PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

He wanted to be Indiana Jones. When he returned a few years later on vacation, he started wearing the simple, slip-on canvas shoes and realized he discovered the innovation the world needed. This is likely why TOMS has been one of the many digital brands that has spent the last year experimenting with pop-up shops and physical stores.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

The first two seasons of “ Stranger Things ” were all about the efforts of Eleven — a paranormal psychic — and the townspeople living in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, to keep the hive mind from turning the real world into their upside down. Putting Caps on Innovative Companies. Overstock as Bitcoin/Blockchain Unicorn.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. It was also a look, maybe for the first time for some, at what was then a real innovation in shopping. I was traveling at the time, so that shopping experience worked really well for me.

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