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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

And the wine retailer of the year? The 2019 wine retailer of the year was online – specifically, it was a good year for Wine.com. There are gatekeepers for economic reasons all over the world of online retail. The company’s growth has been consistent with the overall online retail category.

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MAY 17, 2016

the market that saw the greatest inflation was that of Oakland, with a 29.8 There are huge premiums being placed right now on being close to the consumer; speed of service, speed of delivery is a critical component of why people choose to buy from one retailer over another,” Egan said. “To percent growth. And, within the U.S.,

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The startup, which is located in Oakland, California, aims to facilitate food deliveries for nearby restaurants that receive high volumes of orders from delivery companies like Uber Eats. The company, called Virtual Kitchen Co.,

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Grocery retailer Winn-Dixie opened a second location of its next-gen, upscale store concept in Tampa, Florida, in the beginning of November. In San Francisco, Oakland and Albany, California, consumers voted to see a one-cent-per-ounce tax on all sugary beverages, joining Berkeley, California, which instated a similar tax two years ago.

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MAY 18, 2016

Mishandling inventory has usually been brick-and-mortar retail’s forte. But just when it looked like new retailers hip to the omnicommerce game had escaped the pitfalls that plagued their less-mobile counterparts, it’s starting to look like inventory might be the common anchor that, at one time or another, holds everyone back.

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MARCH 30, 2016

With California’s recent move marking the boldest effort to date to address the wage gap affecting hourly workers, it — and the inherent pressure it puts on other states to make similar strides of their own, regardless of movement (or lack thereof) at the federal level — puts the retail industry in particular in the national spotlight.

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

Small Business Administration (SBA) will recognize and honor the critical and life altering contributions of America’s moms and pops, manufacturing enterprises, Main Street retailers and entrepreneurs during National Small Business Week. Tune in all week for live-streaming , beginning at 7:30 p.m.

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JULY 7, 2017

Retail in general is suffering as consumers pinch pennies. Gazzali’s Supermarket of East Oakland is one of them. Still, despite growth in online sales, brick-and-mortar grocers continue to dominate, with 97 percent of consumer packaged-goods dollars being spent in physical retail stores.

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OCTOBER 1, 2016

But, then again, you probably haven’t seen what a few enterprising retailers are up to when it comes to giving these awkward, shin-bruising staples of the brick-and-mortar retail world a new, high tech lease on life. A staple of most retailers, and expected by all consumers, they’re made by numerous U.S.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2019

The startup, located in Oakland, California, aims to facilitate food deliveries for nearby restaurants that receive high volumes of orders from delivery companies like Uber Eats. When it comes to true delivery — not dine-in — the rise of the connected home and voice-assisted retail is encouraging further growth as well.

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OCTOBER 5, 2019

Paul, Minnesota; Dallas, Texas; and Oakland, California – in what has become known of late as the library fee amnesty movement that has been quietly (they are libraries after, all) picking up steam in 2019. But perhaps the scourge of library fines is migrating to the past.

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AUGUST 25, 2017

Instead the Oakland-based startup has built fish tanks into its grander goal of bringing power back to the people when it comes to eating natural, but making it easier to produce one’s own food in-house. It’s combining clean aesthetics with the dirt-in-your-nails homesteading feel.”.

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FICO

JANUARY 10, 2023

In Oakland, one convenience store customer recently found a card skimmer. This card skimmer, found in an Oakland convenience store, has a recorder that is able to steal personal information found in a card's magnetic strip or chip. In his blog FICO Integrates Fraud and Scam Detection in FICO Falcon Retail Banking 3.0

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 7, 2016

HQ: Oakland, California. Tipping system for retail point of sale. Source: Crunchbase. Enabling investments in rental real estate. Latest round: $7 million Series. Total raised: $7 million. Source: Crunchbase. Mobile wallet. Latest round: $6.6 million Series B. Total raised: $36.9 Latest round: $3.03 Total raised: $7.05 million Seed.

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MAY 12, 2016

Signs of the Golden State Warriors’ recent success are far from contained within the NBA team’s hometown of Oakland. Chinese officials recently eliminated the nation’s parcel tax for eCommerce retail imports, resulting in a 70-percent discount on import taxes for single eCommerce transactions. In the U.S.,

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MARCH 23, 2016

And if other retailers get the same idea, the competition when it comes to having the best AI-based “conversations” with consumers might really start to get interesting. This matters, particularly for a retailer like The North Face, which makes a lot of specialized versions of the same thing. A Long Time In The Making.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

retailer has no change). No surcharges on cash payments.This is wrong because retailers should be allowed to surcharge for whatever they want. To retailers, and to most other people, the small coins are pointless and a waste of time and effort. Who can blame retailers for wanting to get rid of them then?

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JUNE 6, 2017

According to the Pew Charitable Trusts, the group of workers whose incomes rise and fall by as much as 25 percent over the course of a year is mostly made up of hourly workers in retail and gig economy workers. The tour will wrap up later this year in Oakland, Calif., The series kicked off June 1 in Columbia, S.C.,

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AUGUST 13, 2019

And then there is Oakland-based Boxbot, founded by ex-Uber and Tesla engineers and backed by Toyota AI Ventures. Those tests were compelling enough for Gatik to announce an autonomous delivery pilot with Walmart earlier this summer, along with a $4.5 million seed round. Boxbot combines two levels of automation in its design.

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