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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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MARCH 11, 2020

With personal interactions under scrutiny due to the COVID-19 disruption, it’s a good time for retailers to take stock of their mobile and online commerce capabilities and technologies. The company announced this week that it has signed high-end fashion retailer Anine Bing. The first is Perfect.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For Aura, an online lending platform for low-income families, reaching underbanked borrowers means going beyond the bank setting and working with retailers to reach customers who may be overlooked by traditional lenders. In addition to […].

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Williams started The Sock Spot website and started to reach out to brands. Now, he has more than a dozen brands with access to many different types of socks. The unit highlights a selection of more than 40 pairs of novelty socks, which are specialized to San Francisco shoppers.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Cashierless stores aren’t just for mega retailers like Amazon to sell prepared food from their kitchens or products from other producers: Beverage brands, among other companies, are getting into the action and choosing this checkout experience for stores that showcase their own products IRL (“in real life”) as a marketing tool.

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AUGUST 28, 2020

We have deep dives on retail’s digital D2C shift, blank-check companies, and DoorDash’s IPO plans. DoorDash , the San Francisco-based prepared food delivery service, is planning to go public by year’s end, after filing confidentially in February. DoorDash Moves Ahead With Q4 IPO Plans. Trackers and Reports.

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JULY 17, 2019

Heath Ceramics is not a newcomer to the world of retail. Founded by San Francisco artist Edith Heath in the 1940s, the company offers earthenware ceramics, uniquely textured designs and unusual color patterns, which have set the brand apart ever since its earliest days, when all the pieces were handmade by Heath.

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

The world got a look at that new vision this week when Coached rolled out its new name — Tapestry — as it tries to reintroduce itself to the market, not as a single brand but one of the multiple labels it represents. European fashion houses LVMH and Kering are now both home to many fashion brands. billion earlier this year. “In

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JANUARY 8, 2020

Case in point, Stockwell: a self-service retail venture that got off on a very wrong foot with customers by, among other things, choosing the wrong name. But the branding came across somewhat differently. The Washington Post branded Bodega the most hated startup in America.

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JULY 17, 2019

Heath Ceramics is not a newcomer to the world of retail. Founded by San Francisco artist Edith Heath in the 1940’s – Heaths earthenware ceramics, uniquely textured designs and unusual color patterns have set the brand apart from its earliest days when all the pieces sold were hand made by Edith Heath. Prototypes.

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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. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There is viability to having many categories and brands under one roof.”. Macy’s is also closing tech offices in San Francisco, according to CNBC. The company added that 20 stores in the San Francisco area would be kept. billion by the end of 2022, and save some $600 million in the current fiscal year.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The talks — and the retail offerings — will come to WeWork spaces in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Philadelphia, Glossy reported. The partnership comes as a decline in physical retail has hit J.Crew particularly hard in recent years. Crew has struggled with the retail reset that is sweeping the segment.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There is viability to having many categories and brands under one roof.”. Macy’s is also closing tech offices in San Francisco, according to CNBC. The company added that 20 stores in the San Francisco area would be kept. billion by the end of 2022, and save some $600 million in the current fiscal year.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

This year, apps aimed to make it easier and more convenient for consumers to order their favorite foods and sundries, with restaurants and other retailers tapping into delivery. To help bring these options to more consumers, retailers and technology companies decided to join forces. and Chicago. .”

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Somewhat less apparent, however, are the complexities that the “legalish” status of cannabis consumption creates for retailers that one might not immediately associate with legalized marijuana. Our CBD assortment is an important part of our brand’s commitment to the health and well-being of our customers.”.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

If one were to make a list of products for a cutting-edge fashion brand aimed at capturing the emerging Generation Z market, it is safe to assume that “foxtail keychains” would not make the top 10. And while the brand is often described as “punk,” “goth” and “extremely eclectic,” Lynn noted in an interview that she doesn’t see it this way.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2017

After starting out and operating as an online-only brand, sustainable apparel clothing brand Everlane is branching out and opening up two physical retail destinations : a flagship in its headquarters city of San Francisco and another in the middle of Manhattan, New York City. 2, according to media reports.

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MARCH 11, 2020

The advance of Amazon’s cashierless technology is not a new story to the retail beat as of 2020. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Just because a retailer was created for the internet doesn’t mean it has to stay on the internet. Digitally-native retailers, such as thredUP , are turning to brick-and-mortar stores to reach consumers, too. thredUP, though, works a little differently from traditional retailers. by the end of 2018, CNBC reported.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

While any number of brands now market their wares on sustainability, inclusivity and transparency as of 2019, when Everlane was first getting off the ground in 2011, those buzzwords were far less common. Retail, he noted, has been driven by discovery and experience since the beginning of the sale of goods.

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AUGUST 8, 2018

There are brands that claim to take the customer experience to the max — and then there are brands that redefine what exactly the max means. When one teenaged customer wrote to the brand to complain about his beloved Chubbies shorts, which had been pilfered from his locker by a local bully, Chubbies sprang into action. “We

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Luxury brands, jewelry stores and women’s ready-to-wear stores tended to be top spending destinations, according to research from First Data. As consumers seek to impress their special someone, they turned to “big ticket” items in 2017: Retailers saw average ticket sizes of $711 for luxury brands and $378 for jewelry.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

With technology for cashierless checkout and robotic-powered order fulfillment, automated retail is changing how consumers shop for groceries and how supermarkets fill their eCommerce orders. And grocery retailers are expanding their delivery efforts. make online grocery orders for delivery or pickup. The share of U.S.

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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. “The

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Aura, a San Francisco-based fintech offering affordable loans to low to moderate-income households, wants to partner with banks to offer those loans to consumers who have traditionally been unable to secure them from larger institutions.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

All in, the retailer’s stock has risen by 36 percent during the year, with 5 percent of the gain occurring after the release of the ads, Fortune reported. Additionally, the brand discounted fewer products in the 10 days following the ad. The brand’s Colin Kaepernick women’s jersey sold out on Sept.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

eCommerce brands are opening up pop-up shops in cities to test out brick-and-mortar retail, and Recess is using this platform to highlight its hemp-extract beverages in a temporary space in New York City that is dubbed the Take A Recess IRL Pop-Up. On a seasonally adjusted basis, retail sales dropped by 1.2 percent.

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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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JUNE 14, 2019

Online brands are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints: Online handbag marketplace Rebag , for instance, is opening a new store in Miami’s Design District with more stores said to come. We are thrilled to expand Rebag’s retail footprint to the Miami community. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Retailers are bringing experiential stores to big cities, and Starbucks is no exception: The coffee chain was set to open its Starbucks Reserve Roastery New York City on Friday (Dec. With premium coffees, teas, mixology and the iconic Milanese Princi Bakery, it serves as a Starbucks brand amplifier and a platform for future innovation.”

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Although earlier reports of a retail apocalypse were overstated at first, the latest statistics seem to indicate “that the scales may have tipped,” said Barbara Denham, senior economist at Reis. percent in San Francisco and 16.3 Overall retail sales from Nov. Overall retail sales from Nov. percent in Indianapolis.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

has completed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection process and emerged from one of the highest-profile retail collapses since COVID-19 began, the Dallas-based company disclosed. We emerge from Chapter 11 as a stronger, more innovative retailer, brand partner and employer.”. Neiman Marcus Holding Company Inc.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. A data team from the eCommerce retailer determines what is sold at the locations, Amazon Physical Stores Director Drew Sheriff told MetroWest Daily News.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Allbirds has always been a somewhat unique company in the world of digitally-native brands attempting to take the world by storm. And as the buzz around the brand grew, so did its product line. A little over a week ago, Allbirds Co-CEO Brown announced that in the next year the brand will expand to 20 more brick-and-mortar stores.

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MAY 3, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are changing the way they manage their workforces in the age of Amazon: Walmart , for instance, is testing multiple versions of a new team structure called the “Great Workplace” in some of its locations. In terms of Walmart’s other efforts, the retailer is also focusing on features such as grocery pickup.

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