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The packages provide savings on dental services within a provider network via Humana and unlimited telehealth for a dollar per visit via Seattle-based 98point6. Inspire Brands is poised to acquire Jimmy John’s for an undisclosed price in a deal that would make it the fourth-largest restaurant company in the country. billion to $43.6

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Apart from online sales, they have brick-and-mortar stores (in Seattle, Portland, Denver and Whistler, and British Columbia, with a 100,000-square-foot retail operation under construction in Salt Lake City), an adventure travel business and an outreach program to local retailers.

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Cook told Apple office workers in Seattle, California, Japan, South Korea, Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Switzerland that they can work from home during the week in the event that their “job allows” for it. Cook also reportedly noted that retail shops are continuing to operate to help Apple clients.

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Apart from online sales, they have brick and mortar stores in Seattle, Portland, Denver and Whistler, British Columbia ( with a 100,000 square foot retail operation under construction in Salt Lake City), an adventure travel business, and an outreach program to local retailers.

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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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But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Some brands, like Solimo , are in use by Amazon globally,” TJI said.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Globe Fintech Innovations of the Philippines, the FinTech arm of Globe Telecom and the operator of the mobile wallet GCash, has landed $175 million in additional venture funding. GCash is one of the mobile wallet brands that Remitly added to its network last year. The overall deal values Mynt at close to $1 billion.

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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.

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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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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Coffee Meets Bagel has recently set up operations in Seattle — its first office outside San Francisco — and used WeWork space for that. but in Seattle, it attracted three new hires fairly quickly,” the report said. The company has hired individual employees in cities scattered across the U.S., Innovator Awards.

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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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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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The world got its initial peek at the first Prime Air-branded cargo aircraft today in Seattle as the airplane enjoyed its maiden flight at the annual Seafair Air Show. I cannot imagine a better way to celebrate the inaugural flight than in our hometown at Seafair alongside Amazon employees and Seattle residents.”.

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For example, Seattle announced that it will allow eligible businesses to defer business and occupation taxes and expand its Small Business Stabilization Fund. According to the JPMorgan Chase Institute , 47% of small businesses have less than two weeks of cash liquidity on hand, with restaurants and retail operating at the slimmest margins.

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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.

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JUNE 3, 2019

Restaurant operators are aware it’s not just good business to give consumers what they want – it’s also about staying ahead of the competition: 59 percent said they faced disruption from competitors that embraced mobile order-ahead technology. The top four were all branded apps, which makes sense for large chains. Yum Brands!

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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.

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MAY 11, 2020

Expanding The Brand. And while losing focus is always a risk to any retail endeavor, Huzar noted, OfferUp’s core value as a brand has never been around C2C, but around the concept of local businesses — still the locus of roughly 85 percent of all sales. And if you look at Seattle or even L.A.,

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JUNE 21, 2019

Luxury fitness brand Equinox is set next month to open its first hotel in New York City, “with more on the horizon in Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Santa Clara, Calif.,” As well, the furnishings brand RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, plans to open RH Guesthouse in New York in the fall.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Speaking to Bloomberg at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Washington, Johnson noted that though the U.S. The well-known coffee brand is hoping that China’s rapidly growing middle class and ongoing press into urban areas will push the Starbucks name to new heights in its overseas markets.

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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.

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JUNE 29, 2018

The couriers aren’t Google employees, but they will be driving Google-branded vehicles and wearing uniforms that will be issued by Google, noted the report. Amazon would provide the business with uniforms, fuel and insurance plans for fleet operations and provide training on everything from taxes, payroll, and other small business topics.

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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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JUNE 14, 2019

Online brands are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints: Online handbag marketplace Rebag , for instance, is opening a new store in Miami’s Design District with more stores said to come. Operating hours span from 6 a.m. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. It also sells its CBD products at DSW shoe stores around the country.

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MARCH 31, 2020

Call it trend or phenomenon, cashierless operations are popping up back by influential money. As we read in the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ , “eCommerce giant Amazon is among the companies tapping into unattended operations to keep time-strapped customers satisfied. Amazon Go’ Cashless. UR Making Me Laugh.

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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.

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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.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Staples and Office Depot saw months of hard work go up in smoke when their long-expected merger was denied by regulators and both brands had to take long, hard looks in the mirror before deciding how to proceed. For Staples, the answer wasn’t to sulk around for months.

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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.

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The plan will include pushing worldwide growth of the company’s premium coffee line Reserve and the opening of 1,000 retail locations dedicated to showcasing the new brand. He has a very high chance of succeeding in this type of role and helping the brand evolve.”. told Bloomberg. told Bloomberg. “He

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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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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. The company has recently seen positive momentum and improved operating performance, and delivery is projected to accelerate future growth. But McDonald ’s Corp.

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20), one centered around its Alexa voice-assistant technology, and one of the main themes that came out of that Seattle event is a reminder of how badly the eCommerce operator wants to live inside your house and vehicles. Amazon put on a product pageant on Thursday (Sept. More on that in just a bit …. Do you want me to turn it off?’

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JULY 1, 2016

What I really want to do is build the biggest brand on the planet,” Plank recently told Bloomberg. “I When the park was rejected by local voters, Allen suddenly controlled a very valuable piece of property in the middle of downtown Seattle. He now owns a LOT of land in Seattle, and several of the major league sports teams in the area.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

The Indian operation is being run from a virtual operations room with employees coordinating the sales from their homes. The Seattle-based retailer is fighting giant rival Walmart Inc.-owned Strict hygiene requirements have been implemented for the company’s packers, sorters and delivery personnel.

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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. Forever 21 plans to close up to 178 stores in the U.S.

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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.

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