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Fleet Feet: Running Shoe Retailer Sprints With Technology

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The Carrboro, North Carolina-based chain has used its technology-first strategy to get, keep and grow its customer base – even while its stores were shut down early in the pandemic. While stores were closed, Fleet Feet saw tremendous growth in its online business. As the biggest running shoe specialty chain in the U.S.,

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Walmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Keeping Ahead Of The COVID-19 Outbreak

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Both of the nation’s mega-retail players have spent the week strategizing how to strike a balance between three goals — protecting their thousands of employees, serving their massive customer bases and keeping supply chains operating at as close to normal as imaginable given the highly abnormal circumstances.

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Bringing The Video Store Back In The Age Of Netflix

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Customers increasingly purchase their tickets online on the way to the theater and carry them on their phones, as opposed to lining up at the box office. Though not as heavily publicized as the retail store apocalypse, theaters are closing as foot traffic falls. There have been changes to the model on the margin.

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Fintech Fundings: 15 Companies Raise $125 Million Week Ending May 1

Fintech Labs Insights

Online auto insurance comparison site. Online & mobile payment solutions in Southeast Asia. HQ: Charlotte, North Carolina. Online real estate investment platform. Payments via social media. Tags: Payments, mobile, social, Facebook, Startup Chile (investor). Total raised: $61.7 million Seed.

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The Real Hunger Games: A Battle Royale In The Grocery Aisles

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online grocery sales since 2017, the largest share of any single retailer and double its closest competitor. Acceptance of SNAP/EBT online : Amazon is one of several retailers, including Walmart, selected by the USDA to pilot the use of SNAP/EBT online to buy groceries. District 2: Walmart.

Branding 101
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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

CB Insights

In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery.

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

William Mills

Silver Fusion Retail Outlet: Where Snowbirds Shop”. Integrated with major retailer API’s like Amazon, eBay, Best Buy and several other aspirational brands. Most PFM solutions come from a bank-oriented side; this seems to be taking the model from both the retailer and the banking side. What do people aspire to purchase?”

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