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Safety is our top priority, on and off the mountain, and Square knows this and aligns with POWDR’s Operation Stay Safe, the enhanced POWDR mountain experience that prioritizes the well-being of our staff, guests and community in the midst of the pandemic.”.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Fanatics , a company that sells Team USA merchandise, has taken a novel approach to Olympic retail this year with a physical store in a major U.S. The store marks a milestone for Team USA: It’s their first in-person retail store outside the Olympic Training Center in Colorado. Retail Gold.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The Colorado Department of Revenue has revealed that the state’s regulated marijuana industry sales have topped $6 billion since sales began in 2014. Last year, regulated marijuana sales in Colorado were nearly $1.55 To date, marijuana tax, license and fee revenue totals for Colorado are over $927 million.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. In preparation for the holiday season this year, the retailer has updated its website and also plans to have a larger array of electronics, toys and fashion products.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Cashless payments firm USA Technologies (USAT) is expanding its partnership with amusement kiosk operator National Entertainment Network (NEN) to bring expanded cashless payment options to more vending machines and devices, the companies announced in a press release on Friday (Nov. and Puerto Rico.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

The acquisition of the Supreme brand accelerates VF’s consumer-minded, retail-centric, hyper-digital business model transformation and builds on a long-standing relationship between Supreme and VF, with the Supreme brand being a regular collaborator with VF’s Vans, The North Face and Timberland brands,” VF said in the announcement.

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AUGUST 24, 2018

Retailers are cutting back on their brick-and-mortar footprints as consumers opt to shop online and away from malls, and Sears has been hit particularly hard. As Sears winds down operations at those stores, the retailer is planning to have liquidation sales at 33 Sears-branded stores and 13 stores under the Kmart banner starting next week.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Evolution is the hallmark of everything that survives over a long period of time — and so it should come as no surprise that unattended retail has evolved, too, over more than a century since the first coin-operated vending machines made their debut in the late 1800s. To quote a line from an old song, “we’ve only just begun.”.

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MAY 26, 2020

The owner/operator of 85 shopping centers in California, Colorado and Illinois said shoppers are returning to recently reopened malls, but they’re not lingering, according to a CNBC report. For us, our biggest focus is making sure our small businesspeople survive,” he said.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

Massachusetts joins a handful of states, including Colorado, Washington and Maine, that have taken steps to legalize recreational marijuana. Recreational marijuana may be legal now, but many FIs remain reluctant to conduct business with marijuana retailers, due to the industry’s controversial nature.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Build-A-Bear Workshop Chief Operations Officer Chris Hurt said in the announcement, “Build-A-Bear is working with some of the best family-focused venues in the country this holiday season and beyond to bring our unforgettable Make-Your-Own experience to even more places people go for fun and entertainment.

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MAY 26, 2020

The owner/operator of 85 shopping centers in California, Colorado and Illinois said shoppers are returning to recently reopened malls, but they’re not lingering, according to a CNBC report. For us, our biggest focus is making sure our small businesspeople survive,” he said.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It would make sense that the supermarket business might be immune from the cross-currents of retailing in 2020. Three regional players in the organic food retail business — where Whole Foods and parent Amazon rule — have declared bankruptcy over the past month. based natural foods retailer is the third significant U.S.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

The states leading the probe include Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and Utah. It works with all platforms and operating systems and gives developers the flexibility to build software that is adaptable to the circumstances needed. Amazon Prime Day Sees Small Business Sellers Rake In $3.5B.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Data may be king — as they say — but many retailers may find themselves feeling like an innocent pawn among all that data. Wiland operates one of the largest consumer databases, tracking more than $220 billion in transactional, SKU-level data — transactional and behavioral — for over 235 million Americans.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Pet goods retail chain PetSmart announced Thursday it had opened 28 new brick-and-mortar storefronts in North America during the quarter that ended Nov. Canada and Puerto Rico, and the company operates another 207 in-store PetSmart PetsHotel dog and cat boarding facilities. The 1,600 stores are located in the U.S.,

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APRIL 10, 2020

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. Boulder, Colorado has been working on strategies to help downtown retailers since before the coronavirus crisis.

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

operates a nationwide chain of casual dining restaurants offering a diverse range of menu items. We are excited to be expanding our delivery options and combining BJ’s extensive menu with the convenience of Grubhub,” said Lon Ledwith, executive vice president of operations at BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. BJ’s Restaurants, Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

“Kroger Pay is one of the few mobile wallets that pairs loyalty and payment,” said Mary Ellen Adcock, the group VP of operations at Kroger. The card is currently available in Columbus and Colorado, and is expected to be available for wide use in the spring. When the card is used with Kroger Pay, rewards double. ” .

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JULY 21, 2019

It’s not even a back door, it’s more like an upper window,” Jeremy Skaff of Colorado-based Journey Business Solutions told the Reno Gazette-Journal. Cannabis operator Curaleaf Holdings announced July 18 it will acquire GR Companies (“Grassroots”), the largest private vertically integrated multi-state operator. .

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

We have a deep dive into Colorado’s digital driver’s license effort and news on Alphabet’s new CEO, as well as data on millennial Black Friday spending. operations. Inside the Launch of Colorado’s New State-Run Digital Driver’s License (Jumio Digital Identity Tracker). Top News .

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Startups in the eCommerce space have long enabled their customers to experience their products in real life (“IRL”) through temporary retail shops, and now, digitally-focused brands belonging to major retailers are taking a similar approach. Fashion retailer Charlotte Russe , which has over 500 stores in the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

He noted that AeroPay has partnered with Safe Harbor Private Banking , a division of its partner Colorado Credit Union , to provide a digital bank-to-bank payment option for larger cannabis firms. The company will look to hire additional staff tied to product and operations support. Looking Toward Underserved Markets .

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MARCH 22, 2018

Green Chef has been in operation for about four years. For HelloFresh , the company focused on the big bump the acquisition would offer its logistics operations. The acquisition of Green Chef will drive synergies for operations, logistics and procurement.

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JUNE 21, 2018

States can collect sales taxes from online retailers thanks to a U.S. The 5-4 decision essentially overturns the court’s 1992 ruling that states can collect sales taxes only from retailers that maintain a physical presence in those states. retail sales. retail sales. Billions of Dollars at Stake.

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MAY 1, 2020

But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? EforAll is currently limited to nine Massachusetts counties and towns as well as Longmont, Colorado, but its model is built for expansion. EforAll began operating in Holyoke in 2018 and in Roxbury in 2019.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Retailers are rolling out new ways for consumers to purchase their groceries that allow them to trade the checkout line for a few taps on a smartphone. percent — of shoppers visit a grocery retailer because they can well-coordinate online and in-store shopping. Just under 17 percent — or 16.7 Just under 5 percent — or 4.9

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APRIL 14, 2017

It is often hard to find and search for local retailers, exacerbated by the fact that cannabis businesses are oftentimes located in undesirable areas. For the retailer, there are real technological barriers: Most retailers have limited technology experience — even the more sophisticated operators — and many do not have even basic websites.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

AI is also working behind the scenes at restaurants to make daily operations more efficient, reducing the potential for human error and shaving precious seconds — or even minutes — off average turnaround times. billion between 2019 and 2023, underlining the rising demand for automated services in QSRs, retailers and beyond.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Physical retail has had its share of problems recently, and consumers are finding it increasingly easy to shop digital and save themselves the trip. Among one of the internet’s weirder fascinations is a trend of photographing the various ghost malls that increasingly dot the retail landscape. The Physical Retail Magic of Chatbots.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

” That scaling will see Google up its last-mile instant delivery platform very far and wide with launches in Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Mississippi and New Mexico. “Amazon’s doing it,” Helsel noted of the not-so-good reasoning that decides some delivery-related decisions in retail.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

He said Noodles’ more than 450 eateries are making operational adjustments that he sees as long-term digital shifts that have surged in the past six months. He said the Colorado-based company’s cost-per-acquisition charges, open rates for email and content engagement expenses are “all moving in the right direction.”.

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APRIL 2, 2020

Formed in 2008, Green Goo is a women-owned, family-operated company that started out making organic soaps, hand creams, lip balm and first aid salves for friends and family. Green Goo will provide its hometown of Lyons, Colorado with 3,000+ units of the sanitizer, along with a bundle of its other products included free of charge.

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APRIL 12, 2019

Robotics and automation were areas of focus for both retailers this week as they seek to upgrade their operations in an effort to capture more consumer spend. The move comes as cities and states are passing bans on cashless retail establishments, on the argument that such retail discriminates against unbanked consumers.

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JUNE 15, 2018

What’s more, instead of reporting to Amazon’s head of worldwide consumer business Jeff Wilke, Mackey and the two Amazon executives are overseen by Steve Kessel, who is in charge of all the physical store operations.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Unata, a digital solutions provider for grocery retailers, found there was a 19-fold increase in online grocery sales for regional U.S. grocery retailers compared to in-store sales during the Thanksgiving shopping period (defined as Nov. this time in Thornton, Colorado. 11–28 of this year). food shoppers. percent, the U.K.

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