PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

After testing out pop-up shops last year, digital furniture retailer Wayfair plans to open the doors to an outlet store in Kentucky. A selection of brands are turning to sales channels such as Amazon to sell returned goods and Under Armour has been using “off-price channels” to unload inventory.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

The news comes as Wayfair was planning to open two pop-up shops last year to create an interactive brand experience. Wayfair Chief Product and Marketing Officer Ed Macri said at the time, “We are bringing the Wayfair brand directly to shoppers in a completely new format this holiday season.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Brands Inc. , the Louisville, Kentucky-based operator of KFC and Taco Bell. “We This is no doubt good news for the company after a report in March from KeyBanc Capital Markets said the food delivery service was struggling in its high-competition environment and failing to keep pace with players like Uber Eats and DoorDash.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

And some eCommerce brands are bringing the convenience of self-service technology into their brick-and-mortar stores. The expected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of the global self-service kiosk market from 2019 to 2024 is 4.3 The projected CAGR of the global customer self-service software market from 2017 to 2024 is 16.34

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“Home Chef is proud to continue our evolution toward becoming more than a meal kit delivery brand,” said Pat Vihtelic , Home Chef’s founder and CEO. The initial transaction price was $200 million, with future earnout payments of up to $500 million over five years, dependent on certain milestones.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Startups in the eCommerce space have long enabled their customers to experience their products in real life (“IRL”) through temporary retail shops, and now, digitally-focused brands belonging to major retailers are taking a similar approach. The four-room house, which is a mere 238 square feet, was built for the brand by Modern Tiny Living.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The grocer, which also noted growth for its Our Brands products, reported revenues of $27.67 The selection includes 4,500 of Our Brands products, which McMullen said are only available from the grocer. In quantitative terms, McMullen said that Our Brands products comprise 28.7 billion and 43 cents, respectively.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2018

According to Fortune , Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has announced a Bitcoin Bucket, available only in Canada and only for a limited time, for the low, low price of $20 worth of bitcoin tokens. The Bitcoin Bucket may seem bizarre, but it’s not even the weirdest marketing ploy that KFC has introduced in recent months.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In yet another bizarre marketing ploy, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has introduced its most expensive branded experience yet (well, except for that time it launched its spicy Zinger sandwich into space , but we’re pretty sure that was green-screened). Weird as KFC’s marketing ploys may be, they are just that: marketing ploys.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

News surfaced last October that Wayfair was planning to open two pop-up shops at the beginning of November to create an interactive brand experience. After experimenting with the pop-up shops, it was reported in February that the company would be opening an outlet store in Kentucky. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

This year, retailers from Kroger to Whole Foods Market brought new offerings ranging from cashierless checkout to personal shopping services to their stores. In August, Amazon and Whole Foods Market announced the rollout of a curbside pickup service for groceries in Virginia Beach and Sacramento. Personal Shopping Services.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

No one brings a list, or plans a shopping run to the corner market. Specifically, the Louisville, Kentucky-based Thorntons chain spent much of the late 90s and early 2000s upgrading the convenience experience at its now 192 locations. The shopping that does happen there, happens because it’s … well, convenient. Hard to say.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

It’s a convenience store, the meal kit services, the specialty markets and the delivery aggregators who make it easy for consumers to order out to eat in their homes. Customers who use the app will also be able to swap out items as needed — based on preferences such as price, brand, quantity, or dietary restrictions.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Brands on Wednesday (Oct. 30) even as the quick-service restaurant (QSR) operator — which runs the Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC brands — touted its expansions in digital and mobile services. It also announced new leadership, and a new hire who will oversee the brand’s ongoing digital and mobile push. That’s not all, he said. “We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As a result of our continued strong performance, market share growth and the expectation of sustained trends in food-at-home consumption for the remainder of our fiscal year, we are raising our full-year 2020 guidance,” said Kroger’s Chief Financial Officer Gary Millerchip. billion since March.”. "As households and 70 percent of Canadians.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

But, until very recently, many of those ideas were cast by the wayside because making and marketing T-shirts is a bit more work than the average amateur slogan-smith is able to do. We wanted to prove that we could be great at apparel. But we think of the product as a platform for entrepreneurs. But the business is not without challenges.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

The aim, Smith said, was to see how the frequency of male shoppers’ purchases could be tweaked to provide better service to new markets. “We We don’t want this to just be a coastal brand for men’s clothing,” Smith told Re/code. “We We also want to serve the guy in Kentucky.”.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In Kentucky right now, Belk is building out a location in what was a Macy’s. We’re going to take that brand message and the legacy the Belks have built and continue building on it. And when it thinks about how it is moving the brand forward, that style focus is staying at the forefront. We’re not replacing it,” Harper noted.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

These are just some of the ways that companies are allowing consumers to place their orders for pick-up before they arrive at a brick-and-mortar restaurant location or for delivery by a driver via a digital platform: The mobile order-ahead market is expected to have a value of $38 billion by 2020.

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Social Assurance

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We’ve seen this throughout the COVID-19 pandemic , and we’re seeing it now with the events in Kentucky. As we mentioned earlier, your financial brand is uniquely positioned to rally the community. Organizations such as ICBA also provide marketing toolkits that provide great resources in the event of a disaster.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. Big Debate Of The Week: Did Amazon’s Estimated Online Market Share Just Drop? market share. Badly,” he wrote.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

The prescription drug market is worth about $424 billion, many legacy companies in the industry act as gatekeepers and it’s difficult for newcomers to break in without access to the information they control. Surescripts’s claims are unfounded, false and appear to be part of their overall market strategy,” a ReMyHealth spokesperson said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

EST in South Carolina, there will be a total solar eclipse — with Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia all enjoying prime viewing slots between start and finish. EST/9:05 a.m. PST in Oregon and 2:48 p.m. One way or another, we will all find out soon.

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CB Insights

APRIL 23, 2019

Qualcomm owns roughly 15% of the world’s 5G technology patents , according to Forbes, and the company is one of the largest smartphone chipset makers in the world, with a market share of approximately 42% in 2017. The company has spent more than $700M since 2015 in Kentucky alone , an investment that means St.

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Social Assurance

MAY 13, 2014

The best brands are able to communicate their value proposition in under 140 characters within a tweet. Many brands have improved traditional marketing efforts by starting with social and mobile first. When you create a brand that they enjoy, people will share it. #TC1st pic.twitter.com/S9fOeEtEeI. People will share it.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Both credit unions and banks recently gained access to a new set of tools designed to market access to multi-brand ATMs (MBAs). The new branch is the first shared location in Canada’s Atlantic region and aims to offer both CUs an opportunity to raise awareness of their respective brands to potential members.

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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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CB Insights

AUGUST 13, 2018

According to CEO Michael Mark Manley, “All new vehicles in China for a period of time are able to hold pricing power, and then obviously, follow the curve depending on the strength of the brand. The markets have done what they’ve done. Still, the U.S. ” Goods manufacturers and e-commerce groups are looking for answers.

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