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The Coffee Shop Office: A Money Drain Or Money Magnet?

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The key was recognizing the trend early and finding ways to capitalize on it, incorporating a workspace culture while also encouraging the community to continue using the café as a social gathering space. Suarez said it’s all about balance and branding.

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Bringing In Future Residents With Pop-Up Hotels

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These are all brand new units,” Fudin said. Our brand is brand new. Its new hotel in Baltimore, for example, includes a rooftop pool area. Smith (predecessor to JBG SMITH Properties), Working Lab Capital, Mitchell Schear and others. Everything is fresh.”.

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Retail Reinvention: Why Retail Doesn’t Need Salespeople

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Even if there were a trustworthy way to send money over the internet — which there isn’t — the network is no substitute to the essential ingredient of capitalism — salespeople.”. Take retail salespeople — Stoll’s self-proclaimed cornerstones of capitalism. Service — not sales — is the new human retail touchpoint.

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

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To attract millennial clients, some old-school gyms are adapting their models to capitalize on the increasing popularity of the boutique studios. US health clubs have already rushed to capitalize on millennials’ devotion to self-improvement, with the volume of US health clubs increasing by 20% between 2011 and 2015.

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Retail Fizzles, Alipay Sizzles — And Burger Wars Reignite On Mobile

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May flowers did not appear for retail earnings, unless you consider a bouquet of stinkweed a blanket of blossoms. Fizzle: Chinese cross-border deals: With new regulations in place limiting cross-border capital flow, the dry-up is already here for Chinese firms buying companies outside the mainland, especially in the United States.

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