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AUGUST 28, 2020

We have deep dives on retail’s digital D2C shift, blank-check companies, and DoorDash’s IPO plans. DoorDash , the San Francisco-based prepared food delivery service, is planning to go public by year’s end, after filing confidentially in February. DoorDash Moves Ahead With Q4 IPO Plans. Trackers and Reports.

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JULY 22, 2019

Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for “just-walk-out” technology has been tempered by the stores’ limited locations. The next wave of automated retail might be heralded by U.K.-based Unattended Retail Can Boost Sales.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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MARCH 11, 2020

The advance of Amazon’s cashierless technology is not a new story to the retail beat as of 2020. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year.

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APRIL 9, 2019

eCommerce innovators are offering plant-based nutrition beverages designed for baby boomers and their parents with the help of the subscription business model. On Perennial’s website, the company seeks to make its brand purpose front and center. While there has been some innovation in cleaner label brands in non-dairy milk (e.g.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

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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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The move will bring 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Market @ Macy’s helps both emerging and established brands reach new audiences by showcasing them in a physical space inside Macy’s. “The

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

has completed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection process and emerged from one of the highest-profile retail collapses since COVID-19 began, the Dallas-based company disclosed. We emerge from Chapter 11 as a stronger, more innovative retailer, brand partner and employer.”. Neiman Marcus Holding Company Inc.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Allbirds has always been a somewhat unique company in the world of digitally-native brands attempting to take the world by storm. And as the buzz around the brand grew, so did its product line. A little over a week ago, Allbirds Co-CEO Brown announced that in the next year the brand will expand to 20 more brick-and-mortar stores.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Retailers are bringing experiential stores to big cities, and Starbucks is no exception: The coffee chain was set to open its Starbucks Reserve Roastery New York City on Friday (Dec. With premium coffees, teas, mixology and the iconic Milanese Princi Bakery, it serves as a Starbucks brand amplifier and a platform for future innovation.”

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JUNE 11, 2020

The digital shift continued to show its dramatic potential to change retailing today, as three companies announced major changes to their business models. Zara was not among the retailers seen to be at risk from the pandemic, so the move was something of a surprise. The brand has about 15,000 U.S.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Automation promises many benefits in retail, including the potential to reduce costs and improve the customer experience. The July Automated Retail Tracker examines the latest cashierless efforts in retail and finds which are experiencing uptake and which may fall flat. Isn’t Only for Big Brands. it is just taking off.

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JULY 30, 2020

The Salt Lake City payment processing platform has joined with Plaid, a Visa subsidiary based in San Francisco, that builds financial technology platforms to connect bank accounts and initiate automated clearing house (ACH) transfers. Last month, Galileo launched what it called a faster and less expensive way to create debit cards.

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MARCH 14, 2016

In retail, and especially for personal beauty brands trying to navigate brick-and-mortar and online subscription spaces, this is doubly true. Calvin McDonald, CEO of Sephora Americas, talked the Innovation Lab up as Sephora’s crucible of retail disruption. “These female founders from the U.S.,

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JUNE 26, 2019

In the digital age of shopping for clothes and accessories, modern-day consumers don’t want retailers to entertain them: Instead, they want these merchants to bring them an easy experience, offering seamless shopping in store and online. The company’s other Go locations are mainly on the West Coast in places such as San Francisco and Seattle.

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MAY 15, 2017

According to Chain Store Age , the fashion retailer will open a flagship on Rush Street in Chicago this fall. This is one of many recent moves by the vertically integrated retailer, which reported that its same-store sales increased 11.5 retail stores, as well as outstanding performance in our eCommerce business.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The company will also be closing its tech offices in San Francisco. The traditional “peak” retail season is giving way to “mini peaks,” spurred by eCommerce promotional events. This week’s merger between eCommerce site search players Searchspring and Nextopia aims to help online retailers stand out against Amazon.

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MARCH 16, 2017

The retailer said it had profit of $1.63 The San Francisco–based company, which is known for selling cookware and home furnishings , posted revenue of $1.58 The company also announced some leadership changes that will take place within its Pottery Barn Brands. per share and earnings of $1.55

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JULY 13, 2017

Like many innovators starting out, BarkBox cofounder and CEO Matt Meeker was a man looking to solve his own problem. And that enthusiasm for their first product pushed BarkBox to expand more than its user base in its early days; it’s also shifted its brand. And his problem was a Great Dane named Hugo. “I

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AUGUST 7, 2017

Many innovators end up in the business of commerce or technology because they are trying to solve a problem — usually their own. This is often a good or service they find they need, and that the market doesn’t offer, which sets off a light bulb and begins the cycle of innovation. Innovation. “In

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MARCH 23, 2016

While the eCommerce giant has managed to narrow this window to one or two days, an unlikely brand is saying that it should take no longer than an hour. ” While Luedorf and American Apparel might be hitting the express delivery point hard, it only applies to a subset of 50 products the retailer is dubbing as “basics.”

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APRIL 15, 2019

To help build customer loyalty, eCommerce and brick-and-mortar retailers have a myriad of tools on hand: Cashiers can sign customers up for loyalty cards at brick-and-mortar stores, and eCommerce sites can send customers special offers and coupons by email. innovators have a new take on “coins” when it comes to vending machines.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The marketing tool that ended up working best for the brand was opening a physical store – and giving customers a change interact with their line of couches. Today, Interior Define has opened several new guide shop locations in New York, LA, San Francisco, Austin and Boston. “We

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MAY 4, 2016

Uber has shown that it’s far from shy about putting its brand alongside other ventures, and it’s recently demonstrated propensity for non-automotive transport is an indication that innovators there don’t lack the spine to take some risks when necessary. We’re excited to partner with Visa on this initiative.”.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The marketing tool that ended up working best for the brand was opening a physical store — and giving customers a chance to interact with their line of couches. Today, Interior Define has opened several new guide shop locations in New York, LA, San Francisco, Austin and Boston. “We

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MAY 8, 2020

The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. The prevailing sentiment, as the crisis heads into its third month, is that more innovative government programs will be necessary to provide any meaningful relief. In comparison, small businesses selling similar products were forced to close.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

Urban Remedy has 30 branded refrigerated kiosks in Whole Foods stores across California. And the company is not done expanding — it plans to find one or two new partners for the fresh kiosks in the San Francisco Bay area, according to Inc. Venture Capital Investment.

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JUNE 21, 2018

The old model of opening a retail store with merchandise as a main focus of the space may not appeal to today’s consumers – millennials in particular. Cities such as Plano hold promise for retail, for example, as they are fast-growing locations with many employers. This generation values experiences, not just tangible goods.

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JUNE 24, 2019

We are incredibly excited with the opportunities that this innovative payment solution serves to millions of consumers, connecting them to an extensive network of merchants globally,” said Razer Co-founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan. It is a leading brand for gamers in Europe, China and the United States.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In 2016, the company was was acquired by personal care products giant Unilever, and there were questions at the time about how a direct-to-consumer innovator like DSC would fit into the very much mass-market and retailer-focused Unilever constellation of brands. last quarter.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

the San Francisco-based parent company of high-end vintage furniture site Chairish and interior designer-focused online marketplace DECASO , today (Jan. 16) added a new brand to its family: Dering Hall. Derring Hall represents roughly 400 different brands and counts 10,000 designers as part of its network.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Through a Starship Deliveries app, which is available for iOS and Android devices, diners can order food from Starbucks, Blaze Pizza and Dunkin’ as well as Sodexo’s on-campus branded grocery store called 2nd Stop. He added that he university’s “culture of innovation and early adoption makes it the perfect campus” for the technology.

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JUNE 13, 2016

There is a new reality in apparel retail, and the designer-focused markets of the past have given way to a hyphenated tour de force: fast-fashion apparel. However, could the gap between fast-fashion pricing and regular retailers’ attempts to keep up be widening faster than its possible for one side to bridge? On average, U.S.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Stitch Fix, the once-female-only styling service and apparel retailer, has changed its answer from the former to “both.” We don’t want this to just be a coastal brand for men’s clothing,” Smith told Re/code. “We Who has more difficulty finding clothes they like: women or men? We also want to serve the guy in Kentucky.”.

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