Happy Monday. Here is a recap of industry news from the last week.  Sources are in the hyperlinked text after the headline.

Brands and Retailers

• J.Crew to sell its factory products, J.Crew Mercantile, on Amazon.  AdWeek 
• Walmart was asked by several outdoor product brands to remove items from its website.  The Wall Street Journal
• Urban Outfitters launches its own beauty brand.  InStyle
• How Nike and REI made experiential retail a strategy.  Retail Dive
• Glossier CEO on why the company won’t sell on Amazon.  TechCrunch
• Inditex to sell all its brands online by 2020.  Reuters
• How Adidas and Carbon are changing the sneaker supply chain.  TechCrunch
• Jeff Bezos on what he plans to conquer next.  Forbes
• AllBirds is opening a massive store in New York and plans more across the US.  CNBC
• Amazon ordered 20,000 Mercedes-Benz vans to start a delivery service.  Fortune
• The mystery of Amazon’s HQ2 has finalists seeing clues everywhere.  The New York Times 

Marketing and Social Media

• Snap loses its chief strategy officer.  Fast Company
• Colin Kaepernick campaign gives Nike a big sales boost.  Fortune
• Snapchat eyes the fashion set with its latest line of Spectacles eyewear.  Fortune
• WeWork wants to provide content marketing services to startups.  Digiday
• A new Spotify initiative makes big record labels nervous.  The New York Times 
• Amazon surpasses Google in product searches.  MediaPost
• J.Crew’s relaunch campaign tries to win back lapsed customers.  AdAge
• Instagram is reportedly building a standalone app for shopping. AdWeek
• The menswear market is going all in on experiential retail.  Fashionista
• Pinterest reports 25% increase in monthly active users.  TechCrunch
• Instagram is testing the ability to tag friends in videos.  TechCrunch
• Ulta highlights diversity in new campaign.  AdAge
• Glamour magazine set to cease print operations.  Fashionista
• Apple wins a Creative Arts Emmy for “Carpool Karaoke.”  Fast Company 

Startup + Emerging Tech + Acquisitions

• HP’s new 3-D printers built items not of plastic but of steel.  Wired
• Deep-linking startup Branch is raising more than $100M at a unicorn valuation.  TechCrunch
• Deloitte is buying a marketing AI platform to expand its ad-tech holdings.  AdWeek
• Facial recognition tech is ready for its post-phone future.  Wired
• Theranos is shutting down.  The New York Times 

International

• Alibaba CEO Jack Ma will retire in a year.  Fast Company
• Alibaba’s journey to become Asia’s most valuable firm.  Bloomberg 
• Starbucks enters Italy with an opulent roastery.  Fortune 
• Mulberry kicks off international expansion with show and pop-up shop in Seoul.  Vogue