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by admin | Mar 10, 2023 | m-commerce, News, Retail Strategy, Retail Technologies, Social Commerce, Social Media
Retrieved from Piqsels. Dive Brief: The livestream e-commerce market will reach $31.7 billion by the end of this year, nearly triple its size in 2021, according to a report by Coresight Research and Bambuser. The report projects that the market will reach $67.8...
by admin | Mar 9, 2023 | Brick & Mortar, Customer Experience, News, Outdoor, Retail Economy
Dick’s Sporting Goods is shifting focus away from its Field & Stream stores toward its House of Sport concept, a significantly larger — and more profitable — version of the familiar Dick’s Sporting Goods store. Dick’s opened its first Field &...
by admin | Mar 8, 2023 | Educational Opportunity, Resources, Retail Strategy, Retail Technologies, Social Media
Marketing is constantly evolving. If you are not keeping up, you’re falling behind. But real change doesn’t happen overnight. Last week, Crystal Media CEO and social media expert, Crystal Vilkaitis, presented an outstanding webinar called “3 Ways to...
by admin | Mar 7, 2023 | Competitions, Snowboard
Elena Hight with a tricky exit off a knuckle of terrain that suits her style perfectly. Photo: Tom Monterosso//Natural Selection The white dust has now settled on “Boulder Park,” a gnarled chunk of terrain in the Canadian Wilderness outside Revelstoke that...
by admin | Mar 6, 2023 | E-Commerce, Internet, Resources, Retail Strategy, Retail Technologies
Ivy Liu Specialty retailers are the latest group to jump on the online marketplace train. Arts and crafts retailer Michaels recently announced the launch of its online marketplace, which would give shoppers access to 750,000 curated new products from...
by admin | Mar 5, 2023 | Brick & Mortar, Customer Service, HR, Resources, Retail Strategy
1. How are you today? Admit it, you don’t care; the shopper knows you don’t care. This leads the customer to parrot a specific answer, “Fine, and you?” To which the retail employee responds with another expected answer, “Fine,” or they launch into another unthinking...
by admin | Mar 4, 2023 | Commercial Real Estate, Debate, Resources, Retail Strategy
Bath & Body Works, among several chains reorienting their footprint away from malls, added 95 off-mall North American stores in 2022 and plans to open approximately 90 more in 2023. Forty-five of the stores Bath & Body Works closed in 2022 were...
by admin | Mar 3, 2023 | Competitions, Legends, News, Olympics, Surf
If Kelly Slater makes the 2024 Olympics at Teahupo’o, he says he’ll hang up the jersey. Photo: WSL Kelly Slater is pretty famous for retiring. Or not retiring, I guess. Famous for almost retiring? Famous for saying he might retire? Anyway, people talk about...
by admin | Mar 2, 2023 | Brick & Mortar, HR, Resources, Retail Strategy
Credit: Getty Images by Luis Alvarez The question of employee engagement has never been more pressing. Coming out of the pandemic, there has been a shift in employee expectations about both pay and working conditions. With potential economic headwinds — e.g., debt...
by admin | Feb 28, 2023 | Community, Competitions, Debate, Industry, News, Olympics, Snowboard
Ayumu Hirano competes in the Dew Tour High Air & Best Trick Jam at Copper Mountain MIKE YOSHIDA If you overhear someone today commenting on the “rivalry” between skiers and snowboarders, chances are they were around in the ’70s when snowboarders began to join the...
