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Retail Pulse: goop Finds Stickiness In New York, Opens ‘Lab’; Nordstrom To Offer Early-Bird Pickup

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Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. It will also offer a larger jewelry selection and exclusive brands like Sidney Garber, who has bracelets that sell for $8,600 and up. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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The Retail Good News Roundup

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By and large, things are not great for retail (particularly of the brick-and-mortar variety). Indeed, it’s popular — dare we say, trendy, even — to postulate that retail as we know it is doomed. You know it. We know it. But that evolution is not necessarily a death sentence for players in the space, be they relatively new or old.

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Deliverr Raises $7.1M In Venture Funding Led By 8VC

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Deliverr has ten warehouses in states including Texas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New Jersey. Deliverr said it will use the funding to grow its team and ink more partnerships with more online retailers. The report noted that the startup keeps its packaging brand neutral so that any marketplace can use its services.

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Retail Pulse: Best Buy Strikes Out With Small-Format Stores (But Beats On Earnings)

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This is the opposite of what has been seen in some other categories, where smaller-format stores are helping to stem the tide of closures – or, at least, retailers seem to hope that will be the case. Outside of grocery, crafts retailer A.C. Grocers, for instance, are heartily embracing small-format stores.

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How Summersalt Is Refitting Swimwear With Data

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We wanted a brand to appeal to women like us, so we could feel sexy on our own terms. We wanted to appeal to women across the country, whether that’s a mom in Missouri or a stylish girl in Brooklyn,” Coulter said in an interview. The goal, according to the founders, is to offer a brand that is as inclusive as possible.

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Build-A-Bear Workshop Plans New Locations, Pop-Up Shops

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Bass Pro Shops locations in Indiana, California, Missouri, Florida, Pennsylvania and Colorado are said to host the pop-up shops along with Cabela’s stores in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Utah and Texas. The new store, which will be located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, will feature multiple experiential retail components.

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Another Maryland threat to bank partner model lending

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According to the factual allegations in the OCFR’s Charge Letter : The Bank offers in-store retail credit financing as well as store-branded credit cards to Maryland consumers. The Bank retains ownership of the credit accounts and the debtor-creditor relationship with Maryland consumers for the life of the loan account.