PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Startups in the eCommerce space have long enabled their customers to experience their products in real life (“IRL”) through temporary retail shops, and now, digitally-focused brands belonging to major retailers are taking a similar approach. Fashion retailer Charlotte Russe , which has over 500 stores in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

Randy Newman probably doesn’t get a lot of play in boardrooms around the retail sector, but that doesn’t mean that companies haven’t taken the message behind his hit “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” to heart. Uber will experiment in the Phoenix area, while Lyft will get going in Denver.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

In the longer run, the service will grow over the next several months to the grocer’s 570 retail locations throughout California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida. Amazon Fresh, a new physical retail concept from Amazon, is setting up shop in four locations in the Chicago market, the Chicago Tribune reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Those five cities are: Phoenix, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Denver and Charlotte, North Carolina. However, the retail giant is taking the program one step further, by allowing loyalty members to select a local nonprofit to donate to. Since March, Target has been quietly testing a new loyalty program for its members in Dallas.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2018

Brands’ Pizza Hut is bringing beer delivery to approximately 100 of its restaurants in California and Arizona. The restaurant chain had begun testing the service in Phoenix back in December, Reuters reported. As restaurant operators seek to bolster sales in the face of weak traffic growth, Yum! The news comes as Yum!

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

The feature was tested in San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas and Austin, and was made available across the country on Oct. head of restaurant brand marketing, told USA Today. Checkout is the same as always, and everyone can track the order. In other Uber Eats news, the company recently launched a pickup feature nationwide.

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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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2019

The brand is bringing on San Diego, Las Vegas, Toronto and Phoenix to the pilot offering that it began in Atlanta, Bloomberg reported. Expanding its flexible car ownership experiment even while other automakers pull back, Porsche is bringing its subscription service to four new U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Tide, the laundry brand owned by CPG Detergent, is introducing a service called Tide Cleaners, an on-demand dry cleaning and laundry service, at 1,000 locations in cities across the country, according to reports. The service works with drop boxes in offices, storefronts and high-rise buildings.

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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. The restaurant chain had begun testing the service in Phoenix back in December, Reuters had reported.

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JULY 11, 2018

The size of Oprah’s equity investment is unknown, but apart from money, she is offering her literal presence – she will be joining the brand’s board and acting as a consultant. Today, she owns about 8 percent of the brand. It was named the 2018 emerging restaurant by data firm Fishbowl. ”

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 21, 2015

BAI Retail Delivery was at the Venetian in Vegas this year, sharing conference space with a travel convention called IMEX, which made things interesting in between sessions. Tripodi told bankers to look for the functional, emotional and societal benefits of our brands and to tell better stories to broaden appeal.

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MAY 23, 2018

The retailer reported earnings per share of $0.64 Digital sales continue to grow for the company and make up more of the retailer’s sales, with digital sales rising by nearly 20 percent in the first quarter. Boosted by strong digital sales growth, Kohl’s posted a strong first quarter and beat both top-line and bottom-line estimates.

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JUNE 3, 2016

And ever since Amazon stole the top retailer in the world by market cap crown, the going has been tough for Walmart. And so, Walmart has gotten creative, and it looks like it is about to get even more so as it pilots a program with ridesharing services Uber and Lyft to bring its own brand of online grocery delivery to the masses.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Beyond improved fit, the company has also leveraged client feedback data to broaden the portfolio of men’s exclusive brands. Overall, the company has brought new brands on board, such as The North Face, Bonobos, Converse, Michael Kors and Madewell.).

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

Lundgren instead promised Macy’s would be poised for a repeat of the phoenix act it did after the 2001 recession and after the Great Recession of 2008. “It’s important to me to be a profitable retailer.” “It’s important to me to be a profitable retailer.” 2,” he said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

The fast casual chain first began testing the program in Columbus, Kansas City and Phoenix last fall, and has been developing the idea of a digital-centric loyalty program for the last few years. Though Chipotle rolled out its points-based loyalty system nationwide yesterday, the upgrade itself has been a long time coming.

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

Small Business Administration (SBA) will recognize and honor the critical and life altering contributions of America’s moms and pops, manufacturing enterprises, Main Street retailers and entrepreneurs during National Small Business Week. Tune in all week for live-streaming , beginning at 7:30 p.m. Every business starts small.

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MARCH 7, 2019

But with its roughly 50 percent share of all online retail, its $13 billion acquisition of Whole Foods and the expansion of its cashless convenience stores, Amazon is a serious retail challenger. percent of the consumer’s total retail spend as of February 2019, compared to Amazon’s 6.4 By the numbers, Walmart commands 9.1

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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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JUNE 29, 2016

Thrive Market’s pitch to consumers is that they can count on saving 50 percent, on average, off of standard retail prices. Thrive gets to their low price point by purchasing their goods from brands directly. Brands currently found on the platform include Zico, Yogi and Thrive’s own branded products.

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MAY 4, 2017

Automatic — whose devices let users track miles and receive crash alert services, along with a host of third-party integration — will remain a separate brand, according to the companies, and users won’t experience any device disruptions. Likewise, Waymo has asked the state to scrap its liability proposal altogether.

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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+%. Consumers was the first big credit union to deploy the Phoenix core system and this year was the first big go-live of the Lumin digital banking system.

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The lack of execution on internal innovation was further reinforced when FIS dumped its long-terminal road map around its digital and branch platforms for a new partnership with independent developer Zenmonics-branded Digital One.

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JANUARY 19, 2019

Ultimately, 117 of the cars were produced, initially made available to drivers by lease-only agreements in the cities of Los Angeles, Phoenix and Tucson, before expanding into San Francisco. Now if it could just get all of those backorders filled. The Famicom Console.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

To PNC , who at BAI Retail Delivery pointed to hiring a behavioral psychologist to review its origination process. Department Whose Brand Isn’t Improving Award. Diebold seizes the merger moment with fledgling Wincor Nixdorf to change its already well-known brand. Financial Brand Forum. Freudian Slip Award. Millennials.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

My idea was [to] make a virtual food hall, where it has multiple brands inside, but … you order it online. But ghost kitchens are also coming into fashion with larger brands looking to tap the low-overhead, higher-margin business opportunity they represent.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Benson Porter, Boeing Employees CreditUnion – Porter led BECU through an amazing streak of growth in the Pacific Northwest, all while building an innovative, stakeholder-driven brand respected nationally. Goes to Allison Netzer and Liz High for their provocative tome, Think Like a Brand, Not a Bank. The Authors of the Year Award.

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MAY 9, 2018

Samsung SDS provides purpose-built solutions & services for secure mobility, digital identity and authentication, advanced analytics and retail experience in a diverse range of industries including financial services, government, and retail. We license the technology to HW vendors and brands. Presenters: Jeff Mullen.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Phoenix New Media. Brand Capital, Tiger Global Management, Kinnevik. Alibaba Group, China Everbright Investment Management, Yinxinggu Capital. Duo Security. Cybersecurity. Meritech Capital, Lead Edge Capital, Benchmark. Alibaba Group, Boyu Capital, Borui Capital. ESR Cayman (e-Shang Redwood). Real Estate. Eventbrite. $1. Particle. $1.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

London transportation that accepts Oyster will support mobile payments of up to £30 only, and for larger amounts, users can use Vodafone Pay at retailers, which requires a PIN. “You want to get into as many use cases as possible,” said Greg Weed, director of card performance research at Phoenix Marketing International.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Seedrs was one of the names on the illustrious list of 2009-founded firms that decided to make like the Phoenix, and rise out of the ashes. By 2015, the Starbucks mobile wallet had expanded to a mobile order-ahead program that, within five months of its launch, represented a full 20 percent of the brands’ transaction volume. “[By

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