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JANUARY 21, 2020

Don’t look now, but virtual reality and augmented reality are starting to make bigger gains in the retail world. The spread of VR and AR technology is not confined to physical retailers, either — eCommerce giants are getting into the game as well. billion via retail and marketing in 2022. Larger Trends.

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MARCH 29, 2019

Payments company Square has partnered with the Washington Nationals and Levy Restaurants to let fans order concession menu items right from their seats, according to reports. Fans can use the Square-owned Caviar app and the Square POS terminal to order everything from food to beer and wine while enjoying the game from the stands.

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MARCH 30, 2020

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Washington Privacy Act (WPA) and other new privacy and online transaction standards are changing how businesses interact with consumers’ data in the U.S. states are starting to implement new standards, too, with the CCPA introduced two months ago and WPA on the path to ratification in Washington.

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JULY 12, 2019

Trends in legal cannabis retail are just now emerging, and fresh numbers from Colorado are providing insight into how the industry is evolving. Other figures also point to how much consumers are spending on legal retail pot. Legal retail cannabis may be spreading throughout the U.S., Companies also have made more than $6.5

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

By some accounts, the 2018 holiday season is going to be a bang-up year for retailers. retailers are expected to increase 4.8 percent this year, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF) — well above the 3.9 percent growth seen by the retail market one year ago. Holiday sales for U.S.

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MAY 7, 2019

As retailers shutter locations from the heartland to big cities, the latest update on the state of retail from New York’s storied Fifth Avenue says that rents are falling and vacancies are rising – showing that even a flagship address can’t escape the realities of modern-day commerce. We’re in the middle of a multi-year retail purge.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

To learn more about their customers and increase foot traffic, retailers are testing out new business ideas. In some cases, retailers are dedicating small spaces to brands inside their brick-and-mortar stores. Macy’s , for example, is testing out pop-up stores in 10 cities in a concept called “The Market @ Macy’s.”

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JUNE 2, 2018

The phrase is also a familiar refrain in retail — sung by retailers when disappointing results come at the same time as a streak of unusual and unseasonable (aka lousy) weather. In Q1 of 2018, the cooler than usual spring/summer contributed to retailers posting less than stellar sales. Are sunnier skies ahead? percent in Q1.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Legal marijuana may have a massive payments problem, but that’s not stopping retail innovation in perhaps the newest area of legitimate commerce in the U.S. Trends in legal cannabis retail are just now emerging, and fresh numbers from Colorado are providing insight into how the industry is evolving. Big Retail. and Canada.

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MARCH 13, 2019

Chase has announced it is expanding its retail footprint into nine of the top American markets, as well as opening dozens of new locations in the greater Washington, D.C area, Philadelphia and Boston. Chase plans to open 90 new branches and hire 700 employees by the end of 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

These laws were meant to make online sellers face sales tax requirements similar to those for retailers with on-the-ground locations, putting both types of businesses on equal footing. Retailers in high-tax states have largely not been able to build themselves up or expand online beyond their local markets to the same extent, Rogers said. .

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

“Another way to think about this, for every 16 workers who were officially counted as unemployed, there were only available jobs for 10 of them,” Elise Gould, senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, told Reuters. Retail job creation dropped, while transport and warehouse employment showed an uptick.

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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. The Washington Post branded Bodega the most hated startup in America. Most brands hope to make a big splash when they enter the market – but not for this type of reason.

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MARCH 1, 2019

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. With the expanded partnership, the companies will bring the offering to brick-and-mortar stores in Washington, D.C.; billion at $4.85

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

More than 20 online eCigarette retailers are being sued by New York City for allegedly selling to children. 9) stop 22 online sellers from being allowed to either market or offer eCigarettes to anyone younger than 21. . They argue that most of the illnesses are from black market THC vaping products, and not nicotine related products.

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APRIL 25, 2018

2, as Microsoft has rallied to be neck and neck with Amazon in terms of market capitalization. The two Washington state-based companies are within one percentage point of each other, with a market cap of about $723 billion, thanks to a week-long rally in Microsoft shares coupled with a slump in Amazon shares, reported 24/7 Wall St.

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JULY 5, 2020

billion for Whole Foods , the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol Hill district, The Seattle Times reported. Amazon must like the supermarket business. Three years after it paid $13.4

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APRIL 13, 2018

It was a record-breaking first quarter for retailers in the U.S. According to a report issued by Moody’s earlier this week, the retail sector managed to notch a record number of defaults during Q1 2013, with nine retailers defaulting on their debt. As a result of the series of retail fails, the default rate of high-risk U.S.

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APRIL 16, 2018

HP is reportedly stepping into the cannabis industry with a new partnership to provide businesses with financial management software, according to The Washington Post. In a statement to Bloomberg last week about the partnership, HP said that “retailers across a wide range of industries use our hardware in their store operations.

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APRIL 8, 2020

Washington D.C.-based based Broad Branch Market has recently welcomed 44-pound, six-wheel, self-driving robots, all equipped with sensors and AI and able to make deliveries. Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, will utilize robots from Brain Corp., which specializes in offering floor-cleaning robots to retailers already.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Retail stores are rarely built by accident, particularly in the real world, if for no other reason than retail is sort of an intentional thing. But Recology CleanScapes — an operating company under Recology — is different from most of what is out there in retail. What does one buy at a Recology CleanScapes store?

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AUGUST 10, 2016

Supermarket chains dominated a list of hottest retailers in 2015, according to information released by the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) STORES magazine. The NRF released its annual list of Hot 100 Retailers on Aug. domestic sales with sales of at least $300 million based on figures compiled by Kantar Retail.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. A data team from the eCommerce retailer determines what is sold at the locations, Amazon Physical Stores Director Drew Sheriff told MetroWest Daily News.

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MAY 2, 2019

” According to Fortune , the company will test the service in 18 markets: Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Ft. Convenience store operator 7-Eleven is launching beer and cider delivery in select U.S. Customers can place their beer orders via the 7Now app. Louis, Missouri; and Tampa, Florida.

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APRIL 30, 2018

The sandwich chain will be redirecting its focus to international expansion even as it loses market share in the U.S. We’re focused now on strengthening market share.”. It’s just not what people want anymore,” Bob Phibbs, CEO of New York consultancy The Retail Doctor, told The Washington Post. “If

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The electric scooter and bike race in Washington, D.C. And in retail innovation, Indonesia’s Blibli.com has opened a cashierless brick-and-mortar store location for its BlibliMart brand. 200B: Value of the grocery market in Indonesia. All this, Today in Data. s program for dockless electric vehicle operators.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

During the quarter, equity markets continued to rise off their March lows as lockdown restrictions eased and the economy continued to recover. Markets began rallying after the government’s fiscal and monetary stimulus. While this was not an unprecedented motivator for markets, as we’ve discussed ( Are The Market Lows Behind Us?

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MARCH 11, 2020

A Newark Airport store will start using Amazon’s Just Walk Out cashierless technology on March 16, just days after the company announced it was licensing the platform to retailers, according to reports on Wednesday (March 11). . OTG operates 350 restaurants and shops in 10 airports, including in Minneapolis, Washington D.C.,

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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. Now, Mattress Firm is reportedly pondering bankruptcy, and analysts say that might be a good strategy for the retailer: Peter Keith of Piper Jaffray & Co. is no exception. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News….

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Meanwhile, Blue Bottle, founded in the early 2000s, is currently expanding in California, New York, Washington, Miami and Tokyo, bringing its total retail presence to more than 50 locations by the end of the year. Nestlé is the largest seller of instant coffee in the U.S.

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JULY 8, 2020

The retailer is said to have active postings for licensed insurance agents and Medicare sales supervisors that read, “Yes, you read that right, Walmart now has an insurance agency.”. The retailer has also formed a collaboration with an upstart called Capital Rx that offers current information on prescription prices.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Custom eCommerce framing startup Framebridge is opening its own in Washington, D.C., The coffee chain, which operates in 78 global markets, opened its first store in Seattle in the 1970s. On another note, retailers like Costco and Target are increasing their own sales quicker than those of iconic American names. “You

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Robinhood Markets Inc. is once again getting unwanted scrutiny in Washington after some of the brokerage’s customers took advantage of a flaw that allowed them to make highly leveraged trades without putting down enough cash to back the transactions. The glitch, labeled the “infinite money cheat code” by Reddit Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Territory Foods , among other health-optimized services, seeks to serve this market by creating an offering that fits its customers’ lives, diets and tastes – and fills a void in the market. To order a meal from Territory Foods, customers start by selecting one of the four regions – Washington, D.C.;

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

The Amazon Go prototype grocery stores will enable customers to make purchases without the need for a cashier, and are currently in testing in Seattle, Washington. In its first foray into grocery, the company purchased Whole Foods Market earlier this year for $13.7

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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. cities, and IKEA is no exception: It is intending to bring a “Planning Studio” to Manhattan this coming spring.

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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. On Wednesday (May 31), McDelivery with UberEATS launched at locations in the New York Metro Area, Fresno, Seattle, Denver, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.

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