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  • Amazon brings farm to table

    Seattle – Amazon.com is piloting a program that delivers products from farmers markets to consumer tables (or at least their front doors).   

    Partnering with farmers market delivery service Fresh Nation LLC, Amazon is delivering individual orders of farmers market goods, as well as prepared gift baskets of fresh fruits and vegetables, to customers in Los Angeles and Orange and San Diego counties in Southern California.

  • Gilt makes offline leap — but no walk-ins

    New York -- Members of the flash sale site Gilt will soon be able to see close up some of the site’s designer deals on the popular website, complete with a personal stylist — but only if they book ahead.

  • Designers on demand available at Macy’s

    An innovative company incubated in the fashion tech lab Macy’s helped launched has struck a deal that will expose its roster of designers to the department store retailers’ mass market audience.

  • Jet.com founder acknowledges pricing confusing

    New York -- Maybe Jet.com should have kept it more simple.

    Online shopping site Jet.com launched in July with a promise of the lowest prices on the Web. Only problem is, not all consumers can figure out the site’s prices.

  • Target bringing its flexible format to Queens

    New York -- Target Corp. is getting rid of its CityTarget and TargetExpress signage, but it is definitely keeping its flexible format store strategy.

  • Bebe looks to China for growth

    Brisbane, Calif. – Bebe Stores Inc. continues to expand its global presence.

    Bebe announced it has signed a five-year strategic cooperation agreement with Shanghai-based brand agency Longgoal LLC to open between 60 and 150 Bebe stores, shop-in-shops and third-party retailers in Greater China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. The first store is expected to open in the summer of 2016.

  • GameStop scores big jump in same store sales

    GameStop Corp. grew sales and revenue in the second quarter, but it also took steps to expand its non-gaming business.

    For the second quarter ended Aug. 1, the retailer’s net income rose 3% to $25.3 million from $24.6 million. Total global sales rose 2% to $1.76 billion from $1.73 billion, and consolidated global same-store sales increased 8.1% (10.8% in the U.S. and 1.8% internationally).

  • Carhartt opens flagship store where it all began

    Workwear brand Carhartt has opened a flagship in the city where it was founded in 1889.  
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