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The right mobile messaging is critical to a brand's marketing efforts

Payments Dive

McDonald's and Skogen's Festival Foods discussed mobile messaging at the recent CONNECT: The Mobile CX Summit in Chicago. Executives from Caesars Entertainment, Guess?,

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Innovation-Seeking Big Brands Pop Up In Small Spaces

PYMNTS

Brands might want a space to test new concepts with shoppers in brick-and-mortar retail environments, but they don’t always want the time and expense involved in building out a permanent store. It also comes with a bit of staffing twist, as Macy’s own team members will service the brands per a February The Market@Macys report.

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Target Opening Additional Small Stores In NYC And Chicago

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Target has announced it is opening additional small-scale stores in New York City (NYC) and Chicago. In 2016, the company announced it had opened 23 “flex-format” stores — smaller stores less than 50,000 square feet designed for urban shoppers — in metro areas like Chicago, Philadelphia and Berkeley, California.

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How A Chicago Credit Union Became a Personalization Powerhouse

The Financial Brand

This article How A Chicago Credit Union Became a Personalization Powerhouse appeared first on The Financial Brand. Chicago Patrolmen's Federal Credit Union has grown an uncommon market reach while focused on one common bond. How far can banking institutions get serving a segment?

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How BNPL Is Helping BlackCool Boost Brand Awareness And Availability

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a lifestyle brand that offers apparel, accessories and fragrances as well as spirits and hand-rolled cigars. Registering And Extending Brand Appeal . Williform said he conceived BlackCool as a brand inspired by the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s that brings about a positive change for Black culture.

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Amazon Opening Up Physical Store In Chicago

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Amazon is dominating in the eCommerce world, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t see value in physical store fronts, with the eCommerce retailer gearing up to open up an offline store in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood. This isn’t the first time Amazon has melded the online and offline worlds.

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Sephora’s High-Tech Chicago Outpost

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Sephora is expanding its Beauty TIP Workshop store format to Chicago — with some fancy new high tech flourishes added. The beauty brand currently has similar locations in Boston, San Francisco and Toronto. How much could there possibly be to learn?

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