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Walmart Launches 'Modern Fashion Brand'

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The retail giant is starting β€œa fashion essentials-inspired brand for both men and women created by our in-house design team,” the company said in a news release. At its core, this new brand is born from thoughtful, simple design, quality fabrics, modern silhouettes and styles updated for today.”. β€œAt Today (Sept.

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Walmart Divests Of Shoes.com, Bare Necessities Brands As Part Of Digital Streamlining

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Walmart is selling two of its online brands in a continuing goal to concentrate on its website. 27) that the Arkansas-based retail giant is scrapping Shoes.com and Bare Necessities, the intimate apparel brand. Also last year, Walmart shuttered its Jet.com eCommerce website and phased out the brand.

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Ohi Lands $2.75M To Enable Quick Delivery For Smaller Brands

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million Seed funding round led by Flybridge Capital Partners. Founded last year by CEO Ben Jones, Ohi offers same-day or next-day delivery to smaller brands via micro-warehouses in major cities. Every brand we talk to knows this is the future.”. Ohi , an eCommerce startup, announced that it has closed a $2.75

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SoFi-Social Capital Merger Will Fuel Growth Of One-Stop-Shop Financial Supermarket

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7) that it was merging with publicly-traded Social Capital in an $8.6 The SoFi deal marks at least the third such transaction done by the Social Capital SPAC, Palihapitiya said in a televised interview on CNBC, adding that the deal was driven by the fact that banking infrastructure isn't currently meeting the needs of U.S. consumers.

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How TikTok β€˜eGirls’ Helped Create A Multi-Million-Dollar Fashion Brand

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If one were to make a list of products for a cutting-edge fashion brand aimed at capturing the emerging Generation Z market, it is safe to assume that β€œfoxtail keychains” would not make the top 10. And while the brand is often described as β€œpunk,” β€œgoth” and β€œextremely eclectic,” Lynn noted in an interview that she doesn’t see it this way.

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Healthcare Tech Company Truepill Raises $75M To Expand

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Truepill , an online pharmacy powering delivery for direct-to-consumer healthcare brands, announced Wednesday (Sept. Also participating were existing investors Boston-based Optum Ventures, which offers capital and strategic guidance to startups; TI Platform Management LLC., 9) that it closed on a $75 million Series C funding round.

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Travis Kalanick Disavows β€˜Internet Food Court’ Using His Name

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Kalanick’s ghost kitchen concept, under the name CloudKitchens , has chefs working to make food from popular restaurant brands and then have the food delivered via one of the usual apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, etc. The ghost kitchens are typically set up in lower-income areas so as to reduce overhead costs.