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  • Five Last-Minute Holiday Tips for Online Merchants

    By Christopher Birkholm    As the official kick-off of the holiday season approaches, your core online holiday campaigns are all wrapped up and ready for holiday shoppers. This year, it is expected that online consumer spending will rise 16%  over last year to approximately $60 billion, according to the comScore forecast. Desktop commerce is expected to jump nearly 14% while mobile commerce could see an increase of nearly 25%.  

  • NYC Retail: Top 10 New Stores

    It’s been another big year in terms of new store openings in New York City. Here are my top 10 faves:

  • Why Amazon Can't Be a Third Space ... Yet

    When was the last time you heard someone say, without a trace of irony, that a big-box store helped them get through the day?

    Twenty-five years ago, Ray Oldenburg published “The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts and How They Get You Through the Day.” Oldenburg, an urban sociologist, explained how certain stores were more than just places to shop.

  • Books-A-Million reports higher Q3 sales

    Despite continuing to lose money, Books-A-Million announced higher same store sales for the third quarter.

  • Reawakenings

    Prolific developer Trademark Property Company is doing its part to ramp up the country’s new development and active redevelopment stats. The Fort Worth, Texas-based firm has five projects under construction:

  • Tiffany’s same store sales sparkle

    Tiffany & Co. reported a better-than-expected increase in same-store sales, mainly due to strong demand for high-end fashion jewelry in North and South America.  

  • Twitter in pilot to deliver discounts via Tweets; offers redeemable in stores

    New York - Twitter keeps on coming up with new ways to let advertisers connect with consumers—and now it’s moving into the brick-and-mortar space. In its first  On Tuesday, the social media giant launched a pilot for a new feature called Twitter Offers, which enables brands and companies to create card-linked promotions and share them directly with Twitter users. The user can redeem the discount simply by paying with the synced card in the retailer’s physical store or online shop.

  • Wet Seal plunges into strategic review

    Wet Seal has hired an investment banker and a senior adviser to analyze potential financial alternatives for the struggling retailer.

    The company said it has hired investment bank Houlihan Lokey and former Tilly's Inc. executive William Langsdorf to aid in a strategic review. Wet Seal said it has not set a deadline for completion of the process and that “there can be no assurance that the exploration of the potential alternatives will result in a transaction.”

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