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Why A Chicago Startup Is Tying Its Future To Physical Retail

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Brick-and-mortar retail oftentimes gets a bad rap in 2018. Last year saw store closures spike 200 percent to 7,000 — the worst retail bloodletting since the dark days of the 2008 recession. The widely shared consensus is that this could all get quite a bit worse for physical retail before it gets better.

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Are Retailers Ready For Amazon?s Prime Time?

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Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. I’ve been a Whole Foods shopper since I moved to Boston 17 years ago for the same reasons that each of you may be too: organic meat, seafood, produce and foods, great bread and cheese and a fun vibe. Prime Time at the Grocery Store.

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Retail Bedfellows Roundup: Staples Shares Space, Affirm Finances Life Experiences

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Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. Staples Will Sell You A Desk — Or Let You Share One.

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Bringing “The Next Big Thing” To A New Group Of Consumers

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Berger’s ambition is to for Marie Claire to be the brand that curates an experience for women that is about discovering the “ Next Big Thing ” at the intersection at fashion, beauty, content and technology as women go about their day – making it, as Berger told Webster, experiential and real. The Marie Claire Customer.

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The Truth Is In The Data, Not The Mirror

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Perhaps counterintuitively, Boston-based tech company True Fit took a non-visual approach to this challenge, instead opting to leverage data from both consumers and brands to suggest products that are likely to match not only the shopper’s body shape and size, but her personal style as well. A Different Approach. Innovation Trajectory.

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Merchants Gone Wild: The Surcharge Edition

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Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. Only, unlike the paper bag charge, it won’t be optional.

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2021 GonzoBanker Awards

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This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. But this was a huge endorsement of FIS’ core modernization strategy, of Code Connect as an emerging API superstar, and of Commercial Express as a proof point that next gen cores aren’t just for retail banking.

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