PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Amid less expensive destinations for kids’ online clothing and declining traffic in malls, Gymboree Group Inc. The retailer, which has just under 950 locations, filed for protection from creditors in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Bloomberg reported.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. In preparation for the holiday season this year, the retailer has updated its website and also plans to have a larger array of electronics, toys and fashion products.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The Fort Worth, Texas-based retailer franchise said it filed for chapter 11 protection Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond, Virginia. The company expects to operate its business in the normal course during this process,” Pier 1 said in its statement. The bankruptcy financing from lenders including Bank of America N.A.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Its operating loss swelled to $291 million, 34 percent of sales, up from $2.6 The one bright spot was online sales, which increased to $164.7 At the start of the year, Signet operated 2,900 stores in every state sporting about a dozen names. Signet also operates JamesAllen.com. That’s down from $1.4 million, or 0.2

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Virginia Operations Meeting Branding 132

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

operates a nationwide chain of casual dining restaurants offering a diverse range of menu items. We are excited to be expanding our delivery options and combining BJ’s extensive menu with the convenience of Grubhub,” said Lon Ledwith, executive vice president of operations at BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. BJ’s Restaurants, Inc.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Macy’s announced it is hiring 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, as well as adding more employees to handle online orders. The retailer said that around 23,500 of the seasonal positions will be based in facilities that support online sales, an increase of 5,500 positions compared to 2017. Macy’s, Inc.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As reported last week, Bear Down Logistics is no longer working with Amazon, with the firm cutting hundreds of jobs in the wake of that severance, and effectively ceasing operations across five states. Postmates said its overall Delivery-as-a-Service has leapt by more than 300 percent year over year across retailers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

The paper reported that, in May, the online retailer “added two directors to its 11-member board that were nominated by activist investor Starboard Capital. The service said it attracts some 19 million unique monthly visitors to its online automotive marketplace. and autoscout24.de. and autoscout24.de.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

To be successful, restaurant operators will look to strike the perfect formula of on- and off-premises for their business as consumers strive for convenience, but continue to look to the social escape that restaurants provide. That explains why Seamless and Door Dash are investing in logistics and operational costs.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The Seattle-based eCommerce operator and cloud computing provider decided to build in both Crystal City, an urban area in North Virginia near Washington, D.C., Redfin also said that “online views of homes currently for sale in Crystal City and Long Island City on Redfin.com have skyrocketed. 13) on its new headquarters.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

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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MARCH 9, 2018

Kroger operates nearly 2,800 supermarket chains nationwide, including Ralphs, Harris Teeter, Food 4 Less and its namesake Kroger stores. Customers are making purchases on the site at a higher frequency than before and [are] spending more per online order.”. And households that transact with us online spend even more.”.

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JUNE 20, 2016

The Index is based on two key components: whether a merchant adds value through a mobile app or website, and how consistent online and in-store experiences are for consumers. The Index includes in-depth research on more than 100 retailers across the U.S. We researched a breadth of merchants in the Top 500 based on total U.S.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

“We are going to have to lean into this digitized world, so that we can continue to serve our customers well into the 21st century,” ICBA President and CEO Cam Fine told the 24th World Congress of Savings and Retail Banks in Washington, D.C., See “Closing the Gap” in the November 2015 issue, online at www.independentbanker.org.).

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: Philadelphia, PA. Operating Location: Menlo Park, CA. Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The Paris-headquartered retail chain of personal care and beauty stores has more than 400 shops across North America that feature nearly 3,000 brands, along with its own private label. Instacart, which operates in the U.S. The firm boasts 85 million customers and more than 200,000 retail partners worldwide. Florida and Texas.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 27, 2017

Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Daon demonstrated its Identity X platform at FinovateFall 2016. UnionBank has been a publicly-traded firms on the Philippine Stock Exchange since 1992, the year it was granted a license to operates as a universal bank.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The Crystal City, Virginia HQ2 plans are still underway, as are plans for a new operations hub in Nashville. The coin will not be for retail customers, and is currently being tested for internal use by institutional customers looking to move large sums of money. Has Apple come to save online journalism – or to bury it?

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AUGUST 31, 2018

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.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The retailer noted that the holiday sales season had started well but fell off in mid-December. Macy’s also noted that online sales growth had grown by “double digit” percentages — but did not specify which two digits, leading one to infer that it was likely lower double-digit growth. percent to 2.5 percent comparable sales growth.

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West Virginia Virginia Retail Management 122

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

That means any bank that operates across state lines in the U.S. Or, if reports are correct, the IRS has actually outsourced that process to a Virginia company for $1.7 Alibaba’s Singles’ Day : A sizzle as the eCommerce retailer beat its previous record and logged $30.8 Hence the IRS and its five tons of cash to process.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Pixelon: Online video vaporware. LendingClub was one of many online lending services founded in the mid-2000s as entrepreneurs eyed the Byzantine financial sector as an area ripe for disruption. Founded by Renaud Laplanche in 2006, LendingClub quickly became one of the largest online lenders in the US. Total Funding: $1.1B.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project. and a dearth of people with technical, operational experience running energy facilities. The lack of people with real operational experience “hurt KiOR a lot,” says O’Connor.

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