News Briefs Retail – Page 41
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Acting more like a marketplace, Zalando plans to introduce same-day...
Acting more like a marketplace, Zalando plans to introduce same-day delivery by sending orders directly from a retailer's store, instead of a warehouse, to the customer's home. Europe's largest online fashion retailer believes that this would shorten delivery times, increase stock availability and cut logistics costs in the long term. ...
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Dune has removed the Apple Pay limit in its U.K....
Dune has removed the Apple Pay limit in its U.K. stores, meaning that Dune customers can now use Apple Pay for payments of any amount. Apple Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Apple that lets users pay on the latest versions of the iPhone, iPad and ...
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Scanblue has launched a new program for retailers and manufacturers,...
Scanblue has launched a new program for retailers and manufacturers, called YouSize3D, offering the possibility to virtually try on shoes by using augmented reality. The program was shown in a special high-tech section of the GDS fair along with an overview of future technology trends coordinated by Slem, the Dutch ...
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Poseidon, a German start-up business created last September in Freiburg,...
Poseidon, a German start-up business created last September in Freiburg, presented a new e-commerce service for retailers at the GDS show in Düsseldorf this week. By means of a presentation device installed in the stores, end consumers can browse through the product range sold by the retailer. The presentation device ...
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Peter Kaiser is offering end consumers the possibility to design...
Peter Kaiser is offering end consumers the possibility to design their own shoes, using a recently introduced “shoe configurator.” In cooperation with a start-up in Berlin, Peter Kaiser developed a 3D-software that allows consumers to choose between four Peter Kaiser shoe models and design their own personal shoe models by ...
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Karl-Heinz Müller, the founder of the Bread & Butter show...
Karl-Heinz Müller, the founder of the Bread & Butter show in Berlin, plans to open a new 14 oz. store of 350 square meters on the Schlüterstrasse in Berlin next month, selling jeans, shoes and other accessories. It will reportedly have a bar as well. His former 14 oz. store ...
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Ash, the 15-year-old Italian footwear brand, is opening a new...
Ash, the 15-year-old Italian footwear brand, is opening a new flagship store in Tokyo. Another store will be opened in Macau in the next couple of months. Karen Queck, previously working as vice-president for marketing and communications for Greater China and Southeast Asia at Ralph Lauren, joined the brand as ...
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Vagabond plans to open two or three mono-brand stores in...
Vagabond plans to open two or three mono-brand stores in Germany in 2016. The brand already has its own stores in Berlin and Cologne. The plan is to operate a total of 5-7 stores in the German market, where sales grew by 15 percent last year as compared to 2014.
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Nobrand, the unconventional Portuguese brand of shoes, opened its first...
Nobrand, the unconventional Portuguese brand of shoes, opened its first franchised store in Medellin, Colombia, last autumn. Aegis, the local distributor, with whom the company has worked since 2014, plans to open a total of six stores in the Latin American country, starting with a store in Bogota in the ...
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Data can allow a retailer to change the prices of...
Data can allow a retailer to change the prices of certain products up to 20 times a day depending on the demand, says Günter Althaus, president of the ANWR group, in an interview with a German retail magazine, Der Handel. He indicates that members of the cooperatI've may be enabled ...
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Snipes, the German-based chain of sneaker stores, is reportedly planning...
Snipes, the German-based chain of sneaker stores, is reportedly planning to launch a women-specific format of shoe stores under a different name, which would also offer high-heeled shoes and clothing. Meanwhile, Snipes has opened its first Spanish store in the Gran Casa shopping center of Zaragoza. It is said to ...
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E-commerce in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to rise by...
E-commerce in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to rise by 35.7 percent in 2015, according to new figures from eMarketer. With sales hitting $877 billion, the region will be the largest e-tail market in the world. The growth is mostly driven by the rising middle classes in China, India and ...
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Tiramisù-Delishoes, the first “fashion dessert restaurant” ever, has just opened...
Tiramisù-Delishoes, the first “fashion dessert restaurant” ever, has just opened in Milan, in the central Brera district. The store, whose motto is “Taste the glamour,” reflects a new concept which combines shoe fashion and food. The 230-square-meter store, on two floors, is located at via Formentini 2, and is opened ...
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Zalando has begun tests in Germany and France for a...
Zalando has begun tests in Germany and France for a new application, called Movment (sic), whereby the products are directly delivered by the supplier to the customer. Zalando is also widening its test of same-day delivery in Germany. The test began in September in Berlin, where customers were allowed to ...
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Tokyo, New York and Hong Kong are the cities where...
Tokyo, New York and Hong Kong are the cities where Hunter plans to open its new flagship stores next year, starting with the Japanese capital in March. The famous U.K. brand of fashionable rubber boots opened its first and only store on London's Regent Street last autumn. It has also ...
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Overland Shoes, which holds the European license for G.H. Bass...
Overland Shoes, which holds the European license for G.H. Bass footwear, has opened its first store in the region. It's a pop-up store located in the Old Truman Brewery on Dray Walk in East London. It will remain open until the beginning of January. Permanent stores should follow at various ...
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Kennel & Schmenger has opened a store in Paris its...
Kennel & Schmenger has opened a store in Paris its first outside Germany. It is located on rue de Charonne, near Repetto and other stores in the Bastille area. After the drama that happened last week-end in Paris, K&S indicated that it still wanted to set up more stores in ...
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John Lewis, a major British chain of department stores that...
John Lewis, a major British chain of department stores that has also an interesting e-commerce operation, has decided to open seven shop-in-shops in the Dutch department stores of de Bijenkorf in the next two years, starting with concessions in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague next April. It's John Lewis' first ...
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Gucci has unveiled a completely redesigned website for the U.S....
Gucci has unveiled a completely redesigned website for the U.S. and Canada. Building on the pre-existing version, the new gucci.com site is fully responsive, which means it is optimized to fit all screen sizes, and includes various features for smart user experience such as intuitive navigation, vertical scrolling, large and ...
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Steve Madden is planning to open ten new standalone stores...
Steve Madden is planning to open ten new standalone stores in India by 2016-17. Reliance Brands, which markets Steve Madden in India, already operates some 15 stores of the New York-based footwear brand in the country, in the Indian cities of Delhi, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Kolkata. The ...
