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It’s a good time to be a retail chain. Retail Ascent. Retail is on the ascent. In July, retail sales increased 0.5 Economists had only forecasted retail sales going up 0.1 percent, online and mail-order retail sales increased 0.8 Retailer Woes. Not every retailer is experiencing good times, of course.

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As it moves into the business of cannabis retail and hangs out its shingle in the industry, High Times is opening its own brick-and-mortar stores this year. announced it would be bringing a flagship retail store to Los Angeles and Las Vegas. They will operate under the logo and name of High Times.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amazon Fresh, a new physical retail concept from Amazon, is setting up shop in four locations in the Chicago market, the Chicago Tribune reported. In September, the eTailer gave the public open access to the Los Angeles store. In Arizona, low-cost supermarket chain ALDI will bring two new stores to the Phoenix area.

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MAY 2, 2019

Convenience store operator 7-Eleven is launching beer and cider delivery in select U.S. ” According to Fortune , the company will test the service in 18 markets: Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Ft. .” Worth, Texas; Los Angeles, California; Miami-Ft.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Retailers are doubling down on toys amid a gap in the market left by the bankruptcy of Toys R Us. toy retailer Hamleys , for instance, is eyeing a potential New York City location for a flagship store. The atmosphere comes as brick-and-mortar retailers have to differentiate themselves from their eCommerce counterparts.

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MAY 11, 2018

The company told Forbes that its goal is to provide a physical location where those small businesses can sit down across the table from experts who can help them navigate the turbulent retail waters ahead. and Canada — some of them open now, some slated to open isoon in cities such as Miami, Los Angeles and Philadelphia.

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AUGUST 30, 2018

Brands might want a space to test new concepts with shoppers in brick-and-mortar retail environments, but they don’t always want the time and expense involved in building out a permanent store. The Los Angeles-based Commercial Observer reported that the concept will be located in the renovated Westfield Century City Mall.

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MAY 5, 2020

As retailers contend with the continuing COVID-19 crisis and the inevitable resettling of the business, one of the most popular pieces of advice has been to reformat existing stores. The brands then help to promote the event, which helps to boost their sales while benefiting the entire pop-up operation.

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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. Most brands hope to make a big splash when they enter the market – but not for this type of reason. When Stockwell launched in September of 2017, it went by a different name: Bodega.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The long-awaited first Amazon Fresh brick-and-mortar store officially opened for business in Los Angeles this week, while Whole Foods talked up falling prices. This week, the eCommerce giant gave the public open access to the shop, located in Los Angeles. Whole Foods Promises Price Cuts. Grocery Delivery Firm Weee!

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APRIL 7, 2016

TechCrunch reports that, yesterday (April 6), Thrive Market launched a version of its app — previously only available on iOS — for the Android platform. Through its “Thrive Gives” program, shares TechCrunch, for every paid subscriber that Thrive Market brings on board, the company donates a free membership to a low-income family.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The new store in Woodland Park will take the place of a closed Fairway Market in a shopping center that also has a GameStop, Barnes & Noble and Kohl’s department store. Amazon bought Fairway Market stores in Woodland Park and Paramus, but it has not made plans known for location in the latter municipality.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

Those who travel to some of the wealthier parts of the world, however, will discover the well-to-do have much more expensive unattended retail tastes. In fact, in various global markets, high-end luxury items can be purchased from both ATMs and unattended machines. A few years ago, U.S. Serving up a new spin on caviar.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

fashion retailer American Apparel after offering a bid of nearly $88 million. A source close to the mater told Fortune that Gildan will not take any of American Apparel’s stores but instead will own the company’s brand and take over its manufacturing operations.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

As the run-up to retail’s big season is getting ready to get underway, the nation’s retailers have a big, big problem at the ports. Since its filing, terminal operators, ports, cargo handlers, truckers and others have refused to handle its cargo because, at present, there is no guarantee they are getting paid for doing so.

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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.

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JUNE 2, 2017

3,500 more McDonald’s markets are going to be lovin’ it by the end of June as delivery service rolls out to even more restaurants. That’s on top of the locations where it was already available, including Atlanta, Chicago, Columbus, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, Orlando, Phoenix, San Diego and Tampa.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Digital delivery service goPuff will acquire BevMo , a specialty beverage retailer based on the U.S. The $350 million deal is expected to close within 30 days, the Los Angeles Times reported. West Coast, according to a blog post from goPuff.

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APRIL 11, 2016

As brick-and-mortar retailers continue to struggle to bring in consumers, a few are taking a page out of Amazon’s book and working instead to meet consumers where they live. Macy’s, Best Buy and Kohl’s have all recently stepped up same-day delivery options that were in testing mode to full-scale operations in some locations.

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MARCH 30, 2020

The new funding will assist the startup in speeding up team building, supply chain optimizations and market growth. The company provides its offering in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Sacramento and Seattle. Bigbasket competes against Amazon and Flipkart in the Indian eCommerce market.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

The extensive nature of the problem became evident when word spread Wednesday that UPS was limiting shipments from several major retailers as a strategy to manage its workload. According to The Wall Street Journal UPS imposed shipping restrictions on some large retailers such as Gap, Nike, L.L. Hot Topic Inc., Newegg Inc.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

eCommerce brands are opening up pop-up shops in cities to test out brick-and-mortar retail, and Recess is using this platform to highlight its hemp-extract beverages in a temporary space in New York City that is dubbed the Take A Recess IRL Pop-Up. As a whole, the home furnishings market in the U.S. drugstore chain to use Alipay.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

According to Bloomberg , the site is under construction on Topanga Canyon Boulevard in Woodland Hills, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, and documents filed with the city show the new location is more like a traditional big box supermarket than a high-tech, high-priced Amazon location. The latter operates without human cashiers.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Their shoes are also a bit different, insofar as they are made from merino wool, which is both softer and more renewable than most sneaker materials out there on the market. They released their first product — the Wool Runner — in March 2016, and just about a year later their second shoe came to market: a slip-on called the Wool Lounger.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In a press release , Postmates said the funding round was led by Tiger Global Management, and comes on the back of a record year of growth, market expansion and adoption of a subscription service. The model has grown by 300 percent year over year, with one in two orders on the platform placed via Unlimited, across multiple markets.

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JUNE 26, 2018

As of today (June 26) consumers in those newly added markets can buy a range of grocery items, fresh and pre-packaged, and have them delivered for free within two hours, or for a small fee within the hour. Customers can start shopping from Whole Foods Market selection from the Prime Now website or by using the app available.

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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. A fact that people like Tim Gunn and Brian Beitler, chief marketing officer of Lane Bryant , says is true on paper, but overlooks the reality of plus-size women’s fashion.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

That is, the store might cost $50,000 a month to fully operate when launch, build out, staff, ongoing maintenance and other costs are factored into the equation. Pop-Up Retail Trends. Brands are opening their first stores in Los Angeles, New York and Toronto, which is why Uppercase strategically targets those markets.

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MAY 15, 2017

According to Chain Store Age , the fashion retailer will open a flagship on Rush Street in Chicago this fall. The Vancouver, British Columbia–based company already operates a store in the Windy City, at Water Tower Place. Aritzia also recently debuted in Los Angeles, opening a 10,000-square-foot flagship at Westfield Century City.

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APRIL 26, 2016

Not that too many major sports retailers are in a joking mood currently, but the easy joke to make — were one so inclined — about the spate of closures and bankruptcies in the space of late would be to attribute it to modern consumers’ laziness and lack of athleticism. A vicious circle if ever there was one.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

The company currently operates in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, with expansion plans to enter other new markets in the first quarter of 2018. He added that the company operates its own sorting facility and distributes items for delivery that are picked up by drivers. “The Monday (Dec.

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Labor markets have improved dramatically, but still have a long way to go,” he said, according to the newswire, adding that “you still need unemployment to drop, jobs to come back … certain sectors have really been hard-hit, and for them to come back, we are going to have to get this vaccine rolled out." Reuters reported on Wednesday (Jan.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

As a retailer with more than a decade of operations, Flight Club has a loyal and enthusiastic worldwide fan base of sneaker enthusiasts. Flight Club is] best in class at retail, have great [search engine optimization] to their web presence and tons of social following,” GOAT co-founder and CEO Eddy Lu told Recode. .”

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FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In a twist on contemporary retail trends toward online channels, consumers still largely prefer to return in-store. One logistics technology startup is working to solve the problem of physical returns for digital retailers. One logistics technology startup is working to solve the problem of physical returns for digital retailers.

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MARCH 22, 2019

As restaurants continue to wrestle with the questions that come with food delivery — how to make enough money, whether to work with third-party operators, how to manage customer relationships — a new factor is gaining significance. Keatz already operators ten “ghost” kitchens in Europe. Keatz reportedly has raised about $13.5

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

2) as The Wall Street Journal reported it imposed shipping restrictions on some large retailers such as Gap, Nike, L.L.Bean Inc., The company positions itself not only as a shipping service but as a “data-driven marketing and omnichannel enablement” platform that allows retailers to connect with high-value customers.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Retailers that mainly depended on brick-and-mortar foot traffic had to quickly mobilize distribution services to get their goods to customers. Los Angeles-based logistics online marketplace Cargomatic is one firm that saw supply chain conversion accelerate immediately with the pandemic-induced surge in online sales.

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