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Popeyes Teams Up With Uber Eats As Consumers Crave Delivery

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Inspired by tweets from customers hungry for delivery, Popeyes has teamed up with Uber Eats in select markets. Customers in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Miami and Washington D.C. The news is surprising given that just about six months ago, Uber Eats dominated in only three Texas cities: Houston, Austin and Dallas.

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Retail Pulse: Mattress Firm Mulls Bankruptcy; Walmart Plans Robotic Grocery Pickup

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told the Houston Chronicle that “bankruptcy for Mattress Firm would make sense, as it would allow them to reposition their real estate portfolio and close stores to become profitable.”. Brian Yarbrough, a consumer research analyst with Edward Jones, told The Washington Post. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News….

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Rinse Clothing Service Raises $14M To Expand To Boston, Chicago And Beyond

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The $14 million of funding Rinse recently secured will not be going into the company’s tech as much as into building out its team as it looks to launch in new markets. Rinse currently serves its home base of San Francisco as well as Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

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Facebook’s Libra, Uber Losses, Instant Deposits Top Week’s News

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PayPal officially pulled its support of Facebook’s Libra initiative after being a no-show at the Libra Association meeting in Washington, D.C. Here is what we’ve learned from the Libra experience that may be helpful to other innovators who have large plans to change the world. Visa, Intuit Launch Instant Deposit For SMBs. As of Oct.

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Why Contextual Commerce Is The Next Big Thing

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I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. This capability is as disruptive as it is innovative. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.”.

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