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

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Suarez said it’s all about balance and branding. Pat Mills, the manager of Making Nice Coffee in an up-and-coming neighborhood of a West Coast city, said the workspace trend also hit his shop over the past decade — but unlike Suarez and Methodical Coffee, Mills and his company made the decision to embrace the working culture.

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Chapter 11 Watch: Austin Reed Bids Farewell, Staples Plots A New Course

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brands like apparel retailer Austin Reed, though, the weight of all that financial baggage is too much to crawl out from under. The Baltimore Sun is reporting that the Mars brand, which operates 13 stores across Maryland, will be selling off five of its locations and shuttering the remaining eight. For some U.K.

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The Global Bike-Share Boom: Dockless Models Look To Solve Urban Commutes & Transit Access

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These bike-sharing systems improved upon the unmanageable systems of the late 20th century due to docking stations and software for tracking and managing bicycle fleets. Dockless systems require less hardware for securing and managing inventory, translating into lower capital costs, expanded geographical reach, and lower costs for consumers.

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Hit The Ground Running: 15 Early-Stage Fitness Tech Startups To Watch

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Zenrez provides fitness studio-focused yield management and pricing software solutions, particularly for complex payment models for boutique fitness studios. The company’s software manages core aspects of fitness businesses from member management, class scheduling, payments, and more. Headquarters: Baltimore, Maryland.

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Does ‘Google Checking’ Foreshadow Big Tech, FinTech Payments Changes?

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They are described by Google as “smart,” since they will provide account holders with money management tips to optimize and manage the funds in those accounts. One big question is the balance between Google’s brand and role in all of this, and the role of participating FIs. Google’s Aim.

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

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In 2018, Marriott International opened a hotel designed specifically for young travelers in Tampa, while Hilton began building a new iteration of its millennial concept hotel, Tru, in Baltimore. Many millennial consumers are looking beyond older, legacy coffee brands to blends from boutique “third-wave” coffee roasters.

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Retail Reinvention: Why Retail Doesn’t Need Salespeople

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I remember working part-time at a major department store in Baltimore while I was going to school. I did — and Baltimore never had so many fashionably accessorized women when I worked there < wink > As we approached, and then entered, the 2000’s, and that focus began to shift a bit.

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