US based fast fashion apparel retailer, Forever 21, has implemented Oracle Retail Assortment Planning and Size Profile Optimization to help ensure that the apparel and accessories it places in stores each week are those that customers are ...
Tags: Forever 21, fashion apparel
Electronic store chains lose another round to online. Where does it end? Are electronics store outlets doomed? It was indeed a merry Christmas for online retailers. Results for the season show a strong expansion of sales in the US, fueled ...
Tags: Electronics Retailers, Electrical
Electronic cigarettes and vaporizers belong to a single category of products, but this does not mean they are the same. As viable alternatives to tobacco cigarettes, smokers need to know which between the two products they should get. ...
Tags: Electronic Cigarettes, Vaporizers, Consumer Electronics
Less than four years after acquiring GSI Commerce for $2.4 billion, eBay Inc. announced Wednesday it was studying whether to spin off the business in IPO as part of a broadening restructuring. The company disclosed the plans in its ...
Tags: broadening restructuring, box retailers, Sporting Goods
Mitchells Family of Stores, an independent, family-owned, and operated luxury, apparel company joined hands with ThoughtWorks, a global retail solutions provider, to reenergize the luxury shopping experience through its ecommerce and ...
Tags: brick-and-mortar channels, responsive-design website, Textile
Spencer’s Retail, the flagship company of RP Sanjiv Goenka Group and a subsidiary of CESC, will be expanding its private labels, mostly in apparel. Speaking at a press conference to announce the launch of seventh hyperstore of ...
Tags: Labels, menswear, womenswear, kidswear, Apparel
U.S. online retail sales for the Christmas season, from November 1 to December 31, rose 15 percent year on year to $53.3 billion, according to comScore Inc. Cyber Monday, December 1, ranked as the heaviest online spending day of the year ...
MonkeySports, the big box retailer of hockey, lacrosse and baseball/softball equipment, opened its first location in Greenwood Village, CO; a 30 minute drive from Denver. The 15,125-square-foot superstore opened at 6578 S. Yosemite Circle ...
Tags: softball equipment, Sporting Goods
Major U.S. retailers including Target Corp and Toys 'R Us have begun allowing shoppers to collect online purchases at their brick-and-mortar stores, but a study shows the option often saves little, if any, time over in-store shopping. ...
Tags: Online Purchases, Amazon
The average customer satisfaction score for Amazon slipped five points to 83 to tie with QVC for the highest score among the top 100 e-commerce sites measured over the holidays, likely because of increased price competition, according to ...
HTC has revealed it has plans to expand its smartphone line-up with a selection of new entry-level handsets. Jack Tong, the firm’s President of North Asia, revealed that next year will see more low-spec 4G smartphones hit store ...
Tags: HTC, Smartphone, CES
A survey by The Economist reveals that Asian women are increasingly empowered financially and they are the one’s driving the explosive growth of e-commerce in the region. The magazine did a detailed survey of 5,500 women across ...
Tags: Ecommerce Trade, Female consumers, Apparel
This was supposed to be the diamond decade. Back in 2010, De Beers executives were touting that the coming 10 years would bring unprecedented demand and growth to the industry. Almost halfway through, it feels anything but, especially for ...
Tags: Diamond Decade, diamond dealers
Vape A Vet is a project that has been receiving quite a lot of support from various organizations in the electronic cigarette community such as the American Vaping Association. The project aims to help the veterans as well as their families ...
The American multinational clothing and accessories retailer Gap Inc. is set to open its first-ever Old Navy outlet in Shenzhen, a city located in the south of Southern China’s Guangdong Province, on November 8, 2014. In a bid to ...
Tags: clothing retailer, omni-channel, Apparel