Retail News
Painting the Digital Future of Retail & Consumer Goods Companies
With trillions in potential profit at stake over the next decade, retail and consumer goods leaders are harnessing the power of digital to meet rapidly changing market needs and stay ahead of the competition.
E-commerce Returns Are the New Normal
With the number of online shoppers expected to reach 270 million by 2020 - driven largely by the popularity of mobile devices - retailers need to rethink their ecommerce strategies in order to keep up.
Walmart Online Ecommerce Sales Soar 69% as Retail Giant Pursues Amazon
Walmart's U.S. business is still showing signs of thriving, as evidenced by the company's fiscal first-quarter results, its U.S. ecommerce gross merchandise volume grew a whopping 69% fueled largely by more clicks and sales on Walmart.com.
Amazon Sets Sights on Home Furnishings Market
As furniture becomes one of the fastest-growing segments of U.S. online retail, Amazon aims to make a major push into its marketplace.
Redefining Final Mile Delivery in the Age of the Customer
In this whitepaper, you will find key insights on how to manage delivery costs while ensuring a heightened delivery experience for your customer.
Making the Last Mile Pay
This white paper examines the latest innovation in last-mile services and explores how companies can harness the opportunities, and keep customers happy, without undermining their businesses - or promising more than they can deliver.
Machine Learning, Little Black Dress or Accessory?
For retailers, the ability to capture and analyze retail data to make marketing suggestions is well recognized, however, as a transformative technology, it’s no little black dress that pulls everything together, it’s actually an accessory, and the same can be said for machine learning.
How Much Has Changed Since the Rana Plaza Factory Collapse 4 Years Ago
While global fashion brands dictate the precise designs of clothes down to the last stitch, their claim to have little power to ensure the basic rights of workers in factories is absurd, they simply don’t care.
Amazon Wins Patent for On-Demand Apparel Manufacturing Warehouse
The Seattle e-commerce juggernaut just won a patent for “on-demand apparel manufacturing,” in which machines only start snipping and stitching once an order has been placed, Amazon could wade deeper into developing its own apparel.
Walmart Close to Acquiring Bonobos to Boost Online Cachet for About $300 Million
Walmart is in advanced talks to acquire e-commerce menswear company Bonobos, the companies have reportedly agreed on price, and the deal will be finalized upon completion of due diligence.
Scott Galloway: How Amazon is Dismantling Retail
Scott Galloway speaks at L2’s Amazon Clinic about how Amazon is disrupting retail.
Walmart’s E-Commerce Future under Marc Lore Starting to Come Together
Marc Lore, the head of Walmart's U.S. e-commerce division, has introduced a service that gives a peek into his vision, notably, how he can use the company's massive store fleet operations to better compete against Amazon.
Was ModCloth a Good Deal for Walmart?
Under Walmart’s umbrella, ModCloth will have more working capital, be able to open more stores faster, and take advantage of back-end efficiencies, but can the combined companies win in the enormous category of retail fashion online?
Death of Pureplay Retail
This report analyzes disruptive retail models that have emerged over the past decade, in an attempt to identify winning business strategies and their underlying consumer behaviors.
‘Substantial Doubt Exists’ for Sears’ Ability to Continue - Sears Today, Walmart Tomorrow?
Sears Holdings finally admitted it probably can't survive as a going concern this week, Sears has lost over $10B since 2010 - when it last showed a profit - and owes over $4B to its creditors.
Walmart Launches “Store No. 8” Tech Incubator, Promises More Acquisitions
Walmart is creating a startup incubator charged with developing cutting-edge retail technologies as part of a wider drive to modernize its supermarkets and challenge Amazon in the online digital e-commerce sector.
CEO Viewpoint: The Transformation of Retail
For JDA’s fourth annual Retail CEO Survey, we asked more than 350 retail and consumer goods CEOs from the world’s largest and smallest players, across different segments in both mature and emerging markets around the world to share their views of the key trends shaping their business.
3 Predictions for the Future of Retail from Walmart CEO Doug McMillon
What will shopping be like in 10 years? No one knows all the details (that’s exciting!), but one thing is for sure: it will be very different than it is today.
Shaping the Future of Retail for Consumer Industries
The research and quantitative assessment underpinning this report emphasize that digital transformation could unlock immense value for the retail and CPG industry over the next decade.
Retail Seeks to Redefine Itself
Retailers and their suppliers need to find new ways to deliver value and unique services to consumers.
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