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French Contemporary Fashion Brand Brings Rental Service to U.S.

Retail TouchPoints

When daily rental fees add up to the retail price, the customer will own the item with no penalty. “As The rental market has experienced some volatility in recent months. REI Co-Op has been offering rentals since April 2019. per share but currently trading at $18.20

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Price, not volume, driving Australian retail sales growth

Inside Retail

Retail prices increased 4.8 per cent through the year to the June quarter with the largest price rises seen in food and household goods. “On On a quarterly basis, overall retail price growth has already exceeded sales volume growth in both the March and June quarters,” says Rumbens. “On Labour crunch.

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Goat Group: 7 Things You Need to Know About its Strategy & Growth

Indigo 9 Digital

When they launched Goat, they really hit the right market segment. They went in and addressed a problem that the industry was having, which was fake products and authenticity, the things that made potential customers very leery of buying online,” said George Belch, chairman of the marketing department at San Deigo State University.

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How Korea’s big 3 department stores are killing it right now

Inside Retail

Total retail sales in the country were up 7.7 More significantly, sales in January-March were well above the level of early 2019 (+15.1 The caveat on these numbers is that some of the increased revenues are being driven by prices sneaking up, particularly in food and household goods. per cent from the first quarter in 2019.

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BREAKING: JD Sports broke competition law with Leicester City price fixing

Retail Gazette

In August 2018, JD Sports agreed to stop selling Leicester City-branded clothing online for the 2018/19 season and in January 2019, agreed that it would not undercut the football club online by making the club’s merchandise exempt from its free online delivery for all orders over £70 offer. It was handed a near £1.5m

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Supercharge Your Holiday Pricing with AI-powered Data Science

Retail TouchPoints

Despite the havoc wreaked in 2020 by the pandemic, NRF reported that November-December 2020 retail sales were an unexpectedly high 8.3% above the same period in 2019, while online and other non-store sales alone grew 23.9%. [ii] AI-Based Pricing Brings Surgical Focus to Help Retailers Successfully Navigate Unprecedented Markets.

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Message in a bottle: How social media has disrupted the fragrance sector

Inside Retail

The state of the fragrance market The rise of niche fragrance brands comes at a time of overall growth in the sector. In the first quarter of 2021, fragrance sales were up 45 percent from the year prior, despite the average retail price for fragrance products growing by 15 percent in the same time period. Data from Market.us

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