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In today’s top news, scammers are targeting used car buyers amid an uptick in digital sales, and California voters passed a proposition that upholds gig worker status. Prop 22: California Side With Uber And Lyft, Nix AB 5 Gig Worker Law. Plus, Wayfair released a blockbuster quarterly earnings report.

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JULY 30, 2020

California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) is the latest big restaurant chain to fall on hard times in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The company opened its first restaurant in 1985 in Beverly Hills, with a menu offering California-style pizza and cuisine. At the time of its bankruptcy filing, California Pizza Kitchen had just $13.5

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MARCH 27, 2020

State regulators such as those in California, New York and Washington also recently passed rules just before the outbreak, with California regulators in particular still discussing potential changes to its California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The potential reach and creation of such an agency is still currently being debated.

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AUGUST 6, 2020

economic recovery’s unpredictability in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is on display in California. More than half, or 57 percent of the initial unemployment claims filed in California for the week ending July 25 were from workers who reopened previous claims. Evidence of the U.S. As of mid-July, 3.3

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

On Friday, January 27, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced an investigative sweep of businesses that provide mobile apps, issuing warning letters to those that AG Bonta alleges failed to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Silicon Valley checkout-free, autonomous retail startup AiFi has secured a new round of funding, bringing its total raised to $30 million, the company said in a press release on Monday (Oct. A variety of openings are expected in California and Texas by the end of 2020. AiFi is also partnering with top supermarkets in the U.S.,

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JUNE 2, 2020

told its approximately 1,400 California-based stylists that they would be laid off. The online retailer said it plans to bring approximately 2,000 stylists onboard in lower-cost areas such as Pittsburgh, Dallas, Minneapolis, Cleveland and Austin, starting in the summer and extending into 2021.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

A new law in California requires companies to explain exactly what customer information, if any, is being sold to third parties, according to a report by Reuters. Retailers are rushing to achieve compliance, adding links to websites with “Do Not Sell My Info” buttons and creating signage in stores to the same effect.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

retail rents falling in many locales by percentages even greater than those seen in or after the 2007-08 Great Recession. These decreases are historic,” the Real Estate Board of New York wrote in a new report showing that average Manhattan retail asking rents fell in all of the island’s 17 retail corridors during autumn.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And in retail, several reports are indicating healthy inventory positions as a point of optimism in retail’s comeback process. 33.8%: Increase in import traffic through the Southern California gateway from June to July. 33.8%: Increase in import traffic through the Southern California gateway from June to July.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

After Ali Ahmed founded Dispatch , a service that allowed consumers to have goods delivered from retail stores through a text message, he noticed that customers would not buy fresh fruits and vegetables. Armed with this knowledge, Ahmed developed a mobile retail store concept that he calls the Robomart. Groceries and Beyond.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Retailers are facing a personalization paradox. Fifty-three percent of consumers want retailers to respect their anonymity in 2020; at the same time 61 percent want more personalization in marketing, messaging and promotions. That transaction has spawned major regulations in the European Union (GDPR) and California (CCPA).

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Organized crime rings are taking advantage of the pandemic, looser police enforcement and a softening in anti-shoplifting laws to swipe tons of merchandise from retail stores and warehouses across the United States. KPIX-TV reported that the shop proudly advertised on Facebook Marketplace that customers “never pay retail.”.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

Commercial landlords were greeted with some good news in July as rent collections for retail properties increased by double digits compared to May and June, GlobeSt.com reported. A survey by Datex Property Solutions, the California-based real estate portfolio management company, revealed that retail rent collections were 68.8

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JUNE 3, 2020

Southern California Bancorp’s acquisition of CalWest Bank was postponed after shareholders initially rejected the proposal Management M&A Covid19 Bank Performance The Economy Feature Financial Trends Retail Banking Feature3.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

to bring its products to shoppers through the web and at certain retail locations, according to a Tuesday (Nov. Shoppers will have the ability to purchase Casper’s mattresses and sleep accessories through the web at Nordstrom.com and in some Nordstrom retail locations starting this November. Casper Sleep Inc. 10) announcement.

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MAY 7, 2020

State governments are dropping the ball on retail reopenings. As the week plays out, inconsistent direction and confusion have been standard with New York, Texas, California and Hawaii getting criticized by retailers big and small. Northern California. For example, the Bay Area.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The 5,000-square-foot location in Southern California marks the latest addition in a region where the e-commerce giant operates numerous brick-and-mortar retail stores.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. The move is one of several that Tilly’s has been pursuing recently to draw additional foot traffic in an era when, like many youth-focused retailers, it is seeing its sales constantly shifting online.

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JANUARY 24, 2020

But no matter the case, music is a big part of the retail world, and is helping to create new harmonies of innovation and disruption. Apple isn’t the only band on the radio when it comes to changes in music retail in early 2020. Others don’t. New Partnerships and Services.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Mullin was bitten by the aviation bug when she was 14 years old and a freshman in high school in Burbank, California. Current sales are split at 70 percent through the Abingdon site and 30 percent via retail partners that include Amazon and the AAFES , which is the Armed Forces’ retail network.

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MARCH 30, 2016

The news out of California on Monday (March 28) that Governor Jerry Brown, state lawmakers and labor leaders have reached an agreement to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour has the country buzzing. an hour on Jan. 1, 2017, then to $11 an hour one year later and will see annual increases of $1 until reaching $15 an hour on Jan.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Amazon has begun using Scout, its six-wheeled autonomous delivery robot, in a neighborhood in Irvine, California, according to a report. As the company had been testing the robot in Seattle, it said it was accustomed to many different types of weather conditions and expected sunny California to be easier on the vehicle.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Voice recognition could soon play a bigger role in retail — especially in the world of quick service restaurants. Founded in Mountain View, California in 2017, Apprente was started to make voice-based platforms for complex, multi-accent, multilingual, and multi-item conversational ordering. Other Moves.

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APRIL 14, 2020

Some other names include office retailer Staples, French luxury conglomerate Louis Vuitton and fashion retailer Burlington Stores. However, some states like Ohio, Wisconsin and California have implemented policies making it harder for landlords to evict tenants for nonpayment during the pandemic.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Across the industry, from carmakers and road regulators to bike share programs, companies are looking to unattended retail tech to improve efficiency and unlock new revenue opportunities. Worldwide happenings in Unattended Retail. Government agencies regulating the roads want to get their hands on unattended retail technology as well.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

He estimated that yearly worldwide losses from retail returns are almost $1 trillion – higher than 2015’s $600 billion. A 2018 report from the Appriss Retail and National Retail Federation noted that roughly 10 percent of products sold in the U.S. million gifts and other products back to U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

UPS , too, is going down the drone path – one that Amazon pioneered for retail delivery uses – and is seeking a certification to operate commercial drone flights. For instance, Amazon has begun using Scout , its six-wheeled autonomous delivery robot, in a neighborhood in Irvine, California, according to a report.

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APRIL 26, 2022

In a rare development, a California state court of appeals has opined on the requirements for obtaining authorization for background checks pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In Hebert v. Barnes & Noble, Inc. ,

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JULY 6, 2020

If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Last week, Constellation Brands purchased Empathy Wines , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) eCommerce business that sells wines from California vineyards. It reportedly purchased this digital upstart — one with a reported (and very small) $3.9

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

California Naturel falsely advertised that its sunscreen as “all natural,” the FTC said Monday. In a release, the FTC noted that the firm had stated via its website that its sunscreen contained “only the purest, most luxurious and effective ingredients found in nature.”

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AUGUST 13, 2019

The word “California” never fails to conjure up a mental image, though that will vary from person to person – some will think sun and sand, others will think movie stars, while still others will think internet startups. Well, if all of these California test drives go according to plan, anyway. The California Bot-Building Race.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

One of the overlooked elements from the retail earnings reports of recent weeks is inventory levels. But several reports are pointing to healthy inventory positions as a point of optimism in retailing’s comeback progress. Its latest monthly retailer inventory-to-sales ratio report for June indicates a significant drop — from 1.35

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Walmart and six other retailers saw a federal judge toss out a lawsuit that accused the group of forcing shoplifters to take expensive classes or otherwise be reported to the local police. According to a report in Reuters , the decision came down late last week in San Jose, California, with U.S.

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JULY 22, 2019

Retailers are feeling the heat from high rent costs. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal , while commercial retail rents are down, rent costs still remain higher than prerecession levels in many prime shopping areas, including Manhattan, Los Angeles and Dallas. The retailer fought the rent increase but lost.

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MARCH 1, 2019

That includes, as Roadie CEO Marc Gorlin said, a Delta ticket agent in the California Bay Area who, through Roadie’s digital technology, delivers misplaced bags to travelers who happen to be located along the route that the agent uses to drive home after shifts. “He The general experience can apply to retail goods, including groceries.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Some retailers might be taking that to heart in this new year as part of the larger and ongoing effort to breathe new life into brick-and-mortar retail — a struggle that has been around almost as long as “The Simpsons” has, in fact. And other retailers are turning to alcohol to increase the appeal of their physical offerings.

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