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Tom Ford opens its first Australian Beauty concept store

Inside Retail

The space will house the whole Tom Ford Beauty Collection, personalisation services and exclusive Tom Ford Christmas presents, as well as private blend scents including the recently announced Myrrhe Mystère. Tom Ford opened its first store in Australia in Sydney in 2011, and it was acquired last year by beauty behemoth Estee Lauder in a US$2.8

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Babylist Provides Reliable Payment Processing at its Flagship Store with Shopify POS

Shopify

Babylist, founded in 2011 as an online baby registry, discusses how Shopify POS’ fully integrated hardware, and the POS app on an iPad, enabled full mobility throughout their store so staff can provide better customer service and complete transactions anywhere in the store.

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MPC seeks changes to ‘swipe’ fees proposal

Mass Relators

WASHINGTON — The Merchants Payments Coalition, a group lobbying for “a more competitive and transparent” payment-card system,” is asking the Federal Reserve to further modify its proposed cap on the “swipe” fees merchants pay banks to process the transactions. cents at the time the rate was set to 3.9

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Trove Promotes President to CEO as Founder Takes Executive Chairman Title

Retail TouchPoints

Former CEO Andy Ruben, who occupied the position since founding the company in 2011, will continue to work with Trove as its Executive Chairman. Her career, spanning more than 20 years, includes general management, marketing and commercial responsibilities including global consumer goods, payments, ecommerce and digital marketing.

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Mastercard to raise credit and debit card fees

Mass Relators

WASHINGTON – Almost immediately after agreeing to reduce “swipe” fees charged to merchants to process credit card transactions, Mastercard plans to increase fees for both credit and debit card transactions by more than $250 million this month, the Merchants Payments Coalition said Wednesday. Visa and Mastercard raised fees by $1.2

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Merchants oppose delay of Fed action on swipe fees

Mass Relators

“That is why financial industry trade associations are seeking to delay the Fed as long as possible from taking action to update its 2011 regulation – delay preserves what for them is an enormously lucrative status quo.” The letter comes as the House Financial Services Committee holds a subcommittee hearing on H.R.

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As France weighs fast-fashion ban, is the circular economy the future of retail?

Inside Retail

Not the risk your mortgage payment kind of addiction – more the ‘I shop because it makes me feel good’ kind. In the UK, Selfridges has taken its sustainability commitment to a new level launching ‘ Reselfridges’ where the brand offers both re-sell and repair services. Full disclosure, I have a bit of a shopping addiction.