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  • How Can Retailers Thrive in Review-First Shopping?

    Online reviews have boomed in recent years. Once just another step in the customer decision-making process, they are now a pervasive part of daily life.  

  • Home goods retailer jumps into augmented reality app

    Pottery Barn customers in the San Francisco area will soon be able to see how a product will look in their home before they buy it.   The retailer, a division of Williams-Sonoma, will launch its first smartphone augmented reality app later this month. Called 3D Room View, the app is powered by Tango technology from Google. (It can be used only on Tango enabled smartphones.)   

  • Walmart in patent filing for in-store drones

    The nation’s largest retailer is ready to put a whole new spin on merchandise fulfillment.   Speed is the name of the game in retail these days, in store and online.   

  • Walmart launches Store No. 8 — but it’s not really a store

    The nation’s largest retailer is delving deeper into e-commerce and evolving technology with its newest investment.   Walmart has formed Store No. 8, a technology incubator that will be based in the Silicon Valley. (The new initiative is named after an early Walmart store that company founder Sam Walton used to try out new retail strategies.)  

  • Commentary: Francesca’s will remain one of the winners in the fashion space

    Håkon Helgesen, analyst at GlobalData Retail, comments on Francesca’s fourth quarter and full year results:  

  • Online giant serves up personalized homepages

    eBay is preparing to connect with each of its individual consumers — starting from the first minute they visit the site.   The company plans to do so with a new homepage that is “designed to inspire and engage with relevant, personalized content and highlighted deals,” according to the company.  

  • Apparel and accessories retailer Q4 sales, profit top Street

    A move to a more fast-fashion model helped Francesca’s to outperform many of its peers in the fourth quarter, with sales and income that topped expectations.       The retailer reported better-than-expected profit of $14.6 million, or 39 cents a share, for the quarter ended January 28, compared to $14.7 million profit, or 35 cents a share, in the year ago period.  

  • First Look: Target’s next-generation store concept

    Target Corp. has unveiled its next-generation store format, which will make its debut in Richmond, Texas, a Houston suburb, in October.   In addition to the new 124,000-sq.-ft. Richmond store, 40 additional Target locations will receive elements of the redesign when they are updated, also in October.      
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