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Retail Pulse: Brookstone Files For Bankruptcy; Kroger Launches New Delivery Service

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Brookstone , a specialty retailer known for massage chairs and gadgets, used to be a must-see mall retailer. malls, Brookstone is now the latest major brick-and-mortar retailer to announce that it has filed for bankruptcy protection. Both have operations online under new owners, reported The Wall Street Journal.

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Kroger Rolls Out New Grocery Delivery Offering

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The offering will debut in Houston, Louisville, Nashville and Kroger’s hometown of Cincinnati, Chain Store Age reported. With the service, consumers can buy 4,500 private-label products from the retailer, which are not otherwise available online, along with 50,000 different grocery items and household products.

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Carvana Brings Car Vending Machine To Tampa

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Carvana already has car vending machines in cities such as Houston, Nashville and Raleigh. If satisfied, buyers can purchase their cars online and have a Carvana employee drop their vehicles off at a scheduled time, or can schedule a time to pick them up from one of the company’s distinctive automobile vending machines.

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Kroger Same-Store Sales Miss Views As It Overhauls Stores

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In August, the company rolled out a delivery service called Kroger Ship that uses third-party carriers, which will debut in Houston, Louisville, Nashville and Kroger’s hometown of Cincinnati, Chain Store Age reported at the time. The choices were informed by data from Kroger’s 84.51° customer insights division.

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Apart-Hotels Turn Apartments Into Boutique Lodging

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Alternatively, they can find the company through online travel agencies (OTAs) such as Expedia, Hotels.com and Booking.com by searching for a particular property. Locale currently lists locations in Austin, Houston and Nashville on its website. They can book through Airbnb , and most of the company’s units are Airbnb Plus.

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Car Vending Machine Company Carvana Goes Up Against Wall Street

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Just ask Carvana, the leading online automotive seller and a major force in changing the way people buy cars. billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. That is the most organic growth of any automotive retailer ever in the U.S. Wall Street is a tough master, especially for eCommerce companies. Ontario (L.A.),

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Carvana And Its Discontents

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cities: Tempe (Arizona), Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Nashville (Tennessee), Raleigh (North Carolina), Charlotte (North Carolina), Jacksonville (Florida), Tampa (Florida), Orlando (Florida) and Washington, D.C. Standing nine stories high and built out of gleaming glass, it holds over 30 vehicles.