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OCTOBER 10, 2018

BuzzFeed is planning to open a toy store in New York City later this fall. New York Post reported that the store, called “Camp,” will be located in an 11,000-square-foot space in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. In a unique twist, the store’s theme and merchandise will change several times a year.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

And several of them are affecting the retail industry. And judging from the continuing proliferation of videos on social media, the ability for retailers to enforce even the minimum safety standards of mask-wearing is risky business for employees. That line of thinking also leads to the counter-currents of retailing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

At the basic level of retail industry chatter online, much of the focus is on the battle between brick-and-mortar versus eCommerce. While the closing of several big box and department stores alongside online shopping’s reshaping the retail shopping are certainly discussions worth having, it doesn’t encompass the entire retail spectrum.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

That’s the oversimplified view of the business model adopted by Wardrobe , a new kind of peer-to-peer fashion rental company that on Tuesday (Sept. 8) is breaking out of its New York City beta test and into a nationwide launch. And it has renters who are encouraged to share their experiences on social media.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers in the U.S. AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Just in time for the holidays, Walmart employees are being lured to download a smartphone-based social media app aimed at advocating for better pay and labor benefits. Ironically, as it turns out, Wal-Mart says it is soon launching its own inter-business social media app related to human resources issues and questions.

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JUNE 22, 2020

The struggles of Neiman Marcus are the same as other brick-and-mortar retailers, hobbled by peoples’ shift to digital shopping, which has only been supercharged by the pandemic as people were forced to stay indoors.

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JULY 2, 2018

We think those brands – those with an authentic history and story to tell – are going to be the winners in this changing retail environment.”. In launching their first pop-up shop in Times Square during the holiday season in 2017, Conn noted, they got a very front-row view of the new nature of the transient retail promise.

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MAY 16, 2019

New York City’s first outlet center is opening this week. Empire Outlets is a 340,000-square-foot (31,600-square-meter) mall located on Staten Island, featuring many traditional retail brands, including American Eagle, Banana Republic, Nike, Old Navy and more. “We

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APRIL 27, 2016

In New York City, the tab apparently averages out at around $82,299, while in Chicago the proper celebration of eternal love and fealty runs at about $61,265. Wedding dresses in the past, explained Brittanny Carter, industry analyst at IBISWorld, were sort of a tricky proposition for retailers.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

The news is another complication for Amazon in a city where it plans to build a brand-new campus. billion and recruit 25,000 people in the city in the next 15 years. One point of contention is the fact that some New York City politicians were shut out of negotiations with Amazon held by the governor and mayor.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The move will bring 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. And the retailer is flexible on timing: brands can stay for as short a time period as a month. Compared to traditional pop-up stores, Macy’s own staff services the brands.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

On March 24, on what would have usually been a busy day at the start of spring, the state ordered all nonessential retail shops on the green to shut down, as the pandemic crept its way north from New York City and south from Boston. We had just gotten in three new shelves to place in the middle of the store,” he said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

Millennials could be helping to bring new life to call center commerce. That’s reportedly the case when it comes to luxury retail brand Gucci. The Gucci call center effort comes at a time of change for luxury retail and call center commerce. The change in behavior is due, in part, to social media sites such as Instagram.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Coty tried to remake CoverGirl as it moved away from TV ads in favor of social media influencers and made the development of new items quicker. It also opened a two-story Times Square store in New York City that had CoverGirl-branded workout gear as well as sequined pillows next to blush and mascara.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Designed on iOS, the Shack App allows guests to order via smartphone — and pick up their meals in Midtown (at the Midtown East Shack in New York City). It also, of course, wires guests directly to social media to share feedback. Shake Shack has officially introduced a mobile app that includes an ordering platform.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

To ease the online shopping experience, retailers are increasingly turning to social media platforms to offer consistent support to their customers. With consumers expected to shell out a striking $682 billion this holiday season, retailers are going the extra mile to meet them where they are in a simpler and faster way.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

The pop-up store , in an era where retail is resetting rapidly all around, has become a popular option for all types of businesses, including eTailers looking to put feelers out into physical commerce without a big commitment, or even physical retailers trying to test-drive an expansion into a new market.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Its areas of focus include cable TV, telecom and retail, and many analysts have said STARTEK is exactly the type of firm a player planning to go into cable home shopping might buy. It has been a fairly dramatic piece of the retail landscape for the last few years — albeit a quiet one. real estate. Evine is getting ready to expand.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

It launched in 2015 by UPenn graduates Rachel Cohen and Andrés Modak who found the market for furnishing their post-graduation New York City apartment to be somewhat lacking. That venture is also one its founders shrugged off for a while.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

To get the word out about its products and educate the market, All Y’alls Foods is working with a few moderate influencers, who might have 25,000 to 50,000 social media followers. Beyond eCommerce, consumers can check the website to find local stores that carry its products in cities such as Austin, New York City and Denver.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Here’s what the shopper sees, using 5th Avenue in New York City as a model. Choices can be shared via social media, and shoppers will be able to follow celebrities and buy from their favorite stores and sponsors. government to help businesses use it while the country is on lockdown.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

New York City–based startup Atom Tickets, a social ticketing mobile app and website, is looking to put butts back into movie theater seats. The app uses predictive data analytics to suggest films based on previous orders and information from users’ linked social media accounts. In 2015, 1.32 billion in 2009.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

These bad actors often take advantage of the chaos to steal credit cards, scam merchants and wreak other types of retail havoc. A Mississippian applied for the position of “buyer” that promised him a salary of $98,400 plus commission to buy cell phones and ship them to an address in New York City.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Forster also allows those who are interested in joining the platform to send the company a note, and some trainers have reached out via social media. Forster also has a functioning brick-and-mortar gym in New York City , where instructors film content with real customers taking the classes.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Food trucks have been around since the 1970s, when taco trucks began making the rounds in New York City, but didn’t become a national sensation until 2008 when two events coincided in such a way as to make a long extant — but largely niche — subsegment of the restaurant game into a mass market phenomenon.

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MARCH 9, 2020

Currently exiting beta in New York City, Fahmy’s new company, DineVite, claims to put the discounts back where they belong — with the restaurant owners. The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media.

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JULY 28, 2018

And while bargain retailers charge vanishingly small amounts for their goods, all of those little sales add up to some pretty amazingly large figures for bargain-hunting consumers. “We Part of it is a savvy social media-based distribution model through WeChat. on New York City’s Fifth Avenue.

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MAY 4, 2019

They’re a limited edition and are only available in Austin, Seattle, Miami, Los Angeles and New York City. With the pervasive nature of social media, there is so much pressure to appear happy and perfect. The boxes are different colors, but the meals are the same. Each has a Whopper, French fries and a drink.

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JUNE 17, 2016

It surprised even us that after nine months of looking at the 650 sites that represent 70 percent of eCommerce volume and the review of 10K data points that big retailers did no better than small ones at optimizing their online sites for checkout. But now that we know why, hopefully, big retail can get to work on fixing the problem.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 7, 2016

Social media financial compliance specialist Gremln raised $1.4 Tipping system for retail point of sale. HQ: New York City. Social media management & compliance for financial institutions . Tags: Enterprise, compliance, social media, regulations, marketing, Finovate alum.

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FICO

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It seems like you can’t spend more than a minute or two reviewing online articles or social media without stumbling on something about artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning. But while AI is heralded as amazing new technology, it is in fact an amazing 30+-year-old, proven technology. Where I am going?

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FICO

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It seems like you can’t spend more than a minute or two reviewing online articles or social media without stumbling on something about artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning. But while AI is heralded as amazing new technology, it is in fact an amazing 30+-year-old, proven technology. Where I am going?

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

The impending “death of retail” has been projected for decades. But, in an increasingly digital world, brick-and-mortar retail shops are embracing new ways to disrupt the system and get an edge on customer attention. One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Get the 54-page retail report.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The firm also announced another major retail play: It will be opening pop-up shops within select Macy’s locations across the U.S. The new shops will feature 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores, and will be housed in The Market @ Macy’s.

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