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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Target’s event, first reported by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, will feature “digital deals on thousands of items, more than double what the retailer offered last year, as it adjusts to the surge of consumers who have shifted to shopping online during the coronavirus pandemic.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

has brought DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse “shop-in-shops” to the Minneapolis-St. says it runs over 275 retail locations throughout eight states with sales of $10 billion each year. The grocery retailer intends to open “several more shop-in-shop locations across its eight-state region in 2021,” according to the announcement.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

Retailers are looking to do more in smaller spaces, a trend that seems ready to increase during the holiday shopping season and beyond. Among the latest examples of that comes from kids’ eyewear retailer Fitz Frames , which offers face measurements via its mobile app, and a subscription commerce plan for consumers.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

locations recently added for Uber Connect include Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Charleston, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Connecticut, Detroit, Fort Myers-Naples, Hampton Roads, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Minneapolis-St. Louis, Tucson and Upstate New York.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In today’s top retail news, holiday spending is expected to be flat this year, Bed Bath & Beyond rolls out same-day delivery and Target goes up against Amazon Prime Day with “Deal Days.” And the digital-first economy will drive the difference between success and failure for many retailers. But these are the easy points.

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JUNE 6, 2019

The Minneapolis-based regional bank currently has more than 3,000 bank branches in 26 states, but it is looking to reduce […]. Bancorp is closing 21 branches in the Chicago area as part of a restructuring plan to expand its physical footprint in some markets while shrinking its presence in others, bank spokesman Evan Lapiska confirmed.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

Against the rising tide of digital-only banks, Minneapolis-based personal finance platform Branch has taken the plunge. The four-year-old company offers a suite of personal finance tools, including payday advance, to hourly workers through integrations with employer payroll platforms, which currently include Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Part of the future of retail is playing out inside hotels — and that’s happening as the wider part of the travel-and-tourism industry is undergoing its own significant disruption. One of the latest — and perhaps wildest — examples of the hotel-retail trend comes from Taco Bell, of all places. Unattended Retail. Deeper Trend.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

consumer’s spending power as Kohl’s, Walmart, Macy’s, Target and other brick-and-mortar-based retailers report their earnings. The Minneapolis-based retail giant reports Wednesday morning (Nov. This week is a referendum on the U.S. The consumer here in the U.S. If the week has a sure shot however, it’s Target.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. Sezzle’s payments platform expedites quick, safe and simple payments among consumers and retailers. Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. 10) that it topped 1 million active customers. .

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MARCH 15, 2019

Score one for the Midwest: Verizon said this week (March 13) it will launch its 5G network in Chicago and Minneapolis on April 11. The announcement from the mobile network provider serves as the latest demonstration that 5G is coming, and that retailers and payment services providers should get ready to operate in the 5G world.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

What to do with retail malls? That is among the latest trends as retail reinvents itself, and technology and other trends force new uses for old commerce spaces. Malls are not exactly the hotspots of coolness and retail activity they once were. retailers so far this year than in all of 2018. New Investment.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

The Wall Street Journal quotes Phillip Breker, who managed a pharmacy at Minneapolis-based grocery chain Lunds & Byerly, now closed down. The trend is indicative of the losses felt by smaller mom-and-pop stores and grocery retailers, as people have tended to order more of their medications by mail or get them in large 90-day supplies.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

To break into the brick-and-mortar world, some digitally native retailers have opened shops inside department stores. However, as in a traditional retail store, staff called “in-store stylists” are on hand to give recommendations tailored to each customer. Staffing has also become a challenge for retail companies.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

According to Chain Store Age , the German supermarket company will use its partnership with Instacart to roll out the service to 75 major markets, including San Diego, New York City, Miami, Raleigh and Minneapolis. We’re growing at a time when other retailers are struggling.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This will allow the Minneapolis-based Sezzle to offer more long-term loans. BNPL providers are seeing market growth , as the payment financing option is seen as a possible boost for shopping via smartphone, which has been a challenge for retailers. "We

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

But that doesn’t mean the Minneapolis-based bank is giving up on branches. Bank’s transactions are now 60% digital, Chief Operating Officer Andrew Cecere said at the Goldman Sachs U.S. Financial Services Conference this week. It has around 3,000 branches and 80% of its sales activity still takes place there Read More.

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JUNE 26, 2018

Grocery delivery for Prime members is taking its next great leap forward as Amazon and Whole Foods have announced that Prime Now Grocery is expanding to Chicago, Houston, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and San Antonio. Consumers in Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis and San Antonio will also be able to choose from a selection of alcoholic beverages.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Just last week, the company announced the national expansion of Instacart Pickup, a new grocery click-and-collect service that provides customers with broadened delivery and/or pickup options, enabling them to order via Instacart and pick up the groceries at retailers.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

The rollout of DashMart will initially cover eight cities: Chicago, Minneapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dallas, Salt Lake City, the greater Phoenix area and Redwood City, California, wrote Andrew Ladd , director of new verticals at DoorDash, in a piece posted on the company’s website. DoorDash on Wednesday (Aug.

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JULY 14, 2020

into outdoor venues in Denver, Dallas, Houston, Minneapolis and Woodbridge, New Jersey, with more such venues on the way, CNBC reported. Michelle Snyder , chief marketing officer of Brookfield’s retail arm, said the idea was to keep making money even through the pandemic’s dissolution of many old standards of events.

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JANUARY 10, 2019

The holiday season was a bit less merry, from a comparable sales perspective, than Macy’s had been forecasting, as the department store retailer cut its holiday sales forecast. Macy’s was hit hardest by investor ire, with its share price down 16 percent in premarket trading on the news, while Kohl’s fell 5 percent.

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MARCH 11, 2020

A Newark Airport store will start using Amazon’s Just Walk Out cashierless technology on March 16, just days after the company announced it was licensing the platform to retailers, according to reports on Wednesday (March 11). . OTG operates 350 restaurants and shops in 10 airports, including in Minneapolis, Washington D.C.,

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JUNE 2, 2020

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. In March, the retailer announced that two distribution centers had been temporarily shuttered due to COVID-19.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

To help local businesses encountering difficulty because of the coronavirus or civil unrest, the Mall of America is contributing a 5,000-square-foot retail space to local businesses called the Community Commons. Additionally, the space will showcase the artistry of Juxtaposition Arts, an art center staffed by teens in North Minneapolis.

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MARCH 4, 2020

Minneapolis-based Target will also test convenience-store sized retail locations in some places. The retailer will be testing the pickup and drive-up idea in Florida and Oregon by late March. Same-day services have been a boon for the retailer.

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JULY 30, 2020

Sezzle , the Minneapolis-based installment-based payments platform, has announced the appointment of Reid Bork to its leadership team. In the newly created role, he will be responsible for leading the company’s large-scale retail acquisition efforts.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

The changing nature of retail has been challenging for pharmacies. Sales of things like personal care products, cosmetics and various other household goods have been slipping, as consumers are increasingly stocking up online or at alternative retail venues like dollar stores for those types of items. in early 2019.

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APRIL 12, 2020

Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari doesn’t have hope that the economy will rebound quickly from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, according to CNBC.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Retail Dive reported Thursday (Nov. 3), quoting the Minneapolis Star Tribune , that Anne Dament, who had been in charge of Target’s grocery store unit, has left the building. The retailing giant confirmed the news and added that her last day will come on Nov. The whole grocery department.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S. Sezzle’s payments platform expedites quick, safe and simple payments among consumers and retailers. Digital payments FinTech startup Sezzle announced on Monday (Feb. 10) that it topped 1 million active customers. .

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APRIL 17, 2020

USAA — a financial services company that serves people in the military and their families — originally kept $2,400 from a Minneapolis woman, her disabled veteran husband and their newborn baby, according to a report in the New York Times. .

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JUNE 1, 2020

But civil unrest following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis has uprooted those plans, as one instance of conflict sprung up right on the Strip, where police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters. In Reno, the National Guard was called to respond to riots amid a declaration of a citywide emergency by the mayor.

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JULY 14, 2016

Brick-and-mortar merchants are far from being free from the problems that plague their particular brand of retail, but even they have to look at online retail rising rents for warehouse space with a little bit of mirth. Of the 57 major retail markets studied, 37 of them posted decreases to warehousing availability.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

In a blog post , the retailer said the curbside delivery service is being tested in the Minneapolis-St. Once a customer places an order online via the Target app, they can select “Drive Up,” and the retailer will send a notification when the purchase is ready to be retrieved.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It’s hardly competing with Amazon yet, but Target has shown more digital momentum than any major retailer during the pandemic. So far, it looks like Walmart could steal a few pages from its Minneapolis-based neighbor. However, Target, for its scale, has been scrappy in terms of its eCommerce investments and retail partnerships.

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AUGUST 21, 2020

It’s not often that Walmart gets upstaged in the world of retail. But this week, Bentonville got smoked by the other brick-and-mortar powerhouse just up the Mississippi River in Minneapolis: Target. Unless Walmart+ is in the mix, it’s hard to say that the retailer is pushing customers toward the digital experience.

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