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Prime Members In San Francisco And Atlanta Get Free Whole Foods Delivery

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Adding to the sundry benefits of Prime, Amazon is launching free two-hour delivery of Whole Foods groceries in Atlanta and San Francisco through Prime Now. Customers in San Francisco can order “select alcohol” for delivery as well. throughout 2018.

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Retail Pulse: Rent The Runway Opens San Francisco Store; Crate & Barrel Plans Restaurant

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To break into the brick-and-mortar world, some digitally native retailers have opened shops inside department stores. Rent the Runway , in particular, is opening a 2,600-square-foot store in San Francisco after outgrowing its 1,800-square-foot space inside of a Nieman Marcus store in the city. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News….

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Five At Five: Amazon Gets Beat In San Francisco

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Cashierless Challenger Zippin Debuts i n San Francisco. Zippin, the cashierless store operator, is beating Amazon and its Amazon Go stores to the punch, opening up its first cashierless store in San Francisco. Today’s news includes coverage of how a company beat Amazon to the punch, and a new batch of worries for Tesla.

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Google Testing Same-Day Delivery In San Francisco

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Google is getting into the grocery delivery market, with NBC News reporting that it is testing a same-day delivery service that will bring food and other online orders to consumers’ doorsteps. The idea behind it, noted NBC News, is for Google to make people even more reliant on the Internet so it can turn around and sell more online ads.

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What The San Francisco 49ers’ New Loyalty Rewards Play Means For The Field

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As consumer preferences change and competition becomes more keen, retailers and commerce operators are under even more pressure to get creative with loyalty programs. The latest example of that comes from the NFL.

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San Francisco Startup Lumoid Lets Best Buy Shoppers Try Before They Buy

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Thanks to a partnership with San Francisco startup Lumoid, it’s a rental option that lets electronics shoppers try before they buy. Could this be the edge that the $39 billion retailer needs to stay abreast of Amazon? What does Best Buy have that Amazon doesn’t?

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Instacart-Walmart Delivery Pact Heats Up Online Grocery Wars

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11), reported by CNBC , that retail behemoth Walmart has struck a partnership with Instacart to offer same-day deliver across a few, select markets in the United States, focused on four initial pilots in Oklahoma and California. Amazon, for its part, said online grocery sales tripled in its latest quarter. News came Tuesday (Aug.

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