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, 2016

According to a report by Adweek , Hearst launched a new unit, dubbed Native and Emerging Technologies, which is creating products around Amazon’s Echo and Google Home. Last week, the new group rolled out an Amazon Echo skill for its Good Housekeeping brand. The skill reads the newspaper’s daily news via the Echo.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Tide, the laundry brand owned by CPG Detergent, is introducing a service called Tide Cleaners, an on-demand dry cleaning and laundry service, at 1,000 locations in cities across the country, according to reports. The service works with drop boxes in offices, storefronts and high-rise buildings.

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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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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

MAY 1, 2019

In addition, Simon announced a partnership with Ohio-based marijuana company Green Growth Brands to open 108 locations this year at its properties, including Roosevelt Field Mall in New York and The Galleria in Houston. billion, which was slightly below expectations. percent, up from 94.6 percent the previous year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

According to that report, the company “works directly with ride-hailing drivers to mount ad displays on top of their cars. 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.”. Fewer in Q4 2018 reported saving for life events (22.9

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PYMNTS

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

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. According to a new report from CBRE, things are about to get even worse.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

The mecca for what some might call creative interpretations of Mexican-style fast food is, as PYMNTS has reported , The Bell: A Taco Bell Hotel and Resort in Palm Springs, California for a limited time this summer. according to the report. The motivation for retailer and brands when it comes to hotels?

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

The quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain reported revenues of $811.6 For same-store sales, the QSR reported growth of 3 percent compared to Wall Street estimates of 4.8 According to reports that surfaced in June, Domino’s and Nuro were teaming up to use a custom vehicle dubbed R2 later in the year. million and $2.02

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Of course, taking a break is a relative term when it comes to the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck — Walmart, according to most reports , is running barn-burner deals that rival Black Friday savings. As of today, Amazon’s virtual assistant is now capable of controlling above 85,000 smart home products from more than 9,500 brands.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2018

The offering will debut in Houston, Louisville, Nashville and Kroger’s hometown of Cincinnati, Chain Store Age reported. Amid its digital push through its Restock Kroger initiative, Kroger has rolled out a delivery service dubbed Kroger Ship that uses third-party carriers.

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Louisville Nashville Houston Customer Experience 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

According to a report in Reuters , Kroger is changing the way it stocks merchandise in the stores, which it blamed for the decline in foot traffic. The program, dubbed Restock, was launched earlier this year in an effort to adjust product choices, rearrange store layouts and highlight private-label brands. Kroger , the U.S.

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Louisville Nashville Houston Customer Experience 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Its fourth-quarter earnings report, released at the end of February, showed a revenue jump of 88 percent from 2019 to $1.1 For example, as reported by Forbes, auditor Grant Thornton wrote that “management believes” it can meet its financial obligations through February 2021. billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Last year, it closed a $1 billion venture capital round , according to news reports from Reuters. But, generally speaking, the most popular cities for Fanatics’ Olympic sales are New York City, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston and Los Angeles. In addition, brands are offering consumers replicas of uniforms that will be worn by the athletes.

Retail 118

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

The decision to close our mall stores was difficult, but ultimately provides an opportunity to maintain our well-respected brand and award-winning products while operating with a smaller physical footprint,” he said. Both have operations online under new owners, reported The Wall Street Journal. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

A new report shows that 70 percent of Americans use their mobile devices and restaurant apps at some point during the dining journey. As the year rolls on he expects to launch in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Boston and Miami. But the reviews for dining apps aren’t so clean.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The new Jet has an urban-focused curation pattern, according to reports, with an increased focus on grocery, home, fashion, beauty and electronics. For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality. That will start solely in New York City, but is intended to roll out more widely.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

Instead of making the products that each brand is internationally famous for, they’ll be distilling their respective strengths to make a new drink to sweep the nation’s taste buds: ready-to-drink tea. Coffee and beer do not go together, and if someone insists that they do, it might be time for an intervention. for the time being.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Exxon is not the first brand to embrace Apple Pay. “I live in Houston, Texas, so it’s blazing hot in the summertime,” Russell said. But only if that came with someone to pump the gas, since he in Houston and us in Boston still have to brave the elements to get said cars gassed up and ready to go.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

According to a report by Morgan Stanley, Amazon is already delivering roughly half of all its own packages, and that it will soon surpass FedEx and UPS in terms of volume. Amazon enjoyed record sales during the Cyber Monday shopping blowout, but according to the report, bad weather and over-saturation left Amazon’s on-time rating at only 93.7

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PYMNTS

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. The retailer reported net income for the fourth quarter of $102.6 Alternatively, customers can have their food sent straight to their seats in some of the theatres.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Houston, Is There Really a Problem? The Filter Bubble Transparency Act is both troubling and amusing for many reasons, but perhaps even more so given the results of at least three different brand studies released over the last several months. They also don’t hesitate to let brands know when they’ve been disappointed and then turn away.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

According to reports at the time, the two companies had broken ground on what has been dubbed America’s second “customer fulfillment center” (CFC), located in Florida. Kroger and SoftBank -backed robotics company Nuro, for instance, announced the launch of their autonomous grocery delivery service in Houston in March.

Retail 141

Retail New York City Houston San Francisco 141

PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Afterpay reported $160 million in BNPL sales during Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2019, with five U.S. 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.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Trackers and Reports. 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. That’s because China eCommerce company Alibaba apparently has removed any products related to the Houston Rockets from its search results. Top Stories.

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PYMNTS

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. The National Association of Convenience recently reported that non-gasoline sales at U.S.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

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. DroneCast has developed services for banner advertising and has delivered Ford-branded knickknacks to patrons at auto conventions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

This stand-alone food ordering and delivery app — now live in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. UberEats , which launched last month (March 2016) as a stand-alone app, was Uber’s first shot across the contextual commerce bow.

Branding 100

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

We look into how stores are being transformed into showrooms, community gathering spots, and even event spaces as retailers leverage the physical store as tool for brand marketing. It was an experiment by Ikea to better understand what types of technology could attract customers, and more broadly to introduce them to the Ikea brand.

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CB Insights

APRIL 13, 2022

Download our full report to find out the top trends poised to reshape industries in 2022. This report focuses on private companies, but a few select subsidiaries, exited companies, and public company platforms are included to provide market context. electrification of everything. lab-to-table. direct-to-avatar. lab-to-table.

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