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Miscellaneous | Crime
Shoplifting reaches crisis proportions
The uptick is tied to the ease of reselling stolen goods online.
Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information
Free Returns Are Complicated, Laborious, and Gross - The Atlantic
What happens to the stuff you order online after you send it back?
Music | Music
Why Is Tower Records Coming Back Now, of All Times?
It’s trying to offer something Amazon and Spotify can’t.
Business & Finance | Business
Fry's Electronics abruptly goes out of business
Fry’s Electronics — a big-box retailer that grew rapidly in the 1990s with a chain of giant and sometimes wildly decorated stores — abruptly announced that it’s going out of business. The San…
News | In The News
Coronvirus Impact: Pier 1 Imports to close all stores, cease retail operations - ABC7 Los Angeles
Pier 1 Imports wants to close all its stores for good as it struggles financially during the pandemic.
News | News
EXCLUSIVE: Where Nordstrom Has Closed Stores for Good
Eliminating 13 percent of the Nordstrom department store fleet underscores the impact of COVID-19.
Business & Finance | Business
Toys ‘R’ Us is back from the dead and will open U.S. stores in 2019 | AdAge
Maybe American kids will only have to live through one Christmas without Toys “R” Us.
Miscellaneous | Los Angeles Stuff
How Santa Monica Is Trying to Lure People Back to the Third Street Promenade
Can fun chairs, fake grass, and communal pianos make the outdoor mall relevant again?
Business & Finance | Shopping
The Real Reason Costco Employees Check Receipts at Exits
No, it's not to see if you're shoplifting.
Business & Finance | Business
Why the Shuttering of Fifth Avenue Mainstay Henri Bendel Is a Warning Sign to Luxury Brands – Adweek
Parent company L Brands said it wanted to focus more on the other stores in its portfolio.
Business & Finance | Business & Finance
Physical Retail Is Not Dead: Boring Retail Is
The death of physical retail is greatly exaggerated. As retail performance bifurcates, middling retailers will lose out and close physical stores in droves.
Business & Finance | Business
Apple's best-paid female employee earns nearly twice as much as CEO Tim Cook
Angela Ahrendts oversees strategy, real estate and development, and operations of Apple’s physical stores, online store, and contact centres.
Business & Finance | Careers & The Workplace
Guy Documents His First Week Of Work At Target, And It Couldn’t Get More Hilarious
If you thought that working at a retail store is boring, we've got news for you. Well, actually Tumblr user kimpossibooty does. He recently uploaded a very detailed and hilarious story about his first week working at Target, and it is pure gold.
Business & Finance | Business
The Case for the American Mall - Racked
Malls aren’t dying. They’re changing.
Business & Finance | Business
Is Amazon's First Brick-and-Mortar Bookstore the Future of Retail?
The online retail giant opened its first physical bookstore this past November, and the rest of the retail world should be paying attention.
News | Good News!
Amazon says 20th birthday celebration will be bigger than Black Friday | The Verge
To celebrate its 20th birthday, Amazon is introducing Prime Day, a "global shopping event" that the retail giant says will offer more deals than Black Friday. The deals will become available at...
Science & Technology | Social Media
Facebook Needs To Prove It Can Drive Store Purchases
Facebook has become increasingly driven to correlate ad impressions on its platform with in-store purchases, seeing these cross-channel analytics as vital to its further growth as a marketing platform.
Business & Finance | Business
Dozens of vendors jump on Apple Pay bandwagon - CNET
With the expanded list, Apple says its mobile-payments system now supports cards that account for 90 percent of credit card purchases in the US.
Miscellaneous | Interesting Links
6 Products That Can Only Be Made in One Place - Neatorama
Champagne is a lie! Your sparkling wine doesn’t have to come from France to be authentic. Here are six products that can really only be produced in one place on the globe.1. Cowichan SweatersLong before it accompanied him on his many misadventur
Style & Fashion | Style
R.I.P. Skinny Jeans | Co.Design | business + design
Fashion analysts have called the death of the skinny jean before, but this time around they mean it: Retail sales are flagging, and clothing merchants are increasingly anxious to lure shoppers back into stores.
