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The New Retail Economy

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Retail is in more trouble than they care to admit. or is there some innovation that retailers are missing? I used to read books exclusively on my iPhone using the Kindle app. I found myself needing a strange contraption/adapter for my my iPhone X. No retailers carried anything remotely close to it. and on and on.

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Lessons Learned From the Traveling iPhone

Waxing UnLyrical

On the San Francisco – Eugene leg, however (also on United), I lost my iPhone. I “lost&# my iPhone. My iPhone was in my pocket, and about 40 minutes before landing, I headed to the restroom. My iPhone was in my pocket, and about 40 minutes before landing, I headed to the restroom. Nothing untoward happened.

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A More Elegant Question About The Future Of Retail

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2017 is starting out with some ugly news on the retail front. On the one hand, there were many disturbing pieces of news on the retail front, about department store giants Sears and Macy's. Let's get up to retail speed with some of the news via Business Insider : A giant wave of store closures is about to hit the US.

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A $99 IPhone?

Taylor Marek

Apple is planning on coming out with a $99 IPhone by year’s end (2008). ’s iPhone later this month, employees at several stores in the discount retail chain said today. It could very well be a 4GB model of the IPhone, with a 2 year agreement, but that is just rumor. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Comments are open.

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A $99 IPhone?

Taylor Marek

Apple is planning on coming out with a $99 IPhone by year’s end (2008). ’s iPhone later this month, employees at several stores in the discount retail chain said today. It could very well be a 4GB model of the IPhone, with a 2 year agreement, but that is just rumor. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Comments are open.

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Mobile Commerce On The Rise… Fast

Dave Fleet

According to the company, 20 per cent of US consumers have purchased something from a retailer using their cell phone. It’s hard to name an industry that isn’t affected at some level by the growth in smartphone technology, from fast food ( Pizza Hut iPhone app , for example), to television content ( Rogers On Demand Mobile ).

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Apple Debuts iBeacon Location Technology in U.S. Stores

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How can a retailer effectively reach consumers in-store and educate them about deals that might be of particular interest? Consumers will receive notice if a computer they ordered is ready for pickup, and may get messages about upgrading and/or trading in old phones when they walk by the iPhone section. And what about privacy?

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