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Walgreens Set To Open Primary Care Clinics In Houston

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Walgreens and VillageMD , a leading national provider of primary healthcare, have announced a partnership to provide primary care services for adult patients in the Houston, Texas area. VillageMD has a strong track record nationally of improving outcomes and reducing the cost of healthcare through their transformative primary care model.

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How BNPL Is Helping BlackCool Boost Brand Awareness And Availability

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a lifestyle brand that offers apparel, accessories and fragrances as well as spirits and hand-rolled cigars. Registering And Extending Brand Appeal . Williform said he conceived BlackCool as a brand inspired by the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s that brings about a positive change for Black culture. This is a win-win.” .

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Barneys, Pier 1 And Other Iconic-But-Bankrupt Retailers Are Coming Back To Life 

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Barneys became the latest brand to rise from the dead recently when the retailer reopened as “ Barneys at Saks ,” a store within a store at the flagship Manhattan site of its former rival, Saks Fifth Avenue. “We The launch of Barneys at Saks is a seminal moment to reignite the brand for the future.”.

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Path To World Series Brings Changes To Online Gambling

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But that doesn’t mean the money doesn’t flow during the baseball playoffs – evidence of that comes from Jim McIngvale, a Houston furniture store owner known as “ Mattress Mack ,” who just put $3.5 million on the Houston Astros to win the 2019 World Series. You have enormous brands and massive amounts of consumers involved.

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Inside Chipotle’s Decade Of Digital-First Ordering Innovation

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Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have heard the call for innovative digital ordering capabilities, with several major brands stepping up their investments in this area. Pizza chain Domino’s , for example, is planning to test self-driving vehicle technology in one major metro region. Deep Dive: Enhancing Customer Service With CRM Tools.

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Hearst Team Creating Amazon Skills For Alexa

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Last week, the new group rolled out an Amazon Echo skill for its Good Housekeeping brand. It also developed skills for the San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle , two newspapers it owns. “That’s a theme that we’re going to build on as we take our expert editorial content and weave it in with branded content.”

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Bulletin: A Cheaper Way To Sell In-Store

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In SoHo, for example, the average rental price on Broadway between Houston and Broome Streets is $824 per square foot, according to the Real Estate Board of New York. Retailers run the retail space as if it was their own store, and there is even a salesperson on-hand who works for Bulletin, but each brand gets to train them.