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STRATEGIES & TACTICS FOR THE B2B & B2C MERCHANT
week of 3/3/2020 |
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| Fifth Wall’s $100M Fund Helps Ecommerce Brands Add Stores |
| Calling out Amazon for destroying brand differentiation and citing customers’ demands that brands be wherever they want them, real estate venture firm Fifth Wall closed a $100 million fund to help digital natives add stores. The fund is backed by some of the largest retail real estate owners and service providers in the U.S. and abroad.…» |
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| A Q&A with Jeff Streader on Go Global’s Plans for Modcloth |
| Brand investment platform Go Global has closed its acquisition of women’s retro fashion brand Modcloth from Walmart, announced last fall, with financing from Tiger Capital Group. Go Global managing director Jeff Streader talks to Multichannel Merchant about Modcloth's distinctiveness and the importance of listening to customers.…» |
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| Fulfilling the Next-Gen Customer Experience With Real-Time Data |
| A dichotomy existed in the past where retailers separated ecommerce and store channels. As more customers migrated online, retailers started to project the physical store into the virtual world. But it’s no longer just about providing a great online experience; digitally savvy consumers expect stores to mirror that fast, frictionless world.…» |
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| Shogun Raises $10M to Help Ecommerce Brands Battle Amazon |
| Shogun, a drag-and-drop ecommerce website builder, has raised $10M in Series A funding from Initialized Capital, VMG Partners and Y Combinator to expand its platform and launch a new product helping sellers compete with Amazon and do headless commerce. Major brand clients include Leesa, MVMT and K-Swiss.…» |
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| Walmart+ Is Coming to Compete With Amazon Prime |
| We had just heard about Walmart's new fulfillment service competitive with FBA, when we learned the retail giant was launching a membership program a la Amazon Prime. Recode reported Walmart will begin testing the membership program as early as March, initially as a rebrand of same-day grocery service Delivery Unlimited.…» |
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