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Citing Theft and Safety Issues, Target Closes 9 Stores in 4 States

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Target will close nine stores in four cities on Oct. 21, 2023, saying theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of its customers and associates and “contributing to unsustainable business performance,” according to a company statement. leaving 15 stores in this market. closed specific store locations.

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GameStop Will Close Up To 450 Stores In Fiscal 2020

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GameStop is accelerating store closure plans as part of its “de-densification” strategy. The retailer plans to shutter 400 to 450 stores worldwide in fiscal 2020, which ends in February 2021. GameStop already has closed 388 locations this year; the retailer currently operates more than 5,100 stores around the world.

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Save Mart Embraces Retail Media, Smart Carts with Expanded Instacart Partnership

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The Save Mart Companies is building on its partnership with Instacart by implementing several in-store solutions in nearly all 200 Save Mart, FoodMaxx and Lucky locations.

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Sainsbury’s Deploys Amazon Just Walk Out Technology in London C-Store

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In another first, customers access the checkout solution via the Sainsbury SmartShop app rather than the Amazon app, meaning they can use an interface they already are familiar with. Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest supermarket chains, had piloted a cashierless customer experience at this store using its own technology in 2019.

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The Children’s Place To Shut 300 Locations By 2021

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and Canada stores have been closed since March 18, the company enabled ship-from-store capabilities in approximately 85% of its U.S. stores in late April, more than doubling its daily shipping capacity. in Q1 compared to the same period in 2019. Even though approximately 95%. of the company’s U.S.

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Charming Charlie Bounces Back From Liquidation With New Brick-and-Mortar Store

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After liquidation and the sale of its trademarks and intellectual property in August 2019, the Charming Charlie brand has returned with the opening of its first physical store at the Cumberland Mall in Atlanta. The openings had originally been planned for March 2020 but were delayed due to the COVID-19 crisis.

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DTC Brand Aims to Make Furniture Shopping ‘Easy Like Sunday Morning’

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Sundays was founded in November 2019 by Barbora Samieian, Noah Morse, Sara Samieian, and Moe Samieian Jr., all of whom are retail and design veterans with 20+ years of furniture industry experience. Owning the Entire Customer Experience. We love doing this for a few reasons,” Samieian said.

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