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How Dick’s Sporting Goods Fights Premium Sneaker Diversion with its Mobile App

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The customer-facing mobile app for Dicks Sporting Goods has traveled a long way since its debut in 2021. Walker had a fireside chat with Radar CEO Nick Patrick at the NRF 2025 session, The Future of Geolocation in Retail.

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DICK’S Sporting Goods Launches Same-Day Delivery at 150 Locations

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DICK’S Sporting Goods has partnered with Instacart to launch same-day delivery at more than 150 stores. The service will cover thousands of DICK’S Sporting Goods products including sporting and athletic equipment, outdoor recreation gear and apparel, footwear and accessories. “We’re

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Walmart Marketplace Adds Categories, Enhances Fulfillment Offerings

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Walmart Marketplace will add three popular categories to its assortment and expand fulfillment offerings for sellers, including a multichannel solutions program that will use Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) to fulfill orders from any ecommerce site via Walmart’s supply chain when it launches Sept.

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The Future of Retail is Smaller, Crowdsourced and Robot-Powered

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The company that perfected a global fulfillment network with massive warehouses at its core is now rethinking its approach. Unconventional spaces like a basement parking garage or a former Starbucks can be converted into a working fulfillment center. It turns out that bigger isn’t always better.

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The Post-COVID Store: How to Tap the Pent-Up Need for Interaction Without Sacrificing Safety

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Retailers will need to maintain elevated safety precautions and further improve in-store fulfillment, while at the same time busting any type of friction more forcefully than ever. You look at ULTA Beauty or DICK’S Sporting Goods during the pandemic and they crushed it. Look at some of the sporting goods retailers.

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Crocs Expands Shoe Takeback Program Nationwide

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.; Anthropologie brought denim recycling to its stores on a year-round basis; Footwear retailer Dr. Martens debuted a resale program in March 2024 ; and Dick’s Sporting Goods expanded its partnership with sporting goods marketplace SidelineSwap in April 2024 , leveraging the resale platform for trade-in events at its stores.

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Q2 2021 Roundup: How Target, Macy’s and Foot Locker Harnessed Consumer Optimism

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Target’s Store-Based Fulfillment Model Drives Convenience. The secret to Target’s success is the retailer’s expertise at utilizing its stores for fulfillment, whether as a staging ground for last mile delivery or an efficient curbside pickup hub. Target’s physical comparable sales grew 8.9%

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