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MAY 2, 2016

According to reports in Bloomberg , this is the second big geographical area to go online with Prime following some reporting in Bloomberg Businessweek that indicated some potentially disturbing disparities in where the service is (and is not) available in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, New York and Washington. “The over 1.4

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MAY 18, 2017

From responsive mobile websites to on-demand offerings, consumers are increasingly demanding that retailers, both online and in the real world, cater to their needs in the moment. . Yelp’s Eat24 is testing delivery via robot in a new partnership with Marble in select neighborhoods in San Francisco. On-Demand Days .

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2016

The coveted back-to-school shopping season is fast approaching, and it’s a key one for office supplies companies like Staples , according to Internet Retailer. Staples, which is located in Framingham, MA, announced in June plans to offer a same-day delivery service known as Staples Rush in Dallas, Boston and Manhattan.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Instacart, the online groceries company, announced Wednesday (Nov. In a press release , the company said Instacart Pickup provides customers with expanded delivery and/or pickup options, enabling them to order via Instacart and pick up the groceries at retailers. ”

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2016

With traditional brick-and-mortar retail facing big problems , some chains are addressing them with small solutions. Is this a viable answer to the beating that Sears’ bottom line (and that of many other one-time stalwarts of brick-and-mortar retail) have been taking in recent years? Specifically, with small(er) stores.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In a twist on contemporary retail trends toward online channels, consumers still largely prefer to return in-store. One logistics technology startup is working to solve the problem of physical returns for digital retailers. If all’s well, Happy Returns signals the retailer to refund the customer. “We’re

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MAY 29, 2017

Some were already investors in the startup, which is headquartered in New York City and will use the funding to expand into Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., It’s time-consuming and difficult to navigate, with many businesses not even having a presence online.”. and Chicago.

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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. Then, in 2018, Pop-In@Nordstrom partnered with Casper to bring pop-up stores to select Nordstrom locations and online.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

Staples announced on Tuesday (June 14) that it had officially launched its “Staples Rush” program that provides same-day delivery service to a handful of metropolitan areas, including parts of Boston, Dallas and Manhattan, with Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle to come.

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MARCH 9, 2020

The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. What will factor into any restaurant or restaurant group’s success in tomorrow’s online world are the numbers and demographics of just how tourist-traveled your city, town, or region is going forward.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Taziki’s Mediterranean Café , for instance, has seen its online and to-go orders increase by 200 percent over the past three years. These are just some of the ways that QSRs have recently sought to reinvent their mobile and online ordering experiences to encourage diners skip the line and order ahead: The total number of U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The plan from our perspective was to create a user experience online first that would enable shoppers to easily customize a piece,” said Royer. Today, Interior Define has opened several new guide shop locations in New York, LA, San Francisco, Austin and Boston. “We

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The plan from our perspective was to create a user experience online first that would enable shoppers to easily customize a piece,” said Royer. 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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AUGUST 16, 2019

As of the first day of August 1994 more people had walked on the surface of the moon than had bought things online, because online shopping did not yet exist. s two resident retail superpowers’ race for the consumer’s whole paycheck this week. She also forecasts headline retail sales to rise by 0.4 percent.

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MAY 30, 2017

Flashfood bears a close resemblance to Boston, Mass. Instacart started in San Francisco but announced that it plans to launch in more than 100 new markets by the end of 2017. is beefing up its ecommerce capabilities with a $10 million investment in online meal kit retailer Chef’d. Finally, Campbell Soup Co.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. 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.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

That is a very big branch-out and rather sudden from the point of view of the program, since, currently, Google Express only operates at full-tilt capacity in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Los Angeles and Boston. That can’t always be other retailers’ business model.”.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

This summer, Nike unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar venture in Los Angeles: Nike by Melrose, a physical store that uses local online shopping data to determine its in-store inventory. While the store is a first for Nike, it’s part of a bigger trend in retail — product and inventory localization. First Name.

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APRIL 17, 2018

He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. BILL GURLEY.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. How will we shop in 2020?

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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. You go online and give us really simple information about your home. So we started researching the world of painting, and it grew from there.

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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. Trying to book a trip on Hipmunk seems primitive to the point of being useless.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

Point-of-sale financing for retailers. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Online foreign exchange services. HQ: San Francisco, California. HQ: San Francisco, California. Nigerian online credit card processor. Latest round: $25 million Debt. Total raised: Unknown. HQ: Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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MAY 15, 2018

That is, can several small deliveries serve a store better than one big truckload — even when the store is playing dual roles as a physical retail distribution space and a fulfillment center for digital orders? Nearly 70 percent of Target’s online volume was fulfilled by stores — not shipped from warehouses — during the 2017 holiday season.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 13, 2016

Online & offline real estate broker. HQ: Boston, Massechuesetts. Retailer point-of-sale system. Online stock trading game. HQ: San Francisco, California. Online payment platform. Tags: Consumer, SMB, payments, online, subscription billing, billpay. Cortera raised a fresh $3.5 HQ: Singapore.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

WeChat’s decision to create a separate mobile wallet to store consumer credentials that also exposed an API for any other app to grab made it easy for retail and commerce apps to live inside of the ecosystem. Apps like Chrome and Pinterest are used by consumers to discover things and then punch out to retailers to buy.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

HQ: Boston, MA. Fiserv is highly regarded for its leadership and innovation, and award-winning solutions for mobile and online banking, payments, risk management, data analytics and core account processing. Info: Covered Security acts as a personal security assistant looking out for your online life. HQ: Boston, MA.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Retail/Consumer Goods. Technology.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

iHealth’s no-contact thermometers retail for less than $45, and Salesforce’s Workplace Command Center, which centralizes key real-time reopening metrics, starts at $5 per user per month as an add-on to existing Salesforce products. We discuss cashier-less checkout and other trends in our 2020 State of Retail Tech report.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Steering the ship — handling all of the engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing, even when you’re taking 90 percent of the subsequent profits — was ultimately too expensive of a proposition, especially in comparison to other, less-handholding-oriented start-ups. via Beta Boston. via San Francisco Business Times.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. Paying for things will happen online for pickup in the store later. That just makes the point much stronger.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Doorman says it will no longer accept incoming shipments after September 29th and that those who use their Doorman address for online shipments should update their information. “We Raptr, the online optimization platform founded by former pro gamer Dennis “Thresh” Fong a decade ago, is about to be shuttered. Product: Raptr.

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