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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. Customers on Walmart.com can access styles from brands like C&C California, Butter Super Soft, Puma and BCBG.

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JANUARY 15, 2020

The grocery battles are heating up in retail, and that is sparking innovation and could lead to even more disruption. Some of that was on display at the NRF retail show in New York City earlier this week. 14), is not the only place where grocery store innovation is coming from. Walmart’s Big Move.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The first Influencer Fraudnomics Summit in New York City on Tuesday (Sept. Like with all new innovations, there are going to be some hitches to it,” Cavazos said. 17) will discuss the fraud problem stemming from influencer marketing.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The move will bring 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Market @ Macy’s helps both emerging and established brands reach new audiences by showcasing them in a physical space inside Macy’s.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Airports are providing luxury brands with access to consumers with extra time on their hands who want to buy unique and unusual items they can’t find near their residences. shopping malls are on the decline, are also becoming locations where brands are innovating with products. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

As Hershey’s Brand Publicity Lead Anna Lingeris told CNN, “as the #1 Halloween candy (with over half of candy buyers purchasing Reese’s), Reese’s has come up with a solution: Give us your unwanted candy, and we’ll give you what you actually want – Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.”. and run until 9:00 p.m.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Lord & Taylor is opening a small shop in New York City for the holiday shopping season. After evaluating best-use scenarios for its New York City Fifth Avenue location, the Company has decided not to maintain a presence at this location,” its parent company, Hudson’s Bay Company, said at the time.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

Hudson Yards is a New York City neighborhood that’s quickly establishing itself as a must-visit destination as Manhattan’s retail influence heads west, bringing with it a technological edge, Forbes reported Sunday (Aug. Himmel, president and Chief Executive Officer of Related Urban, told Forbes.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. According to a recent report from Forrester and Adobe , brands defined as “experience-driven” grow at a clip of 19 percent per year, compared to 13 percent for others.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are opening experiential concepts by working with other brands as they look to engage consumers with experiences instead of products. The concept has a presence in 36 Macy’s locations ranging from Union Square in San Francisco to Herald Square in New York City. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Luxury fitness brand Equinox is set next month to open its first hotel in New York City, “with more on the horizon in Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Santa Clara, Calif.,” As well, the furnishings brand RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, plans to open RH Guesthouse in New York in the fall.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

Even though its business model was centered around food discovery and the novel experience of shopping at new locations, Pop Up Grocer also has the digital shift covered. For a business built on a nomadic and innovative business model, the two-year-old firm has reacted quickly and expertly to an unforeseen crisis by pushing into eCommerce.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

For one, the pace of innovation keeps speeding up – and that holds true for all types of retail niches, from apparel to grocery to others. That’s a view recently expressed by Dealerscope in a report on the activities of CE Week 2019 , which took place in New York City in June.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Never to be outdone when it comes to innovation, Chipotle is testing a new concept that lets OTE customers pick up their orders at a convenient window without entering the location. At its heart, mobile ordering and delivery is part of a consistent, positive brand experience,” he noted. The Shape of Eats to Come.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Let’s face it, data analysis can be a costly and time-consuming affair and can sometimes take weeks or months of scouring through troves and troves of data from a number of channels, like sales, surveys, customer reviews and social media, to even interpret how consumers might be responding to a certain brand or product. ”

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JULY 22, 2019

While not exactly an empire yet, the online retailer launched its 13th store in New York City last month and it features the ability to use cash, answering a complaint that’s been lodged at unattended retail generally. New Developments. The next wave of automated retail might be heralded by U.K.

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APRIL 5, 2017

In the age of e-commerce and discounts, it’s becoming harder for brands overall to compete. Consumers seek deals and discounts and care less and less about brand loyalty. Earlier this year, we reported the fashion brand’s departure with its CEO, Stefan Larsson due to creative differences.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Among the defining endeavors of our time — at least for the worlds of payment and commerce — has been to bring brick-and-mortar retail stores into the new century. It’s an ongoing effort that has probably seen more failures than success stories, but that’s certainly not keeping people from betting on new innovations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Blue Apron has introduced a brand-new offering called Knick Knacks, which are specialty recipe ingredient kits that let people combine a chosen protein and produce. Jet is the first to have a slew of different Knick Knacks for same-day or following-day delivery across the New York City area.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

based location, Hutong in New York City, and needed a flexible, adaptable solution that could provide our global company and overseas owners with immediate visibility into operations,” said Aqua Restaurant Group. There are also add-on tools to advance brand loyalty. We recently opened our first U.S.-based

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

20, which is the day that the brand is expected to announce a foldable phone and the Galaxy S10, Apple Insider reported. The outlet reported that the first Samsung stores will be at Roosevelt Field on Long Island, The Americana at Brand in Los Angeles and The Galleria in Houston. The company will reportedly open three stores on Feb.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

New York City's shelter-in-place measures profoundly challenged rotating retail concept store Showfields , a business offering an immersive shopping experience for digital-first and digital-only retailers. I think what we’re seeing is there is a sort of spectrum of comfort levels right now in New York City,” Hunt said. “We

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MARCH 25, 2019

Work, she noted, that starting next month will soon change the lives of millions of commuters nationwide, starting in New York City – and will give card issuers greater opportunity to stay at the top of consumers’ wallets. Building New Consumer Habits.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

“We emerge from Chapter 11 as a stronger, more innovative retailer, brand partner and employer.”. At the conclusion of this process, I remain profoundly impressed by the strength of Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman, the commitment of our associates, the unwavering support of our brand partners and the loyalty of our customers.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

Like many innovators starting out, BarkBox cofounder and CEO Matt Meeker was a man looking to solve his own problem. I have a Great Dane named Hugo, which is fairly rare in New York City. And his problem was a Great Dane named Hugo. “I And every day I thought about what I can do to make this enormous dog happy.

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DECEMBER 18, 2018

Ma noted in an interview that the firm’s most important innovation is that its underlying technology platform easily integrates online assortments from new brands. Currently, Zola’s registry has about 60,000 products on offer from 600 brands. Their intention is to remain a digitally centered brand.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The pair-up will also see some private-label Kroger brands migrating onto Walgreens’ shelves. It’s clearly the same operating logic that drove Walgreens to recently announce its partnership with beauty brand and subscription box early innovator Birchbox. in early 2019. in early 2019.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

In the world of retail innovations, merchants are looking to reach shoppers by interacting with them through multiple touchpoints. Old Navy’s move came as the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index found that a large share of modern shoppers tap into multiple channels to peruse, choose and pay for their selections.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Halloween might be the scariest holiday (unless, of course, you’re a parent, in which case Christmas is the hands-down winner every year), but it’s not necessarily the most innovative from a retail point of view. Spirit Halloween may have done a bit more than find the innovation Halloween retail needed.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2018

CNBC said The Steinberg Group , which operates under the name dOMAIN, and a production management company in New York City agreed to submit altered invoices and bills to hide the scam. Falkowski was sentenced to 30 months in a federal prison for being the brains behind a $1 million fraud scam.

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MAY 8, 2020

New York City fashion boutique Nili Lotan has a client list that reads like the front row at Fashion Week (back when such events were still held). With the pandemic, clienteling has gone decidedly upscale, with brands like Salvatore Ferragamo and Harrods kicking up new practices just over the past few weeks.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

Here are just some of the ways these merchants are providing influential consumer experiences in their brick-and-mortar locations and online with the help of digital technology and retail innovations: About one-quarter – or 26.8 Customers on Walmart.com can access styles from brands like C&C California, Butter Super Soft, Puma and BCBG.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Sainsbury’s , in one case, unveiled a new c-store format in London called On The Go to deliver “big innovation in small spaces for local shoppers” and used data to create the Mansion House store to meet the needs of busy city workers. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. billion by 2024 from £18.5 billion last year per IGD.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

But, in an increasingly digital world, brick-and-mortar retail shops are embracing new ways to disrupt the system and get an edge on customer attention. One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage this holiday season. Founded: 2015.

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JUNE 11, 2020

The Walmart warehouse club brand has been piloting curbside pickup at 16 clubs. Starbucks has announced it will be closing about 400 company-owned locations, though USA Today reports that the plan is to open an additional 300 new stores by the end of the year. The brand has about 15,000 U.S.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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