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Singapore’s TiffinLabs To Launch 1,000 Smart Kitchens For Food Delivery

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TiffinLabs opened in early 2019 and is operating some kitchens in Singapore, including digital-first restaurant brands Publico Pastabar and Hureideu – Korean Fried Chicken. “By enabling over 1,000 kitchens for delivery-focused operations globally, we are making food ordering relevant for the future, at scale.

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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. However, Barneys fell into bankruptcy in 2019, due in part to rising rents at its Manhattan and Los Angeles stores.

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How A New Name Sparked An Unattended Retail Turnaround

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But the branding came across somewhat differently. The brand was widely accused of being culturally insensitive and appropriating the name of the very shops they were hoping to push out of business with their full-service vending machines. The Washington Post branded Bodega the most hated startup in America.

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More Retailers Are Checking Into Hotels In Search Of Innovation

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Luxury fitness brand Equinox is set next month to open its first hotel in New York City, “with more on the horizon in Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Santa Clara, Calif.,” As well, the furnishings brand RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, plans to open RH Guesthouse in New York in the fall.

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Staples Jumps Into Same-Day Delivery

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Staples and Office Depot saw months of hard work go up in smoke when their long-expected merger was denied by regulators and both brands had to take long, hard looks in the mirror before deciding how to proceed. For Staples, the answer wasn’t to sulk around for months.

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Rescuing The Restaurant Business From App Decline

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The operative word is control. “I The internet “and its many apps, online reviews, and socially viral communication speeds will continue to disrupt restaurant industry traffic, revenues, brands, and survivability even more over the next decade,” Christopher Baron of RedBaron Consulting, told Modern Restaurant Management.

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Team USA Launches Omnichannel Strategy For Olympic Retail

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Mall operator Simon Properties, for example, has been trying out a pop-up concept called The Edit, which allows a much shorter commitment — only one to six months. But, generally speaking, the most popular cities for Fanatics’ Olympic sales are New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston and Los Angeles.

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