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Instacart Raises $271M On $7.8B Valuation

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hedge fund Tiger Global Management and existing investors Coatue Management and Valiant Capital. We want to make grocery shopping effortless by helping our customers get the groceries they need from the retailers they love. A source told Reuters that the additional funding comes from investors, including U.S.

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Retail Goes Out To The Ballgame For The Fourth

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Thousands of Americans will take to the nation’s ballparks this weekend as Americans celebrating the nation’s independence will look to the nation’s national pastime for the entertainment, likely combined with a fireworks display of some kind. Want to take your family of four to see the Boston Red Sox?

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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. From office supplies and communal workspaces to new ways to pay for concert tickets, more barriers to siloed retail activity are falling every day to the onslaught of retail partnerships.

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Amazon Sidewalk Eyes IoT Beyond The Connected Home

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In terms of potential use cases for Sidewalk, the enhanced connectivity would allow users to find lost keys or other items, or to manage appliances while away from home but still local. But he noted that Sidewalk would “struggle to match 5G’s national coverage.”

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Nonprofit Supports Community Entrepreneurs Amid Pandemic

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But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? Quite the contrary,” says Bob Brennan, chairman of the National Expansion Council and one of the directors of a nonprofit organization called Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) based in Boston, Massachusetts. “I

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Opportunity Knocks With Door-To-Door Resurgence

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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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American Greed: Can being an honest broker be banks and credit unions competitive advantage?

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According to a 2012 Boston College Center for Retirement Research study , 63% of American males (why only males I do not know) participated exclusively in defined contribution (DC) retirement plans in 2007, up from 47% in 1992. We are increasingly bearing the burden of managing our money. Probably not. I think so.

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