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ModCloth Sold Yet Again; Will This Buyer Hold On?

Retail TouchPoints

Women’s clothing and accessories retailer ModCloth has been acquired by Nogin, a provider of outsourced ecommerce for major fashion and consumer product companies. Founded in 2002, ModCloth offers exclusive indie- and vintage-inspired women’s clothing, shoes, handbags and accessories for 18- to 35- year-old women of all sizes.

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Kroger, Albertsons Execs Defend Merger to Senate Committee, Say Consolidation is Needed to Compete with Walmart and Amazon

Retail TouchPoints

However, Kroger’s McMullen pointed to increasing competition in grocery as the primary reason for the merger, saying in his testimony that since 2010, online retailers have increased their share of grocery sales by more than 14% and that those increases often come at the expense of companies like Kroger.

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Open Workforce Models Drive Retail Innovation

RTP blog

This is where global tech/IT professionals with skills in high demand by retail (such as JAVA, SQL and HTML) collaborate and compete on projects, and companies pay only for the solutions they want. Second only to his commitment to family — and perhaps waterskiing — Morris has served in leadership roles at Topcoder since 2002.

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How Coronavirus Is Impacting Ecommerce

ROI Revolution

As more consumers continue avoiding crowded public places , they’ll increasingly turn to online shopping to get their essentials. In fact, JD.com , China’s largest online retailer, has seen sales of common household staples quadruple over the same time period last year.

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Expert Q&A: Work with Amazon, or Against Amazon?

Optimizely

McRitchie co-founded the web portion of the company, launching MyBinding.com in 2002. Within a few years, the online business surpassed the sales of the rest of the company, and today more than 80% of sales come through ecommerce. . That’s something that you see the really advanced online retailers doing.

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Retail apocalypse? Maybe it’s time to worry about a disruptor meltdown?

Steve Dennis

The leading online retailer of home furnishings is well on its way to surpassing $10 billion in annual revenues next year. That’s not quite WeWork, Uber or Lyft levels of cash incineration, but for a company that has been at this since 2002 it might be time to ask just what the heck is going on ? respectively).

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Mi9 Retail’s eCommerce Platform Powers a Global Online Retailer to Fourth Place in Newsweek’s “America’s Best Online Shops 2024”

Mi9

That comprehensive evaluation process culminated in the recognition of 1,000 online shops across 39 categories within eight industries. The impressive fourth-place ranking, in the “America’s Best Online Shops 2024” survey, reflects the online retailer’s commitment to delivering a superior online shopping experience.