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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Looks like retail sales are back on the street. With direct marketing hit by robocall abuse and the National Do Not Call Registry , direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands and other not-so-usual suspects are looking into and in some cases reinstating door-to-door sales. The iconic door-to-door brand is of course Avon.

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MAY 9, 2018

Brands’ Pizza Hut is bringing beer delivery to approximately 100 of its restaurants in California and Arizona. Brands is buying a 3 percent ownership stake in Grubhub and is teaming up with the company to provide delivery and online ordering in the future from two of its brands, KFC and Taco Bell.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

After cherished Boston dining spot, Stella, closed its doors due to pandemic losses, chef and owner Evan Deluty couldn’t let the dream die — or his heavenly preparations disappear — and has reinvented Stella as a gourmet food truck. Deluty told Boston.com, “I’m not into opening a brick and mortar right now.

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APRIL 8, 2019

Brick-and-mortar pharmacy retailers are taking new approaches to delivery in the omnichannel age: CVS Pharmacy , for instance, is doubling down its on-demand offerings with a faster and expanded option. Even so, nearly a third — or 32 percent — of consumers were unaware of a mobile app by that kind of retailer.

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MAY 24, 2018

To have their foot scanned in a retail environment, for example, consumers might not be comfortable standing on a machine that has been used by many other customers. If a consumer has high arches, for example, the company can engineer additional support. Unlike more traditional brands, Wiivv doesn’t have inventory.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Skirting Cash Shortages at Boston Pride. Boston’s pride celebration is one of the season’s biggest events for Mandy Roberge, the owner and artist behind Wicked Good Henna. The 2018 Boston Pride parade reportedly saw more than 750,000 spectators and over 55,000 marchers. Her needs are relatively simple.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Clavis Insight’s eCommerce measurement and insights solution monitors anything that shoppers have the potential to see on a retailer’s page, at any retail site, anywhere in the world. Clavis Insight works with hundreds, if not thousands, of brands across a subset of major product manufacturers.

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JUNE 12, 2018

When Sephora announced the launch of a new 2,000-square-foot concept store in Boston last year , it unveiled a marriage of brick-and-mortar and digital: The store allowed customers the ability to order products in-store from the Sephora website, and it announced same-day pickup through its Sephora app, too.

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MAY 24, 2018

Ohio-based Spangler Candy Company won the auction with a bid of just under $19 million, The Boston Globe reported. “We 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. “I

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Cosi, the Boston-based sandwich chain renowned for its flatbread sandwiches, filed for bankruptcy in a Boston courtroom. Will Sears be the next major retailer to file for bankruptcy? ” Those retailers who made Fitch’s list are: Sears Holdings Corp., And how many more could follow after that? Claire’s Stores, Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

While the store is a first for Nike, it’s part of a bigger trend in retail — product and inventory localization. how retailers can survive (and thrive) this holiday season. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays. Major retailers and brands go local.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. 3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S.

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JANUARY 6, 2018

Boston and the areas surrounding New York didn’t get quite as lucky and were actually buried under more than a foot of snow, but the damage was done. Boston, in its ongoing quest to suffer more than any other American city in the winter, didn’t just have more than a foot of snow and more than 50-mile-an-hour winds. The Expected Costs.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Walmart, for example, has made health and personal care a big area of investment, with a particular focus on removing friction and creating stickier consumer relationships. The retailer has made the Walmart app more Rx-friendly, opening express lanes in stores to reduce the amount of time people spend waiting in lines for refills.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bloomberg reported this week that Boston-based home décor eCommerce giant Wayfair turned in strong Q3 financials, noting that the firm’s quarterly results “exceeded analysts’ estimates, suggesting the wave of home improvement inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic is lingering.”. Winter weather will end in six months, however.

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JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Rumors had Walmart wanting to buy Blue Apron — the retail chain, after all, was and still is engaged in an existential struggle with Amazon, and was trying to pump up its eCommerce offerings.

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JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Rumors had Walmart wanting to buy Blue Apron – the retail chain, after all, was and still is engaged in an existential struggle with Amazon, and was trying to pump up its eCommerce offerings.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality. For example: “Siri, add bananas to my grocery list.”. The world’s largest retailer announced it has acquired the crowdsourced, on-demand delivery marketplace Cornershop for $225 million.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Fat Brands – as it is pushing toward a unique IPO of its own – is offering consumers with $500 to burn an interesting opportunity: the chance to purchase their own piece of Fatburger. So, for example, FatBurger’s coming investor class must earn $5,000 a year – or have a net worth of that amount.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 Globally, the company has more than 500 employees spread between Leipzig; Boston; Henderson, Nev.; million items last year. Greensburg, Penn.;

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JULY 30, 2019

To take one example, look at the Starbucks results from Q2. That said, mobile order-ahead apps — as can be the case generally when comes to many types of retail innovations — have lower adoption among smaller QSRs. That trend continued in the second quarter and looks likely to be a dominant trait in the 2020s, only a few months away.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

A number of novel approaches show the creativity that pairs so well with food, as leading quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and fast-casual brands test cool new concepts. cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.”. Mobile Is Making It Work.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. Take PayPal, for example. percent of all retail sales.

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MARCH 9, 2020

The internet “and its many apps, online reviews, and socially viral communication speeds will continue to disrupt restaurant industry traffic, revenues, brands, and survivability even more over the next decade,” Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting, told Modern Restaurant Management.

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MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Apple’s first retail store overhaul in 15 years is hailed by just about everyone as a Grand Slam Home Run – and the store hasn’t even opened yet (it will, in SF, on Saturday). The hope is that the brand/experience convo will lure in customers and keep them buying. Burberry, Ms.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

So, how did a “team of geeks” with “zero experience” in the fashion or retail industries go on to become the second fastest-growing retail company in the U.S. Sharon Klapka, Adore Me’s vice president of business and brand development, appeared at the eTail East conference in Boston on Monday (Aug. million in funding.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Like so much of the retail industry, hospitality is all about customer experience. Despite the fears of some, several hoteliers have decided to give it a try over the past year, including some of the bigger name brands. Aloft Hotel — Boston Seaport & Santa Clara, California. Pacifica Hotels — Santa Barbara & Los Angeles.

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Peloton, for example, took the market by storm with its connected fitness bikes that allow members of the greater community to tap into live classes and pre-recorded content with fellow riders from around the world. Even for firms that were already in that business to start with. Digital Fitness Firms Thriving.

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JULY 21, 2018

IHOb,” the brand mysteriously sent out over Twitter. As it turns out, it is possible for a retailer to succeed so big they actually fail, a reality to which Build-A-Bear Workshop was introduced last week. They offered no further explanation at that time. For 60 pancakin’ years, we’ve been IHOP. Now, we’re flippin’ our name to IHOb.

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APRIL 20, 2017

Annoyed to the point of swearing them off for good: “Shopping with a bot is tedious — it takes 20 exchanges to finally get a link to a just-OK pair of black pumps that you have to then go outside the bot to the retailer site to buy. The bot is another example of MoneyGram’s commitment to making money transfers easy for our customers.”.

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There are lessons to be learned from experiences in retail. Well, there’s no doubt about this one: retail. Yes, retail for sure—a quick search online turns up hundreds of stories about retail omni-channel. In fact, 38% of retailers say this is a top priority. (The Wearable technologies? Social channels?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

There is no shortage of startups that enter the wild world of direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail to address a hole in the market that leaves a massive number of consumers underserved. The first of which, he said, was that all of these big brands weren’t really focused on runners and running as of the early 21st century.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Based in New York, the business is now in seven other cities — Boston, Washington, D.C., They can save it to say, “I want this paint to go in my kitchen,” for example, and all those tools are there digitally. Chicago, Dallas, Portland, Los Angeles and San Francisco — and growing to more. What does the Uber of X concept mean to you?

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JANUARY 15, 2018

In fact, we’re seeing it happen in a variety of retail, banking and broader commerce pilots and prototypes today. It’s why consumers default to Amazon when they buy online, and why the eCommerce giant now owns north of 40 percent of all online spend, based on Q3 2017 retail sales data. Here’s why. This Is the Human Brain on Habits.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

This solution will make it easier for receivers in those markets to receive and use funds instantly (via their bank-issued Visa-branded debit card or Visa-branded prepaid card), and senders may choose the option by which to send those funds. All of those transactions will happen in near real time, he explained.

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APRIL 18, 2016

For example, botnet-induced traffic is responsible for 54 percent of the eyeballs to display ads on the Web, burning a $6 billion hole in advertisers’ pockets for eyeballs that aren’t and will never buy. Hey brand, want a better way to engage with your customer? Some people use bots to make tasks simple and fast – and nefarious.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small. So small, in fact, that when it first started in 2002, the entire operation fit easily into the spare bedroom of Co-founder Steve Conine’s Boston home. As of today, that one-room idea has grown to $6.6

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