Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’

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Jul17

Brazil Consumers Draw Retail to Smaller Cities

by admin on July 17th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Posted In: News & Articles

Brazilians’ biggest shopping spree since 2001, fueled by rising wages and credit, is drawing investments to smaller cities as retailers chase consumers outside of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Macae, a former fishing village that’s now the base for Brazil’s offshore oil production, will open its first mall in September, meaning its 169,000 residents […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Jul14

Borders to offer five free books with e-book software

by admin on July 14th, 2010 at 7:52 am
Posted In: Book Store, Marketing, Retail Management, Retail Verticals

Borders launched its e-bookstore earlier this week, entering the fray along with competitors Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.

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Nov27

Successful Brand Marketing

by admin on November 27th, 2010 at 5:50 am
Posted In: Brand Management, Marketing, Retail Management

‘Branding’ alone hardly ever makes a business successful. It is businesses, including their culture and ethos, that make brands successful. And as soon as the business drops the ball on innovation, service, quality or price, or forgets its cultural roots, the brand quickly loses its lustre.

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Jun14

Learning from the Failures of Amazon Cloud

by admin on June 14th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Posted In: News & Articles, Online Shopping, Retail Formats

Every cloud expert will acknowledge that the mantra for successful architecture in the cloud is ‘Design for Failure’….The failure in a particular zone will redirect the traffic to a different zone that is stable.

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Nov27

Black Friday Sales Hits Record, Retail traffic and Foot-falls up.

by admin on November 27th, 2011 at 6:35 am
Posted In: Apparel / Garment, Beauty Salon, Department Store, Discount Stores, Entertainment, Grocery Stores, Leisure & Lifestyle, Luxury Stores, Mobile Stores, News & Articles, Retail Formats, Retail Verticals, Supermarket/Hypermarket

Retail sales on Black Friday climbed 6.6% this year to an estimated $11.4 billion, according to ShopperTrak, which tracks foot traffic at malls and stores. Last year, sales climbed just 0.3% to $10.7 billion, which was a record one-day sales amount at the time, according to the company.

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Mar30

Why Wal-Mart Is Worried About Amazon?

by admin on March 30th, 2012 at 4:39 am
Posted In: News & Articles, Online Shopping, Retail Formats

The chain’s 2011 online sales amounted to less than 2 percent of its $264 billion in U.S. revenue…Wal-Mart is trying to improve links between its store inventory, website, and mobile phone apps so that more customers can order online and pick up their purchases at stores, which half of Web customers do already.

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Jul21

Me-Ality – The Futuristic Body Scanning Technology by Unique Solutions

by admin on July 21st, 2012 at 2:17 pm
Posted In: Apparel / Garment, Luxury Stores, Product Launch, Window Dressing

The Future of Shopping: An Avatar Lets You Find the Perfect Fit   A Me-Ality body scanner at the North Point Mall in GeorgiaPhotograph courtesy Unique Solutions. For anyone who loathes trying on clothes, there are no good options. The fitting room can seem like a torture chamber—harsh lighting, the walk past other customers to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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