Forbes - Nancy Walton Laurie

With Prime Day set to notch another record sales day for the Seattle online giant, retailers including Best Buy and Target have touted their own special deals days. But the hottest fight against Amazon comes from none other than the world’s largest retailer, Walmart.

Walmart has known for a long time that private labels can help to enhance margins on the items it sells, and has been stocking its shelves with them since before Amazon was born. However, Amazon is bolstering its private label presence. Will their strategy pay off as they look to overtake Walmart?

Toys “R” Us, which recently closed the last batch of its U.S. stores, has left behind not only nostalgia but also hundreds of empty stores across the country. Still, if you thought this paints a gloomy picture of brick-and-mortar retail, you’d be mistaken.

Despite opening its 15,000th store last week, Dollar Tree and its small-box discount competitors still aren’t properly showing up on retail disruption meters.

Amazon continues to grow and dominate, but while it is powerful, it isn't invincible. Here are scenarios outlining how Amazon's growth can be slowed and even stopped.

Here’s a look at how some of the early successful ecommerce brands like Bonobos and Dollar Shave Club have matured, grown and evolved. The article pulls back the curtain on the likely future of consumer-driven retail.

In its latest salvo in the fight against Amazon, Walmart unveiled Walmart eBooks, a store featuring Kobo’s library of more than six million titles. In another swipe at Amazon, Walmart unveiled a new monthly audiobook subscription service for $9.99 a month, undercutting Amazon Audible.

Target scored yet another point for brick-and-mortar retailers as it reported its best quarterly comparable sales in 13 years and traffic to stores picked up to its fastest pace in 10 years. And don’t just credit the improved U.S. economy.

The big reinvention of physical store locations to virtual sales fulfillment centers has begun, and it is only going to get much, much bigger.

The fight between Walmart and Amazon — one of the hottest stories in the retail industry — is only getting hotter, and Walmart’s Q2 results offer proof.

Many U.S. retailers may hate and fear Amazon, but it turns out their shared interest in making sure the U.S. Postal Service continues to offer “reliable and affordable” package delivery — critical to all retailers in this age of growing e-commerce — tops all that regular business enmity.

The use of grocery apps will grow by 50%, as people are becoming more comfortable ordering food this way. However, brick-and-mortar grocery stores are not going away and can take advantage of this industry shift.

As retailer earnings reports roll in, a few things are becoming more clear. Physical retail is not dead, but boring retail is. The difference between the haves and have nots is becoming more pronounced. And better is not necessarily the same as good.

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While Lampert’s financial deconstruction of what was once a great retailing company is far and away the biggest reason for Sears' bankruptcy, many other factors predating his tenure ultimately led to its Chapter 11 filing.

In its fight against Amazon, Walmart has once again stepped on the acquisition pedal: The world’s largest retailer has bought online lingerie retailer Bare Necessities, following its purchase this month of online plus-size fashion retailer Eloquii.

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With the threat of tariffs jumping to 25 percent in January and the possibility that every Chinese good will eventually be taxed, many retailers have been stockpiling Chinese-made products for months in order to reduce the hit to their bottom line, at least for the short term.

Social media companies may be more controversial than ever. Still, nearly half of the Under 40 billionaires on this year’s Forbes 400 list hail from such companies. Five of the 12 billionaires under 40 (all of whom are worth at least $2.1 billion) derived their fortunes from social apps.

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