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Retail 2020: Looking Back On D2C Brands

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Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands came in two flavors during 2020. The first were the Pepsis, Heinzes and Krafts that either didn’t like their retail distribution or saw a pandemic-driven opportunity to get new products in new configurations to the consumer. The seven-year-old D2C hybrid brand has received $4.7

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How TD Merged an Innovation Lab with a Retail Branch to Drive Customer Insight

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This article How TD Merged an Innovation Lab with a Retail Branch to Drive Customer Insight appeared first on The Financial Brand. An innovation lab in Philadelphia wrapped in an urban retail bank branch has produced valuable synergies for TD Bank.

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Philly Mall Owner Sets The Tone For Digital 3.0

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A Philadelphia-based mall owner is taking a proactive approach to the digital shift and back-to-school shopping. PREIT (Philadelphia Real Estate Investment Trust) is curating its first eCommerce offering in what it says is a unique avenue to engage consumers from a multi-retail perspective.

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WeWork Steps Into Retail With J.Crew

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The talks — and the retail offerings — will come to WeWork spaces in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Philadelphia, Glossy reported. The partnership comes as a decline in physical retail has hit J.Crew particularly hard in recent years. Crew has struggled with the retail reset that is sweeping the segment.

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How Amazon’s Cashierless Tech Will (Or Won’t) Change The Physical Retail Landscape

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The advance of Amazon’s cashierless technology is not a new story to the retail beat as of 2020. We’re not trying to replace them,” Cameron Janes, vice president of Amazon’s physical retail division, told CNBC. “I Have other retailers signed on with the service? We’re not trying to be Whole Foods.

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Data Dive, Forward Backward Edition: The Cashless Tango And Amazon’s Opposite Moves

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While it is easy to imagine the path of progress is ever forward, often in the innovation game it is a bit more like the Paula Abdul hit song from the late ’80s — two steps forward, one step back. The city of Philadelphia certainly worried it is …. The Philadelphia measure does have some exceptions. Cashless Coup.

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Rise Of The Human Billboards

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Despite being placed front and center on jerseys, those are actually the brand names (or slogan, in Emirates’ case) that sponsor teams whose actual names are Arsenal FC , Chelsea FC and Manchester United , respectively, all members of the English Premier League. There’s one that clearly says “Chevrolet,” so that’s obviously the team’s name.