From Dior's rooster bracelet to Calvin Klein's red and gold unmentionables, luxury retailers' New Year-themed products are leaving Chinese consumers disgruntled.
Snapdeal, one of India's biggest online retailers, has added rupee notes to the hundreds of products it already offers.
He marveled at how Chinese consumers freely chatted with — and bought from — brands and stylists on WeChat, a local internet messenger, while online retailers, independent delivery companies and fashion houses routinely joined forces.
Parisian grands magasins and flagship stores on the Champs-élysées have been testing smartphone frequency detectors and connected merchandising displays to experiment with collecting data from shoppers as soon as they approach their retail store — much like online retailers have for years used cookies planted in web browsers.
Banks and retailers will need to be nimble, and anticipate the future needs and preferences of China's 1.
While the use of debit and credit cards has increased in the last decade in India, many retailers still either insist on taking cash to evade tax or else ask for mark-ups to cushion the blow.
Similar to Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the US and the UK, Singles Day has grown into the world's largest online shopping event with the participation of not only e-commerce players, but also brick-and-mortar retailers.
"All wholesalers and retailers have been asked to return any issues they have as we need to clear room for (150,000 copies of) the President Trump issue," said Mr Romando.
Authorities have ordered retailers to stop selling the crabs from the two farms, but it is not clear how many of the affected crabs had already been sold.
For the crucial fourth quarter, where retailers revel in holiday season shopping, Amazon forecast sales between $42bn and $45.
It's hard to resist those glitzy displays showing off an array of drapery wool coats perfect for mid fall, dresses to match any personality you're in the mood to show, and cute socks with fox faces printed on them ― especially when the clothes are super affordable, as they are at so many hip retailers these days.
It's a form of marketing in itself, which is evident when you consider the difference between upscale brands carried at retailers such as Sephora and Ulta and mass-market brands sold at drugstores.
" It only took one unfamiliar logo for researchers to discover shoppers consider retailers using Walmart's blue or Sam's green in their logos to be more eco-friendly than those using Trader Joe's red.
News that Ikea is rolling out an online shopping platform in China – its first in the Asia-Pacific region – could be a sign that Western retailers are at last reacting to rising costs and shifts in consumer shopping behaviour.
More than seven billion single-use plastic bags were handed out by the main retailers in 2014.
The Paris-based payments software and terminals producer said the partnership would allow thousands of European merchants — from supermarkets and big retailers to restaurants and bars — to accept payments in-store via the Alipay app.
"Facing strong buying power of super-shoppers worldwide, retailers must innovate and deliver the paying method what super-shoppers want, and let them pay in the way that suits them best", said Tang Kok San, vice president of business development at Worldpay China.
This move is attributed in part to making up for the weakness of the euro against the renminbi and also to combating the grey market, where goods are sold through unauthorised retailers.
The growth in running, particularly in running in organized events, has increased in recent years beyond the expectations of even the most wildly optimistic manufacturers, retailers and event managers.
Alibaba has already set a goal to achieve an annual trading volume of RMB6 trillion by 2020 and help 90% of its retailers increase their operational efficiency.
