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Grocery Tracker: Discount Games

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Shopkick recently announced it had opened up Shopkick Grocery to brand and grocery partners, inviting participation in the upcoming consumer launch of Shopkick Grocery, currently slated for early April of this year. Additionally, some 60 percent of beta users tried new products or brands to earn Kicks. grocery stores.

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How Boutique Trucks Are Bringing New Meaning To Fast Fashion 

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Food trucks have been around since the 1970s, when taco trucks began making the rounds in New York City, but didn’t become a national sensation until 2008 when two events coincided in such a way as to make a long extant — but largely niche — subsegment of the restaurant game into a mass market phenomenon. economy was blowing up in a bad way.

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Economic Nexus Laws’ Unexpected Impacts On Restricted Substance Retailers

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Virginia-based PuroTrader connects approximately 10,000 active luxury cigar sellers — a group primarily made up of retailers, with a smaller share of individual sellers — with collectors interested in making purchases. These companies are also not allowed to advertise on digital platforms, such as social media or search engines, Rogers said.

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Game-Changing Tech Or Dystopian Nightmare? How 16 Industries Could Be Transformed By Facial Recognition

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Facial recognition, along with AR, is also making brands data rich — especially beauty brands. Last year, a company called Blink Identity received $1.5M from investors including Live Nation (which owns Ticketmaster) and Techstars Ventures. Social Media/Entertainment.

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The Real Hunger Games: A Battle Royale In The Grocery Aisles

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Once the 24 competitors (tributes) get to the games, they then battle to the death for a national audience that is required by law to watch the games. When linked to the Amazon Chase card, the cash-back makes the experience even more of a win, in addition to serving as a natural pull toward card/brand share shift. Weaknesses.

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