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Beyond pays $4.5M to acquire Zulily brand, plans to relaunch flash sale site later this year

GeekWire

Bringing the trusted Zulily brand into our asset-light business model allows us to offer furniture and home furnishings, apparel and footwear, jewelry and watches, among other categories that are also core competencies of our off-price Overstock business with flash sale deal pricing,” Dave Nielsen, CEO of Overstock, said in a statement.

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The power players of retail transformation: IoT, 5G, and AI/ML on Microsoft Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

Thanks to cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G technologies, every link in the retail supply chain is becoming more tightly integrated. With 5G-enabled smart mirrors, a person can virtually try on apparel.

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ first year: a timeline

The Verge

In one demonstration, for example, a group of players hit their nets on a picture of Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong. And esports teams, like Gen.g , shared designs of their jerseys for players to use, while 100 Thieves added its entire apparel collection to the game. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Basically everything on Amazon has become an ad. It’s only the beginning.

Vox

One multimillion-dollar Amazon seller in the apparel category said his firm has had to double their advertising spend on Amazon over the past three years, and subsequently raised their product prices by 20 percent earlier this year. Both sides of this equation will argue that the end result for everyday people will be more relevant ads.

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We’re all addicted to cheap stuff — and Temu knows it

Vox

But wait, there was more — if I checked out in the next 10 minutes, I could net a cool $300. Well, no: $300 worth of coupons, which, on Temu, can buy you selected home goods, cutesy electronics, apparel — really, anything you can imagine. I spun again, and this time, I won $200. Cold hard cash right into my wallet?

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