PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

“Earlier this year, Expedia embarked on an ambitious reorganization plan with the goal of bringing our brands and technology together in a more efficient way. The company is in the midst of a broad reorganization and plans to streamline its inventory of brands. Overall, Expedia shares were down 6.9 percent this year.

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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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Bank Innovation

APRIL 2, 2019

Ignite Ideas talks at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference in Seattle last month tackled issues of financial inclusion, designing products that enhance the customer experience, revamping payments, and rebuilding trust in banking.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

The Walmart warehouse club brand has been piloting curbside pickup at 16 clubs. Sam’s Club members have been integrating technology into their shopping habits for a while with Scan & Go , samsclub.com and in-club pickup,” said Sam’s Club Chief Operating Officer Lance de la Rosa. “As The brand has about 15,000 U.S.

San Francisco 130

San Francisco New York City Retail Branding 130

PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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.

Seattle 111

Seattle Training Examples Branding 111

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The switch to a private designation for Nordstrom has been underway since 2017, though the brand ran into hurdles in securing sufficient financing to make the deal happen. The Seattle-based retailer does not have the massive store fleet some of its competitors have, making a closure a much more notable event.

Oregon 100

Oregon Seattle Retail Branding 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Speaking to Bloomberg at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Washington, Johnson noted that though the U.S. will always be a key market for the coffee giant, the global expansion of the latte and macchiato is in the chain’s future. China is our second-largest and fastest-growing market,” he said. “We

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Seattle Washington Industry Branding 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

Google is getting into the grocery delivery market, with NBC News reporting that it is testing a same-day delivery service that will bring food and other online orders to consumers’ doorsteps. If the test is successful, Google told NBC News it could expand into other markets. “We

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San Francisco Google Seattle Washington 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The Amazon Go prototype grocery stores will enable customers to make purchases without the need for a cashier, and are currently in testing in Seattle, Washington. According to the Reuters article, Amazon has approached several French supermarket operators with interest in distribution deals or acquisitions within the country.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

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.

Georgia 131

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless. UR Making Me Laugh.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Beyond New York, the retailer is planning to extend that experiential approach to partner locations, “offering the world that one-of-a-kind toy retail experience the brand is known for,” according to an announcement from the company, which is owned by ThreeSixty Brands.

Retail 116

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PYMNTS

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. percent in 2017, Taco Bell has been drawing in customers with new food items, a Live Más marketing campaign and new nacho fries for $1. But McDonald ’s Corp. Subway’s $10.8

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Our ecosystem of digital propositions for the customer … all operate together as a platform, and it’s that platform that really separates us from the rest of the retail world, which has struggled to be more than bricks and mortar. It’s been a busy few months for the Seattle-based retailer.

Seattle 100

Seattle Retail Video Customer Experience 100

PYMNTS

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.

Innovation 134

Innovation Los Angeles New York City Course 134

PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Online brands are stepping into the world of brick-and-mortar, opening their own physical locations to help consumers experience their concepts in real life with the help of digital technology. The coffee chain, which operates in 78 global markets, opened its first store in Seattle in the 1970s. Starbucks Coffee.

DC 109

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2018

According to reports, store number two will also be in Seattle, about a mile from the first location. Amazon said it is “excited to bring Amazon Go to 920 5th Avenue in Seattle” for those who couldn’t quite travel that last mile. The company also said its market share is over 40 percent in 16 U.S. Bixby Gets Sporty.

Samsung 110

Samsung Payments Seattle Google 110

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

In the 1970s, the venerable The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was losing market share. To try to increase its market share, A&P came up with a novel way to sell groceries: It decided to sell its most popular items in their original wholesale bulk packaging — for a much cheaper price.

New Jersey 100

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2017

That’s likely why, after putting brick-and-mortar bookstores like Borders out of business, it’s now building its own version of the exact same thing, and why it’s running so many pilots and experiments in the grocery space, like the Amazon Go convenience store in Seattle. customers should expect from Amazon’s Whole Foods Market?

San Francisco 128

San Francisco Online Retail Seattle 128

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

Comparing the Amazon numbers to overall streaming service market share, Kantar says new subscriptions in Q2 actually did not spike as much during the pandemic as other at-home providers. The Indian operation is being run from a virtual operations room with employees coordinating the sales from their homes. During Q2, 9.1

Video 181

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The first Amazon 4-star location opened in New York City last September, followed by Lone Tree, Colorado, Berkeley, California and Seattle, Washington. The filing will let it continue operating while it attempts to reorganize the business and return to profitability. The used-fashion market in the U.S. Bass & Co.

Retail 109

Retail San Francisco United States Boston 109

PYMNTS

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.

Digital Strategies 104

Digital Strategies Retail Strategy Los Angeles 104

PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

This news — part of an ongoing deal between the two companies — combines two well-known brands with a delivery service that has a fleet of couriers who are pretty much ready at all times. The coffee chain said this week (Jan. 22) that it will add more cities to its delivery network via a partnership with Uber Eats. Future Moves.

Los Angeles 180

Los Angeles San Francisco Analysis Seattle 180

PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

They aren’t looking to abandon or even drastically curtail their physical operations, but want to expand their offering set to be less reliant on them. Shopify has recently focused its efforts around making it easier for local businesses to open digital outposts that they can easily operate in tandem with their brick-and-mortar shops.

Maine 177

Maine Fintech Retail Online 177

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

It was a week with a fair amount of push back on the road, particularly on Amazon’s side of the ledger with choppy waters in both its delivery operations and ongoing expansion into healthcare. Surescripts’s claims are unfounded, false and appear to be part of their overall market strategy,” a ReMyHealth spokesperson said.

Strategy 144

Strategy San Francisco Policies Data 144

PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2016

have been picked up and deposited on the shoulders of brands in Merry Old England. More troubling, said Philip Duffy, joint administrator of the BHS bid, was the market forces that seemed to push BHS toward its inevitable liquidated fate. After a lengthy period stuck in administration, the U.K.’s 2015, and at $369.99

Vermont 100

Vermont Retail Branding Seattle 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

Amazon also managed to lower some of its operating costs as it also saw an uptick in subscription and advertising revenue. “So Revenue from a co-branded credit card deal and from third-party sellers paying to promote their products on Amazon.com also rose 56 percent to $850 million. The company’s market cap is $439 billion.

US 108

US Seattle Report Retail 108

PYMNTS

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. operates more than 65,000 stores in 18 countries worldwide. to 11:00 p.m. Seven & i Holdings Co., Eleven, Inc.,

Texas 100

Texas Retail Dallas Seattle 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

But Recology CleanScapes — an operating company under Recology — is different from most of what is out there in retail. In addition to the educational efforts in our stores, we do educational outreach at farmer’s markets and other events within our communities.”. What does one buy at a Recology CleanScapes store?

Retail 108

Retail Washington Community Seattle 108

PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

billion is the projected size of the interactive kiosk market by 2023. In 2016, for example, Amazon began running pop-up kiosks for Kindle eBooks in convenience stores around the Seattle area, GeekWire reported. 25 percent is the projected percentage of customer service operations that will use chatbots by 2020.

Retail 102

Retail eBook Customer Experience Ohio 102

PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

The bold-yellow-lettering-on-blue-background-adorned movie rental stores that dotted the American landscape throughout the 1990s — Gothamist notes that, as late as 2004, there were around 9,000 Blockbuster locations in business across the country — now number a scant 51 independently operated franchises.

Video 100

Video South Dakota United States Retail 100

PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

That surge in demand has created what Huzar called a “seller’s market” on OfferUp these days — and one that is increasingly including a larger variety of seller types, including car dealerships, small furniture retailers and other Main Street businesses looking for a productive digital on-ramp that offers immediate access to eCommerce customers.

Seattle 184

Seattle Retail Branding Course 184

CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The company announced it was effectively ceasing operations immediately and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, putting more than 1,100 people out of work overnight. After evaluating the vehicle, the EPA gave The Coda a fuel economy equivalence of 73 miles per gallon, the highest of any electric vehicle on the market in 2012.

Apple 78

Apple Branding Google Company 78

PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

But while the big show is revving up, the race to bring more consumers into the fold is always running, and this week both Amazon and Walmart had some big moves in beefing up (or in Amazon’s case, creating) their in-store pickup operations. So where were the highlights? In-Store Move: Amazon Joins Forces with Rite Aid.

United States 100

United States Retail Online Branding 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

Rising inventory levels became a challenge based on a combination of factors: a fashion miss in our key women’s sportswear private brands, slow sell-through of warm weather apparel and the accelerated decline in international tourism,” Gennette said. The biggest miss, by the numbers, were the earnings figures. “If

Las Vegas 164

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