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JUNE 10, 2020

What The Restaurant Group wants to do is lower its rent in 85 locations to keep them operating. There is one shining light in the company’s operations: the pan-Asian brand Wagamama, which has performed well since the Restaurant Group bought it in 2018. At the time of Massachusetts Gov.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

But Olivela Founder Stacey Boyd thought that perhaps it could be, and that retail philanthropy could have a future, if consumers could purchase things they really wanted – and could rest assured that what they were buying was not only enriching their own life, but the lives of others. Olivela is mostly an eCommerce operation today.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

A brand that wanted to take part in the program paid about $2 for each sample, in addition to the cost of the product. . Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan sent a letter Wednesday (Nov.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

A brand that wanted to take part in the program paid about $2 for each sample, in addition to the cost of the product. . Ron Wyden of Oregon, Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Chris Coons of Delaware and Gary Peters of Michigan sent a letter Wednesday (Nov.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Build-A-Bear Workshop Chief Operations Officer Chris Hurt said in the announcement, “Build-A-Bear is working with some of the best family-focused venues in the country this holiday season and beyond to bring our unforgettable Make-Your-Own experience to even more places people go for fun and entertainment.

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MARCH 1, 2019

That behavior can sometimes lead to challenges for the retailers and services that want to engineer customer loyalty and drive sales. Retailers must also make sure they’re properly verifying the payment and personal information of these new customers, without adding friction to the buying experience.

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JULY 13, 2016

Brick-and-mortar retail will forever remember the day that Nintendo released Pokémon GO , a mobile game that has caused millions of millennials to suddenly discover outside again. However, some retailers prefer to play cards of the kind as close to the corporate chest as possible. Bankruptcies. Store Closures. ” Layoffs.

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Perficient

JANUARY 7, 2021

I recently interviewed Gary Johnson, a delivery director at Perficient who has worked with various automotive brands. They had to change the way they operate with new social distancing guidelines. From retail to consumer goods, online and mobile sales are up significantly. He gives a big nod to electric vehicles (EVs).

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MAY 30, 2018

The industry is booming, and consumers who shop for beauty products have no shortage of brand options in stores and online. There are traditional players, and now there are digital native brands and startups, so the cosmetics industry has become a very crowded industry,” he said. “So, Beauty Buyers Go Digital.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

Dunkin’ Donuts has always been a brand about, well, donuts (or doughnuts, if one is a stickler about proper spelling). Time to make the donuts,” was the brand’s well-known tagline for almost two decades — uttered often and forlornly by long-time company mascot Fred the Baker.

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MAY 24, 2018

bankruptcy court, Massachusetts’ New England Confectionery Co. We started as a family-owned candy company back in 1847, [and] we’re thrilled to work with a fourth-generation candy company that brings new stewardship to our brands,” Necco Chief Executive Michael McGee told the Globe. “We Following an auction in a U.S.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

When its first Massachusetts store opened last year, 2,000 people lined up to get inside. Consumers have been known to write open love letters to Wegmans imploring them to open up operations in their state or town. Wegmans — a 92-store chain based out of Rochester, N.Y., however — is a very different sort of grocery animal.

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APRIL 25, 2018

When people want coffee or tea, they want it now, and we want their orders to be ready when they are,” Aidan Hay, SVP of Operations at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, said in a press release announcing a mobile order-ahead feature for their app. The Coffee Bean & Tea Life is hardly alone.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Over 100 restaurant and retail brands attended the meeting to offer feedback and make suggestions about future platform developments. . Our clients are doing remarkable things with the platform — the high-impact results, growth, and brand enhancements are amazing.”. President Andrew Robbins.

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APRIL 25, 2018

To reach more consumers, Massachusetts-based restaurant chain Wahlburgers is taking its hamburgers to the grocery aisle. But, in the future, the company is considering rolling out other branded products. According to Supermarket News , Hy-Vee ranked 24th among North American grocery retail providers in 2016.

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APRIL 30, 2020

Massachusetts-based eTailer 1620 Workwear sells heavy-duty clothing for construction workers, carpenters, plumbers, EMTs and others who work outdoors or in demanding environments, and recently began deploying installment payment options from BNPL provider Afterpay. Customers are going to] have to finance everything they need,” he explained.

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JANUARY 2, 2017

From using virtual reality to overhauling the retail industry to shifting trends in cross-border payments, here are some of the highlights from our 2016 Trackers. Prpic and his team are hoping to use VR technology to transform luxury and high-end retail as we know it. DEVELOPER TRACKER.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

New restaurant concepts are redefining how we think about food, pushing established brands to reinvent themselves, spurring entrepreneurs to be creative with visual platforms like Instagram and recipes like pea-based protein, and paving a new way forward for the idea of casual dining itself. Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts).

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It’s heavily regulated, only customers of a certain age can buy it – and the sale of it is governed by a three-tiered system wherein producers can only sell to wholesalers, who can only sell to retailers, who are the only ones allowed to sell to consumers. Merchant Partners . Bringing In The Customers.

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CB Insights

JULY 30, 2017

Audi VP of brand strategy and digital business Sven Schuwirth has predicted that 20 years from now , many of these motel customers will instead choose to sleep in their driverless cars. Brick and Mortar Retail. As drones and autonomous cars begin taking over delivery, the location of brick-and-mortar stores may begin to matter less.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. That just makes the point much stronger. Consider this.

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