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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Walmart and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group helped each other solve an interesting conundrum recently: In an increasingly digital- and mobile-focused retail age, the two partnered together to help bridge the gap between brands and retailers to benefit consumers. The best source of that content is the brands we work with.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Walmart ‘s online home brand Allswell has announced the launch of its Tiny Home retail concept. Released last year, the design-centric, digitally-focused brand boasts a line of home goods, mattresses and bedding. Allswell is affiliated only with Walmart and not with its online counterpart Jet.

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JUNE 23, 2020

Simon is already looking at a separate deal to buy Brooks Brothers as part of a bid with Authentic Brands, owners of brands that include Forever 21, Aeropostale and Barneys. Other players are already lining up to take a shot at buying JCPenney, which is now working through the bankruptcy process in federal court.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Texas-based Pier One Imports is the latest casualty, with 450 stores going out of business. As traditional mall merchants go under, however, some online brands are expanding into brick-and-mortar locations. An April, a UBS report showed that online shopping by the average U.S. Overall retail sales from Nov. 24 were up 3.4

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

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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JULY 13, 2018

Walmart has opened another convenience store, this time launching a Walmart Fuel Station in Plano, Texas. The 2,900-square-foot, brand-new location features eight fuel pumps and a store with grab-and-go deli items, pizza by the slice, roller dogs, other hot foods, a wall of cold beverages and a walk-in beer cooler, she added.

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Texas Bank & Trust has smartly packaged its team of online and mobile banking support specialists with their own brand. Online/Digital'

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MAY 20, 2020

Business survival amid the global pandemic has been a challenge but some brands were able to leverage the situation by tapping technology and turning lemons into lemonade. We were able to sell that to our guests online.”. Local Cantina in Ohio used Paytronix to sell margaritas to go.

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JUNE 5, 2020

Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas hearing on June 11, according to a statement. The company said it looks to decrease its footprint of retail locations and put resources toward its jcp.com online flagship store as well as its most formidable retail locations.

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MAY 5, 2020

Retail reopening events continued to draw light foot traffic on Monday, as Florida joined Texas in allowing non-essential stores to reopen. percent of consumers shop for retail goods online more often than they did on March 6, the first day of our study, and that continues to climb — up 10.5 percent from 35.5

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Texas Trust Credit Union boosted loan volumes with marketing tool inspired by “Game of Thrones,” but gamification strategies can be risky due to data privacy concerns.

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MAY 17, 2018

Target Spokeswoman Kate Decker told the Star Tribune in an e-mail, “Based on the results, we have decided to continue testing with a smaller assortment in various Minnesota, Texas, and California locations.”. As far as other meal kit brands are concerned, the Tyson meal kits, are still available in some stores in Texas.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Texas-based Pier 1 Imports is the latest casualty, with 450 stores going out of business. Online Brands. As traditional mall merchants go under, however, some online brands are expanding into brick-and-mortar locations. In April, a UBS report showed that online shopping by the average U.S. 24 were up 3.4

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JUNE 2, 2020

The list of positive retail brand attributes goes on and on, but one new post-pandemic value has become more important than all the others: cleanliness. We’re hoping to see an end of this before September,” he told Lancaster Online recently. Red Roof isn’t far behind on the branding front with its program, RediClean.

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JUNE 8, 2017

The 30-year-old QSR brand has plans for aggressive growth in 2017 , and Tripodes will spearhead the effort. Saladworks also plans to plant corporate stores in key markets in Atlanta, Georgia and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas over the next six to 12 months. The company currently has about 70 franchisees.

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JUNE 5, 2020

percent of consumers were shopping for retail goods online as of May 23, up from the 32.5 percent increase of consumers who shopped online for retail goods on April 11 and 24.1 million consumers are now shopping online, compared to the 66.4 However, even the high end needs to be online. The research shows that 35.7

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JANUARY 7, 2020

For instance, online marketplace and auction site eBay has released eBay Motors , a new app that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to list a car in under five minutes, according to a report by The Verge. The company has teamed up with Regions Bank to provide the possibility of virtual loans to consumers in Texas, the South and the Midwest.

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MAY 21, 2020

For the month of February, it delivered a 5 percent comp store increase across its TJ Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods brands. “We It remains to be seen whether TJX will use the pandemic as an opportunity to step up its online efforts. According to the earnings statement, the company had been tracking well before the pandemic hit.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“Home Chef is proud to continue our evolution toward becoming more than a meal kit delivery brand,” said Pat Vihtelic , Home Chef’s founder and CEO. In addition, Home Chef announced the launch of a customizable meal kit feature for online orders, so that customers can easily change and upgrade recipe ingredients.

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

With 28% of food and groceries now purchased online in the UK, our partnership with Uber Eats is a great way to reach new customers and demonstrates our continued commitment to helping our independent retailers thrive,” said Costcutter Marketing Director Sean Russell, according to the report. It was made available across the country on Oct.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

Online sales were up 108 percent during the quarter. In late October , Cincinnati-based Kroger announced its “Restock Kroger” program — which aims to improve shipping, distribution and the links between its online and offline businesses — would be a major boost for shareholders. “For Meijer Signs On With Instacart.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

A convenient and seamless ordering experience from online and mobile channels is essential for restaurant customers. Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have heard the call for innovative digital ordering capabilities, with several major brands stepping up their investments in this area.

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JULY 2, 2020

If the consumer becomes fearful again of going into a mall or being in an enclosed space, you’re going to see the reaction that we saw in Texas, with the sales moderating,” said SW Retail Advisors Founder Stacey Widlitz on Yahoo! which doesn’t sell online, and Burlington Stores Inc., Finance’s The First Trade.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. Unlike her competitor for the title of Generations X’s Martha Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Teigen has built a brand around being accessibly aspirational.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

According to Amazon, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a massive move to online grocery shopping, home delivery and curbside pickup. In grocery delivery, Ipsos ranked Texas grocery chain H-E-B first, followed closely by Amazon’s Whole Foods Market in the No. Supermarket giant Kroger was a close second in the category.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

The Sock Spot CEO Ben Williams, for instance, worked for a manufacturer in eCommerce and decided to start his own online shopping company. Williams started The Sock Spot website and started to reach out to brands. Now, he has more than a dozen brands with access to many different types of socks.

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APRIL 18, 2018

According to Market Watch , the national grocer sent an email to members stating that the loyalty program will end, and all online accounts will be closed, on May 2. Stay tuned for additional announcements for Amazon Prime members,” reads the Whole Foods FAQ page focused on digital coupons, rewards and online accounts.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

While it’s nice to be able to shop from the comfort of the couch, purchasing online can be rather confusing for some consumers. To ease the online shopping experience, retailers are increasingly turning to social media platforms to offer consistent support to their customers. And Toys R Us isn’t alone.

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MARCH 12, 2019

It’s why well-established, digitally native brands like Warby Parker and Peloton are deploying stores. The cost of acquiring customers online is going up, and lifetime value is going down. The brands that Neighborhood Goods brings to this neo-traditionalist model of the department store run the gamut.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Seven in ten – 70 percent – of McDonald’s locations in Texas, Florida and Maryland have self-service kiosks available for customer use. Just fewer than six in 10 – 59 percent – of Starbucks customers recently made their orders online or via app. With the addition of kiosks, McDonald’s is focusing on customer experience and choice.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

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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JANUARY 22, 2021

airline would suddenly announce that it is launching a brand new wine delivery service, given the many other pandemic-related challenges that it is currently facing. At first blush, you might wonder why the largest U.S. But in American Airlines’ own words, the answer is rather simple: “Wine Not?”.

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MARCH 6, 2018

Nordstrom has announced a partnership with Anthropologie that will feature more than 200 items from Anthropologie Home at 15 Nordstrom locations, as well as online. We look forward to providing our customers with another way to shop one of their favorite home brands.”. NorthPark Center (Dallas, Texas); Park Meadows (Lone Tree, Colo.);

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JULY 22, 2019

The latest pop-up developments concern the Hollister apparel brand , which is owned by Abercrombie & Fitch. He added that Amazon is always innovating and that at his company, “We’re big fans of the brand.”. small businesses, to launch Clicks and Mortar, a new program that helps small businesses grow in-store and online.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Today, few travelers would go to an agent to book a flight – they’d just do it themselves online. Buying a cheap secondhand car may seem like a smart compromise between having no wheels and buying a fancy, brand-new vehicle. The learning curve was steep, but today, online ordering is just a part of life. This is the world today.

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JUNE 15, 2018

Brands like TJX , Macy’s , craft and fabric retailer Joann , and Walmart ’s ModCloth are trying on smaller-format, off-brand and off-price destinations with features and experiences tailored for the digital-first generation. It does seem, however, that a focus on affordability is a core driver of new retail strategies for brands.

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JULY 26, 2016

Grocery delivery might have seemed like a peripheral service just a handful of years ago, but the niche market has ballooned into one where brands really can’t take the risk of not getting their name out there if they have the resources to do so. That’s not all, though. The solution, then, could be a simple one.

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