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Marketing budgets focused on increased customer engagement in 2014
December 18, 2013
New research from StrongView shows that marketers plan to increase their budgets on activities that increase customer engagement in 2014. However, according to…
read nowRetailer John Lewis rolls out new in-store tech for the holidays
December 18, 2013
The upscale retailer John Lewis, which operates 43 department stores throughout the U.K., has announced three new in-store technology initiatives it is taking…
read nowEyeing omnichannel growth, Macy's to build major new fulfillment center
December 18, 2013
Macy's has announced it will build a major new direct-to-consumer fulfillment center near Owasso, a city in Tulsa County, Okla., to support continued sales…
read nowAmazon rumored to acquire mobile payments startup Gopago
December 17, 2013
Italian media is reporting that Amazon has moved to expand its mobile presence by acquiring the mobile payments startup Gopago. The Silicon Valley-based firm…
read nowKohl's, JCPenney, Nordstrom top Google's 2013 most-searched apparel brands and retailers list
December 17, 2013
Google's Zeitgeist feature, which lets users browse dozens of different interactive lists that detail online activity, offers up this year-end list of the…
read nowHeavy snowstorm brought down retail traffic, sales last week
December 17, 2013
The time to procrastinate is nearly over for holiday shoppers. ShopperTrak, the world's largest counter and analyzer of retail shopper traffic, reported GAFO …
read nowBaroque Japan Limited uses ambient scent for product launch
December 17, 2013
Tokyo-based Baroque Japan Limited, operator of more than 340 apparel and accessories stores in Asia, has introduced "Azul by Moussy-in the spotlight," a line…
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Univ. of Arkansas researchers develop risk assessment tool for mobile POS
December 17, 2013
The researchers studied 26 different retail scenarios and found that there is no "one size fits all" system.
read nowSelfridges takes product photography operation in-house
December 17, 2013
Selfridges has taken its entire online photography operation in-house to improve customer experience and boost the efficiency of its imaging process, the…
read nowHalf of holiday shoppers plan to wrap up lists online, highest in NRF survey history
December 17, 2013
According to NRF's latest holiday survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, nearly half (49.9 percent) of holiday shoppers indicate they plan to do…
read nowGoogle Shopping exec on Diane von Furstenberg, using Hangouts for online retailing
December 16, 2013
At the recent launch event for the fourth-annual PSFK Future of Retail Report, Laura Jones, product marketing manager for Google Shopping, spoke about a recent…
read nowRetail haggling is making a comeback
December 16, 2013
NBC News reports that this holiday season, retailers are seeing the return of a practice once mainly relegated to single-location stores, flea markets and…
read nowStudy says 'Internet of Things' installed base will grow to 26 billion units by 2020
December 16, 2013
The Internet of Things, which excludes PCs, tablets and smartphones, will grow to 26 billion units installed in 2020, representing an almost 30-fold increase…
read nowBritish jeweler Beaverbrooks launches new e-commerce site
December 16, 2013
Hybris software, an SAP company, has announced that U.K. high-street jeweler Beaverbrooks has launched its new e-commerce website, www.beaverbrooks.co.uk…
read nowSymphony EYC expands Click & Collect tool
December 16, 2013
Retail software provider Symphony EYC has announced Symphony EYC Click & Collect, a comprehensive offering that the company said provides flexible…
read nowWith clock ticking, retailers and consumers prepare for a very big holiday shopping weekend
December 13, 2013
According to the National Retail Federation's latest holiday survey conducted by Prosper Insights & Analytics, as of Dec. 9, the average holiday shopper…
read nowNew York City WIRED store displays Fiserv's mPOS solution
December 13, 2013
This Christmas holiday season, shoppers visiting WIRED magazine's ninth annual WIRED store in New York City will be able to experience Fiserv's SpotPay mPOS…
read nowStaten Island mall shames shoplifters with display tech
December 13, 2013
Shoplifters convicted of committing crimes within the Staten Island Mall now have a consequence beyond fines and jail time — public shaming.
read nowNovember SpendTrend analysis shows hike in prepaid use
December 13, 2013
First Data Corp. SpendTrend analysis for Oct. 31 through Dec. 2. charted a dollar volume growth of 4.4 percent — a downturn from October growth of 6.8 percent.
read nowStudy reveals which online retailers did best on Cyber Week across the 'three screens'
December 12, 2013
Keynote, a provider of mobile and Web cloud testing and monitoring, just wrapped up its analysis of Cyber Week — the outshoot of Cyber Monday — as online…
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