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‘Costco For Millennials’ Attracts Big Investors

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A popular eCommerce retailer, which has been called the “Costco for millennials,” is attracting potential investors, according to The New York Post. With warehouses in New Jersey, Dallas, Las Vegas and Atlanta, Boxed offers bulk-sized products similar to those found at big warehouse retailers like Costco Wholesale.

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Mobile Ordering, The New Window To Winning Over Millennial Consumers

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It seems that most every industry these days is vying for millennial dollars and devotion. For an industry where millennials are projected to spend nearly $800 billion in 2017 (that’s 7 percent more on monthly food budgets than average Americans), restaurants are hankering to pull out all the stops to get millennials to order — in or out.

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Enticing Millennials With Experiences Using ?Neighborhood Goods?

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The old model of opening a retail store with merchandise as a main focus of the space may not appeal to today’s consumers – millennials in particular. In general, he said, many brands find the Dallas-Fort Worth area to be among their top cities, and markets such as Plano are less costly to open in than those larger cities.

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Circuit City Still Eyeing Comeback, But Wants To Take Its Time To Get Things Right

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So, TWICE recently caught up with Ronny Shmoel, a former DataVision exec with experience in the New York area retail industry, who acquired the Circuit City brand last October from IT supplier Systemax , for an update on whatever happened to a Dallas prototype store promised for June and where things stand with the current revitalization efforts. “A

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Clover Food Lab’s Secret Sauce To Boosting Mobile Ordering

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Rising demand is fueling growth in the global kiosk market, for example, and could reach $30.8 Some QSRs are targeting younger customers, such as millennials, by making it as easy as possible for them to order food. Recently published data has DoorDash leading the market with a 35 percent share. billion by 2024.

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Greyhound Drives Omnichannel Security With AI, Advanced Learning Tools

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Fraud could cost the market more than $25 billion this year, and approximately 20 percent of attempted travel-related transactions are confirmed to be fraudulent. Dallas-based busing line Greyhound is all too familiar with such problems, prompting it to implement advanced learning technologies to secure ticketing.

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COVID-19 Is Changing The Grocery Business

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Millennials accounted for 32.9 That group only makes up 8 percent of the total grocery shopping market but took 14.8 percent of the total market but only 29.2 Texans must continue to prepare, but panic does not promote progress,” said Dallas-based H-E-B said in a statement. The data shows that 73.5

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