PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

The retailer is said to have active postings for licensed insurance agents and Medicare sales supervisors that read, “Yes, you read that right, Walmart now has an insurance agency.”. The retailer has also formed a collaboration with an upstart called Capital Rx that offers current information on prescription prices.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The aim of the Starbucks Community Resilience Fund is to support SMBs in areas “with historically limited access to capital,” the release said, to promote racial equality and environmental resilience. Access to capital is especially important amid worries of a second lockdown.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The parameters around how consumer financial information should be shared with third-party apps and platforms was the subject of debate at an industry forum organized by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2020

Lobbyists are burning up the phone lines in Washington, D.C. From private equity firms to venture capital, retail to hospitality, casinos, airlines and more, the coronavirus pandemic has unleashed a feeding frenzy. Physical retail was falling into financial ruins due to eCommerce long before the coronavirus took hold.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2020

Accolade capitalizes on machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile apps to enable members to easily traverse their health care benefits. Investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Carrick Capital Partners, Madrona Venture Group and McKesson Ventures, among others. . Washington state could become a leader in AI regulation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

hedge fund Tiger Global Management and existing investors Coatue Management and Valiant Capital. The funding round was led by hedge fund D1 Capital Partners, and came only six months after the startup closed on a $350 million round of investing. A source told Reuters that the additional funding comes from investors, including U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In PYMNTS’ latest B2B venture capital roundup, which yielded $75 million in new funding, startups embraced distributed ledger technology for B2B payments and supply chain management, with 80 percent of total funding landing at blockchain companies. Transparent Systems.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There’s arguably no more polarizing macroeconomic issue in the retail world than the fate of the American mall. The problems start with how retailers view and serve the customer. If you own mall REITs, be prepared for a long period of disruption, even as COVID-19 speeds up the retail sector shakeout,” he continued.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2020

While they will lack the sheer financial clout of federal assistance, they are starting to offer strategies beyond capital infusions that will assist in restarting small business when the crisis passes. Boulder, Colorado has been working on strategies to help downtown retailers since before the coronavirus crisis.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2021

All the models project that number to continue to drop,” the governor said at a press briefing in Albany, the state capital. In New York City, the positivity rate, which is the share of all coronavirus tests coming back with a positive result, has fallen to a bit under 5 percent as of Jan. 28 from a 7.1 percent on Jan.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Grocery retailer Kroger is partnering with Berlin farming startup Infarm to offer “living produce farms,” Kroger announced in a press release on Tuesday (Nov. market, but it already has more than 500 farms globally and has teamed with 25 major food retailers in the U.K. This is the vertical farming company’s first venture into the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

To put that in perspective, the number of votes cast today will be about equal to the combined popular vote tallies for every presidential election held from George Washington to Abraham Lincoln. So, ready to get on the road with PYMNTS, CAN Capital and the store front businesses that are driving the U.S.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Betting that its popularity with shoppers online will translate into brick-and-mortar customers in Washington, D.C., Amazon opens an Amazon Books location in the nation’s capital. The store occupies a space that formally housed a Barnes & Noble store in Georgetown, The Washington Post reported.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The drop boxes will be in six cities — New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Washington, D.C. — Currently, the company has five locations — in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Rent the Runway announced that it is setting up drop boxes at 15 WeWork locations across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Producers (or importers) sell to distributors, distributors sell to retailers and retailers sell to customers. Only retailers can sell to customers, and only distributors can buy from producers (except in the state of Washington). Drizly also faces an increasingly competitive marketplace than when it launched in 2012.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

We are strong believers that the future of grocery retail involves getting customers the best quality food, exactly when they want it, with the best customer service. Even retailers' rationing is a demonstration of lessons learned. SNAP Customers Flood Into the Digital Grocery Market . To Boost Online Grocery Shopping.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Nearly a year and a half after it opened its first brick-and-mortar store on Long Island, online jewelry retailer Blue Nile has opened its fifth store in Bellevue, Washington, near its headquarters. The business is slated to be acquired by Bain Capital Private Equity and Bow Street LLC next year for $500 million.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. She believes lockdown orders created a loophole that allowed large chains that offer essential retail to continue selling non-essential goods like toys and electronics. There is no shortage of other larger scale ideas.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. That is the most organic growth of any automotive retailer ever in the U.S. Miami is Carvana’s 24th car vending machine location to date — joining Nashville, San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Raleigh, Jacksonville, Tampa, Charlotte, Washington, D.C., Ontario (L.A.),

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

However as is often the case with old things made new by retail needs, the microhotel deserves a second glance. And candidly, they’re right,” Jim Abdo told The Washington Post. Abdo’s firm, Abdo Development, built Washington, D.C.’s In many locations outside the U.S. s first microtel in 2016 — Hotel Hive.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Jeff Binder, CEO of Layer3, was quoted by The Washington Post as saying, “We’re the first cable company in … 10 years to come that’s brand new. Following a few test pilot runs in Texas and Illinois, Layer3 officially launched its service in the summer of 2016 in Washington, D.C., and has since rolled out to Chicago.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

As a new week dawned, and lawmakers in Washington grapple over what will be in the next round of stimulus payments, who will get them, and how much they will be … some shifts in how individuals and families are using previous stimulus checks, once they get them, may spell trouble ahead for at least some sectors of the economy.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

2, as Microsoft has rallied to be neck and neck with Amazon in terms of market capitalization. The two Washington state-based companies are within one percentage point of each other, with a market cap of about $723 billion, thanks to a week-long rally in Microsoft shares coupled with a slump in Amazon shares, reported 24/7 Wall St.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

That’s evident across Wall Street and venture capital, where earnings reports and funding rounds show growth (and expectations for continued growth) in C2C digital-to-cash (and cash-to-digital) efforts. As noted in this space late last month, Remitly, which focuses on remittances, said it raised $85 million with an implied valuation of $1.5

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In retail news, it’s a good day to be Overstock.com. Proponents favor them because they are seen as a better way to bring in funding than looking to traditional venture capital-controlled channels. percent leap takes its stock price to its highest point since January 2014, moving its annual increase to 65 percent on the whole.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 25, 2016

With Congress returning to Washington this month for an abbreviated session ahead of the November elections, Habursky has been working to expand community bank engagement with federal lawmakers and regulators. Community banks employ 700,000 Americans, so we need to tap as many of them as possible to make sure Washington is listening.

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

Small Business Administration (SBA) will recognize and honor the critical and life altering contributions of America’s moms and pops, manufacturing enterprises, Main Street retailers and entrepreneurs during National Small Business Week. Tune in all week for live-streaming , beginning at 7:30 p.m.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

The retailer plans to pilot technology products using Microsoft’s Azure platform at two stores, one in Ohio and one in Washington. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the companies would “redefine the shopping experience for millions of customers at both Kroger and other retailers around the world.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

That capital announcement comes despite fears over what Brexit might mean for the FinTech sector across the pond in general, and the peer-to-peer lending sector continues to grow — by some estimates, at about 50 percent annually. At the start of eCommerce, retailers focused on innovation happening in the forward supply chain,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2017

That is the estimated total cost of the inauguration that took place in the nation’s capital yesterday. That is the estimated total cost for the city of Washington, D.C. This is the number of inaugural balls George Washington attended. 30 Million. to host the inauguration. This is the number of guests Airbnb booked into D.C.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Black Friday is about spending and moving retailers into the black. Small Business Saturday shifts the transactions to independent retailers. America’s first president, George Washington, whose powdered wig-topped face is on the U.S. 3-5 correct – CAPITAL GAINER. What do they all have in common? Not too shabby!

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. How will we shop in 2020?

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TrustBank

AUGUST 21, 2020

And because the S&P 500 is a market capitalization weighted index, the larger companies have a more profound effect on the overall movement of the S&P 500. Washington Trust Bank believes that the information used in this study was obtained from reliable sources, but we do not guarantee its accuracy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

The pilot programs are rolling out in Redwood City, CA, and Washington, D.C., million in seed funding, with the help of Mercedes-Bens Vans, Shasta Ventures, Matrix Partners, ZX Ventures, Morpheus Ventures, Grishin Robotics, and Playfair Capital. According to TechCrunch , Starship Technologies is working on these robots – in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

“Technology provides the productivity gains for the global economy and many of the large-cap names like Apple and Amazon were carrying the torch for the market,” Channing Smith, a managing director at Capital Advisors Inc. Trump accused Bezos of purchasing the Washington Post to gain political influence and avoid antitrust scrutiny.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The Seattle-based eCommerce operator and cloud computing provider decided to build in both Crystal City, an urban area in North Virginia near Washington, D.C., In addition, jobs will be created in coffee shops, restaurants, retail stores and with various service providers to support Amazon workers, of course. “I

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