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Pixlee Lets Retailers Market Using Real Customers’ Photos

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Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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Unattended Retail Lessons From Caviar Dreams

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Those who travel to some of the wealthier parts of the world, however, will discover the well-to-do have much more expensive unattended retail tastes. In fact, in various global markets, high-end luxury items can be purchased from both ATMs and unattended machines. A few years ago, U.S. Serving up a new spin on caviar.

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How The Reinvention Of Retail Is Helping Oracle Reinvent Itself

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By 2012, Ellison was instead touting the benefits of “the most comprehensive cloud on the planet Earth” his firm was developing. Solving Their Problem By Solving Social Media’s Problem. As we’ve noted before, social media sites have something of a common problem, with the recent exception of Facebook. What is it?

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

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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.

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

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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.

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Beauty Store Lush And The Challenges Of (Nude) Shock Marketing

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And Lush, to force the issue, decided to bring attention to it in the most logical way possible — by stripping off their own packaging in the hopes that the sight of mass nudity in a retail environment will both inspire consumers to be more responsible — and remind them of the importance of a good all-over skin care regimen.

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It’s Getting Real On The Retail Revolution Frontline

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These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. According to Dasilva, the past decade-plus has brought three major payments revolutions, each of which shook the retail industry. There’s increasingly less middle ground between getting omnichannel right or fading into oblivion.

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