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The Downfall of Sears, 5 Reasons Why it’s Struggling to Survive

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Hedge fund manager Edward Lampert, who is also Sears’ former Chairman and CEO and largest shareholder, purchased the company in bankruptcy proceedings for only $5.2 If you do subscribe to our retail trends newsletter to get the latest retail insights & trends delivered to your inbox. Do you like this content?

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Nordstrom Leaves Canada, 9 Reasons Why

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A trend that has been in place over the last several years is that luxury brands continue to open their own stores and bolster their own eCommerce capabilities. This has resulted in many luxury brands lessening their reliance on wholesale accounts like Nordstrom. Nordstrom’s entrance into Canada was quite different from Target’s.

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Forever 21: 4 Reasons it Failed & Filed for Bankruptcy

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Source: Bloomberg "[Forever 21] has lost much of the excitement and oomph which is critical to driving footfall and sales and is now something of an also-ran which is too easily overlooked," said Neil Saunders, the managing director of GlobalData Retail. An inability to leverage social media effectively. Do you like this content?

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Puma’s Strategy: 4 Keys to its Success

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We decided this is an area we want to be present in as a brand, we want to up our game,” said Erin Longin, general manager of Puma’s running and training business unit. “We One its key partnerships was with Rihanna who was Puma’s creative director from 2014 to 2017. Do you like this content? Focus on wholesale.

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11 Things to Know About China’s eCommerce Market

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billion annual active customers last year while JD.com had 552 million active accounts in the year ended September 2021. But its revenues only grew by 10% over last year, the lowest growth rate since Alibaba became a public company in 2014. Alibaba has a 47.1% Alibaba had 1.3 China’s eCommerce sales growth is slowing.

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The Benefits & Cons of Selling on Amazon, 10 Factors to Consider

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Adidas has also directly sold its merchandise on Amazon since 2014. If an organization decides to enter Amazon’s FBA program they send their inventory to Amazon then Amazon manages storage of the inventory within its facilities, shipping and customer service (including returns). Do you like this content?