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Wardrobe: Recommerce Meets The Sharing Economy In Bid To Become The ‘Airbnb of Fashion’

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That’s the oversimplified view of the business model adopted by Wardrobe , a new kind of peer-to-peer fashion rental company that on Tuesday (Sept. 8) is breaking out of its New York City beta test and into a nationwide launch. And it has renters who are encouraged to share their experiences on social media.

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BuzzFeed To Launch Unique Toy Store In NYC This Fall

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BuzzFeed is planning to open a toy store in New York City later this fall. New York Post reported that the store, called “Camp,” will be located in an 11,000-square-foot space in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. Freeman, senior managing director at GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, recently said.

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Retail Pulse: FAO Schwarz To Open New Flagship; Amazon Expands Grocery Delivery

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News this week surfaced that FAO Schwarz is planning to have a flagship store in New York City once again – this time at Rockefeller Center instead of the Fifth Avenue location where Tom Hanks tapped out “Chopsticks” on a dance-on piano in the 1988 movie “Big.”. percent stake in Starbucks.

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Luxury Retail Finds New Avenues As Brick-And-Mortar Fades

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The company has raised a total of $288 million in funding from venture capital and private equity backers, including Great Hill Partners, Greycroft, PWP Growth Equity, Sandbridge Capital, Industry Ventures and Canaan. Pablo Mauron, a managing director for Digital Luxury Group, said the luxury market has noticed WeChat’s potential. “I

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CEO Roundtable: Ideas for a successful 2023

Independent Banker

One of the biggest challenges is simply navigating market uncertainty related to Federal Reserve policy and the direction of the economy. Anita Drentlaw , CEO, president and CFO at $190 million-asset New Market Bank in Elko New Market, Minn. Anita Drentlaw, New Market Bank. By Beth Mattson-Teig.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: EMV, Apple, Birchbox (And Why Being First Isn’t The Same As Winning)

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market do not have: the need for offline authorization. And, that’s not all the good news. Overall, this subset of the SMB market, some 3.4 So despite the disappointing news a few weeks back about job growth and consumer spend in sectors like travel, these backbones of the U.S. Private Label Cards. Smarter Competition .

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Fintech Fundings: 9 Companies Raise $73 Million Week Ending Dec 31

Fintech Labs Insights

Social media financial compliance specialist Gremln raised $1.4 If you add the $6 billion in new capital raised in the IPOs of Worldpay, Square and First Data, the 2015 total is a nice even $25 billion. Payments and commerce solutions for unbanked in emerging markets. HQ: New York City.