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  • Study: Retailers experiencing e-fulfillment growing pains

    Retailers are thrilled with their surging online sales, however the same can’t be said for associated fulfillment operations.    Business is booming online as sales across 82% of e-commerce and multichannel businesses increased in 2016. Only 6% reported a decrease in orders. While many voiced concerns over increasing competition, Brexit and currency fluctuations, the majority of companies (88%) expected a further increase in e-commerce orders during 2017.  

  • Online fashion retailer launches limited-edition beauty collections

    Rue La La is bolstering its beauty sales by jumping into the beauty box category.   The online apparel retailer is partnering with Conde Nast's Allure magazine to get the hottest beauty merchandise into shoppers’ hands. The team collaborated to create a series of one-of-a-kind boxes filled with products hand-selected by Allure's beauty experts and Rue La La's beauty buyers.   

  • Target extends its investment in online retail disruptor

    Fast-growing mattress retailer Casper has closed on a new round of funding — with help from Target Corp.   

  • Amazon and Whole Foods: 5 things to know about the blockbuster deal

    The food retail industry has been flush with big mergers lately, but today’s stunner has no precedent.  

  • J. Crew clinches lender support to trim debt load

    J. Crew is entering into a deal that it expects will put it one step closer to improving its business.   The fashion retailer has won the support of more than 50% of its term loan holders to trim its $2 billion debt load and end intellectual property litigation. This was according to sources familiar with the situation, according to Reuters.  

  • Amazon eyes messaging startup

    Amazon may be looking to bolster its enterprise services offering with an innovative addition.   Corporate chatroom startup Slack Technologies has received inquiries of late about a potential takeover from technology companies, including Amazon. The company is valued at approximately $9 billion, according to Bloomberg.  

  • Walmart doubling down on fashion with Bonobos acquisition

    Walmart is buying the hot men's clothing company Bonobos for $310 million in cash.    The move is in keeping with Walmart's recent efforts to beef up its online offerings and widen its appeal by buying digitally native brands that target millennials and younger consumers. Founded online in 2007, Bonobos has expanded its assortment over the years and has also opened 35 brick-and-mortar stores ("Guideshops"). It also has a partnership with Nordstrom.   

  • Amazon granted anti-showrooming patent

    Despite the many sales that showrooming has afforded Amazon over the years, the retailer surely doesn't want to become a victim going forward.  
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