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JUNE 6, 2018

The brand uses sustainable and rescued fabrics, along with vintage clothing, to create apparel, Retail Dive reported. ” Nordstrom is Reformation’s first wholesale gig, although the brand has 11 brick-and-mortar stores in cities such as Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. This Bay Area city advertised ample office options at one-half to one-quarter the price of nearby Oakland and San Francisco. Whole Foods-branded product sales tallied $500,000 in the first week.

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APRIL 21, 2020

The San Francisco-based online food ordering and delivery service launched by Uber in 2014 said it will match up to $3 million in contributions made by customers, according to TechCrunch. As reported in early April, the National Restaurant Association created the fund to support U.S.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

According to a Lowe’s blog post on the subject, the Smart Home shops will include thermostats, cameras, lighting, speakers and more from brands like Google, Sonos, GE, Nest, Iris, Samsung and Ring. b8ta makes shopping for connected home products accessible and easy,” said Phillip Raub, co-founder and chief brand officer of b8ta.

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AUGUST 29, 2016

The beauty brand currently has similar locations in Boston, San Francisco and Toronto. Sephora is expanding its Beauty TIP Workshop store format to Chicago — with some fancy new high tech flourishes added.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Building upon its Boston-area staff, Facebook plans to open a new office in neighboring Cambridge next year. The current team is more than 100 strong and has outgrown its small Kendall Square office, according to news from The Boston Globe ; the expansion will accommodate all of them comfortably, plus 500 more.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

It launched the expansion into San Francisco in January, with plans to extend the service into New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. In November, Dine Brands linked up with Postmates to offer delivery from thousands of locations, integrating delivery orders into IHOP’s and Applebee’s POS systems. and Chicago.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The marketing tool that ended up working best for the brand was opening a physical store — and giving customers a chance to interact with their line of couches. Today, Interior Define has opened several new guide shop locations in New York, LA, San Francisco, Austin and Boston. “We

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MAY 4, 2016

Uber has shown that it’s far from shy about putting its brand alongside other ventures, and it’s recently demonstrated propensity for non-automotive transport is an indication that innovators there don’t lack the spine to take some risks when necessary. We’re excited to partner with Visa on this initiative.”.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Cannabis beauty brands are becoming increasingly popular, and CBD products are the next big thing in beauty,” Kim D’Angelo, Neiman Marcus’ beauty buyer, said in an email. Our CBD assortment is an important part of our brand’s commitment to the health and well-being of our customers.”.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Staples and Office Depot saw months of hard work go up in smoke when their long-expected merger was denied by regulators and both brands had to take long, hard looks in the mirror before deciding how to proceed. For Staples, the answer wasn’t to sulk around for months.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

Want to build brand loyalty? Uber Plus is still considered a beta program, rolling out in select cities — Boston , San Diego , San Francisco , Miami , Seattle and Washington, D.C. Unveiling: Uber Plus. Taking cues from the Amazon Prime concept, Uber Plus asks riders to pay a lump sum up front.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

22), Starbucks delivery was officially up and running in San Francisco. Over the next several weeks, delivery services via Uber Eats are on deck to roll out in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. The brand is also forecasting net income between $2.32 As of Tuesday (Jan.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

In a recent trend, eCommerce mattress brands have been moving into the world of brick-and-mortar retail by opening their own stores and pop-up shops to help let customers test-drive their products in real life. The store was to feature the brand’s original mattress along with pillows, sheets, and, yes, a dog bed made for man’s best friend.

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MAY 18, 2017

Yelp’s Eat24 is testing delivery via robot in a new partnership with Marble in select neighborhoods in San Francisco. And Boston Dynamics is working on their own robotic delivery system, which it showed off at this past April’s TED 2017 conference. Bringing Online to the Real World .

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Amazon , in one case, has added a suburban Boston location to its roster of Amazon 4-star stores, marking the fifth location of its type in the United States. In fact, one of the Amazon Books stores is located close to Natick in another suburb of Boston, Dedham. The Reis data examines 77 metro areas and indicates that 9.4

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The marketing tool that ended up working best for the brand was opening a physical store – and giving customers a change interact with their line of couches. Today, Interior Define has opened several new guide shop locations in New York, LA, San Francisco, Austin and Boston. “We

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AUGUST 18, 2016

That’s become pretty much gospel for brands, retailers and marketers alike. And one of the most valuable forms of data right now is behavioral data because it tells a retailer or brand where a customer or potential customer goes, does and spends their time and money on. In other words, it’s a lot of that uber-valuable type of data.

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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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DECEMBER 12, 2019

11), that public pilot officially came to an end, as Penn Station was added to the New York list of MTA stations that enables open payments using network-branded contactless cards. So, when is it coming to Boston?” sometimes San Francisco and sometimes Chicago. Yesterday (Dec. A Big Year On The Horizon . “So,

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MARCH 11, 2016

Secrecy is a funny thing for brands. It keeps consumers interested, because a consumer that is always guessing about the next product release is, by necessity, always thinking about the brand. Open since 2014, it is one of two northern California hubs — the other being located about an hour up the road in San Francisco.

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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. Amazon said in May that there are plans to expand to Chicago and San Francisco as well. That will start solely in New York City, but is intended to roll out more widely.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

Based in New York, the business is now in seven other cities — Boston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Dallas, Portland, Los Angeles and San Francisco — and growing to more. When you look at the actual business model, we’re investing in the brand experience, building logistics and software and pricing technology.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Headquarters: San Francisco, California. Maestro is a live and on-demand video experience platform that allows content creators and brand sponsors to engage and monetize audiences at scale. Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts. Select Investors: DN Capital, The Raine Group, 500 Startups. Disclosed Funding: $11M.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Cafe X is a robotic cafe in San Francisco that serves premium coffee using mobile ordering and automation technology. MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Follain is a healthy beauty store with locations in Boston, Washington DC, and Nantucket.

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APRIL 20, 2017

I tried last night to make a reservation from Boston to San Francisco, and it told me that I had presented it with a first: There were no flights between those two cities. The brand has vowed of late to “transform the customer experience,” and it seems as though bots will be part of that equation. So what does the 2.0

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off. RadioShack.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco. In 2016, Uber launched Local Offers with Visa , and in 2017, it launched the Uber co-branded Visa card issued by Barclays. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem. Fleets As The Fuel. Uber Eats users concentrate 53.6 Closing The Loop.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Major retailers and brands go local. According to CEO Brian Cornell: “In urban markets like New York or Chicago, San Francisco, Boston and D.C., Given that 7,000+ US retail locations shut down in 2017, retailers cannot afford to ignore consumer preferences.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Goes to Zelle from this San Francisco Giants game street vendor. Before getting into banking, he started two tech companies in Asia and was a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. THE SMARTER BANK AWARDS.

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JULY 17, 2018

New restaurant concepts are redefining how we think about food, pushing established brands to reinvent themselves, spurring entrepreneurs to be creative with visual platforms like Instagram and recipes like pea-based protein, and paving a new way forward for the idea of casual dining itself. Automatic food: Cafe X (San Francisco).

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Traction : USV says 15,000 people have listed rooms, apartments or houses on the Flip marketplace since 2016, and over 50,000 people have used it to search for homes in three markets so far (New York, LA, and San Francisco). Frankel also sees the startup’s location in Boston as giving them an “unfair advantage” in talent acquisition.

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APRIL 4, 2016

This stand-alone food ordering and delivery app — now live in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Another study done by a Boston University professor suggested that music itself is a marketing platform for alcohol.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. We take our weather very seriously in Boston. Spare me the cutesy icon that tries to make a joke about it.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

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APRIL 24, 2018

We look into how stores are being transformed into showrooms, community gathering spots, and even event spaces as retailers leverage the physical store as tool for brand marketing. It was an experiment by Ikea to better understand what types of technology could attract customers, and more broadly to introduce them to the Ikea brand.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

HQ: Boston, MA. HQ: Boston, MA. We license the technology to HW vendors and brands. Based in Boston, it looks like they have less than 20 employees, I’m not sure. These folks are based in San Francisco and have received more than million in funding. Website: projectfinance.io. Twitter: @yourfinanceapp.

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