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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands came in two flavors during 2020. The first were the Pepsis, Heinzes and Krafts that either didn’t like their retail distribution or saw a pandemic-driven opportunity to get new products in new configurations to the consumer. The seven-year-old D2C hybrid brand has received $4.7

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AUGUST 17, 2020

A Philadelphia-based mall owner is taking a proactive approach to the digital shift and back-to-school shopping. PREIT (Philadelphia Real Estate Investment Trust) is curating its first eCommerce offering in what it says is a unique avenue to engage consumers from a multi-retail perspective.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

That Amazon is a widely lionized yet simultaneously imitated force in retail is not surprising. Ever since Amazon introduced a one-click checkout, a loyalty program that people willingly paid for, two-day shipping that has compressed to same-day delivery, attempts at reinventing retail by everyone in it have been never ending.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

“Ernest Chew, who heads the British lender’s capital goods and automotive investment banking team in the region, will join Carro as its chief financial officer in February,” the news service said, citing unnamed sources. The trend is not confined to famous automotive luxury brands, either. Toyota’s Move.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Sometime brands hit it lucky, sometimes a very concerted marketing effort makes all the difference — but what flavors define a food trend have heretofore mostly been mysterious. But Tastewise, an Israeli startup, thinks it can fill in the holes here — and actually use data to figure out the consumer palate and possibly where it is going next.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

And — according to Jet — the new app will also be better customized regionally for shoppers, making use of local imagery and messages on the homepage and throughout the site. Jet will also factor in locality when deciding which products are featured in its assortment for that region. Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2018

The game will be the main event for most people, particularly for fans in Boston and Philadelphia, as both cities are known for being ever so slightly fanatical about their sports teams. [GO The normal population of the region is only around 400,000. The team at Amazon retailer CreepyParty recently had a creepy experience of their own.

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