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Pier 1 In-store Pickup, Potential Borders Buyers, Wal-Mart Suit Dismissed
After a successful nationwide soft launch of its new buy online/pick up in store program, Pier 1.2Go, the retailer will begin actively marketing its capability next week, according to RIS News.
Pier 1 is also on track for a summer 2012 launch of its e-commerce enabled website, Pier 1.2You, which will allow customers to order products online and choose from among multiple delivery...
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Meijer Ships to Store, RapidBuyr Deal Site, Winn-Dixie Remodels
Merging online and in-store shopping, Meijer is introducing a program where shoppers can place an order on Meijer.com and have the merchandise shipped, at no cost, directly to their local Meijer store for pick-up. The online program, called "Order-to-Store," will include thousands of items.
E-commerce & Multichannel Retailing
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Mobile Shopping, Yum Eyes Chinese Chain, JCPenney RFID
Consumers connected to the mobile internet prefer browsing and buying goods and services from their mobile device more than from their PC, according to data from InMobi. A study reveals half of mobile shoppers still prefer hitting the stores (49%) but 35% are now comfortable with shopping from a mobile device and only 16% prefer shopping from their PC or laptop.
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Wal-Mart E-Delivery, Epsilon Breach, Sbarro Bankruptcy
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to test its first web-based fresh grocery delivery service in California, looking online for new sources of revenue growth, a person familiar with the project told Bloomberg. The web service, internally dubbed “Project Titan,” hasn’t yet been approved and may not happen, said the person, who declined to be identified because plans aren’t final.
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Kroger YouTube Videos, Netflix v. Facebook, Wal-Mart Eyes Small Stores
Kroger is asking shoppers to post a video on YouTube that shares their latest Cartbuster bargains, according to Supermarket News. The retailer created a YouTube channel, youtube.com/cartbuster, specifically for the initiative promoting its 14-day campaign with special discounts on brand name items.
E-commerce & Multichannel Retailing
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Kroger Mobile Scanning, Valentine’s Day Spending, A&P Bankruptcy
At two supermarkets near its Cincinnati headquarters, Kroger is testing a mobile scanning system that uses wireless devices for both shoppers and store associates, according to RIS News. The system also tracks in-store traffic patterns, revealing what paths shoppers take through the store, the shelves they stop at and now long they stay in each location.
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‘Daily Wrap:’ Connected Customers, Best Buy, Kroger
The latest installment of the Motorola Solutions annual holiday study indicates that the majority of surveyed retail associates (55%) believe that this holiday season’s shoppers were better connected to consumer information than in-store associates driven by increasing availability of online shopping tools.
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‘The Daily Wrap:’ Amazon.com, Sears, Holiday E-commerce
Amazon has launched a new feature in the US that brings content from Wikipedia pages to its own servers in a new project that appears to be called “Shopping Enabled Wikipedia Pages,” ZDNet reports.
Hosted on the Amazon.com domain, the pages replicate Wikipedia's content but have added links to where a book can be purchased on Amazon.
E-commerce & Multichannel Retailing
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‘The Daily Wrap:’ Gap, Sears, Starbucks
Department store retailer Gap Inc. has 10,000 pairs of jeans to give away to the quickest of their Facebook fans. As reported by eShopper Forum, using Facebook Places, Gap customers can check-in today at their local store and obtain a free pair of jeans. Once free jeans have run out, Facebook Places users will receive a 40% discount.
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State of US Same-Store Sales - September 2010 and Quarterly Data Update and Full-Year Outlook
Retailer Daily has compiled comparable store sale data from the SEC filings of 26 major US retailers spanning several years, up to the most recently released September 2010 and quarterly numbers. The data excludes fuel sales and is available in Microsoft Excel format from the link below:
Indications from September 2010 and the most recent quarterly same-store sales results across...Continue Reading »