A shopper enters a DSW store in New York City. DSW is partnering with Hy-Vee, a Midwest supermarket chain, to offer shoes in grocery stores. Nina Westervelt/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Sure, you go to the grocery store for milk, bread, frozen foods and chips. But how about shopping for the latest shoe fashions while you're at it?
Hy-Vee, a Midwestern supermarket chain, announced on Monday that DSW shoe outlets are opening in six of its grocery stores in Minnesota. Shoppers will be able to try on shoes, then order online.
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This year's virtual Down East Holiday Show offers shopping flexibility
GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - An Eastern Carolina staple of the holidays has had to adapt to the COVID-19 climate. Pitt Community College Foundation leaders laid out details Monday about the 2020 virtual Down East Holiday Show set for November 6,7 and 8.
The event has traditionally taken place at the Pitt County Convention Center each year and showcases more than 100 vendors to help folks with their holiday gift buying.
The event helps raise funds for student scholarships and other educational activities at Pitt Community College. Beth Sigmon is one of this year's organizers with the Pitt Community College Foundation and talked about the virtual event's flexibility.
Visa Study Sheds Light on Upcoming Holiday Shopping Patterns
Clearly small- to medium-size businesses, or SMBs, can't afford to overlook Internet sales. And more have gotten that memo, particularly during the coronavirus era. Eighty-two percent of SMBs report that they've gotten online within the past year. Seventy-nine percent established an online presence over the past one to five years and 66 percent got online more than five years ago.
"Since the onset of the pandemic, the massive shift to digital has shown us that online experiences are here to stay and will only continue to accelerate," Kevin Phalen, Visa's global head of business solutions, told WWD, pointing out that half of consumers plan to shop online this year. "So it is important that small businesses move online, enable e-commerce to connect and engage with consumers now and beyond the holidays," he said.
Holiday shopping and promos to start earlier than ever this year | Ad Age
Retail experts expect the holiday selling season, typically reserved for the period following Thanksgiving through Dec. 25, to begin in October, earlier than ever this year as consumers scramble to avoid crowds and try to get a jumpstart on shopping amid the coronavirus.
This year, AlixPartners expects spending for the three-month period between October and December to increase between 1 percent and 2.6 percent compared to the same period last year, which generated $1.1 trillion in sales.
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How to cut the carbon footprint of online shopping | World Economic Forum
Shopping for Blankets - The New York Times
As evenings turn colder, blankets are useful just about everywhere: by the fire, in front of the television, on top of the bed. But they work well as decorative accents at almost any time of year — especially when they have vibrant colors and patterns.
A large-scale textile like a blanket "can add a lot of interest to a bedroom," said Katie Ridder , the New York-based interior designer. "Most of the space is usually taken up by the bed, so it's a nice place to have beautiful textiles."
Framingham Whole Foods, shopping center to expand - News - MetroWest Daily News, Framingham, MA
Crosspoint Associates purchased a 2.75 acre site adjacent to the Rte. 9 shopping center to allow for the expansion.
FRAMINGHAM — A Rte. 9 supermarket and shopping plaza will be expanded after a local developer purchased a 2.75 acre site adjacent to the plaza.
Crosspoint Associates recently purchased the property, formerly home to the Colonial Nissan auto dealership, paving the way for the expansion of the Whole Foods Marketplace and the shopping center. The property includes a 19,500 square-foot showroom, office and flex space, according to a press release.
Uquid Launch the Defi Shopping Stake (DSS) and Defito Finance (DTO) | Press release Bitcoin News
But now, there’s a DeFi solution that’s on a mission to deliver where so many others have failed. It’s called the Defito (DTO) , and Defi Shopping Stake (DSS) is designed to be a platform that is a Bridge between Defi and E-Commerce .
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A DTO token controls the Defito Ecosystem. Defito is a decentralized finance (Defi) platform with the goal of providing a solution for Defi to access e-commerce such as :
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