There's a technology race going on in the bicycle industry, and it's leaving retailers in a scramble to keep up. Frame and component makers have introduced a slew of new axle, bottom bracket and fork interfaces in the past few years as they ...
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With increasing challenges being faced from the rapidly increasing e-commerce portals, several clothing retailers have begun introducing online sales to compliment their brick and mortar stores. The brands which have introduced e-stores ...
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Pistol Panties, the London-based beachwear label, has recently launched a sexy swimwear collection in collaboration with the famous British high-street retailer Topshop, reported vogue.co.uk. Created by the swimwear brand’s ...
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The U.S. Senate has voted 74-20 to close debate and move to a final vote on a bill allowing states to collect sales tax from out-of-state Internet and catalog retailers. The Senate's Monday vote sets up an expedited vote on the ...
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The U.S. Senate has moved toward a vote to impose sales tax on most Internet purchases, with lawmakers likely to vote to close debate on legislation next week. On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, filed a ...
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Restoration Hardware said revenues shot up 30.4% in the quarter ended Feb. 2, but the retailer recorded a net loss of $28.4 million due largely to expenses from its November public stock offering. Revenues for the 14-week quarter totaled ...
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Homing in on many brick-and-mortar retailers' most daunting concerns—how to survive and thrive amid online price slashing and better market themselves in the crowded digital marketplace—the second edition of the IBD Summit ...
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The NPD Group, Inc., a global information company, released results from its Consumer Tracking Service for 2012. The U.S. men’s apparel market grew 1 percent in 2012 with total sales of 57 billion dollars with the average selling ...
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Don't blame Windows 8 for plummeting PC sales, a retail analyst said today. "It wasn't about Windows 8, it was much more about the price challenges facing OEMs," said Stephen Baker of the NPD Group, citing U.S. retail sales data the firm ...
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Have you been Pinteresting? If not, you should seriously consider this. Pinterest, the up-and-coming social media site, is now all the rage. And like other social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare, not to mention ...
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Vitacost.com, Inc., an online retailer of health and wellness products, today announced a new digital platform for tablet devices that revolutionizes the shopping experience for consumers. Consumers visiting discovery.vitacost.com via an ...
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Demandware, Inc., the industry-leading provider of enterprise cloud commerce solutions, announced that Avenue Stores, a specialty retailer of affordable fashion for real sized women, has selected the Demandware Commerce platform to support ...
According to a study, nearly 50% of shoppers who purchase products online first go to brick-and-mortar locations to see the product, a tactic coined 'showrooming.' With US Census retail shopping data for Q4 of 2012 revealing marginal ...
Most brick-and-mortar retailers would benefit from federal legislation that would allow states to collect sales taxes from online retailers, industry leaders say. But opponents of the legislation say it would burden small online businesses ...
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The U.S. Senate has overwhelmingly passed a non-binding proposal to allow states to collect sales tax on Internet sellers that have no presence within their borders. The proposal was an amendment to a 2014 budget bill that the Senate ...
Tags: Internet, e-commerce, Internet Sales