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Buy Now Pay Later Startup Sezzle Tops 1M Active Customers

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Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. “One million active users is a huge operational achievement, and a testament to the value our users see in our product. BNPL providers are seeing market growth and new funding opportunities.

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Digital-First Economy Redefines Retail And Consumer Behavior

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Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands drove into the pandemic and adapted to it to catch the digital shift. These are the brands that have either created new product categories, new business models or pivots on their previous business models. Adore Me, for example, was a thriving eCommerce brand before the pandemic. D2C Explodes.

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FinTech Startup Sezzle Tops 1M Active Customers

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Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. “One million active users is a huge operational achievement, and a testament to the value our users see in our product. BNPL providers are seeing market growth and new funding opportunities.

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Walgreens’ Prescription For Change

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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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Stepping Into 21st Century Hospitality With Apartments And Technology

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Some entrepreneurs are inspired to start companies because they spot unmet needs in the market: Frontdesk Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer Jesse DePinto, for instance, saw the amateur nature of home shares but the opportunity for something better than a hotel. The Market.

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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.

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Target’s Got A Secret (Its Codename Is Goldfish)

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Secrecy is a funny thing for brands. It keeps consumers interested, because a consumer that is always guessing about the next product release is, by necessity, always thinking about the brand. Being too successful at flying under the radar, at best, confuses the target market or audience and, at worst, just misses them entirely.

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