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Under Armour Settles Accounting Practices Suit for $434 Million

Retail TouchPoints

Under Armour revealed in November 2019 that it had been the subject of a federal investigation into its accounting practices since 2017, with the Wall Street Journal reporting at the time that both the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission were looking at the retailer’s financial reporting. “We

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Adobe: Consumers Will Spend More Online in First 10 Months of 2021 than All of 2019

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That’s 9% more than the comparable period last year and 58% more than 2019. 1, 2021, consumers will have spent more online than the $575 billion they spent in all of 2019. As a historical benchmark, from 2015 to 2019, online prices fell 3.9% In fact, Adobe forecasts that even before the holiday season begins on Nov.

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Reports: Nike Cutting Ties With Six Retailers, Including DSW and Urban Outfitters

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Nike has reportedly closed its accounts with DSW , Urban Outfitters , Shoe Show , Dunham’s Sports , Olympia Sports and Big 5 Sporting Goods as the retailer pulls out of specialty retailers and department stores, according to Forbes and other media outlets. billion , accounting for 35% of gross sales, according to Forbes.

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A Catch-22: Experts weigh in on the wind-down of the e-commerce disruptor

Inside Retail

Reason 2: The arrival of Amazon and the race to the bottom in online marketplaces When Wesfarmers acquired Catch in 2019, Amazon was still new to the Australian market. They’re different machines, and they’re built for purpose, Walker told Inside Retail. Catch co-founder Gabby Leibovich declined to comment for this story.

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Australians’ use of loyalty programs tested during pandemic

Inside Retail

A further 39 per cent said they kept shopping with the brands they had a loyalty account with regardless of the pandemic, while 13 per cent said they shopped where they wanted regardless of loyalty programs. This could be due to a continued, if slow, shift in what customers actually want from their loyalty programs. this brand speaks to me).

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Report: Walmart Pulls Guns and Ammunition From Sales Floor, Citing ‘Civil Unrest’

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The retailer will continue selling the items in the stores that carry them, which account for approximately half its footprint. “We

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Private equity stalks Boost, Betty’s Burgers parent

Inside Retail

Bain has been considering listing the Retail Zoo business since 2019, but the advent of Covid-19 saw those plans put on hold. Since then, sales have grown from $132 million in 2019 to $148 million last year, according to data from IbisWorld, with EBIT last year reaching $49 million. .