PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Already, a cashless store concept is already up and running in a Seattle pilot. billion in domestic sales — To expand its delivery reach, Taco Bell — along with KFC — has recently tapped Grubhub to provide delivery and online ordering. But there are no official reports on its next planned expansion. Subway’s $10.8 Taco Bell’s $9.8

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

In a Q&A with the National Retail Federation (NRF), Kathy Gersch , founder and executive vice president at Kotter, a retail consulting firm in Seattle, said that the explosion of eCommerce, expansion of brick-and-mortar stores, financing through debt and arrival of COVID-19 have brought stores to the brink.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Earlier this year, it was reported that the Seattle-based company was looking to lease a 50,000-square-meter warehouse near São Paulo. The only nations that see more beauty sales are the U.S., Online sales in Brazil are also expected to increase by 12 percent to 53.5 China and Japan. billion reais ($13.7 billion) this year.

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PYMNTS

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. The idea behind it, noted NBC News, is for Google to make people even more reliant on the Internet so it can turn around and sell more online ads.

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MAY 11, 2020

percent of those who purchased food from restaurants ordered it online, but that increased to 16.5 Grubhub has capped fees in Seattle and San Francisco, but they remain in effect in the rest of the U.S., Our March 6 survey showed 4.7 percent as of April 27. including New York City, which has been hard hit by the pandemic.

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MARCH 4, 2020

An employee who works out of one of Amazon ’s Seattle offices has had a positive test result for the coronavirus, CNBC reported. Multiple nations have reported their first cases that have been confirmed. If we want people not to meet in person, let them conduct their business online.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

National Football League (NFL) football is about to start up — real games, not the practice ones — and that means another flurry of activity regarding payments and commerce. CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks , was the first NFL stadium to adopt the technology. The reasons?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Kohl’s , for instance, will bring emerging brands to over 50 physical retail locations and online starting in the fall through Curated By Kohl’s. The retailer also plans to team with Facebook on brand curation starting next year — “identifying and engaging with brands that have built a strong online community on the social media platform.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Amazon, of course, has been running this experiment for a number of years , starting all the way back during the dot-com boom with an investment in the early online grocery service HomeGrocer. Exclusive brands encourage shoppers to get these products through Amazon rather than going elsewhere, a benefit that national brands don’t enjoy.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

Currently, Amazon hopes to take advantage of recently loosened restrictions on foreign retailers in India by expanding its online grocery venture into the nation of some 1.3 Additionally, the grocery move will allow Amazon to better compete with local rival Flipkart, which also has its sights set on the online groceries, said Reuters.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

million Chinese nationals visited the U.S. Only 5 percent of Chinese citizens hold passports, and the nation’s largest online travel service, Ctrip , predicts that number will double over the next two years. If Alipay were a nation, it would be the third largest on Earth. According to the U.S. Commerce Department , 2.97

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Earlier this year, the eCommerce retailer launched its first checkout-free convenience store in Seattle. According to the Chicago Tribune , the Wish Book will still be available online in early November. And a National Retail Federation (NRF) survey found that consumers are expected to spend an average of $1,007.24

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In 2015, the National Retail Federation lauded supermarkets as the fastest growing retailer sector. But 2016 has seen a considerable slowdown in the market as sales continue to move online. As with much else, they’ve moved their food purchases online. Stores in Seattle could even open by the end of 2016.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

That’s why they’re asking guests to order a Whopper meal based on however they might be feeling,” an online release stated Wednesday (May 1). They’re a limited edition and are only available in Austin, Seattle, Miami, Los Angeles and New York City. “Burger King restaurants understands that no one is happy all the time.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Ripples were promptly sent flying into all corners of the retail universe with the launch of Amazon Home Services in March 2015, and now that both mom-and-pop hardware shops, as well as national brick-and-mortar chains have had more than a calendar year to react to the changes, a definite trend has emerged.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

If these allegations are true, then Amazon exploited its role as the largest online marketplace in the U.S. Starting this week in Seattle, some downtown restaurants got a delivery option provided at no charge from Amazon. And speaking of preferring to do things quietly, but in an uplifting way…. How much more is up for debate.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The company announced plans for a mobile-only ordering store in its Seattle headquarters in 2017, and now it’s bumped it up another notch. Cil noted it’s likely there will be a national rollout of mobile ordering and payments in the coming months. Coffee and tea QSRs scored an average of 35 on the index.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

The 8,000 square-foot-store is the first of multiple planned updates to locations for the brand, including Cherry Hill, New Jersey and Seattle, the company said. In other news, Barneys New York has put itself up for sale and filed for bankruptcy protection as it struggles to rival online brands.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2016

“The lessons learned from the retail sector have relevance beyond retail, and will meaningfully contribute to the broader national conversation about the business practices, local programs, and public policies needed to promote a strong economy and provide expanded opportunities for all workers.”.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Consumers using Amazon Fresh or ordering from Whole Foods this week ran up against a technical issue as the online ordering system overburdened by hunkered-down consumers was pushed past its capacity. “As Today this resulted in a systems impact affecting our ability to deliver Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market orders tonight.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Korea is considered the world’s mobile commerce powerhouse: Mobile commerce makes up 28 percent of total online sales. The company will also expand its R&D presence in Silicon Valley and Seattle, in addition to Shanghai and Seoul. It wasn’t long ago that South Korea launched its first startup accelerator.

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JULY 19, 2019

The sale went for two days (making the Prime Day moniker something of a misnomer) in 18 nations, and was the biggest-ever sale day for Amazon’s entire lineup of devices, with the Echo Dot and the Fire TV Stick leading the pack among sellers.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 10, 2017

The Seattle-based company’s average ship time has decreased 1.5 Consider these three examples from household-brand national retailers. The graph above shows the results achieved by one national retailer when it dropped its $8-12 delivery fee to offer same-day free shipping for a promotional period. Consumers want convenience.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

So last year, the New York resident left the big bank, setting up an account with Simple, an FDIC-insured direct bank based in Portland, Oregon, where he can do all of his banking online – without any monthly fees. “I Surprisingly, the people who grew up with the national banks are more likely to look for greener pastures for their green.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

Facial recognition, for example, could capture what a shopper is looking at, and enable retailers to later serve up related promotions to the shopper via email or online ads. Banks are beginning to use facial recognition as secure login tools for customers using their online banking sites and apps.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. National Medal of Science, Turing Awards, Kyoto Prizes, and many others.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. in Australia and South Africa before taking up various roles with online city guide business CitySearch in 1996. Education: Stanford University (MBA), Australian National University (BA/BSC). BRIAN SINGERMAN. JEREMY LIEW.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. Traction/Metrics: Today’s iteration is Amazon Pay, a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants and shoppers. Amazon Cash.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 31, 2016

desktop online banking) was primarily about porting paper-based statements into an online format. Many customers have been happily using desktop online banking for a decade or more. The ongoing migration to mobile provides financial institutions a chance to reboot their approach to delivering information digitally.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Companies attacking the category offer e-discovery and legal research, consumer and business-facing online legal services, legal practice management software, and intellectual property invention disclosure software, among many other use cases. Seattle-based Boundless is a startup that helps customers apply for US marriage-based green cards.

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

Secondhand stores are nothing new, but startups are helping these brick-and-mortar outfits find another life online — and raising significant funding. Online luxury handbag resale marketplace Rebag recently raised a $25M Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to over $50M.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 23, 2022

They are currently creating a waitlist and experimenting with search engine advertising (that’s where I saw it first, ad based on my Google search for “best small business banks” from a Seattle IP address). Smart, albeit expensive, for a regional bank to create a national digital brand. Also, wondering how it’s pronounced?

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CB Insights

AUGUST 1, 2017

In May, Tencent opened an AI research lab in Seattle focused on speech recognition as it looks to apply AI research to its social media, online games, and cloud services. These deals flattened between 2015 and 2016, while China investment deals in 2017 could see a year-over-year drop of 38% at the current investment rate.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery. 3D printing.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

In tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), The Coda was awarded a rating of 5 stars out of 5 for its side-impact and rollover tests. Founded by Jane Park in Seattle in 2007, beauty brand Julep quickly grew from a scrappy startup to a major omnichannel retail operation. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Over 1M millennial women are becoming mothers every year, meaning Gen Y now makes up the majority of annual births in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Online platforms like Hipcamp and Campsy have emerged to help campers book unique lodging experiences like yurts, treehouses, and caves.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

We are confident that to truly have the long-term impact we want to make, we need to focus on finding an acquirer with an existing national fresh food supply chain who can carry forward the Juicero mission. Markafoni was an online shopping destination for Turkish consumers, specialising in clothing and fashion accessories.

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