that Density is Destiny

After a lengthy period of topside executive turmoil, Sprouts Farmers Market recently landed a new chief executive officer who will have his hands full with ...
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A Secret Shop of STORY at Macy’s Reveals Some Ugly Truths

The retail industry often falls in love with its own sound bites. Sexy acquisitions, beautiful in-store PR photos and even charismatic retail personalities are as ...
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Recalibrating Salaries: The Raises Americans Have Been Waiting For

Boost salaries and you boost the whole economy. Armed with more money for spending, consumers can increase purchases of homes, consumer goods, leisure activities and ...
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