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State governments are dropping the ball on retail reopenings. As the week plays out, inconsistent direction and confusion have been standard with New York, Texas, California and Hawaii getting criticized by retailers big and small. Statewide, on March 4, the state health department reported Texas’ first positive case of COVID-19.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

Basketball is one of the most popular sports – if not the most popular sport – in China, but there’s a little less NBA available today for online shoppers in that country, according to reports. That’s because China eCommerce giant Alibaba apparently has removed any products related to the Houston Rockets from its search results.

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MAY 1, 2019

While the CEO of the country’s biggest mall owner thinks that retail store closures will slow down this year, he added that he “can’t guarantee it.”. “I His latest comments come after Simon admitted in February that he was “nervous” about additional retail bankruptcies happening during the first quarter.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

Fitness and wellness are helping to change the face of retail in 2020. Innovation is also taking place within retail brick-and-mortar pharmacies. According to the report, last year the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) approved 4,697 fellowship programs in 123 different subspecialties. Clinic Trend.

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AUGUST 31, 2017

When the going gets tough, America’s retailers and restaurants get going. is offering up the essentials — like water and toiletries — to rescue organizations and has sent a mobile pharmacy to help refill prescriptions, provide immunizations and perform health screenings, the WSJ reported. Grocer Kroger Co.

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JULY 2, 2020

The tech company, which has 271 retail shops in the United States, has recently closed 47 stores again, CNBC reported. A representative of the tech company said, per the report, “Due to current COVID-19 conditions in some of the communities we serve, we are temporarily closing stores in these areas.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

UPS , too, is going down the drone path – one that Amazon pioneered for retail delivery uses – and is seeking a certification to operate commercial drone flights. For instance, Amazon has begun using Scout , its six-wheeled autonomous delivery robot, in a neighborhood in Irvine, California, according to a report.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Part of the future of retail is playing out inside hotels — and that’s happening as the wider part of the travel-and-tourism industry is undergoing its own significant disruption. One of the latest — and perhaps wildest — examples of the hotel-retail trend comes from Taco Bell, of all places. according to the report.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In the meantime, the digital, mobile, delivery and other innovations that are taking place in this sector are also promising to impact retailers and the consumers who shop not only with mom-and-pop stores but with the bigger chains. The latest example of that comes from one of the biggest retail chains out there — Walmart.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retailers have sought to reduce their retail footprint in hard times, and Mattress Firm, Inc. ended its contract with Mattress Firm, a move that narrowed the retailer’s selection. is no exception. Brian Yarbrough, a consumer research analyst with Edward Jones, told The Washington Post.

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Case in point, Stockwell: a self-service retail venture that got off on a very wrong foot with customers by, among other things, choosing the wrong name. There are now over 1,000 Stockwell machines spread across the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Retail and hospitality technology firm NCR Corporation is looking to acquire ATM operator Cardtronics for $39 per share, or about $1.7 NCR’s $39 per share all-cash offer topped Apollo Global Management’s earlier bid for $35 per share to acquire Cardtronics, Bloomberg reported. 11) press release. . Shares of Cardtronics climbed 0.3

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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. The Economics.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Reports began popping up midweek that some Amazon sellers were using the opportunity of an encroaching storm to dramatically raise their prices. Industrial production also took a big hit last September before surging in October, largely driven by Houston’s petro-chemical industry surging back online.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Previously, the world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer announced autonomous vehicle ventures with Nuro in Houston , Ford in Miami , Gatik in Arkansas and with Waymo , owned by Google corporate parent Alphabet , in Phoenix. Walmart said in a Tuesday (Nov. In addition to majority owner GM, investors in Cruise include SoftBank , T.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Retailers are aiming to help consumers manage chronic diseases as well as their overall health and wellness through new brick-and-mortar experiences. Through HealthHUBs, consumers are at the center of an unmatched retail health experience. CVS Health, however, is not the only retailer to bolster its health offerings.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

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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JULY 2, 2020

The Chicago Bears are giving those who have season tickets the choice to be reimbursed and retain the capacity to renew tickets for next year’s season, 5Chicago reported, citing a letter from the team. The team will also reportedly have home games with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Houston Texans and Indianapolis Colts, among others.

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JULY 14, 2020

As the pandemic upends their entire business model, malls are turning to their own parking lots as new sources of revenue for events like outdoor concerts or drive-in movies, CNBC reports. into outdoor venues in Denver, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis and Woodbridge, New Jersey, with more such venues on the way, CNBC reported.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

The pilot will provide service to customers in Olmos Park, just outside of downtown San Antonio where the grocery retailer is based,” according to TechCrunch. the grocery retailer, and Nuro, the SoftBank -backed robotics company, announced in March the launch of their autonomous grocery delivery service in Houston.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

eCommerce business president and chief executive officer, said the merchant is dedicated to providing shoppers with an attractive assortment of online goods, and, for that reason, it bought brands such as Bonobos, CNBC reported. Marc Lore, who is Walmart’s U.S.

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JUNE 25, 2020

As coronavirus cases spike in Texas, the state’s officials have walked back their reopening plans for the state, CNBC reported. There are currently 4,389 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in the state, a rise from 2,793 a week ago, CNBC reported, citing the state’s health department.

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MARCH 15, 2019

The announcement from the mobile network provider serves as the latest demonstration that 5G is coming, and that retailers and payment services providers should get ready to operate in the 5G world. As that report explained, “last year, Verizon launched in-home 5G service based off proprietary specifications. 5G Potential.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

To thrive in the eCommerce age as it contends with Amazon , Walmart is planning to make its supercenters the heart of a network of businesses operating together to drive profits and bring in customers, The Wall Street Journal reported. The giant stores are large operations offering 100,000 products and are approximately 180,000 square feet.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

With CVS Health on the path to meeting its goal of revamping more than 1,000 of its stores, the health retailer is reportedly seeing positive early results. By the end of this year, hundreds more are set for a refresh, CNBC reported. CVS, as it stands, has over 9,900 locations in 49 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

In a potential challenge to Apple at brick-and-mortar retail, Samsung Electronics is looking to move beyond pop-up shops with its own full-scale U.S. 20, which is the day that the brand is expected to announce a foldable phone and the Galaxy S10, Apple Insider reported. The company will reportedly open three stores on Feb.

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MARCH 15, 2019

As it stands, mobile ordering is available at the chain’s Denver, Boston and Houston locations — and more markets are said to be in the works for this year. The retailer reported net income for the fourth quarter of $102.6 To keep tabs on the latest retail trends, check next week’s Retail Pulse. million in 2017.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Amazon has announced that it is opening a pop-up store at its headquarters in Seattle, according to a report by GeekWire. The store is an expansion of one of Amazon’s new concepts that hasn’t been talked about much in comparison to the company’s other retail initiatives, like Amazon Go. In Las Vegas, there’s a camera theme.

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APRIL 12, 2019

Juul Labs, the company that makes the popular vaporizer, has announced a new program to track its devices and figure out how they get into the hands of minors, according to a report by TechCrunch. Right now, the program is limited to Houston, but anyone can input a serial number and start an investigation on a confiscated device.

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MAY 8, 2020

The Houston-based company reported that total revenues fell by 4 percent to $306.6 Cardtronics reported GAAP net income of $5.8 million, down from $318.3 million compared to Q1 in 2019. . Cardtronics’ ATM operating revenues dropped to $291.9 million, down 4 percent from $302.6 million in the prior year. “We million, or $0.13

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AUGUST 29, 2016

As we reported, just prior to his MTV appearance, Kanye retail was suddenly everywhere — through a giant simultaneous launch of pop-up stores. He might just possibly be giving the world a preview of the future of retail and payments. No, we aren’t kidding. The Kanye Shop . Kanye’s Highly Mobile Shopping Base.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Domestic merchandise retailer Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock took a 12-point hit after Wall Street got a look at its latest earnings report and did not much like what it saw. Same-store sales — the Street’s favorite metric for physical retail — were down 2.6 Retail sales clocked in at approximately $2.9

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JANUARY 9, 2019

The three telecoms — SK Telecom, LG Uplus and KT — launched 5G last month, though, according to one report , “they currently provide access with mobile 5G routers since 5G phones aren’t set to come out until March of 2019.” A big part of the 5G pitch involves its retail capabilities. In the U.S.,

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APRIL 12, 2019

According to a report by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the country will see a scarcity of 46,000-130,000 physicians by the end of the next decade – and that shortfall won’t be felt equally. Among millennials, 45 percent report having no primary care doctor.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

But that doesn’t mean the money doesn’t flow during the baseball playoffs – evidence of that comes from Jim McIngvale, a Houston furniture store owner known as “ Mattress Mack ,” who just put $3.5 million on the Houston Astros to win the 2019 World Series. As The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday (Oct. elections.”.

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JULY 14, 2016

Brick-and-mortar merchants are far from being free from the problems that plague their particular brand of retail, but even they have to look at online retail rising rents for warehouse space with a little bit of mirth. According to a new report from CBRE, things are about to get even worse. million added in 2006.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

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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