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‘Costco For Millennials’ Attracts Big Investors

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A popular eCommerce retailer, which has been called the “Costco for millennials,” is attracting potential investors, according to The New York Post. With warehouses in New Jersey, Dallas, Las Vegas and Atlanta, Boxed offers bulk-sized products similar to those found at big warehouse retailers like Costco Wholesale.

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Simon Says Mixed Use Is The New Wave Of Retail

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It was a key theme at the International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual RECon convention in Las Vegas this past week, reported CNBC. Some landlords announced new deals for residential uses, while retailers and real estate owners in general seemed to be collaborating more closely to keep shopping centers alive.

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Retail Pulse: DSW Expands In-Store Experiences; L Brands Plans Store Closures

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Brick-and-mortar fashion retailers are developing in-store experiences to encourage customer loyalty. markets, aiming to generate repeat visits as part of its experiential retail efforts. The retailer, which has 1,143 stores globally, closes an average of around 15 stores annually. billion at $4.85

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Making Marketplaces For Experiences

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Millennials, the conventional wisdom goes, are far more into experiences than they are into buying things. But, he noted, in the case of millennials some of that fear is not just the same old alarm. This long-term worry is far more significant and can be summarized in one sentence: Millennials don’t want to buy stuff,” Becker said.

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Taking A Sharing Economy Approach To Hotel Booking

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The company’s target market includes Gen Z and millennials. The company offers rooms in markets like New York, San Francisco, Nashville, New Orleans, Chicago and Orlando. The company also offers rooms for travelers enjoying events like EDC Las Vegas, Ultra Music Festival and Hangout Music Festival, among others.

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Boxed And Costco Have Their Roots In A 1970s New Jersey A&P Store

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In the 1970s, the venerable The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was losing market share. To try to increase its market share, A&P came up with a novel way to sell groceries: It decided to sell its most popular items in their original wholesale bulk packaging — for a much cheaper price.

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Is eBay The Anti-Amazon?

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At a recent gathering in Las Vegas, Wenig said during a presentation that he would seek to grab 100 million new shoppers, among them the much-coveted demographic known as millennials, consumers that the newswire said might have “only a passing familiarity with eBay.”

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