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JUNE 21, 2019

Part of the future of retail is playing out inside hotels — and that’s happening as the wider part of the travel-and-tourism industry is undergoing its own significant disruption. One of the latest — and perhaps wildest — examples of the hotel-retail trend comes from Taco Bell, of all places. Unattended Retail.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Fanatics , a company that sells Team USA merchandise, has taken a novel approach to Olympic retail this year with a physical store in a major U.S. The store marks a milestone for Team USA: It’s their first in-person retail store outside the Olympic Training Center in Colorado. Retail Gold.

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JULY 11, 2018

As of today, the international media titan has announced an investment in True Food Kitchen , a healthy eating startup based out of Houston. The size of Oprah’s equity investment is unknown, but apart from money, she is offering her literal presence – she will be joining the brand’s board and acting as a consultant.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Sometimes even the fastest runners need to take a break, and after the 16-week continuous retail sprint that is the annual holiday shopping rush, it is no great surprise that both Amazon and Walmart were relatively quiet in the first week of the new decade. The brand has also promised greater investment and marketing.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality. Voice computing is another key focus, but Walmart isn’t going to leverage rival Amazon’s Alexa platform for that, of course. Same-store sales, one of the favored metrics for judging retail, excluding fuel, increased 1.6

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JULY 11, 2016

Whitney Houston sang a song about it, and “ The Simpsons ” has spent the better part of 30 years parodying the sentiment. And of course, a big risk. Cat & Jack is replacing Circo (Target’s current in-house brand) and Cherokee (a longtime license partner), and neither brand was failing.

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JULY 13, 2018

Celebrity brand endorsement is nothing new. In their hundreds of years of existence, the celebrity endorsement has become an increasingly prominent part of branding — so prominent, in fact, that by the end of the 20th century, they weren’t just endorsing products. 1 on its list of the top 10 emerging restaurant brands of 2018.

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