PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Part of the future of retail is playing out inside hotels — and that’s happening as the wider part of the travel-and-tourism industry is undergoing its own significant disruption. One of the latest — and perhaps wildest — examples of the hotel-retail trend comes from Taco Bell, of all places. Unattended Retail.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The changing nature of retail has been challenging for pharmacies. Sales of things like personal care products, cosmetics and various other household goods have been slipping, as consumers are increasingly stocking up online or at alternative retail venues like dollar stores for those types of items. in early 2019.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

To break into the brick-and-mortar world, some digitally native retailers have opened shops inside department stores. However, as in a traditional retail store, staff called “in-store stylists” are on hand to give recommendations tailored to each customer. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News….

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. Sezzle’s payments platform expedites quick, safe and simple payments among consumers and retailers. Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. 10) that it topped 1 million active customers. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Though big-box retailer Target has been known for expansion and digital innovation of late, Tuesday (Nov. The store closures will help the discount retailer continue on its path toward improved bottom lines. The retailer will also invest in remodeling existing stores, with current plans to update 1,000 of its 1,800 locations by 2020.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

Brick-and-mortar merchants are far from being free from the problems that plague their particular brand of retail, but even they have to look at online retail rising rents for warehouse space with a little bit of mirth. Of the 57 major retail markets studied, 37 of them posted decreases to warehousing availability.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In 2016, the company was was acquired by personal care products giant Unilever, and there were questions at the time about how a direct-to-consumer innovator like DSC would fit into the very much mass-market and retailer-focused Unilever constellation of brands. last quarter.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2017

Target , the Minneapolis retailer, has eliminated close to 40 corporate headquarter jobs as part of a massive overhaul of operations. The layoffs are part of changes at the merchandising division under Mark Tritton, whom the retailer appointed last year as chef merchant after wooing him from Nordstrom.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

Sometimes, even the brightest LED television screens fade away, and sometimes, the most expensive battery packs that an electronics retailer can stock end up losing their charge. Best Buy announced Tuesday (March 15) that Brad Anderson, former CEO of the organization and current member of its board of directors, is retiring from his position.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

Some, like Columbia University business school retail studies professor Mark Cohen, have argued the decision to announce their policy was an unforced error on Target’s part. “[CEO It’s OK for [Target] to be sensitive to this issue of gender and bathrooms — and they’re based in Minneapolis, so they have a history of being progressive.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The VR experience was created in conjunction with marketing agencies BBDO Minneapolis and Made in Haus. Branded as “The Black Market” (Hormel brands its bacon as “black-label”), users can access the experience on their computer.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Through the feature , customers can ask retailers common questions such as if a product comes in a different color or if an item is in stock. The news came about a year after the retailer opened up testing of this service to Minneapolis area REDcard customers. The technology takes in 100 or more data points from major brands.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

Minneapolis, MN-based Upsie will use the new funding to revamp its service, which aims to offer warranties for 70 percent less than retailers typically do. “If Upsie is the only consumer-facing brand in the space, whereas everyone else is more of a back-end provider,” said Puneet Agarwal, a partner at True Ventures.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Its areas of focus include cable TV, telecom and retail, and many analysts have said STARTEK is exactly the type of firm a player planning to go into cable home shopping might buy. It has been a fairly dramatic piece of the retail landscape for the last few years — albeit a quiet one.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

The retail news is full of companies that have made brilliant and sometimes dramatic pivots to catch up with the shift to Digital 3.0. Such is the case with Minneapolis-based Peace Coffee. While Wallace and her team will continue to build that channel, she expects that recent retail successes will carry the year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

When goods are sold, FedEx will manage packing and shipping the goods in customized and branded boxes. Boxes will be branded to the retailer, not FedEx). We’re focused on the retailer and doing what’s right for the retailer in helping them grow their business,” Kelly told CNNTech. “I

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

Every brick-and-mortar retailer has three kinds of customers. Therefore, creating loyalists takes a lot more data than the average brick-and-mortar retailer collects about its consumers. Anonymous guests may be regular, but the merchant hasn’t collected any data on them yet. Then there are the loyalists.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

The company saw the need for the best of both worlds and, to tackle this challenge, it is “evolving into a 21st-century tech-enabled hospitality brand,” DePinto told PYMNTS in an interview.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The Stitch Fix shopping experience melds the brand’s in-house labels with items from over 1,000 brands, many of which are pretty recognizable to the average shopper: pping. But Lake notes that those data tools are getting better, and the data sets are getting wider.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Minneapolis restaurant owner Luke Shimp converted the kitchen of his Red Cow Uptown restaurant to the Kenwood Food and Beverage, a virtual food hall that he opened about a month ago. "My My idea was [to] make a virtual food hall, where it has multiple brands inside, but … you order it online.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

The Host Committee estimates 1 million people will flock to Minneapolis on game day and the 10 days prior. Locally, Nicollet Mall will be festooned with free activities, and the Minneapolis Convention Center has reportedly been turned into a “Disneyworld for football fans.”. The Crowded Bowl . Minnesota vs. the Impending Masses.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Locally, Nicollet Mall will be festooned with free activities and the Minneapolis Convention Center has reportedly be turned into the “Disneyworld for football fans.”. Amazon retailer Creepy Party toy recently had a creepy experience of their own. Once the brand ran out of Shepherd masks – Eagles fans moved on to other dogs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Riots and looting over the weekend have taken their toll on retail reopening plans all over the U.S. in the wake of protests against excessive police force and the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Retail locations of all types and brands went unspared, from Los Angeles to New York City, as protests turned violent.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Providing a top consumer experience is becoming more important and is a rising trend in retail, and that will almost certainly increase in the 2020s. The upscale apparel brand, according to a recent report , is opening an “experiential store” in the Mall of America in Minneapolis on Wednesday (Nov. Physical Retail Efforts.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Named 2015 CFO of the Year (Kurt Ishaug) by Minneapolis-St. Honored as the Innovation Showcase Award winner by the attendees of the BAI Retail Delivery conference. Won Best Use of IT in Retail Banking at 16th Annual Banking Technology 2015 awards. Partnered with Scotiabank to co-brand loans for SMEs in Mexico and Canada.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

As the retail industry faces a string of closures, Mars Retail Group is bucking the trend by growing its M&M’s candy stores in the U.S. The stores will be located at Minneapolis’ Mall of America, Orlando’s Disney Springs at Walt Disney World Resort and in Berlin, Germany, Fox Business reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

social unrest have had on the retail vertical, Reuters reported. L Brands’ Victoria’s Secret, for example, will not be going through with a deal to be acquired by Sycamore Partners, CNBC reported. LVMH is considering walking back its deal to purchase Tiffany & Co. billion due to the effects the pandemic and recent U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Secrecy is a funny thing for brands. It keeps consumers interested, because a consumer that is always guessing about the next product release is, by necessity, always thinking about the brand. However, Target is not the only retailer in its segment that is taking such a strong, heavily invested swing at digital.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

So many miles to go, retail bankers! In a mature credit cycle with a tough yield cure, Chase is still growing retail revenue a 7+% and mobile banking users by 12+%. Sweet Deal for the Acquiree) Award –Goes to Honey Science Corporation for its $4 billion acquisition by PayPal with Honey keeping its brand and HQ. Be their Yoda.”.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Lots of tech and operations to clean up, it appears, but no solid bank is better qualified than the team from Minneapolis. This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Man, this is the bread and butter of retail banking and credit unions. Acronym of the Year.

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