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JANUARY 21, 2020

announced it would be bringing a flagship retail store to Los Angeles and Las Vegas. They will operate under the logo and name of High Times. But the last stages before it reaches a consumer, so delivery, retail, and of course just continuing to connect consumers to the great cannabis brands that are out there.”

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MARCH 27, 2019

And so were the Uber cars in my recent trips to Los Angeles and Nashville. So, if you are asking, “what does brand get you?”, Ask the Experts My firm is not a marketing or branding firm. Tim had great insights for banks on brand. For Netflix, Forbes estimates the brand value at $11.5 there ya have it.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The $350 million deal is expected to close within 30 days, the Los Angeles Times reported. Philadelphia-based goPuff, which bills itself as a kind of catch-all service for helping customers with various everyday shopping needs, is hoping to use the announcement to enter into the California market, the blog post stated.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For digitally native brands moving from the web to brick and mortar, startups are providing a platform to help with the transition. When brands are ready to open up shop, Nejati seeks to help them go from idea to grand opening in about a month. Pop-Up Retail Trends.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2017

A source close to the mater told Fortune that Gildan will not take any of American Apparel’s stores but instead will own the company’s brand and take over its manufacturing operations. The purchase of American Apparel by Gildan will essentially be an end of an era for the Los Angeles-based company, which has been around since 1998.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

Employees were axed from the company’s headquarters in San Francisco as well as from Los Angeles, Nashville, Tennessee, and other offices. . “We We made the difficult decision to end operations in Mexico City as we focus on our continued growth in the U.S.,” Grubhub has reportedly lost over half of its market value this year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2018

As restaurant operators seek to bolster sales in the face of weak traffic growth, Yum! Brands’ Pizza Hut is bringing beer delivery to approximately 100 of its restaurants in California and Arizona. The restaurant chain had begun testing the service in Phoenix back in December, Reuters reported. have liquor licenses.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Reports from Seattle and California say the company is adding a new format and expanding beyond its Amazon Go and Whole Foods brands. Although Amazon hasn’t commented, the strategy seems to be aimed at getting Amazon aligned with a more mass market customer segment than its other retail brands. billion in 2019.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Reaction from the brands involved did not show any alarm over the move and UPS had no official confirmation of the selective delays. “We FedEx, which had announced shipping surcharges recently, is dealing with the capacity crisis by closing on its deal to acquire ShopRunner , which directly connects brands and merchants with online shoppers.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

I don’t see enough brands that are really breaking boundaries for plus-size fashion, that are actually designing for plus-size bodies, or for a diversity of shapes,” Kat Eves, a Los Angeles-based stylist who works exclusively with plus-size men and women, told The Wall Street Journal. But The Limited didn’t want it.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

To roll out operations in the United States as it grows its supply chain business that links apparel brands with suppliers as well as factories, Singapore-based fashion technology firm Zilingo is designing a $100 million push. manufacturers and brands on its platform, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

The global contactless payment market is projected to reach $18 billion by 2025, in fact, up from $10 billion last year — a nearly 12 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). Looking ahead at 2021, positive signs are on the horizon for the industry despite strains on CU operations due to the pandemic.

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MAY 15, 2017

The Vancouver, British Columbia–based company already operates a store in the Windy City, at Water Tower Place. Aritzia also recently debuted in Los Angeles, opening a 10,000-square-foot flagship at Westfield Century City. Canada’s Aritzia Inc. is expanding in Chicago as it targets both brick-and-mortar and online expansion.

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APRIL 13, 2017

A young logistics startup that gives eCommerce brands same-day delivery capabilities just scored a major chunk of venture funding. Brands without local inventory can use Darkstore’s storage space to ship same-day. The startup reportedly charges brands 3 percent per item that leaves a Darkstore storage space, up to a maximum of $20.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

But the branding came across somewhat differently. The brand was widely accused of being culturally insensitive and appropriating the name of the very shops they were hoping to push out of business with their full-service vending machines. The Washington Post branded Bodega the most hated startup in America.

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MAY 5, 2020

Before explaining that pivot, here’s a little background: The company is the brainchild of Emily Schildt, a New York City-based consumer packaged goods (CPG) marketing consultant, who leveraged what she calls her “crazy entrepreneurial spirit” and founded Pop Up Grocer as a traveling natural food and beverage brand experience.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Reaction from the brands involved did not show any alarm over the move and UPS had no official confirmation of the selective delays. FedEx, which had announced shipping surcharges recently, is dealing with the capacity crisis by closing on its deal to acquire ShopRunner , which directly connects brands and merchants with online shoppers.

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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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MAY 11, 2018

Online brands continue their march into the offline world as Shopify and Warby Parker announce plans to open brick-and-mortar locations in the coming months. and Canada — some of them open now, some slated to open isoon in cities such as Miami, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News….

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

There were areas of investor concern, though, particularly the slowing growth in the Chinese market. Over the next several weeks, delivery services via Uber Eats are on deck to roll out in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C. The brand is also forecasting net income between $2.32 As of Tuesday (Jan.

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APRIL 22, 2016

In a press release , the two firms stated that the new extension has MasterCard operating as the presenting sponsorship, with a pact beginning with the 2016 All-Star Game. There is also the ability to boost, for merchants, brand awareness and MasterPass as a way to conduct transactions.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

The pair-up will also see some private-label Kroger brands migrating onto Walgreens’ shelves. Partnerships are an important part of Walgreens’ performance plan going forward, because the retail market is changing and consumers are looking to navigate their shopping experiences differently. in early 2019. in early 2019.

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APRIL 29, 2016

Will Whole Foods’ new concept, 365 by Whole Foods Market — which promises to offer cut-priced organic goods, an improved customer experience and the ability to “hang out” in the new stores — force consumers to find a new reason to resent the grocery giant? The hope is that it makes it easier for customers to find what they need faster.

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MARCH 5, 2019

The company ceased operations in late January after laying off 30 percent of its workforce in May 2018. That came after it shut down service in Seattle, Los Angels, and New York. Munchery had said it was planning to focus on its largest market, San Francisco, in an effort to become profitable, but that never happened. “The

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JANUARY 8, 2019

But what is perhaps surprising is the price point that the sunglasses brand by the rich and the famous is targeting — the “under $100” frames market first tapped by Warby Parker, with its $30 shades. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, though TSG has also backed brands like REVOLVE, vitaminwater, Smashbox Cosmetics and PAIGE.

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MARCH 1, 2016

However, one of the country’s largest billboard operators has a plan to bring the rectangular advertising opportunities into the 21st century — whether consumers are OK with it or not. That group includes Los Angeles and New York, though the company acknowledged that it would prefer to have RADAR up and running through the U.S.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Nordstrom , the Seattle-based fashion retailer, has aggressively pursued changes in both its in-store presentation to customers and its drive to improve its omnichannel approach with changes to its digital operations. The company also launched a new co-branded Visa rewards card with Alliance Data.

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MAY 14, 2018

It made a largely unreported acquisition of a firm called STARTEK earlier this year, and although it may sound like an acquisition more appropriate for Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space exploration firm, the business is a call center operator and engagement outsourcing specialist. We want to be wherever the personalities are,” he added.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

Middle-market consumers have Wayfair, there’s Chairish for those who want designed or antique furnishings, and there are startups like Burrow, Maiden Home, The Inside, and Interior Define. The brand designs and manufactures furniture which it sells direct to consumers digitally. We have been disciplined operators,” Baig says.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

eCommerce brands are opening up pop-up shops in cities to test out brick-and-mortar retail, and Recess is using this platform to highlight its hemp-extract beverages in a temporary space in New York City that is dubbed the Take A Recess IRL Pop-Up. As a whole, the home furnishings market in the U.S. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2018

Los Angeles isn’t just the place where dreams come to life on the big screen: It’s also the place where restaurant delivery was invented. As pizza became more mainstream, Los Angeles would once again be on the forefront of food delivery. Cheese, mushrooms, anchovies, capers, onions and so on may be used.”.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Scooters are so retro that they are almost brand new. More importantly, how does one use such a thing — or even a bike — and operate it in an urban environment without falling off, getting hit and suffering injury? Bird , a company focused on e-scooters , provided more than 10 million rides in its first 12 months of operation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Founded in 2012 in Los Angeles, the digital marketing firm works to bridge (hence the name) the gap so that the various communications don’t fall into the void. “We Bridge has a two-tiered approach to cracking the loyalty market: Identify the right targets and then aim wide when approaching on digital channel.

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MAY 4, 2019

The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri. The concept was invented by a Guatemalan McDonald’s franchise operator, Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño, in the mid-70s.

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APRIL 14, 2017

One company that’s looking to capitalize on the cannabis market is startup on-demand delivery company greenRush. PW: The founders have extensive tech and marketing experience from their previous businesses in the event and entertainment space. PYMNTS: What’s the story behind how greenRush started?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

So, in the spirt of “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em,” PYMNTS recently caught up with two entrepreneurs determined to bring digital expertise and efficiency to cash management — the type of cash management that can make or break employees and some business operators, especially in the restaurant space. Better Cash Management? Kickfin Play.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Their shoes are also a bit different, insofar as they are made from merino wool, which is both softer and more renewable than most sneaker materials out there on the market. They released their first product — the Wool Runner — in March 2016, and just about a year later their second shoe came to market: a slip-on called the Wool Lounger.

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