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Making Shopping About The Shoppers (Again)

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One would expect that a event called the Retail Innovation Conference (RIC) would be a veritable brainstorm of big ideas as to how to improve the woeful retail space in the U.S.: But, in reality, retail is a logistics game, an operations game, a supply chain game, but it’s not a shopper game, really.”. Retail operations are important.

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Why Grocers Are Providing Fresh Options For Digital Omnicommerce Shopping

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Omnichannel features are becoming more crucial as tech-savvy millennials gain more spending power and influence, according to the PYMNTS Enterprise Retail Grocery Report. In July , Amazon expanded its Prime Now grocery delivery service by adding more areas of New York City along with three cities in Florida to the platform.

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8 Quick Finovate 2017 Takeaways

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Finovate kicked off on 9/11 in New York City, a great message to the world about how The Big Apple operates 16 years later: living freely, building, dreaming, and getting stuff done. So, let’s get to it: Who innovates? Security innovations. was also a great demo. Bad combination. Ixnay illennialsmay.

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Meal Kit Providers Exit Q2 With Industry In Major Flux

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Blue Apron has long enjoyed the distinction of being among the early innovators in the meal kit category. With millennials working multiple gigs, very few have enough time left to make a proper meal — if they aren’t eating out at a local restaurant. Truly Innovating. The pop-up opened after Memorial Day and closed in late June.

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Is The Future Of Furniture Robotic?

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In New York City, the average studio has only 550 square feet, while the average one bedroom clocks in with a not-exactly-cavernous 750 average square footage. In San Fransisco, the figures are similar — and in most of the nation’s top cities, 750-850 are considered about the norm.

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What Serving The Internet’s ‘Underserved’ Means For Payments

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That matters because as time goes by and existing cities become prohibitively expensive — think San Francisco, New York City and Los Angeles, with Chicago, Boston and other areas not far behind — many younger, well-educated consumers are making moves to exurban or even rural areas, or smaller cities.

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What’s Your Commerce Horoscope?

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The Saturn Sisters , incidentally, are not actually related: They are best friends and astrologers (astrology bloggers) who met at a New York City brunch and found their mutual “core value to make the world a better place through astrology.”. million in venture capital, assisted by Lorne Michaels’ incubator.