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eCommerce Site Jet To Offer Blue Apron’s Knick Knacks

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Blue Apron has introduced a brand-new offering called Knick Knacks, which are specialty recipe ingredient kits that let people combine a chosen protein and produce. Jet is the first to have a slew of different Knick Knacks for same-day or following-day delivery across the New York City area.

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Physical Retail Looks For New Life This Holiday Season

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Both of those demographics surprisingly beat out millennials, at 53 percent, and Gen Z, at 46 percent. For instance, the new Nordstrom New York City store offers several different food and beverage locations, as well as the ability for shoppers to order food and have it delivered to them while they shop.

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American Apparel And Postmates Pair Up

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While the eCommerce giant has managed to narrow this window to one or two days, an unlikely brand is saying that it should take no longer than an hour. “One- or two-day shipping is no longer an option; we are creating entirely new customer expectations.”

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Making Shopping About The Shoppers (Again)

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One would expect that a event called the Retail Innovation Conference (RIC) would be a veritable brainstorm of big ideas as to how to improve the woeful retail space in the U.S.: Doesn’t it follow, then, that by working very hard to put innovative technologies in place in their operations, retailers are , in fact, focusing on the shopper?

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What’s Your Commerce Horoscope?

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Miller clarified that she has no problem with predicting the future for commercial purposes – she herself has been known to write horoscope-influenced gift guides for brands like Tory Burch – but she takes the work seriously and actually tries to focus her expertise into those commercial works, something she does not feel Amazon has done.

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Meal Kit Providers Exit Q2 With Industry In Major Flux

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Blue Apron has long enjoyed the distinction of being among the early innovators in the meal kit category. With millennials working multiple gigs, very few have enough time left to make a proper meal — if they aren’t eating out at a local restaurant. Truly Innovating. The pop-up opened after Memorial Day and closed in late June.

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Delivering QSR Ordering Options With Digital Collaborations

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Here’s just a few examples of how these companies, among others, are innovating with digital ordering: . The company processed more than 20 million on-the-go orders in Q4, which Dunkin’ Brands CEO Dave Hoffmann said in a recent call with analysts is “a new milestone for us.”