eCommerce Today — August 29, 2017: Perfumania Bankruptcy & other top things you should know about
Aug 29, 2017 · 2 min read

Top eCommerce things you should know today — August 29, 2017.
- BREAKING NEWS: Perfumania files for bankruptcy, intends to close 65 stores, focus on e-commerce. [Sun Sentinel]
- What do you think Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods will mean for retail? [Digital Commerce 360, Internet Retailer]
- When the Cubs won the Series, this distributor homered. With a new e-commerce platform for selling its licensed sports products, Casey’s Distributing has freed up its staff to better plan assortments around the changing fortunes of winning sports teams. [Digital Commerce 360, B2B eCommerce World]
- Why Amazon Isn’t Ready for Prime Time in China. Alibaba and JD.com have kept e-commece giant at bay by boosting offerings and dangling discounts. [WSJ]
- Shopify’s E-Commerce Empire is Growing in Amazon’s Shadow. The fast-growing Canadian company has helped hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs start online stores. [Bloomberg]
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- Is your eCommerce business ready for the Holidays 2017? Here’s the playbook! [Sabir Semerkant, Medium]
- How L’Occitane Used Shopify Plus to Launch a Facebook Sales Channel in Just 42 Days. With just a few weeks until Mother’s Day 2017, L’Occitane was determined to experiment in a way many 40-year-old brands don’t. The company wanted to offer a Mother’s Day gift collection exclusively on Facebook and allow customers to check out right inside the social media platform’s application. [Shopify Plus Blog]
- Beat the earnings yet close the stores — 100 stores closing by Macy’s [Sabir Semerkant, Medium]
- 25 books everyone should read in 2017 — Part 1 [Sabir Semerkant, Medium]
- 10 Transcendental Meditations on YouTube [Sabir Semerkant, Medium]
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About the Author
Sabir Semerkant is a data-obsessed, Transformative and entrepreneurial Senior Marketing Executive in E-commerce and Digital Marketing offers progressive global experience at growth oriented companies in the consumer goods and e-commerce sector. He is currently the SVP of eCommerce at VaynerMedia working alongside Gary Vaynerchuk and team. He can be found via LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. His articles are posted on Medium.
