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Retail Pulse: Mattress Firm Mulls Bankruptcy; Walmart Plans Robotic Grocery Pickup

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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. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News…. is no exception.

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Marketplace Lending And Curbside Delivery Sizzle, Ridesharing Fizzles

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The biggest story this week in grocery came, as it often does, care of the new Whole Foods Market as operated by Amazon. Curbside delivery is coming to the grocery chain, starting with two test runs — one in Virginia Beach one in Sacramento. Walmart wasn’t the only retailer trumpeting its efficacy in its last earnings report.

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The Election That Misplaced Small Businesses

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Small business owners don’t expect to be the star of the show, but wherever we went — and we went to Vermont , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , Virginia , South Carolina and Georgia — we heard the same two things over and over again.

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Pokémon GO: Game-Changing Game Or High-Tech Pet Rock?

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And it’s that power to pull the consumer from point A to point B — without their feeling pulled at all — that is the built-in feature that is beginning to look a bit to some like the pixie dust retail could use right now to get customers into the stores. As it turns out, the Poké-conomy is a more complicated place. The App Store Record(s).

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The Super Tuesday Super Retail Rundown

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These numbers can help inform what might happen in, say, Texas, which has shown good outperformance and where people may be feeling relatively flush, versus New Hampshire, South Carolina and Massachusetts, which have lagged and where there may be an undercurrent of dissatisfaction as people head to primary voting.

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Massachusetts: Frozen Growth In The Frozen North

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We also noted a trend in MA that we started noting in our previous jaunts to Virginia, South Carolina and New Hampshire. At this point, I think you’re going to find a lot of business owners who are just waiting and worrying about, you know, ‘now what?’”.

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Can Merchandise Make A Presidential Campaign?

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At any rate, as is often the case as soon as the town halls start popping up, the states of Iowa and New Hampshire are suddenly a lot of politicians’ favorite vacation spots, and friends and family are probably starting up some political Facebook arguments. But, most important to us here at PYMNTS, the merchandise is out.