Room & Board

retaildive | June 07, 2018

CHICAGO E-commerce is taking a bigger share of retail sales about 13% last year but Amazon continues to take a larger cut of that share for itself, accounting for almost 42% of U.S. online sales last year, according to data discussed by Internet Retailer Editor-at-large Don Davis Wednesday at IRCE. Still, four “bricks-and-clicks” retailers reported stronger online sales increases than Amazon last year, with Walmart at 61.5% growth (though much of it via acquisition), Lowe&rsquo...

retaildive | December 10, 2018

The new Shinola Hotel is scheduled to open in downtown Detroit in January 2019. It will join a growing number of retail brands that have expanded their offerings into the hospitality category. The 129-room hotel, located at 1400 Woodward Avenue, will occupy space formerly used by the T.B. Rayl & Co. department store and a former Singer sewing-machine store. Combined with a trio of newly constructed annexes, the hotel plans to offer approximately 16,000 square feet of retail, food and beverag...

retaildive | January 07, 2019

Amazon has launched a new showroom feature allowing customers to shop for furniture and other home decor online by matching items with a variety of virtual room views, including different colors on walls and floors, according to a TechCrunch report. The feature allows users to create a living room scene by choosing from several wall and floor colors, and then adding items such as a sofa, armchair, lamp, rug, coffee table and art to hang on the wall. Shoppers can save multiple room views with dif...

retaildive | January 15, 2019

American Eagle Outfitters partnered with Aila Technologies to showcase interactive fitting room technology at the 2019 National Retail Federation conference. Shoppers use touch-screens installed in each dressing room to scan items, look up product information, request additional sizes, see in-store inventory, calculate costs and email themselves product information. Sales associates receive notifications via mobile when a product is requested and can indicate when it has been fulfilled, thereby ...