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More retailers pull out of popular mall as mass exodus accelerates
READ MORE: McDonald's worker gives sneak peek of chain's biggest burger Another once-thriving American mall is emptying out. Towson Town Center is a sprawling shopping mall in Maryland that was once booming with customers and packed with retailers.
Amazon angers retailers by listing products from other sites without consent
Amazon has aggressively fought outside companies' efforts to scrape its data. Now, the e-commerce giant is being criticized for adopting the same tactic itself, pulling product listings from other retailers without their consent. Amazon has been…
Swiss retail resilient despite difficult economic climate
Nominal sales in the Swiss retail sector will have grown by 1% by 2025, according to the UBS Retail Outlook study, carried out in collaboration with the consultancy Fuhrer & Hotz and unveiled on Wednesday. In real terms, adjusted for inflation…
Vessi opens first U.S. retail store at Bellevue Square
Vancouver-founded waterproof footwear brand enters U.S. brick-and-mortar market BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 7, 2026 /CNW/ - Vessi, the Vancouver, B.C.-founded waterproof footwear brand, today opened its first U.S. retail store at Bellevue Square in The…
Online retailer Galaxus increases sales significantly again in 2025
The online retailer Galaxus is growing unstoppably. Last year, the Migros subsidiary increased its turnover by 17% to around CHF 3.8 billion, the second-largest growth in the company's history. The sales platform and service provider thus achieved…
Automobile retail sales up 7.71% at 2,81,61,228 units in 2025: FADA
Retail sales of vehicles across categories in India in 2025 grew by 7.71 per cent at 2,81,61,228 units as compared to 2,61,45,445 in 2024, with GST 2.0 helping overcome a subdued start to the year, Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations said…
Why retail technology pilots succeed while adoption fails
This article was published in 2026 and references a historical event from 2016, included here for context and accuracy. Tension: Retailers pursue technological solutions to bridge digital and physical shopping, yet consistently struggle to…
Amazon's AI shopping tool sparks backlash from online retailers that didn't want websites scraped
Some online businesses are rebuking Amazon for listing their products on its site without their permission. Amazon has been testing a program called 'Shop Direct' that allows consumers to buy products sold on other retailers' websites. A 'Buy for…
Terrifying truth of retail apocalypse as 8,100 stores close in just one year
WHILE talks of the end of in-person shopping have subsided slightly since the coronavirus pandemic, the outlook is still concerning. Many retailers have still had mass closures in the past five years, and there have been several bankruptcies of…
Residents push back on plans for Amazon retail facility in Orland Park
A fired-up crowd spoke against plans for Amazon to build a retail facility on a 35-acre site in a suburb of Chicago Tuesday. During a Village of Orland Park Plan Commission meeting Tuesday evening, residents urged Amazon representatives to not…
Suspect named after double burglary at retail park
A man has been charged in connection with two burglaries at a retail park. Police were called on Friday, January 2, after reports that a man had entered Nando's at Croft Retail Park in Bromborough and stolen two sets of car keys, two sets of…
Akeneo predicts AI, regulatory changes will transform retail
Akeneo's 2025-2026 commerce outlook explains these developments will have a significant impact on how consumers discover, evaluate, and purchase products, with reliable product information becoming increasingly important across all sales channels.
MidEuropa buys optical retail chain Optika Anda
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Costly memory: AI-fuelled chip boom sends prices soaring, Singapore retailers reeling
SINGAPORE: Behind a retail counter at Sim Lim Square, Mr Abdul Bari has been seeing memory chip prices being marked up in a way that he has never seen before. As recently as a month ago, some brands of random access memory (RAM) chips –…
British Garden Centres acquires well-known retailer
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