PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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MAY 9, 2018

Brands’ Pizza Hut is bringing beer delivery to approximately 100 of its restaurants in California and Arizona. The new rollout will include cities such as Tucson, Prescott and Winslow in Arizona, and Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Sacramento and Santa Barbara in California. The news comes as Yum!

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MAY 28, 2018

This is the opposite of what has been seen in some other categories, where smaller-format stores are helping to stem the tide of closures – or, at least, retailers seem to hope that will be the case. Outside of grocery, crafts retailer A.C. Grocers, for instance, are heartily embracing small-format stores.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Quick service restaurant (QSR) chain Pizza Hut has begun testing beer delivery at its Arizona locations, according to Tuesday reports from CNBC. Owned by Yum Brands, the Pizza Hut QSR pizza chain already serves both beer and wine in many locations. Wine delivery is slated for availability in January.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The states leading the probe include Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and Utah. The digital-first shift means there are more options for smaller, direct-to-consumer brands, to find first-time customers from around the country or even the world. Third-party sellers generated over $3.5 But Sticky.io

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

As an extension of its non-consumables strategic plan, Dollar General has unveiled its new popshelf retail store concept. Dollar General, which ran 16,720 retail locations in 46 states as of July 31, sells products from private brands and manufacturers like Energizer, Clorox, Hanes and Procter & Gamble, among others.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Digital delivery service goPuff will acquire BevMo , a specialty beverage retailer based on the U.S. The blog post touted BevMo's loyal customer base and said the company has a "deep infrastructure" and "iconic brand" to match goPuff's tech-driven system. West Coast, according to a blog post from goPuff.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“Last October, Kroger introduced Home Chef retail meal kits, and we’re now expanding to add the easy-to-prepare recipes to hundreds of new locations, providing convenient access to the meal solution at more than 700 stores. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

growth, IKEA is reining in its brick-and-mortar expansion efforts: The furniture retailer cancelled planned stores in North Carolina, Tennessee and Arizona. They have found that in a number of established markets, they are really behind the curve in terms of online,” said GlobalData Retail Analyst Neil Saunders told USA Today.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The company carries brands such as the Detroit Spice Company and Lush Gourmet (Nuts). When people try a crazy recipe for a hot sauce that uses locally grown peppers or other high-end ingredients and put it next to a regular national brand, “it doesn’t even compare,” Wright said. Consumers can purchase subscriptions as gifts for others.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

“Here’s our opportunity to get re-engaged at a college level,” Chief Brand Officer Marianne Radley told Bloomberg. Brands has stepped up its focus on Pizza Hut since the company spun off its business in China in 2016. Pizza and beer go well together, and testing has seen positive results. The news comes as Yum!

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

Udelv also debuted its brand-new delivery vehicle, called the Newton, which is based on Baidu’s Apollo open source platform. The pilot program with Walmart will happen at stores in Surprise, Arizona. We’re] now ready to work closely with America’s largest retailers to bring convenience and savings to hundreds of thousands of people.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

28), the retailer launched a campaign called “Get Your Penney’s Worth,” whereby certain items are available for purchase for just one penny. In a new promotion designed to bring foot traffic into its stores, JC Penney is taking the latter part of its name (almost) literally. Yesterday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

“Improving engagement” has become just another platitude in retailers’ back pockets as they figure out which channel of the increasingly fragmented online world they should focus on, but Nordstrom may have struck gold with a new Snapchat-centered production. The final video was seen 6.7

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JUNE 15, 2016

” That’s been a law of the natural retail world for as long as head-to-head competition has been the means by which one brand sinks and another brand swims. “There is no doubt that retail is making a big bet on health care,” Greene warned. “If you can’t beat them, join them.”

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JANUARY 8, 2019

The retailer plans to pilot technology products using Microsoft’s Azure platform at two stores, one in Ohio and one in Washington. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the companies would “redefine the shopping experience for millions of customers at both Kroger and other retailers around the world.”. At that rate, U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

Not all kiosks are as high-tech as CaliBurger’s machines, but QSRs and other retailers are rolling out their own versions of the machines across the country. According to the PYMNTS Unattended Retail Tracker , it comes down to “offering the right combination of in-store tech, mobile solutions and online features.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality. The world’s largest retailer announced it has acquired the crowdsourced, on-demand delivery marketplace Cornershop for $225 million. Same-store sales, one of the favored metrics for judging retail, excluding fuel, increased 1.6

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

The world of retail can be a fickle mistress. Or in the case of Chipotle , years and years of buzz, customer loyalty and positive brand image were undone after a couple of diners got sick from eating at Chipotle locations across the country (which the brand is still trying to recover from). Best Buy reported $8.53

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JUNE 26, 2017

Arizona temps grounded flights last week when they got about 120, and even the Pacific Northwest saw temperatures get up over the 100 mark in Portland. And if you can’t stay cool this summer – and odds are if you’re reading this from Arizona you can’t – we can at least keep you very well informed. But as for the lazy, well not so much.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

There has been no shortage of food fads, dietary crazes and “restaurant of the future” concepts that have played out nationwide, most of which the brand has politely passed on. And that has presented a challenge to the Red Robin brand.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Carvana has perfected its business to the point that it no longer sees the need to create a four-hour process to upsell its customer on certain items, Ryan Keeton, Carvana co-founder and chief brand officer, explained in a recent PYMNTS interview. “We It’s a great marketing presence,” he said. About the Tracker.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The retailer has made the Walmart app more Rx-friendly, opening express lanes in stores to reduce the amount of time people spend waiting in lines for refills. Brand-name medications will be priced at 40 percent off, and generics will be discounted by 80 percent.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

For now, Konnect has venues spread out across the country from Ohio to Texas and California, along with some venues in Arizona and Las Vegas. The app has many venues in the Washington, D.C. area as the company is based there.)

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

HOHM , for instance, recently brought its pods to the campus of the University of Arizona. In order to support the free hours, the company has partnerships with brands that pay to have their products like mattresses, sheets and pillows in the pods. The company has Stripe’s technology linked up to its website.).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

The company that makes Arizona Iced Tea is getting into the marijuana business, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Arizona Beverage Company has made a deal with Dixie Brands Inc., The deal will also give Arizona the right to purchase up to $10 million in stake in Dixie Brands. percent in 2013 to 16.2

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2018

Here at PYMNTS, we see it all, often in the form of press releases – most of which claim to be the next big thing in retail, commerce and financial services. For reference, a top-of-the-line pair of Neuticals retails for $469. Smucker bought Ainsworth Pet Nutrition, parent of the Rachael Ray Nutrish pet food brand, for about $1.7

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APRIL 25, 2018

Quincy is the first of what the coffee brand is calling concept shops that are set to open throughout the rest of the year. And, while the company has rolled out the feature at company-owned locations in Arizona and Southern California, franchise locations and additional geographic areas are waiting in the wings for later this year.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Grocers are using autonomous vehicles to help bring fresh food to the doorsteps of consumers, and news came this week that another retailer plans to use the technology: Approximately one month after Kroger announced that it had started to use autonomous vehicles in Arizona, Stop & Shop is intending to use them in the Bay State.

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MAY 21, 2021

Emily Merline, originally from Milwaukee, WI, attended Arizona State University on a National Merit Scholarship. This FinTech app allows users to invest in a portfolio in their favorite brands or companies (DoorDash, Lululemon, Target, Costco, Amazon, etc.) More About Deepti Dhar’s Bright Paths Project: Welcome to Stock Market.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Theranos built itself in stealth mode while raising hundreds of millions of dollars and inking deals to put its wellness centers in Walgreens stores in California and Arizona. Three months later, Amazon contributed to a $50M funding round earmarked for promoting the Pets.com brand. The rise and fall of Pets.com. in 2000 to 232.1M

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Nuro pilot is now Walmart’s second of the kind; the first was with Udelv to test autonomous grocery deliveries in Arizona. Over the summer, the retail giant partnered with autonomous vehicle startup Gatik AI to pilot grocery delivery from Walmart’s main warehouse in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

DoorDash and Chowly , for instance, are partnering to provide restaurant brands of all sizes the opportunity to grow their business through offering delivery. The latest campuses that will get the delivery robots are University of Pittsburgh, George Mason University, Purdue University and Northern Arizona University.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

Controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio got a surprise presidential pardon, one that President Trump let slip during an Arizona rally earlier in the week. For those who fear their shopping for Starbucks schwag days are over, fear not: The goods will remain available from other retailers, including grocery stores and Amazon.

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