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MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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JUNE 21, 2019

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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The packages provide savings on dental services within a provider network via Humana and unlimited telehealth for a dollar per visit via Seattle-based 98point6. Inspire Brands is poised to acquire Jimmy John’s for an undisclosed price in a deal that would make it the fourth-largest restaurant company in the country. billion to $43.6

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

To keep up with the pace of innovation as competitors move toward mobile ordering, delivery and payments innovations, Restaurant Brands International (RBI), which owns Burger King and other brands, hired CFO Josh Kobza as its new czar leader in January. But not all QSR chains are so focused.

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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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JANUARY 23, 2019

Amazon has a brand-new product that will deliver packages right to consumers’ doors. We developed Amazon Scout at our research and development lab in Seattle, ensuring the devices can safely and efficiently navigate around pets, pedestrians and anything else in their path,” the company said.

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JULY 24, 2018

The Accelerator , a program designed to support early-stage startups using voice to deliver transformative customer and business experiences, will be hosted in Seattle this summer.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As customers do more shopping from home, brands are more and more often announcing brick-and-mortar closures. It’s going to change the company, the brand and everything we do.”.

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JUNE 11, 2020

The Walmart warehouse club brand has been piloting curbside pickup at 16 clubs. The brand has about 15,000 U.S. The brand will be placing further emphasis on to-go, pickup, and delivery orders. “As locations, around 60 percent of which are company-operated.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Parker continued, “We’re now focused on creating an environment that highlights our heritage and allows consumers to deeply connect with the brand as they prepare for their own exploration, wherever it may be.”. Beyond The North Face, other outdoor apparel retailers are innovating with their brick-and-mortar stores.

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JANUARY 5, 2017

Job listings posted in December, first noted by Recode , advertised that the company was in the process of looking for brand managers “to build authentic activewear private label brands that have compelling and unique DNA and deliver amazing consumer-valued innovation.”.

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JUNE 26, 2019

Here are just some of the ways these merchants are providing influential consumer experiences in their brick-and-mortar locations and online with the help of digital technology and retail innovations: About one-quarter – or 26.8 Customers on Walmart.com can access styles from brands like C&C California, Butter Super Soft, Puma and BCBG.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Will future generations perhaps end up associating the Atari brand with hotels? More locations are planned for Las Vegas, Denver, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco and San Jose, though no additional timetables were announced. And that’s how Atari, whatever the brand might mean to consumers in 2020, hopes to make its mark.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Speaking to Bloomberg at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Washington, Johnson noted that though the U.S. The well-known coffee brand is hoping that China’s rapidly growing middle class and ongoing press into urban areas will push the Starbucks name to new heights in its overseas markets. We have to innovate to stay relevant.”.

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MARCH 6, 2018

We look forward to providing our customers with another way to shop one of their favorite home brands.”. Downtown Seattle (Seattle, Wash.); The products from Anthropologie, which is a division of Urban Outfitters , will offer classic pieces, seasonal designs and exclusive artist collaborations. Bellevue Square (Bellevue, Wash.);

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Financial institutions and retail brands gain a new embedded finance platform to help consumers access regulated loans at point-of-sale, powered by Banking as a Service. Finastra is a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, and launched the leading open platform for innovation, FusionFabric.cloud, in 2017.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

Beyond helping workers and shoppers navigate the grocery aisles more efficiently, the EDGE shelf technology is said to pave the way for new revenue opportunities, as it will enable Kroger to sell digital ads to consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. billion private-brand products in 2016. billion private-brand products in 2016.

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MARCH 30, 2018

Amazon has been hiring house cleaners in Seattle as direct employees in an effort to boost its home services marketplace. The new housecleaning service, Amazon Home Assistants, offers cleaning services in Seattle, with prices determined by the size of the home and the number of visits.

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MARCH 6, 2018

The change was a resounding success, according to The Seattle Times. Today, according Vacant’s website, pop-up stores can be used for companies to launch a new product, test a consumer market or generate brand awareness. The plus for the malls and the retail brands is the “easy accessibility” of the space.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Since the launch of the Alexa Skills Kit less than a year ago, the Seattle-based company has been making strides in working with the developer community to build out Alexa’s skill set. In a press release , the company highlighted its new partnerships with top brands, such as Capital One, Domino’s, Fitbit, KAYAK and Uber.

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MARCH 31, 2020

The incredible story of innovation now going on in self-service and UR is thoroughly documented in the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS. PYMNTS’ recent “The Future Of Unattended Retail Report: Vending As The New Contextual Commerce” showed that 48.7 Amazon Go’ Cashless. UR Making Me Laugh.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

The plan will include pushing worldwide growth of the company’s premium coffee line Reserve and the opening of 1,000 retail locations dedicated to showcasing the new brand. He has a very high chance of succeeding in this type of role and helping the brand evolve.”. told Bloomberg. told Bloomberg. “He and around the world.”. “As

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This year’s newest innovation? largest eCommerce marketplace is that it can devalue merchants and entire brands by overly discounting their items. Seasonal sales, twinkling lights and Santas for photo-ops everywhere you turn. For retailers, it’s the Hunger Games.

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MAY 18, 2016

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.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These are some of the reasons that consumers are visiting brick-and-mortar grocers – from Wegmans Food Markets to Kroger – and how these grocers (as well as technology providers) are rolling out innovations and features to serve in-store customers. Roughly three in 10 – or 27.1 About one in 10 – or 9.9

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JUNE 3, 2019

The top four were all branded apps, which makes sense for large chains. Yum Brands! Seattle-based startup Joe Coffee built a platform to enable customers of local coffee shops to pre-order and pay for their drinks on mobile devices. Mobile order-ahead apps have lower adoption among smaller QSRs. Washington, D.C.-based

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. And with its scale in mobile payments and loyalty members, the company is well-positioned for other innovative initiatives. But McDonald ’s Corp. million active members.

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MAY 19, 2016

While a company of Amazon’s size and pedigree always has multiple projects humming on multiple burners, Bezos was asked by attendees to elucidate his plans for Amazon’s B&M bookstores, which as of today include an up-and-running storefront in Seattle and another under construction in San Diego.

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JULY 1, 2016

What I really want to do is build the biggest brand on the planet,” Plank recently told Bloomberg. “I When the park was rejected by local voters, Allen suddenly controlled a very valuable piece of property in the middle of downtown Seattle. I would love to do that at the same time as anchoring it in a city that could really use a hug.

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JUNE 15, 2016

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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Experts are predicting the promotion — dubbed the “Big Style Sale” — might be just the lifeline that apparel brands desperately need to reach radically diminished customer bases. After all, brands of all kinds will be looking for a fast way to clear out spring and summer stock in anticipation of fall. And with Amazon in U.S.

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MAY 11, 2020

Grubhub has capped fees in Seattle and San Francisco, but they remain in effect in the rest of the U.S., And it’s a movement catching on with brands and entrepreneurs of all kids, trying variations on the model. including New York City, which has been hard hit by the pandemic.

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APRIL 8, 2016

The world’s most famous and recognizable jewelry brand Tiffany reported holiday sales down 5 percent — a reality the company chalked up to “restrained consumer spending tied to challenging and uncertain global economic conditions.” And it seems 2015 was just that kind of year for the ladies and their sparkliest companions.

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MARCH 11, 2020

with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year. Almost certainly, we noted, because Amazon has persuaded direct and avid competitors to use their payments innovations in the past. Walmart, for example, is almost certainly not buying this technology.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Consumers don’t have to be Amazon Prime members (or Seattle-area residents living near the first Amazon Go markets) to have a checkout-free grocery experience. Shoppers who live in Ellerslie, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, can get the same at the local Four Square store — and soon, they may not be the only ones. Consumers hate friction.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

With premium coffees, teas, mixology and the iconic Milanese Princi Bakery, it serves as a Starbucks brand amplifier and a platform for future innovation.” Johnson pointed out that beverages first launched at the Roastery concept were later brought to its coffee shops, citing the Juniper Latte, Cold Foam and Draft Nitro.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

After Green’s innovative merchandising concept, stores opened with various names — “bantams,” “dairy stores” and “vest-pocket grocery stores,” for example — but Green established a brand that has stood the test of time. Enter Amazon Go, a brick-and-mortar convenience store the eCommerce retailer opened last week in Seattle.

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