physical retail
Shopify breaks out of the website with 100+ new features including NFTs, local shopping and more
Shopify made a name for itself in its early days with a platform for providing retailers keen to establish their own online shops an easy and quick way to build…
Nexite raises $67M for its new approach to tagging and tracking merchandise in physical stores
When it comes to commerce innovation, physical retail often feels like it gets the short end of the development stick against newer, faster-growing, more quantifiable (and still far from perfect)…
Amazon to close 68 physical retail locations, including Amazon Books and 4-star stores
Amazon’s physical retail business is suffering a major blow as the company today confirmed to Reuters it will close 68 brick-and-mortar retail stores across the U.S. and U.K. This includes…
Advertima rings up $17.5M for computer vision-powered behavioral analytics for in-store retail
Swiss computer vision startup Advertima has raised a €15 million Series A (~$17.5 million) to build out a machine learning platform for physical retail stores to ‘upgrade’ the shopping experience…
In conversation with Sasha Astafyeva, Atomico’s new consumer-focused investment partner
European VC firm Atomico announced this week that it has hired Sasha Astafyeva as a new investment partner. Astafyeva previously spent three years as a principal at Felix Capital. In…
Amazon sellers to hit UK high streets in year-long pop-up pilot
Internet shopping has been blamed for boarding up high streets across the UK. So it looks politically judicious for Amazon, the original ecommerce behemoth, to now be attaching its brand…
Amazon’s one-two punch: How traditional retailers can fight back
The company’s vast power in e-commerce is only the initial, quick jab to an opponent’s face. Data-focused innovations in offline retail will be Amazon’s second, much heavier cross.
The direct-to-consumer mattress business has raised $100 million from Target, NEA and Norwest Venture Partners.
Retail-as-a-service provider Leap raises $3M and launches first store
The past decade in retail has been the golden age of direct-to-consumer (D2C) and digitally native vertical brands (DNVBs) that use the internet to communicate with customers, execute transactions, handle distribution…
Lively raises $6.5M to bring its comfortable and inclusive lingerie to brick-and-mortar stores
Roy Raymond opened a little store called Victoria’s Secret, now one of the most popular lingerie businesses in the world, because he was embarrassed to buy lingerie for his wife…
Sneaker market GOAT hires COO Lizzie Francis and makes a play for women sneaker shoppers
GOAT, the secondary marketplace for sneakers that recently merged with Flight Club, is announcing a new hire. Lizzie Francis will join the company as Chief Operating Officer, coming from Brilliant…
Jeff Bezos tells Amazon shareholders that it will open more physical bookstores
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said during the company’s annual shareholder meeting Tuesday that it wants to open more physical bookstores and add additional services to Amazon Prime.
