Retail - Specialty Stores News
YSL debuts customer lipstick making experience
January 14, 2021
Come this spring consumers will be able to create their own lipstick shade right at home, courtesy of an innovative system from Yves St. Laurent.
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Home furnishing retailer drives efficiency, boosts customer experience
January 12, 2021
RC Willey Home Furnishing is improving efficiency and boosting the customer experience after swapping a legacy EDI system with ecUtopia, TrueCommerce's…
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Staples pursues Office Depot for a third time
January 12, 2021
Staples has made its third offer to buy Office Depot, this time for $2.1 billion in cash, about $40 for each of the competitor's shares.
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Toppan Printing tests facial scanning to improve cosmetics
January 6, 2021
Toppan Printing, a provider of touch display solutions, communication, security, packaging, décor materials and electronics solutions, is collaborating with…
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Crate and Barrel taps Glympse to boost curbside experience
January 5, 2021
Crate and Barrel is teaming up with Glympse, a day-of-service mobile communications platform, to boost curbside pickup.
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Jewelry retailer taps Loop Commerce to boost digital gifting
November 25, 2020
Catbird, a New York jewelry designer and retailer, is deploying Loop Commerce's GiftNow to streamline, personalize and enhance the gifting experience.
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Foot Locker debuts power store concept in Canada
November 24, 2020
A Foot Locker community power store is now open for business in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the footwear retailer plans to open a second in Toronto in…
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Fashion designer develops vending machine for hand bags
November 20, 2020
Paris-based fashion designer Jacquemus has created a vending machine offering a selection of the designer's hand bags, including the tiny Chiquito and the new…
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Raymour & Flanigan taps Rightpoint for website build
November 17, 2020
Furniture retailer Raymour & Flanigan has launched a website providing a "differentiated e-commerce experience," built on Episerver by Righpoint, a Genpact…
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Canada retailer deploys mobile shopping tool to drive contactless shopping
November 17, 2020
Lee Valley Tools, an Ottawa, Canada tool and garden retailer, is offering consumers a mobile shopping tool to foster contactless shopping at its 20 locations…
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New Balance aims to modernize customer experience with Aptos technology
November 10, 2020
Athletic leader New Balance will deploy Apotos cloud-based applications across its retail footprint in North America and Europe in a quest to modernize and…
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Lowe's hiring on 20K staffers for holiday season
November 5, 2020
Home improvement retailer Lowe's Companies, Inc. is gearing up to hire on 20,000 associates to support customer demand this holiday season and is dedicating an…
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Cannabis vending machines evolve, but face hurdles
November 3, 2020
A new cannabis vending machine, called Anna, has hit the market in Colorado, with other states on the horizon, but the automated dispensers must overcome a…
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Dick's Sporting Goods president named to Yum Brands board
October 14, 2020
Yum Brands Inc. has named Lauren R. Hobart, president of Dick's Sporting Goods Inc., to its board, effective Nov. 12, a news release said. Hobart, a former…
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Health beauty retailer taps NCR for faster checkout, simpler store operations
October 13, 2020
Kruidvat, which is part of the A.S. Watson Group that operates over 1,200 retail stores in Belgium and the Netherlands, is deploying NCR's Next Generation…
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Cocoon Technology installs self-service kiosks at Thrive Cannabis Marketplace
September 18, 2020
Cocoon Technology has installed its CocoonPod self-service kiosks at Thrive Cannabis Marketplace at 2755 W. Cheyenne Ave, 103, North Las Vegas, the first of…
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Petco may be heading to sale block or IPO
September 11, 2020
Petco may soon be sold by CVC Capital Partners and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and it could bring a tidy sum given a value point of $6 billion.
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Sporting goods retailer taps Oracle Cloud for greater associate-customer engagement
September 7, 2020
Sporting goods retailer Scheels is deploying Oracle Retail Xstore and Oracle Retail Xstore Office Cloud Service to its 28 stores in a quest to give associates…
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Payless relaunches in North America with new online platform, concept stores
August 19, 2020
Footwear retailer Payless is relaunching in the North American market with a revamped e-commerce platform as well as new brick-and-mortar concept stores.
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Vans teams with The Simpsons on footwear brand
August 4, 2020
Footwear and apparel retailer, Vans, has a new product line out and it's all about The Simpsons, a longtime popular cartoon series.
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