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July 15, 2020

When retail historians compile the definitive chronicle of this era, they will recall something remarkable: as merchants across the nation responded to the COVID-19 outbreak by shifting more operations online, two years’ worth of e-Commerce growth got crammed into two […]

July 14, 2020

The prospects for back-to-school — retail’s second largest sales event annually — have been rendered obscure due to COVID-19 as the selling season greatly depends on how kids will begin their new school years. According to Deloitte’s annual back-to-school surveys, […]

July 14, 2020

Online grocery spend shot up more than 100 per cent in June as demand for home deliveries stayed strong despite retailers reopening their doors. According to Barclaycard’s latest data, online grocery spending jumped 105.9 per cent year-on-year in June, aided […]

July 13, 2020

Older consumers, forced to shop online in response to COVID-19, are expected to drive e-commerce growth in the short- to medium-term, predicts a new study from Mintel. The study, based on a survey of 2,000 U.K. consumers taken from June […]

July 13, 2020

Emails are a powerful tool for communication that have a high potential ROI. According to data from McKinsey & Company, emails are 40 times more effective for acquiring customers than Facebook and Twitter, with an average ROI of $38 for […]

July 8, 2020

Walmart’s stocks leapt nearly seven per cent yesterday after it was reported that it plans to launch its answer to Amazon Prime this month. Walmart Plus is set to launch over the next few weeks, according to Recode, which will […]

July 7, 2020

It’s been said that people who came out of America’s Great Depression were forever changed by the experience and that it affected their attitudes until the end of their days. The experience of living through the novel coronavirus pandemic appears […]

July 7, 2020

Today, Sephora will close its stores for two hours, dedicating the time to training on racial profiling and education on Sephora’s national study on racial bias in retail. Corporate employees will also participate in Conscious Leadership training. The retailer, which […]

July 6, 2020

Stirling Murray, Founder & CEO of The Red Tree, a highly successful beauty advisory business in the U.K., said, “the beauty business is very resilient. It’s always the first industry to come out of a recession. It will come back […]

July 6, 2020

The list of store closings is already very long and may be much longer by the end of the year. The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has left many companies in horrible shape. Some have had to declare bankruptcy while others have […]