PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

CVS rolled out three HealthHUB concept stores in Texas close to the conclusion of 2018 and grew the offering to 50 locations in four markets by the end of last year. Dallas-Fort Worth, Boston, Ohio and North Carolina are among the next markets the pharmacy chain is targeting for the growth of HealthHUB in 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2017

The San Francisco–based firm trades on its ability to help its brand partners “navigate the future of emerging technologies and the digital experience” and then help those brands “design and develop interactive branded experiences for the new digital world.” Mobile beer ordering, specifically.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have heard the call for innovative digital ordering capabilities, with several major brands stepping up their investments in this area. The company has partnered with autonomous technology firm Nuro with plans to put driverless delivery vehicles to work in Houston, Texas, by the end of 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

CVS Health started to test out HealthHUB locations last year in Houston to “overwhelming customer satisfaction” per the announcement. According to previous reports, Boston, Dallas-Fort Worth, North Carolina, and Ohio are among the next markets the pharmacy chain is targeting for the growth of HealthHUB in 2020.

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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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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

Brick-and-mortar merchants are far from being free from the problems that plague their particular brand of retail, but even they have to look at online retail rising rents for warehouse space with a little bit of mirth. Of the 57 major retail markets studied, 37 of them posted decreases to warehousing availability.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

In India, meanwhile, eCommerce-focused fashion company Myntra followed a different automated retail model, and opened a new cashierless store, selling items from its Roadster outdoor lifestyle brand. The company will deliver meals with robotics company Nuro ’s self-driving cars, and is slated to test the service in Houston this year.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2016

Through a reasonable long game, Nordstrom has positioned itself as the department store du jour for hot young brands in real world commerce. Some 62 percent of Nordstrom’s 120-plus stores are in elite malls like Roosevelt Field in Long Island, Short Hills in New Jersey or The Galleria in Houston. That’s much better than No.

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MARCH 11, 2020

This year we expect another year of market-leading growth. Noting that existing Carvana markets grew by 84 percent, he said, “The company’s four oldest markets each more than three years old grew by 50 percent and our oldest cohort of Atlanta grew by 18 percent. New Markets. In 2019, we increased GPU by $750.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

The brand could close between 600 to 1,000 of its 3,000 locations this year, according to some predictions – and is reportedly considering bankruptcy, people familiar with the matter have told Reuters. And, as a brand, Mattress Firm itself has faced some challenges: In 2017, former supplier Tempur Sealy International Inc.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

It launched out of beta in December 2018, and in the intervening months, it’s garnered support from brands like Brex, Segment, Caviar, Zumper, and others.”. According to the report, “A Buzzfeed survey found that Uber drivers in Denver, Detroit, and Houston earned just $13.25 Digital Screens. an hour on average”.

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JULY 16, 2019

Domino’s CEO Richard Allison said on a call with analysts that he was pleased with the second-quarter performance, but noting “we are a work-in-progress brand,” he said there have been and will always be many areas where the brand can improve. The fleet from Nuro is said to serve certain customers in Houston who place online orders.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

As of today, Amazon’s virtual assistant is now capable of controlling above 85,000 smart home products from more than 9,500 brands. Reports in late December indicated that Walmart is teaming with autonomous vehicle company Nuro to roll out a pilot program that will test grocery delivery in the Houston market.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

The demographic accounts for about one-quarter of in-store sales, according to market researcher NPD’s Checkout Tracking. And this is good news for all those dollar store brands that have worked hard in the post recession era to expand their image as a place where the low-income go to shop.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

The offering will debut in Houston, Louisville, Nashville and Kroger’s hometown of Cincinnati, Chain Store Age reported. In terms of geography, the pilot market will be announced soon and the service is expected to launch in the fall.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The program, dubbed Restock, was launched earlier this year in an effort to adjust product choices, rearrange store layouts and highlight private-label brands. Ever since Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market , Kroger has been in reinvention mode, launching new services to match the eCommerce giant. a share Wall Street was seeking.

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MAY 31, 2018

That capability took off in a few Eastern European markets, as well as a handful in Asia Pacific. That fell outside the realm of P2P, but Krikorian said the company took a can-do approach to give the market what it wanted. Banks were connecting to the network and started offering P2P push payments. Emergency Insurance Payouts.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

“We don’t truly know how big it could be, but, again, the location is fairly significant,” Peter Zeytoonjian, USOC managing director of marketing and consumer products, told SportsBusiness Daily when the store opened in December. In addition, brands are offering consumers replicas of uniforms that will be worn by the athletes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2016

According to The NPD Group , a global market research company, roughly half of all Super Bowl viewers are not even football fans and are tuning in to watch the halftime show, the TV ads that are some of the most highly anticipated and buzzworthy of the year or are simply watching the game with a large group of people as a social gathering event.

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JUNE 1, 2018

A much wider world: The Pentagon, Houston Space Center, as well as various airports, malls, corporate headquarters nationwide — and even a children’s hospital — are all home to Reis & Ivy’s double-barrel, fully automated yogurt-making machines. The average machine can dispense 245 servings of froyo before needing be refilled.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality. Kroger released its Q2 earnings this week, and the market did not love what it saw. Ever since Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market , Kroger has been in reinvention mode, launching new services to match the eCommerce giant.

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MARCH 15, 2019

As it stands, mobile ordering is available at the chain’s Denver, Boston and Houston locations — and more markets are said to be in the works for this year. Alternatively, customers can have their food sent straight to their seats in some of the theatres.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Celebrity brand endorsement is nothing new. The first recorded case of it dates back to the 1760s when Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, producers of pottery and chinaware, marketed their wares with endorsements from Britain’s royal family, hoping to show off the company’s inherent value and the high quality of their products.

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JUNE 23, 2017

The $14 million of funding Rinse recently secured will not be going into the company’s tech as much as into building out its team as it looks to launch in new markets. Houston, Dallas, Austin, Seattle, Miami, San Diego, Denver and New York are up next. We view ourselves serving the entire country.

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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. Cat & Jack is replacing Circo (Target’s current in-house brand) and Cherokee (a longtime license partner), and neither brand was failing. And of course, a big risk. Quite the opposite.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Walmart is signing on to a recent trend and has announced it will be partnering with autonomous vehicle company Nuro to launch a new pilot program to test autonomous grocery delivery in the Houston market. The service carries products only; there are no onboard drivers or passengers.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

cities (LA, Chicago, Brooklyn, Houston, Philadelphia) seeing the greatest action. Top retailers using BNPL include DSW, Urban Outfitters and Ulta Beauty , and popular brands included ColourPop and Ray-Ban, among others. Afterpay reported $160 million in BNPL sales during Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2019, with five U.S.

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William Mills

MAY 10, 2016

Industry Solutions Marketing Mgr.). Assaf Frenkel (VP, Product & Marketing). Houston Frost (SVP, Prepaid Products). He has more than 30 years of experience in financial technology and is a recognized leader in financial and technology marketing. Mills-Grimes is the Digital Marketing Consultant at William Mills Agency.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

In April, Amazon and Whole Foods Market announced that delivery of Whole Foods items through Prime Now had been brought to nine more cities. Kroger and SoftBank -backed robotics company Nuro, for instance, announced the launch of their autonomous grocery delivery service in Houston in March. The share of U.S.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

According to forecasts , the emerging global market for business services using drones is valued at over $127B. In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, AT&T and Verizon launched drones in Houston, Texas to inspect their towers — a process which would have been too dangerous and time-consuming to do manually. Telecommunications.

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APRIL 11, 2017

Investor optimism in spite of the news perhaps indicates faith in the cost-cutting measures Whole Foods has pursued, along with boosting its less-expensive 365 brand. based brands, and less dramatic than Whole Foods’ rise. WFM is up 1.2 percent in 2017. Friday morning trading saw KR stock up 0.75 percent to $29.73.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Subscription Payments Meet Emerging Markets (GoCardless Global Recurring Payments Tracker). is putting more of its hopes into digital and mobile channels to grow revenue as well as its brand profile and make up for declining wholesale sales. As of Oct. Trackers and Reports. Levi Strauss & Co.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2018

Children are the future — that’s just a biological fact, and the theme of an old Whitney Houston song. Wearables Market. If those consumers stick to the brands they have known since childhood, that could pose a threat to Apple’s smartwatches, some observers say, as that product is made for adults, not kids. million units, up 10.3

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

According to forecasts , the emerging global market for business services using drones is valued at over $127B. In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, AT&T and Verizon launched drones in Houston, Texas to inspect their towers — a processes which would have been too dangerous and time-consuming to do manually. Telecommunications.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 5, 2017

For many consumers, the local pharmacy is long gone, replaced by big box retailers with significantly more cash and brand recognition. We used the CB Insights Business Social Graph to visualize where these top 4 pharmacy retailers have made private market investments and acquisitions. LaFrance Holdings (pharmacy chain).

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