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JANUARY 8, 2020

But the branding came across somewhat differently. The brand was widely accused of being culturally insensitive and appropriating the name of the very shops they were hoping to push out of business with their full-service vending machines. The Washington Post branded Bodega the most hated startup in America.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The blog post touted BevMo's loyal customer base and said the company has a "deep infrastructure" and "iconic brand" to match goPuff's tech-driven system. BevMo boasts an operation in 161 neighborhood stores in California, Arizona and Washington, which goPuff plans to use to integrate its micro-fulfillment centers.

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APRIL 22, 2019

The company is boosting the number of engineers it is hiring in and around the Seattle, Washington area. One of the job postings is for an engineering manager of operations technology, noted the report. “We The company also has offices in New York, Nashville, Mexico City and Vancouver.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Beyonce happens to be a Popeyes chicken fan and was given a card entitling her to free chicken for life, according to The Washington Post. Carrols Restaurant Group, which operates Popeyes restaurants, reported preliminary fourth-quarter earnings on Jan. This isn’t Popeyes’ first fast-food fashion. percent over last year.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2020

New rules would require online lending companies like Ant to provide 30 percent of funding for loans, and firms would be banned from operating outside provincial bases without approval from a watchdog, Bloomberg said. And those lending in multiple provinces would have to have 5 billion yuan in registered capital at a minimum.

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JUNE 12, 2019

Huawei is the second ranked smartphone brand in the world, but its computer business is fairly new. Washington has asked other countries to ban Huawei as well. Recently, it trademarked its own operating system called Hongmeng, meant to replace Android. We have to wait a bit longer to achieve that.”.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

“Magento continues to demonstrate clear leadership in eCommerce platform development, execution and expertise as we seek to eliminate operational friction and create the best possible omnichannel buying experience for our customers.”. Xenon arc’s client list includes known brands in the materials industry. Europe, Mexico and Brazil.

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JULY 11, 2018

With its five years as a fashion brand, Fabletics is seeking to grow and expand its brick-and-mortar footprint. One store in particular is in the works in Bellevue, Washington, and is scheduled to open later in 2018. Women’s activewear brands have been a rapidly growing market segment for the last several years.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

Indochino , the digitally-native made-to-measure menswear brand, has plans to expand in 2019. Vancouver-based Indochino, which currently operates 38 showrooms , said six locations will open this year in the Northeast, including Brooklyn, N.Y.; Greenwich, Conn.; Manhasset, N.Y.; and Paramus, N.J.; Brooklyn will launch first on Jan.

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JUNE 15, 2020

For Walmart, adding Shopify sellers to its online operations helps give a bit of scale, and third-party sales do not carry the same costs as seen in other marketplace models. The EU has charged Amazon with gathering information tied to its third-party sellers and then ramping up competition by launching its own private label brands.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

“We are in the process of integrating BigBasket on our app,” said Amit Sinha, Paytm Mall’s chief operating officer. When we talk about partnerships there will be brand partnerships, there will be retail partnerships — and not only with pan-India retail chains like Big Bazaar but also with regional, local city-based brands.”.

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Grubhub is donating its services to oversee the ordering and delivery operation. Matt Maloney, Grubhub co-founder and chief executive officer, also reached out to leaders in Washington, D.C. The Grubhub portfolio of brands includes Grubhub, Seamless, LevelUp, Tapingo, Eat24, AllMenus and MenuPages. It has raised a total of $284.1

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MAY 10, 2018

Sears Auto Centers announced Wednesday (May 9) a new deal with Amazon.com to provide full-service tire installation and balancing for customers who purchase any brand of tires on Amazon.com. Amazon customers can purchase any tire brand and get the installation. The service will be launching across the U.S. during the next few weeks.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Tide, the laundry brand owned by CPG Detergent, is introducing a service called Tide Cleaners, an on-demand dry cleaning and laundry service, at 1,000 locations in cities across the country, according to reports. There are currently boxes in Dallas, Boston, Cincinnati, Nashville, Denver, Washington D.C.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

This is the first time that hundreds of thousands of SNAP recipients in Washington can redeem their grocery benefits online,” Amazon said in its corporate blog. The office focused on Walmart’s Allswell mattress brand and a few other brand incubation efforts. The Allswell brand, however, seems safe.

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AUGUST 1, 2019

small hotel rooms are the rule, not the exception, and even here in the states the idea has been floating around since 1989 when the Microtel brand began first offering its half-sized, half-priced hotel rooms in Rochester, New York. And candidly, they’re right,” Jim Abdo told The Washington Post. In many locations outside the U.S.

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MARCH 4, 2020

H&M’s new CEO Helena Helmersson was its head of sustainability from 2010 to 2014 before becoming head of production and then chief operating officer, Fortune reported. This means that each central function and brand is measured on a set of sustainability KPI’s, alongside and in equal weight to sales figures, customer satisfaction, etc.,”

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

The delivery sector is setting record revenues as dining rooms are operating at limited capacity, but this trend was in the works long before the pandemic began. cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C. Developments From The Order To Eat World.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Something where you can influence a brand or a product, it's cool, and you feel like these people who interview you actually listen to you,” she said. “It Other “pandemic-preneurs” like Chris Meechukant have had to pivot because they operated businesses that couldn’t stay open. When the pandemic forced Melissa Shear, a Washington, D.C.-area

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AUGUST 10, 2016

The trend is reflective of “grocers moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach and adopting new practices that focus more on their brands and shoppers,” according to NRF. Haggen, a Bellingham, Washington-based grocery store chain, topped the list after seeing an astounding 325 percent increase in sales to $2 billon in 2015.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

The Washington, D.C.-based The hottest retailers, based on the previous year’s sales, include eCommerce merchants, food sellers and some brick-and-mortar operators that feature traditional shopping experiences. Over the last four months “we’ve pressed the fast-forward button on shopping methods.

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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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DECEMBER 13, 2016

The newly formed relationship calls for Cardtronics to own and operate ATMs at more than 300 gas station and convenience store locations — operating under the We Got It! Food Mart, My Goods Market and Circle K brand names — in California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington State. Cardtronics announced Monday (Dec.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Sionic said Hojeij Branded Foods (HBF), the concessions operator in U.S.-based We’re continually looking for ways to improve our guest experience,” said Regynald Washington, CEO of HBF, which operates 40 brands with 73 locations in 14 airports, in the press release.

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JUNE 17, 2019

And the outlet reported that the blacklisting stops the company for licensing the Android operating system of Google for models of phones in the future — and that reportedly impacts the progress in made in international markets for handset sales. Washington has also reportedly asked other countries to ban Huawei. government.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Sure, that might be a relatively brief stunt, but the hotel-retail trend has deeper pull than that, as documented recently by the Washington Post. 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.,”

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

With direct marketing hit by robocall abuse and the National Do Not Call Registry , direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands and other not-so-usual suspects are looking into and in some cases reinstating door-to-door sales. For example, “social selling” or “direct selling” is preferred by a Washington, D.C.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

It launched the expansion into San Francisco in January, with plans to extend the service into New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. In November, Dine Brands linked up with Postmates to offer delivery from thousands of locations, integrating delivery orders into IHOP’s and Applebee’s POS systems. and Chicago.

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MARCH 19, 2019

“This settlement is a shot across the bow to all tech companies and platforms,” said Peter Romer-Friedman, a lawyer with Outten & Golden in Washington, who along with the ACLU represented the plaintiffs. They need to understand that civil rights apply to the internet, and it’s not a civil rights-free zone.”.

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Zions operates under local management teams and distinct brands in 11 western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. Zions Bancorporation is one of the nation’s premier financial services companies with total assets exceeding $65 billion.

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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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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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JANUARY 8, 2018

For the first time in years, Google had an official stand-alone booth at CES – a sign to buyers that it is ready to collaborate with both top brands and startups in the race for voice assistant dominance. Experts note that Google does have certain advantages over Amazon, such as its deep knowledge of search and how users make requests.

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MAY 5, 2020

According to an Optoro consumer survey, we found that typically 97 percent of shoppers would continue to shop at a retailer/brand if they had a positive returns experience. This can look like more flexible return policies to encourage purchasing in the short-term and alleviate customer frustrations throughout the returns experience.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

For those who operate restaurants or simply enjoy them, 2020 has been a nightmare. Many will continue leveraging the third-party delivery apps that sustained them until their on-premises operations restarted, but these apps come with a host of issues. cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.”.

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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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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Scooters are so retro that they are almost brand new. More importantly, how does one use such a thing — or even a bike — and operate it in an urban environment without falling off, getting hit and suffering injury? In late September, a Lime scooter rider was killed on by an SUV in an accident around Washington D.C.’s

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