RICHMOND, Virginia, 2016-Jun-19 — /EPR Retail News/ — CarMax, Inc. (NYSE: KMX), the nation’s largest retailer of used cars, today celebrated the grand opening of its first store in El Paso, located at 1300 Pendale Road. The El Paso store will stock between 200-400 used vehicles of nearly every make and model, and has brought approximately…
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SAN FRANCISCO, 2016-Jun-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — Today (June 13, 2016) at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announced that Apple Pay will come to the web this fall, and Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP)(TSX:SH), the leading cloud-based, multichannel commerce platform designed for small…
BERLIN, 2016-Jun-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — Zalando welcomes adidas as the first international brand partner to join Zalando’s fashion platform with local stock. With its local performance store at Berlin Tauentzienstraße, adidas has made its local stock available via Zalando. For Zalando this strategic partnership means the next step towards the fashion platform’s vision of…
Hangzhou, China, 2016-Jun-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA) today announced that it will host an Investor Day on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 China Time at Alibaba Xixi Headquarters, Hangzhou, China.
Speakers will include Joe Tsai (Executive Vice Chairman), Daniel Zhang (CEO), Maggie Wu (CFO) and other members of our senior management…
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, 2016-Jun-09 — /EPR Retail News/ — Amcal today launched a Chinese language version of its website. This will be managed in partnership with Azoya – a local distributor and Chinese e-commerce specialist providing on-the-ground customer support in China.
The new Chinese language site marks the first time Amcal has entered the international retail market from…
The Mark Cuban Collection includes items customers will recognize from the TV program Shark Tank
Amazon Exclusives gives customers access to new products directly from up-and-coming brands
On average this year, Amazon Exclusives store sales have grown more than 15 percent per month
Amazon Exclusives items are available to Prime members with Free Two-Day shipping…
Jill Soloway will continue as Showrunner and Andrea Sperling as Executive Producer
Jeffrey Tambor (Arrested Development), Judith Light (Dallas), Gaby Hoffmann (Girls), Amy Landecker (Louie) and Jay Duplass (Togetherness) will all return
SEATTLE, 2016-Jun-02 — /EPR Retail News/ — (NASDAQ: AMZN)—Amazon today (May 31, 2016) announced it has greenlit season four of the multi-Golden Globe and multi-Emmy Award-winning…
Within four years, Amazon’s presence has grown to 9 state-of-the-art fulfillment centers across the state of California
SEATTLE, 2016-Jun-02 — /EPR Retail News/ — Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it will launch fulfillment centers in Tracy and Eastvale, creating more than 1,500 new full-time jobs. These new facilities will increase Amazon’s California presence to nine…
Seattle tops the list for the second year in a row; bookworms abound in California and Texas cities
SEATTLE, 2016-May-24 — /EPR Retail News/ — (NASDAQ:AMZN)— Today, Amazon.com revealed their annual list of the Top 20 Most Well-Read Cities across the U.S., just in time for summer reading season. The ranking is determined by a compilation of…
StubHub logo patch to appear on front left of Sixers' game jerseys starting in the 2017-18 season.
San Jose, California, 2016-May-18 — /EPR Retail News/ — What has become commonplace on uniforms and sports leagues around the world is now coming to the United States.
The Philadelphia 76ers and StubHub have announced the first jersey patch sponsorship…
Q1 revenues at EUR 796 million, adjusted EBIT margin of 2.5%
Strong growth coupled with strategic investments
Acquires e-commerce specialty software provider Tradebyte
BERLIN, 2016-May-16 — /EPR Retail News/ — Zalando SE, Europe’s leading online platform for fashion, had a good start into the year and remained on its profitable high-growth path. In the first quarter…
eBay Valet Drop-Off Program Expands to More Than 1,600 FedEx Office Locations.
San Jose, California, 2016-May-13 — /EPR Retail News/ — eBay and FedEx Office are making it easier for consumers to sell items online and earn money. Building on the success of the eBay Valet program – a professional service that handles all aspects of the…
San Jose, California, 2016-May-13 — /EPR Retail News/ — Under the agreement, Gmarket will launch a flagship store on Rakuten Ichiba – its Japanese platform – featuring boutique shops that will offer Korean fashion and beauty products to Rakuten’s membership base of more than 100 million users.
eBay Korea’s Gmarket has joined forces with Japan’s largest internet…
PARIS, 2016-May-13 — /EPR Retail News/ — MAPIC, the International Market for Retail Real Estate, has chosen Online-to-Offline as its central theme for 2016.
MAPIC Director Nathalie Depetro explains, “Today, omni-channel is at the heart of the strategy of retail property professionals, positioning the physical point of sale as the vital component. This means that pure online…
Roland Palmer to lead Alibaba Group Netherlands office, serving the Benelux region from Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM, 2016-May-13 — /EPR Retail News/ — Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA) today announced the appointment of Roland Palmer as managing director of Alibaba Group Netherlands and member of the Alibaba Group EU leadership team, effective immediately.
This senior management appointment and establishment of…
New categories offer more than 20,000 items sold directly from Artisans
100 percent increase in Handmade Artisans using FBA service for FREE two-day delivery to Prime customers
SEATTLE, 2016-May-12 — /EPR Retail News/ — Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced today Handmade at Amazon (www.amazon.com/handmade), a store featuring genuinely handmade items crafted and sold directly from artisans, has…
Revenue Grows 95% Year on Year
Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV) Grows 102% Year on Year
Number of Merchants Surpasses 275,000
Shopify reports in U.S. dollars and in accordance with U.S. GAAP
Ottawa, Canada, 2016-May-10 — /EPR Retail News/ — Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP)(TSX:SH), the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced…
Overall shop prices reported deflation of 1.7% in April, unchanged from the decline seen in March. This is in-line with the 12-month average
Non-food deflation accelerated to 2.9% in April from the 2.6% fall in March. This is deeper the 12-month average of -2.7%
Food returned to inflationary territory in April, up 0.1% compared with…
Former buyer Jonathan Han promoted to new role
SAN FRANCISCO, CA., 2016-May-06 — /EPR Retail News/ — Wine.com, the nation’s #1 online wine retailer, is pleased to welcome Tim Marson, MW, as the new senior buyer for California Wine. Jonathan Han, who handled the California purchasing for nearly 18 months, has been promoted to a new position…
LOS ANGELES, CA , 2016-May-06 — /EPR Retail News/ — Forever 21, one of the most recognized and largest independent fashion retailers in the world, debuts its Summer 2016 collection and campaign globally featuring rising model-musician-sister duo, Pyper Smith and Daisey Clementine of The Atomics.
The campaign pays homage to the iconic fashion era of the ‘90s, and…
Auckland, New Zealand, 2016-May-05 — /EPR Retail News/ — Foodstuffs North Island Ltd and Foodstuffs South Island Ltd are pleased to announce to the grocery industry the launch of a national product information management project. Phil Lemon, General Manager Merchandise, Foodstuffs South Island and Chief Financial Officer and Acting General Manager Merchandise, Foodstuffs North Island believe…
100 new Click & Collect Groceries sites planned over next 12 months
LONDON, 2016-May-03 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sainsbury’s has announced that it will double the number of Click & Collect Groceries Sites in its store car parks over the next 12 months, as it further builds its multi-channel offer to make shopping easier for…
Stockholm,Sweden, 2016-Apr-27 — /EPR Retail News/ — H&M’s Shop Online will offer the same collections online as in-store giving customers access to a wide range of clothing and accessories including ladies, men's, teens and a full children’s line. There will also be exclusive "online-only" items available all year-round.
The Shop Online launch will also include H&M Home.…
Milton Keynes, UK, 2016-Apr-21 — /EPR Retail News/ — Sales of boxing equipment at Argos are on the rise, up 59 percent year on year, as Brits fancy themselves as the next Anthony Joshua, Amir Khan or David Haye.
Following Anthony Joshua’s big fight and win against Charles Martin, Britain has boxing fever. Sparring and upper cuts…
LONDON, 2016-Apr-19 — /EPR Retail News/ — Waitrose is to export to China for the first time from 18 April after reaching an agreement to sell products online with the retailer predicting it could become its biggest international business in the next three to five years.
It will be the first time the UK supermarket has exported…
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN,, 2016-Apr-17 — /EPR Retail News/ — We are proud to announce that we successfully welcomed our Japanese customers to a new and extended online experience on April 14th.
H&M’s Shop Online will offer the same collections online as in-store giving customers access to a wide range of clothing and accessories including ladies, men's, teens…
Ottawa, Canada , 2016-Apr-16 — /EPR Retail News/ — Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP)(TSX:SH), the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced it has agreed to acquire privately held Kit CRM Inc., a virtual marketing assistant that leverages messaging to help businesses market their online stores. The acquisition will bolster Shopify’s focus…
Transaction makes Alibaba a leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia
Hangzhou, China/Singapore, 2016-Apr-15 — /EPR Retail News/ — Alibaba Group Holding Limited and Lazada Group S.A. announced today that Alibaba entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Lazada, a leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia. The transaction consists of an investment of approximately USD500…
Shopify leads conversational commerce trend with Messenger integration and future launch of commerce bots
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 2016-Apr-14 — /EPR Retail News/ — Shopify Inc. (NYSE:SHOP)(TSX:SH), the leading cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses, today announced an integration with the new Messenger Platform that allows merchants to provide live customer support, automatically send order…
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