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eCommerce Site Jet To Offer Blue Apron’s Knick Knacks

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We are proud to introduce Knick Knacks as our latest culinary innovation, which gives consumers the ‘secret sauce’ – from our test kitchen to their home – to create a delicious meal, while allowing for the flexibility to customize certain ingredients based on their personal preferences.”. “We

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Last Roar Of The Paper Tiger?

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Statistical swarms of millennials and Gen Zers report never having used a paper check. It got so bad that New York City became the first municipality in the nation to pass a law making it easier for freelancers to sue for payment. Their perception of banking, aside from ATMs, is entirely app-based – and mobile.

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Zola Gets Physical With Its Digital Wedding Registry

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When you think about millennial couples today, they are unlike any previous generation. 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. They tend to live together before they get married.

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Splitty Makes It Easier To Grab A Piece Of The Travel Industry

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Travel industry services are catering to the thousands of millennial and Gen Z travelers who are booking big trips by augmenting their platforms with online and mobile support. Competition among airlines, hotels and travel agencies is fiercer, but all these platforms are approaching travel innovation in similar ways.

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Making Shopping About The Shoppers (Again)

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One would expect that a event called the Retail Innovation Conference (RIC) would be a veritable brainstorm of big ideas as to how to improve the woeful retail space in the U.S.: Doesn’t it follow, then, that by working very hard to put innovative technologies in place in their operations, retailers are , in fact, focusing on the shopper?

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Why Grocers Are Providing Fresh Options For Digital Omnicommerce Shopping

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Omnichannel features are becoming more crucial as tech-savvy millennials gain more spending power and influence, according to the PYMNTS Enterprise Retail Grocery Report. In July , Amazon expanded its Prime Now grocery delivery service by adding more areas of New York City along with three cities in Florida to the platform.

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The Competition In Selling A Good Night’s Sleep

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That was an early innovation of Casper — 100 days to try a mattress at home — and the free pick-up (no questions asked) if it did’t work out. It had to expand, as it is no longer the only player in the game, and lots of startups are racing to be the millennial generation’s “mattress in a box.”