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AUGUST 21, 2018

Cashierless Challenger Zippin Debuts i n San Francisco. Zippin, the cashierless store operator, is beating Amazon and its Amazon Go stores to the punch, opening up its first cashierless store in San Francisco. Customer Self-Service Software Market Expected t o Reach $13B b y 2023.

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MARCH 7, 2018

EXCLUSIVE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Welcome back to the fintech boom. But the fintech market has rebounded. At this time last year, fintech was in a downturn. Fintech venture funding was down more than 9% year-over-year; valuations seemed stuck.

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MARCH 25, 2019

To help meet customer expectations in the digital age, retailers have to know who their shoppers are and what they want. While eTailers already have this information about consumers, brick-and-mortar retailers don’t have this in-depth knowledge. They can also help capture the ages, genders and emotions (in some cases) of shoppers.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Chipper CEO Ham Serunjogi confirmed on Twitter the startup, which got its initial foothold in the market as a peer-to-peer (P2P) payments service, has just wrapped up a $30 million Series B round of venture capital. The startup has since expanded into eCommerce with a service targeted at retailers and other online merchants, Chipper Checkout.

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JUNE 29, 2018

Google is getting into the grocery delivery market, with NBC News reporting that it is testing a same-day delivery service that will bring food and other online orders to consumers’ doorsteps. If the test is successful, Google told NBC News it could expand into other markets.

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JUNE 15, 2017

Momentum Machines introduced its fully autonomous burger bot in 2012, and now, with news of an $18 million venture capital funding round , it’s one step closer to opening its flagship San Francisco restaurant based around the prototype, which has been in the works since June of last year. Whenever it finally comes to fruition.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

He is the cliché of a profession that has a lot of suede sheen on it, but at least one company is in the market to bring used car sales into the digital future. “We It’s hard to imagine that there’s so much technology and innovation happening up and down the mobility spectrum except for in this market — and it’s a $1.4

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual reality could have more retailers reach more consumers in the coming few years — in large part by upping the consumer experience. Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports. and Europe by 2022. Amazon VR Push.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

After its controversial Colin Kaepernick ads appeared earlier in September, the market value of Nike has grown by $6 billion. 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.

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Bank Innovation

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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OCTOBER 22, 2019

As consumer preferences change and competition becomes more keen, retailers and commerce operators are under even more pressure to get creative with loyalty programs. The latest example of that comes from the NFL.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

To differentiate his eCommerce site from the many other sock sellers, Williams came up with the idea of introducing a vending machine for socks – otherwise known as an automated retail unit – at the Westfield San Francisco Centre shopping mall. It sits at the Powell/Market Street Bart entrance of the mall’s concourse level.

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APRIL 14, 2020

COVID-19 could mark the true rise of the robots in retail. After seeing an initial crash due to unprecedented demand when the COVID-19 crisis hit, the retailer is now using robots to pick and pack customer orders. consumers showed a negative stance toward robots at retail, but it will be interesting to see if that changes post-COVID.

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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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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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JUNE 29, 2020

are in talks with Sistema , one of the largest publicly traded companies in Russia, to purchase Ozon , the Russian online retailer, Reuters reported. Funding provided by the key shareholders will enable the company to maintain its high growth pace in 2020 and to continue increasing its market share.”. Amazon and SoftBank Corp.

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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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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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MARCH 6, 2020

That’s the case with the new employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which showed that retail jobs held steady between January and February. Manufacturing, mining, wholesale and retail trade, and transportation and warehousing saw little change in employment for the month, the BLS said. Sometimes no news is good news.

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MARCH 6, 2020

The same could be same for retail, where foot traffic is key, where wandering customers and impulse buys can propel the top line. And if the reverse is true, if traffic does not materialize, or people look but don’t buy, well, retailers suffer. Some airports are starting to offer rent relief, said the Journal.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. The projected value of the global self-service market by 2023 is $13 billion.

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MARCH 31, 2020

San Francisco-based Princeville Capital has announced a $50 million investment in Russian online retailer Ozon, which is partly owned by the Russian-based conglomerate Sistema. Ozon , one of Russia’s largest online retailers, has been on a growth spurt over the last few years. million, according to Reuters.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

11), reported by CNBC , that retail behemoth Walmart has struck a partnership with Instacart to offer same-day deliver across a few, select markets in the United States, focused on four initial pilots in Oklahoma and California. News came Tuesday (Aug.

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Bank Innovation

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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JULY 5, 2020

billion for Whole Foods , the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol Hill district, The Seattle Times reported. Amazon must like the supermarket business. Three years after it paid $13.4

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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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MARCH 31, 2020

Right now, the new OpenTable feature is being used by seven businesses throughout San Francisco and Los Angeles — six restaurants that are acting as pop-up markets and one grocery store. The company said it was in “active talks with other national grocers/retailers.”.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Amazon will also offer the service for food orders from Whole Markets or Amazon Fresh. The Key In-Garage Grocery Delivery service will initially be available in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle before expanding to other cities around the country.

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JUNE 11, 2019

Though San Francisco startup Zippin has gotten lots of press for being the first cashierless convenience store to compete directly with Amazon Go, Zippin CEO Krishna Motukuri wasn’t hoping for a direct confrontation with the world’s largest eCommerce player when he first started thinking about unmanned stores.

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OCTOBER 7, 2018

The report noted Deliverr, which is based in San Francisco, uses machine learning and predictive intelligence to ascertain which warehouses have the clients’ merchandise. Deliverr said it will use the funding to grow its team and ink more partnerships with more online retailers. They didn’t build their own taxis.

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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 events and shops allow J.Crew to gain visibility and add to its strategy of featuring non-models for its marketing.

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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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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Their shoes are also a bit different, insofar as they are made from merino wool, which is both softer and more renewable than most sneaker materials out there on the market. They released their first product — the Wool Runner — in March 2016, and just about a year later their second shoe came to market: a slip-on called the Wool Lounger.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

They’re impressed by the delivery company's ability to stay on top of the market and show profits. market, which the company said shows the large potential it has to keep expanding into new markets. The IPO market has been quiet in December in years past, but this year it looks to be bustling.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Worldwide legal cannabis products represented a $55 billion market in 2018, and most analysts estimate that it will have nearly tripled to reach $147 billion by 2025. the domestic market for legal cannabis in 2018 was $9.1 Here in the U.S., By 2025, estimates put it in the $15 billion range.

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JUNE 29, 2020

“We are excited to partner with Shift and its world-class management team as it leverages its technology platform to disrupt the $840+ billion used car market,” said Daniel Cohen, chairman of the board of directors of Insurance Acquisition Corp.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Several of them, including Berlin's SellerX and Razor, London's Heroes and San Francisco's Heyday, didn't exist at the start of 2020, FT writes. With the roll-ups will also come a deluge of benefits for the businesses, including more financial muscle, stronger marketing and more bargaining power even with Amazon, FT writes.

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