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Vans Skates Into LA With Community-Driven Concept

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Youth-oriented shoe and apparel brand Vans has found the intersection of both, as seen in its most recent store opening this past week in Los Angeles. The brand is well-known for using its community of skateboarders for design ideas and marketing. The latest store, called Forum, opened in Los Angeles on Nov.

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Pop Up Grocer Checks All The Pandemic Retail Boxes

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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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Apple, NBA Team Up To Release Apple-Branded Playlist In Services Boost

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The Base:Line playlist will have about 40 songs with a hip-hop vibe and will be refreshed weekly,” Jeff Marsilio, the NBA’s senior vice president of new media distribution, said in an interview. Although Apple will operate the playlist, a relatively young label called UnitedMasters , which was founded in 2017, will provide much of the music.

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What Evine’s Surprisingly Dramatic Journey Means For The Future Of Home Shopping

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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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Can Lime Make Consumers Feel Safer About Scooters And Bikes?

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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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Rescuing The Restaurant Business From App Decline

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The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. The operative word is control. “I As the year rolls on he expects to launch in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Boston and Miami. On the flip side diners can request private VIP offers.

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When QSRs Think Really Outside The Box In The Innovation Race

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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.