PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Reports from Seattle and California say the company is adding a new format and expanding beyond its Amazon Go and Whole Foods brands. Although Amazon hasn’t commented, the strategy seems to be aimed at getting Amazon aligned with a more mass market customer segment than its other retail brands. And the antagonist, per usual, is Amazon.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

We are thrilled to expand Rebag’s retail footprint to the Miami community. Its retail footprint will encompass standalone locations in addition to “a continued presence” in luxury malls. The company recently brought Geronimo Chala on board as VP of retail to help oversee the expansion. It’s a great fit for us.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

In a company press release , the eCommerce giant said it will invest more than $5 billion in “construction and operation of Amazon HQ2,” and that the second Amazon headquarters will be home to as many as 50,0000 high-paying Amazon jobs. for Seattle. for Seattle. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As reported last week, Bear Down Logistics is no longer working with Amazon, with the firm cutting hundreds of jobs in the wake of that severance, and effectively ceasing operations across five states. Postmates said its overall Delivery-as-a-Service has leapt by more than 300 percent year over year across retailers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Weee, which was started in 2015, began as a community buying platform that received Asian spices and fresh produce, among other items. The company provides its offering in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle. The firm evolved into an online shopping website with a warehouse and delivery network in 2017.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 25, 2019

Eleven startups participated in the Demovation challenge at the Bank Innovation Ignite conference in Seattle earlier this month. These startups, diverse in focus, comprised a wide range of the fintech ecosystem, including payments, security and blockchain.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2016

Internet Retailer is reporting that grocery delivery service Shipt is adding alcohol to its list of shoppable products. Come July 27, customers in the Orlando area will be eligible to get their drink on courtesy of Shipt and partnering retailer ABC Fine Wine & Spirits , which operates 150 locations across Florida.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

To provide retailers with an automated option for last-mile deliveries, shipping carriers are entering the world of robotics technology. The company said that the bot, in turn, would complement its FedEx SameDay City service and it is “collaborating” with retailers such as Target, Pizza Hut, Walgreens, Walmart, Lowe’s and AutoZone.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

But when retail gets more niche or specialized, like in the arena of specialized outdoor goods and equipment, the consumer’s interests and needs are a bit different. All of those points of expansion, Phillips said, are intended to build a retail operation around a community of enthusiasts, and to reap the rewards of those synergistic effects.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Washington state became the latest example late last month, as reported by Eater Seattle , and joins New Jersey and cities such as New York City, as PYMNTS reported. DoorDash is branching out to other services, such as a “ghost convenience store” that is a nod to operating a brick-and-mortar service.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

At the time, the retailer said it would leverage its stores and Shipt’s proprietary technology platform and community of shoppers to bring same-day delivery to Target customers around the country. The team is moving remarkably quick,” John Mulligan, Target’s chief operations officer, said. But some retailers lead the pack.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Both of the nation’s mega-retail players have spent the week strategizing how to strike a balance between three goals — protecting their thousands of employees, serving their massive customer bases and keeping supply chains operating at as close to normal as imaginable given the highly abnormal circumstances.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Stripe’s early success in acquiring customers was largely due to its mass appeal to the developer community. Sigma aims to streamline business operations. Stripe Atlas (business incorporation tool) and Stripe Sigma (business analytics and reporting) can help simplify business operations. Virtual card issuance. Source: Stripe.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2018

According to reports, store number two will also be in Seattle, about a mile from the first location. Amazon said it is “excited to bring Amazon Go to 920 5th Avenue in Seattle” for those who couldn’t quite travel that last mile. was cleared for launch, and coming soon. The store will open in Fall 2018. billion. “As

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

According to reports, Amazon Go will be coming to a 10,400 square-foot grocery store in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, where it is currently being tested. Personal data can be exploited by foreign intelligence services to amplify the impact of espionage and influence operations,” the letter said. stores by next summer.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

But that “nameless Seattle-based coffee shop” he goes to every morning makes it easy to make and pay for his order online and then pick up said order as he is driving by — all seamless, all friction free. Store operations have to change to make sure consumers are getting the experience they want. Simply having the app isn’t enough.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. Monty Python “I’m Not Dead … Yet” Award – Goes to physical retail.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 29, 2015

Interactive video ATMs draw attention as an alternative retail delivery option. But are the machines really taking off as a worthwhile retail delivery option? For some community banks, video tellers, sometimes called interactive teller machines or ITMs, can work well for select markets or under certain conditions, experts say.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

“This is just speeding up the significant change the retail industry was already undergoing,” McMillon said. It’s taking longer to get things into our warehouse than out of our warehouse,” CFO Brian Olsavsky told investors after earnings were announced, adding that it’s still unclear when operations will go back to normal.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

Like a few communities in the U.S., In Seattle, Cisco, HP, Yahoo and other companies have worked with the Scoop app to facilitate about 650,000 carpool trips since 2015. And employers like LinkedIn in California, where Scoop also operates, are seeing the benefits.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

These companies are advancing a variety of construction methods to build ambitious development projects that reimagine everything from the wood used in homes to the ways we think about private vs. communal space. Several startups are already operating in this space; however, so far they’ve had only fledging success.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts). But with commercial rents continuing to rise in most urban areas, it’s been a challenge both for small businesses and national retailers to find affordable space.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. All of this while knocking out a stellar 1.35% ROA and leading industry, community, and philanthropic efforts everywhere. The New Name for Community Award. merges with Lakeland Bancorp.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Postmates is on the verge of snagging San Francisco’s first-ever permit for sidewalk robotics operations, per reports. Well, if all of these California test drives go according to plan, anyway. Postmates Takes San Francisco .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

So, when Dunkin’ goes after Starbucks following the news that the Seattle-based company was changing its loyalty program, it also has to do with mobile strategy (which Starbucks, admittedly, has a lead on). The coffee giants in the country have found one major way to make mobile payments relevant for consumers: tying it to loyalty.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

This stand-alone food ordering and delivery app — now live in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Melbourne, New York, Paris, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. UberEats , which launched last month (March 2016) as a stand-alone app, was Uber’s first shot across the contextual commerce bow.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Amazon is making its “Go” concept available to other retailers who have an interest in its “Just Walk Out” technology. The retailer is reportedly in discussions with other merchants and is said to have multiple inked arrangements with clients whose names are not known. Amazon To Deliver Coronavirus Test Kits In Seattle.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. It’s a sad consequence, but there is no other way [to communicate].”. VR has also helped businesses across industries keep operations running. The equipment was expensive and companies lacked the in-house expertise required to operate it.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Retail/Consumer Goods. Technology.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

BOUTIQUE GYMS & CLASSES ARE spreading AS MILLENNIALS SEEK CHOICE AND COMMUNITY. One 2014 survey found that 63% of people who attended boutique studio gyms did so because of the “community aspect formed by other people attending,” with another 47% attributing their attendance to the atmosphere.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project. and a dearth of people with technical, operational experience running energy facilities. The lack of people with real operational experience “hurt KiOR a lot,” says O’Connor.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Fresco’s head of community marketing, Johnathan Hamiter, began sending employees private Slack messages saying funding seemed “pretty bleak” and encouraging them to look for other jobs. Imzy was created by former Reddit employees Dan McComas and Jessica Moreno as a safer, friendlier version of the popular community site. Around 4 p.m.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The Facebook Macy’s pairup will bring 100 small businesses and digital brands that are popular on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. percent) of brands pick New York, with L.A. followed in a distant second place at 16.2 percent and Toronto coming in third at 5.4

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