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Retail Pulse: Kohl’s To Curate Brands With Facebook; Domino’s Rolls Out eBike Tie-Up

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Kohl’s , for instance, will bring emerging brands to over 50 physical retail locations and online starting in the fall through Curated By Kohl’s. The retailer also plans to team with Facebook on brand curation starting next year — “identifying and engaging with brands that have built a strong online community on the social media platform.”.

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One Food-Ordering App To Rule Them All

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It’s a hungry brand, gobbling up three different food delivery competitors in the last quarter alone: Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and most recently, Yelp’s Eat24. Both Groupon and Grubhub are Chicago-based, although OrderUp calls Baltimore home. Grubhub isn’t just about hungry people. The Eat24 deal closed last week on Oct.

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Amazon’s Cashier-Less Store Evolved From Self-Checkout Machines

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The technology was hailed as “a giant leap forward.” I thought it would have taken off faster than it did,” Humble told the Baltimore Sun in 2003. The actual technology for self-checkout lines hasn’t changed much since its introduction, NPR reported in 2016. Will Amazon bring the technology to Amazon Books or other retailers?

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Warby Of X: SmileDirectClub And D2C Orthodontia

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The direct-to-consumer (D2C) brand SmileDirectClub has been fixing and brightening smiles since May 2014. AF: We are the first digital brand for your smile. With new technology, we are able to deliver our invisible aligners as well as whitening directly to our customers. PYMNTS: What is SmileDirectClub?

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On-Demand Fitness Services Could Bring The Gym To Your Next Flight

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The strategy could help established travel companies boost brand loyalty, while further differentiating themselves from Airbnb and other new rental market entrants. ROAM launched in the Baltimore-Washington International airport in January 2017, while FlyFit has announced it will launch in Heathrow London this winter. Fitness Tech.

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A Bundle Of Contradictions: The Online Privacy Landscape

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Online ads that are so personal they feel creepy — an ad related to a TV show you just watched, or an aggressive pitch for weight loss products that follows a brief web search for a new gym — have taught consumers about the power of personalized marketing technology. One recent survey found that 78 percent of U.S. Healthcare Concerns.

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

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In 2015, a new bike-share model began rising in Asia, particularly China, driven by the confluence of several technologies. With the proliferation of consumer-ready mobile payments, IoT, and mature GPS technology, costs to build remote locking and tracking systems plummeted, allowing bike-share operators to build dockless systems.

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