Kissmetrics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Concrete measures of success: We’ve talked about the importance of data and metrics a lot in this article. If you’ve got a big vision for your organization, these tools fit your business needs for today and tomorrow. All MarTech automation tools come with data insights that allow you to track everything from productivity to campaign spend.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In the below article, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about Thailand’s new VAT requirements for sales of digital products and services. The country recently published guidance requiring providers of electronic services — select digital products and services — to register for VAT if they meet certain criteria and thresholds.

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GetElastic

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Leverage website content (blogs, articles, product pages, videos) to answer customer-centric questions focused on your core personas like the following: How are you different from your competitors? Keep your website clean, simple, and easy to navigate. Ensure your website loads quickly.

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RetailMinded

AUGUST 30, 2021

Suppose you want to expand your knowledge about the requirements for registration and permits to have a trucking authority, you may refer to trucking-related websites and posts such as what you’ll find in this article. . Cost-Effectiveness . Moving goods is expensive.

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Ecommerce Platforms

AUGUST 31, 2021

We won't go too much into making custom designs in this article. Shopify offers so many ways to customize your store, so we won't be able to get to all of those features in this article. As of this article, Printify has three Canadian printing partners, all of which focus on apparel.

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SellBrite

AUGUST 31, 2021

This article offers more insight into WFS fees. However, the $0.75 fee only applies to items stored for less than 30 days from October to December. Items stored for longer than that will add $1.50/cubic cubic foot per month for a total cost of $2.25/cubic cubic foot per month.

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ROI Revolution

AUGUST 31, 2021

In this article, examine the nine core considerations you should take into account before arriving at your target cost per lead. Yes, you got the names, but you have no idea what you’re even measuring everything against. All the while, everyone’s happiness mysteriously continues even when you overshoot your target cost per lead.

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Inflow Insights

AUGUST 30, 2021

When it comes to making smarter content decisions for your eCommerce business, nothing’s more important than a brilliant SEO strategy. But how do you make a strategy work when you’re dealing with seasonal changes to customer traffic and buying behavior? Enter SEO forecasting.

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Fabric Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Ignoring accessibility is a way to drive customers away from your e-commerce site. While it’s easy for developers to focus on new features and bug fixing, putting effort into inclusive, accessible sites will have huge benefits.

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Fabric Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Ignoring accessibility is a way to drive customers away from your e-commerce site. While it’s easy for developers to focus on new features and bug fixing, putting effort into inclusive, accessible sites will have huge benefits.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The country’s biggest private employer plans to add 20,000 supply chain workers to its ranks as it gears up for the 2021 holiday shopping season. Walmart will fill a variety of positions, both full- and part-time, to handle everything from order picking to freight loading.

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RetailWire

AUGUST 30, 2021

Amazon has cut a deal with buy now-pay later provider Affirm that will give shoppers the option to pay for some larger-priced purchases on a monthly installment plan, making it easier to make purchasing decisions on $50+ items, such as furniture, home goods, electronics and fashion.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In an email sent to employees of Google parent company Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai told workers to expect to return to their offices no sooner than Jan. 10th and possibly later, depending on the local state of COVID-19 infections. Just last month, Google pushed the return date back from September of this year to October.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Southern Mississippi supermarket chains have been experiencing the same sort of supply chain disruptions as others around the country in recent months, and now the impact of Hurricane Ida has cleared many shelves of goods. Much of the demand is coming from Louisiana residents crossing the border in search of supplies.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Deckers-owned Hoka will tread into the physical store realm for the first time with two initial locations — on 5th Avenue in New York’s Flatiron neighborhood and on Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Walmart will hike wages by $1 per hour for over a half million of its 1.2 million store associates, effectively raising the average hourly wage for Walmart’s U.S. store associates is $16.40. Effective Sept. 25, associates in the Frontend, Food & Consumable and General Merchandise work groups will receive at least a $1 an hour raise.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Amazon’s recently-installed CEO, Andy Jassy, reportedly overrode a decision in 2019 to fire a manager at the company’s AWS division who was accused by a Black female subordinate of discrimination. Mr. Jassy was CEO of AWS at the time. According to a report from Protocol, Amazon has confirmed the events. “In

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

According to the results of a poll released yesterday by consultant Willis Towers Watson, 52 percent of U.S. businesses are planning, or at least considering, rules requiring that employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. Only 21 percent of those surveyed, however, currently have such mandates in place.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The California State Senate has passed a bill that, if also passed by the Assembly, would mandate that department stores in the state with 500 or more employees create gender neutral merchandising sections displaying a “a reasonable selection” of items “regardless of whether they have been traditionally marketed for either girls or for boys.”

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Pro-union organizers say they have far more signatures than required to qualify their vote to ratify union representation for workers at three locations in the Buffalo, NY area. In response, Starbucks management, according to Fox News, contends that it believes it can address workers’ concerns that are prompting their action. ”

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RetailWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

The Chinese National Press and Publication Administration has issued a statute that essentially will limit the amount of time citizens under the age of 18 can play online games to three hours a week, during most weeks. Specifically, authorities are allowing kids to engage in online gaming only from 8 to 9 p.m.

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RetailWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

In a rare attempt to unionize at the country’s biggest coffee shop chain, employees of the company in Buffalo, NY, have formed a union and yesterday filed petitions with the National Labor Relations Board for permission to hold elections on union representation at three stores. Currently, none of Starbucks’ 8,000 U.S.

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RetailWire

AUGUST 31, 2021

Since it introduced the incentive back in March, Krispy Kreme has given away 2.5 million donuts to customers who presented proof of vaccination, an offer good through the remainder of 2021. For a limited time — Aug. 30th through Sept. 5th — the company will hand out two free donuts instead. “We

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RetailWire

AUGUST 30, 2021

Management at the Bojangles chicken and biscuit chain say they are closing all their restaurants on August 30 and September 13 to give employees a chance for some R&R, explaining that the unpaid days off are “in response to industry wide labor shortages and other stresses put on its employees who’ve worked hard through the pandemic.”.

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RetailWire

AUGUST 30, 2021

The lawsuit, filed Friday by the city of Chicago against the two major food-delivery platforms, make a number of allegations —some jointly and some particular to each service — that the companies used “unfair and deceptive tactic to take advantage of restaurants and consumers who were struggling to stay afloat” during the pandemic.

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RetailWire

AUGUST 30, 2021

Hurricane Ida tore through southern Louisiana yesterday carrying winds of 120 – 150+ miles per hour and knocking out power for over 1 million residents.

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RetailWire

AUGUST 30, 2021

Retailers are all sizes have gotten used to months-long delays and the complete unavailability of many of the common items they like to keep in stock.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Challah on sale for Passover? A pyramid-shaped matzo promotional display? Folks have had a lot of fun posting such snafus on social media, but getting Jewish holiday merchandising right is seriously hard for many grocers.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Sales more than doubled in the most recent quarter vs. year ago for Signet, owner of the Zales and Piercing Pagoda jewelry chains, as couples who were forced to postpone their weddings due to the pandemic finally made plans and bought rings. It’s a “rising tide of engagements,” commented Virginia Drosos, Signet’s CEO.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

An “edutainment” app maker based in New Jersey has been trying to organize a class action lawsuit against Apple, claiming the company uses “stealth” monopolistic practices in controlling payments via its approved apps.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

A LinkedIn post written by CEO and co-founder of Sweetgreen, Jonathan Neman, co-founder and CEO of Sweetgreen is being met with a storm of criticism over his range of opinions and theories on the root causes behind the COVID-19 pandemic. 78% of hospitalizations due to COVID are obese and overweight people,” wrote Mr.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Business was good again at many vacation destinations around the country this summer, and towns are hoping to draw big crowds for Labor Day weekend, the penultimate seasonal money-maker, with music events and festivals.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Some investors took their gains today, selling off American Eagle stock on a second-quarter report that showed online sales missing analysts’ targets. The apparel brand’s digital sales slumped 5 percent vs. the same period last year.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Big Lots spent the last decade optimizing its product mix and doing a lot of things to make shopping its stores a more reliable experience, but CEO Bruce Thorn realized that, in the process, the chain had lost some of its magic. “We We needed to own the treasure hunt more, give people more reasons to visit,” he said.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

An Indian non-profit group is bringing anti-trust allegations against Apple, claiming that the company’s insistence that app developers use its proprietary in-app purchase system is unfair to competition.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

We never learn. With the rise in Delta variant cases triggering speculation of a return to quarantines and lockdowns in many locales, shoppers are stocking up on toilet paper again — or perhaps category managers are anticipating that possibility.

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RetailWire

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

A curiously high number of McDonald’s restaurants across the country have non-functioning ice cream machines, not a minor issue considering that the treat is a major contributor to chain sales.

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