PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

When Gap bought Athleta in 2008 for $150 million, the move didn’t cause much of a stir — beyond being considered a hedge play by the retailer against the exploding popularity of Canadian athleisure brand lululemon , which debuted its initial public offering (IPO) in 2007. We’re not like, ‘Oh, it’s all about millennials.’

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

Make no mistake: Dogs, cats and other domesticated animals already serve as a healthy source of sales for retailers. The eCommerce operator’s pet product category has grown by at least 45 percent since 2015, based on the percentage of adults who had bought pet products via online retail channels over the preceding quarter.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Founded in 2012, Honey has grown from an eCommerce price-tracking tool to an expanded suite of services that includes a shopping assistant and rewards program. With roughly 17 million active users each month and 30,000 diverse online retailers, Honey has delivered some $1 billion in savings to shoppers in the past year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Back to 2012. According to Blue Apron’s own website and other reports , the story begins way back in the halcyon days of 2012. The timing seemed perfect. Social Media’s Role.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Founded by Amanda Zuckerman and her mom Karen in 2012, Dormify offers college students and post-grads tools, resources and products to create their first home away from home. The company was able to amass its loyal customer base through email marketing. Dormify announced a $3.45

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

million last month to purchase the retail condo housing Murray’s flagship store, affiliated classrooms, as well as its catering and event operations. Kroger reportedly became a minority owner in Murray’s Cheese back in 2012. consumer retail food and beverage spending. The outposts are designed to mimic Murray’s flagship store.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Back to 2012. According to Blue Apron’s own website and other reports , the story begins way back in the halcyon days of 2012. The timing seemed perfect. Social Media’s Role.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

is facing a shortage of 50,000 truck drivers, impacting both retailers and consumers. ” A boom in eCommerce shipping, along with electronic driver monitoring devices, has made the already tight truck driver market worse, CNBC previously reported. In 2012, trucks moved a total of 10.2 That is not the solution.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

While that may sound like a line from a self-help book, it’s actually a business strategy that more and more retailers are adopting. A concept that may not seem so novel is actually driving some impressive growth for retail chains across the country and around the globe. Stores within stores. And that growth has continued.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

At the same time, two of her brothers are boat owners, and they were complaining in 2012 that they were going to have to sell their boats because they hadn’t used them once in the entire year. When it comes to the company’s market, Baumgarten says one of its fastest-growing segments are GenXers and millennials.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

As then-Senior Brand Director Paul Smailes told Ad Age in 2012 of the logic behind using an older protagonist, younger beer consumers would not “see him as a threat or as a reminder of accomplishments they hadn’t achieved yet,” but instead that they “needed to be someone to work toward, versus a mirror of themselves.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The average shopper — retail’s favorite concept. Up until the end of the 1990s, Peoria was a favored test market. And arguably, in the age of digital retail, omnichannel and an ever-proliferating number of places that consumers can close the deal, so to speak, the search for an average consumer is something of a lost cause.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

According to AppleInsider , although some retailers have announced plans for Apple Pay in the past, some still have not supported Apple Pay; Anthropologie and Forever 21 are two examples. A previous foray into social networking by Apple, Apple Ping, was introduced in 2010 and nixed by Tim Cook in 2012 when iTunes 7 was released.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

Take a look at this chart, which lays out grocery chain market share. You will observe grocery, as a retail category, is very fragmented. Walmart has the largest market share at 14.2 I’ll point out that those retailers did, apparently, have the money to hire lawyers. This one is particularly amusing. Investors put $2.65

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2019

If you haven’t heard – well, someone in Disney’s marketing department is about to be fired, since the House Of Mouse (and superheroes, Wookiees and Jedis) has been fairly unsubtle in its attempts to make sure the entire U.S. By the time Disney came to call in 2012, Lucas was worth $3.3 billion in box office returns and $4.5

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Celent Banking

APRIL 23, 2015

Another observation is that much of the debate is deeply polarized – all or nothing – as if banks serve a static and homogeneous market. We hear it all the time; “Millennials don’t use branches.” “Old Interestingly, this appeared to be more likely among large banks. Neither is true. Old people don’t use digital channels” and so on.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

As far as we can tell, the origin of the quote is from a 2012 Fortune article, with the author writing: “ A favorite Bezos aphorism is “Your margin is my opportunity.” . A trillion-dollar market cap later, it’s hard to argue Amazon’s effectiveness, quote attribution notwithstanding. According to our figures, about 24.3

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

May 2018’s household income numbers were up nearly 2 percent from last year, they say, due largely to increases in base compensation resulting from a tightening labor market. That sounds pretty good in a market in which wages are stagnating — with base comp rising at 0.5 Are the more than a third of U.S.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 5, 2018

Driven by Lore, Walmart acquired e-commerce platform Shoebuy in January 2017, followed by outdoor apparel retailer Moosejaw in February, womenswear site Modcloth in March, direct-to-consumer premium menswear brand Bonobos in June, and last-mile delivery startup Parcel in September. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. WALMART’S GOALS.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

So, while McKelvey lost out on that $2,000 sale — he and his (friend) and Co-Founder Jack Dorsey — the founder of Twitter — did end up with a $17 billion idea (Square’s market cap at the time this piece went to press). Square has come a long way from being an mPOS solution for cash-based glass blowers and farmers market purveyors.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. In a 2012 interview, then-CEO Ken Powell reported that one in four trips to the grocery store included the purchase of at least one of its products.

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CB Insights

MARCH 2, 2018

in market cap. BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? Competition between Amazon and Alibaba is heating up in untapped markets. First Name. Why now for international expansion?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

By 2012, only 64 percent of consumers reported watching primetime television “live” — down from 83 percent just four years earlier. Millennials loved it even more: Only 57 percent reported watching primetime TV live that year, opting instead to watch prerecorded and/or streaming video or to play video games.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Telehealth technology is estimated to be a $43B market, according to CB Insights’ Industry Analyst Consensus. Video conferencing is expected to account for 50% of the remote work market over the next five years, up from 10-15% currently.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Meanwhile, nearly 5 million retail workers are at a medium risk of automation within 10 years. With the emergence of industry-specific AI, the effects of automation — initially felt in manufacturing — are seeping into retail sales, restaurants, e-commerce, marketing, and even software development. million jobs in the US.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Ninety-two million millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” It’s even harder when your target market would rather never think about what you’re trying to sell them — retirement, for example. Below, we’ll show you: How to use pre-launch marketing to build trust and hype.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 9, 2017

From Marriott opening its first modular hotel, to tech giants like Alphabet investing in modular housing, to Japanese retailer Muji launching prefab micro-homes, offsite construction methods are gaining traction. The company recently announced plans to grow their portfolio across new sectors such as retail and healthcare.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

DeLuca spoke with PYMNTS about how the team tested out the market during a time when subscription or D2C models were not yet a thing, advice he has for other D2C brands and why just because most people have feet may not mean everyone is a customer, and that’s OK. And that was 2012. I’m not just saying that. And it worked.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And before the dot com crash, Goldman Sachs’ IPOs did tend to jump an average of 293% from their starting price through their first Friday on the market — compared to 26% for the bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and 78% for Merrill Lynch. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

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CB Insights

JULY 20, 2017

Deals to beauty and grooming startups have grown steadily since 2012, and are racing toward an all-time high in 2017. Diving deeper into the category, we can see that the majority of deals since 2012 have flowed to packaged cosmetics products. Look for Beauty & Grooming in the Collections tab. Track beauty and grooming startups.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

To PNC , who at BAI Retail Delivery pointed to hiring a behavioral psychologist to review its origination process. Community bank marketing resources. We don’t know what Los Alamos National Bank’s marketing department was drinking when it designed the customized water bottle labels, but we’re giving them big points for creativity.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Compared to the alternative — losing it in the market anyway and/or being taxed on whatever returns they might manage to eke out — the downside doesn’t appear too threatening. Venmo is a massively successful P2P platform that has become a verb with millennials who wish to pay each other after a trip or a night out.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Visualizing data for trends and market projection, visualize data in different ways. Silver Fusion Retail Outlet: Where Snowbirds Shop”. Integrated with major retailer API’s like Amazon, eBay, Best Buy and several other aspirational brands. With GoodData can productize the data and more. What do people aspire to purchase?”

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