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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The Staples Connect concept, which will be officially introduced in six Boston area stores on Feb. The offerings include a 500-square-foot community space where shoppers can join or host events like workshops, speaker sessions and meetings. 5, offers experiences and solutions as well as a place to transact, Chain Store Age reported.

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AUGUST 29, 2016

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

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The Staples Connect concept, which offers experiences and solutions as well as a place to transact, debuted in multiple Boston area stores on Feb. Its offerings include a 500-square-foot community space for meetings, workshops and speaker sessions. Mike Motz, CEO of Staples U.S.

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JULY 21, 2018

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. Bears at the workshop range from $12-$65 depending on model, so the savings were pretty significant and attractive. A little too attractive, as it turned out.

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MARCH 6, 2017

While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The DIC research paper (developed for the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops) works from the assumption that every person possesses a unique arrangement of 14 different “keypoints” across the brow, eyes, nose, and mouth. This is the facial keypoints framework comes into play. CREDIT: IEEE-ICCVW 2017.

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MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. There were great, successful companies. Those companies made plans. ” —Walter Kiechel.

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