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APRIL 28, 2020

FIs and FinTechs are promoting social distancing by providing online card applications and virtual payment cards to help customers avoid using cash or visiting bank branches. Indian FI Paytm launched virtual and contactless plastic debit cards to help customers circumvent using cash or having to hand over physical cards to retailers.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

An old Los Angeles gas station is getting a new life as a drive-thru authentication hub for eBay , according to a company statement on Friday (Nov. The online marketplace sold more than two million watches last year; 54 percent of the inventory is pre-owned. Rolex accounts for 40 percent of luxury watch sales on eBay.

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MARCH 29, 2016

” That’s the lesson former JCPenney CEO and Apple executive Ron Johnson conveyed to The New York Times about his time at the struggling retail giant (Penney, not Apple) in a recent article focused on his newest venture, Enjoy, which may just end up being his most successful to date. “You really don’t want to be in a hurry.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Big retailers are opening smaller-format stores in major U.S. Already, the retailer has opened a Planning Studio across the pond in London in October. In the announcement, IKEA Retail U.S. Pizza Hut plans to acquire online ordering software provider QuikOrder. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News. restaurants.

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MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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MARCH 20, 2019

From SPOT to Starbucks , online platforms and retailers are providing consumers with new ways to place orders or make purchases from the car. SPOT serves cities including Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia, per a report last year. Digital innovations are helping consumers pick up their orders. Currently, 58.7

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JANUARY 22, 2020

But direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail is undergoing some significant changes, which could help strengthen DTC activities for years to come. Personalization is among the trends gaining fuel in the DTC world, reflecting larger changes in the retail world. All of that helps prepare the ground for innovation. “In

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AUGUST 24, 2017

eCommerce leader Amazon is moving more deeply into the brick-and-mortar retail arena with the launch of two new physical bookstores, both of which will welcome customers this week, the Los Angeles Times reports. The company will open the doors to the new Washington location on Thursday as well.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

The needs of children are a driving force for online and mobile innovation and disruption. It’s not exactly unusual these days, of course, to find multiple eyeglass options online for both adults and children – the purchase of glasses was traditionally an expensive and friction-filled process before the spread of online sales.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

The sporting goods brand has also brought introduced some of the experimental items from its Nike Live store in Los Angeles. However, she noted that the brand has worked with the retailer for decades, and that Nike can’t keep expanding its business on its own – particularly in neighborhoods where it doesn’t have a store.

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AUGUST 15, 2017

While the retail industry is undergoing its transformation, there’s one clear winner on both brick-and-mortar and eCommerce delivery services. Today’s retail practically demands an easy delivery option. Here are the numbers: $3.4 billion | Amount Aldi plans to invest to bring increase its U.S.

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MAY 15, 2017

is expanding in Chicago as it targets both brick-and-mortar and online expansion. According to Chain Store Age , the fashion retailer will open a flagship on Rush Street in Chicago this fall. This is one of many recent moves by the vertically integrated retailer, which reported that its same-store sales increased 11.5

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Uppercase Co-founder and CEO Yashar Nejati said that anyone can start a brand online, but when brands arrive at a certain threshold – about $10 million or more in sales – it’s time for them to take the next step: “That usually means opening up brick and mortar,” Nejati told PYMNTS in an interview. Pop-Up Retail Trends.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Bulk goods retailer Costco saw its shares fall 6 percent on Friday (Oct. The delivery option is free for online orders exceeding $75 from 376 U.S. Orders totaling less than $35 will be subject to prices approximately 15 to 17 percent higher than those found in-store, according to the Los Angeles Times.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

The changing nature of retail has been challenging for pharmacies. Sales of things like personal care products, cosmetics and various other household goods have been slipping, as consumers are increasingly stocking up online or at alternative retail venues like dollar stores for those types of items. in early 2019.

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MAY 8, 2018

The “new” store will be the first American Apparel opened by Gildan since the Canadian firm purchased the retailer out of bankruptcy in 2017. He went on to found a new firm: Los Angeles Apparel, which was founded very much in the image of the old one, and started out in wholesale. manufacturing of its clothes.

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APRIL 1, 2016

There was a point not too long ago when online-only merchants were happy to thumb their noses at the stodgy paradigm of brick-and-mortar retail, but nowadays, even the chicest brands on either side of the divide know they can’t afford to miss out on any selling opportunity.

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JULY 9, 2019

In the age of quick-service restaurant (QSR) dining technology innovation, restaurants are frantically looking into ways to provide consumers with mobile ordering bells and whistles like third-party payment integrations, rewards programs and surprise-and-delight offers. At the same time, dining platforms are expanding their offerings.

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JULY 13, 2016

Just when it looked like online-only brands would take every last penny of brick-and-mortar retailers’ lunch money, digital merchants started opening up B&M store fronts like it was the newest fad in town. With any luck, the gaming tournaments and celebrity appearances that have put the L.A.

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MARCH 26, 2018

For its report, inMarket looked at nearly 100 Whole Foods stores in markets such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Francisco metropolitan areas. The retailer could also provide fast payment options, such as self-checkout, Stewart Samuel, program director for IGD Services , told Reuters.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

The shift online is inexorable, and so will the pressure to speed up the movement from factory to consumers’ doorsteps. This indicates that the traditional inventory management process of stocking retailers’ shelves is on the wane.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

While customers might find out about the company through social media channels or word of mouth and see the design (as well as its price) online, they might want to sit on the furniture before making a decision. For now, the company has spaces in the Los Angeles area such as Long Beach and Woodland Hills.)

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JANUARY 26, 2018

While most players in the world of digital retail have felt the sting of the “Amazon Effect,” extreme discount retailers, or “dollar stores,” have remained mostly immune to the onslaught thus far. Retail experts — who, like Silicon Valley, have long ignored the extreme discount shoppers — are starting to reconsider.

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JANUARY 31, 2019

There is no shortage of places to buy furniture online. Andy Prochazka, now Article’s chief marketing officer, had discovered while working in China the really massive gaps between production costs and retail pricing. “It It was a big surprise to see how production costs translate to retail pricing costs in North America.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

This summer, Nike unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar venture in Los Angeles: Nike by Melrose, a physical store that uses local online shopping data to determine its in-store inventory. While the store is a first for Nike, it’s part of a bigger trend in retail — product and inventory localization. First Name.

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AUGUST 2, 2016

The ubiquitous (well, at least in the Northeast) coffee chain has announced a partnership with DoorDash , the online delivery app that promises food and other “goods” delivered to your doorstep in 45 minutes or less, that will see it offer an on-demand delivery service in select parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan. “The

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MARCH 14, 2018

Betting that its popularity with shoppers online will translate into brick-and-mortar customers in Washington, D.C., The opening is the eCommerce retailer’s first bookstore in the Washington, D.C., For Prime members, Amazon will charge the same price for items in the store as it does online.

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MARCH 25, 2019

To connect food delivery platforms with consumers looking for convenience and cost savings, eCommerce innovators are creating aggregators as price and time comparison tools. as well as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. FoodBoss is available in markets from Chicago to Washington, D.C., percent of QSR managers and 83.6

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In 2016, the company was was acquired by personal care products giant Unilever, and there were questions at the time about how a direct-to-consumer innovator like DSC would fit into the very much mass-market and retailer-focused Unilever constellation of brands. “The fragrances almost invite you to try them.”

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AUGUST 16, 2017

According to a press release, Amazon said the service will be available in five pickup locations in Los Angeles; Atlanta; Berkeley, Calif.; Prime members can browse the selection, place an order, even add last-minute items to an online order and pick it up from a self-service locker – all within two minutes or less.

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JUNE 15, 2016

Staples announced on Tuesday (June 14) that it had officially launched its “Staples Rush” program that provides same-day delivery service to a handful of metropolitan areas, including parts of Boston, Dallas and Manhattan, with Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle to come.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

But many luxury trips can run aground without effective and innovative payment solutions to help travelers meet and manage associated costs. And a significant share of luxury travelers express high levels of interest in using innovative payment solutions to fund their future vacations. trillion on their vacations last year.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

is wearing a size 14 or 16 — 35 percent to 60 percent of women depending on whose figures you like — but most mainstream retailers do not carry clothes above a size 14. We’re seeing small, independent brands be much more successful in this market than larger brands and retailers,” says Marshal Cohen, a retail industry analyst with NPD Group.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

7), the transit-as-a-service operator is offering car and truck owners looking to offload their vehicles a deal: Sell those vehicles via online retail service Carvana and get in return $250 worth of Lyft credits, plus three months of free membership in Lyft’s new Lyft Pink membership subscription program.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

But I couldn’t find one in the market, so I ended up going to the garment district in downtown Los Angeles and bought fabric, then got it tailored at a local dry cleaner with a sketch that my wife helped me draw. PYMNTS: Now that there’s more attention on the men’s underwear retail category, how do you see the industry evolving?

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AUGUST 7, 2017

Many innovators end up in the business of commerce or technology because they are trying to solve a problem — usually their own. This is often a good or service they find they need, and that the market doesn’t offer, which sets off a light bulb and begins the cycle of innovation. Innovation. “In

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Cohen owns a national distribution network and deals with some of the nation’s biggest retailers. His aim is to change the way that the thousands of cases of retail goods are stored, handled and hauled. But it’s not just the retailers trying to cut costs who are embracing technology. In 2016, 5 percent of U.S.

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