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On October 15, 2019, Amazon announced via a blog post that it had finished migrating its internal consumer databases from Oracle database software to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
US consumers plan to spend an average of $86.27 this Halloween – far less than other holidays such as Valentine’s Day’s $162 average and down slightly from last year’s Halloween record of $86.79 per person.
The NRF expects spending in November and December to increase by 3.8%-4.2% year over year, taking total sales to between $727.9 billion and $730.7 billion.
Forever 21 announced it began voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings in US bankruptcy court. As part of its restructuring strategy, the company plans to exit most international locations in Asia and Europe but will continue operations in the US, Mexico and Latin America.
Walgreens will become the first company in the US to offer drone delivery via a partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing Aviation.
Spending during this year’s Mid-autumn Festival suggests Chinese consumer spending remains buoyant. Spending on travel, cultural events and cinemas saw solid, and in some cases very strong, growth during the holiday.
Amazon documents from 2018 contain pertinent details about the company’s plans for its Amazon Go stores.
On September 16, 2019, Salesforce announced two new industry-specific cloud-based CRM solutions: Manufacturing Cloud and Consumer Goods Cloud, to be available in October 2019, with the Einstein AI Analytics for Consumer Goods to be available in February 2020.
On September 9, 2019, retail discounter Fred’s announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to close all its stores.
The Kaola acquisition represents a meaningful strengthening of Alibaba’s offering in cross-border e-commerce. It will consolidate China’s cross-border e-commerce space, giving Alibaba a dominant share of this market.
Apparel rental upstart Le Tote to acquire century-old Lord + Taylor in what could be a growing trend of online disruptors moving into more traditional spaces.
Costco gained heavy traffic and customer flows: lines were formed before opening; consumers had to wait three hours for parking; average check-out time was about two hours.
Pitney Bowes announced a definitive agreement to sell its Software Solutions business to Syncsort for $700 million in cash. The divestiture will enable PBI to focus on its core shipping, mailing and related businesses.
25 Target locations will have Disney shop-in-shops by October 4, 2019.
Cisco announced its intention to acquire cloud data-analytics company CloudCherry, which provides predictive analytics, rich customer journey mapping and sophisticated survey capabilities for customers operating contact centers in the cloud or on-premises.
