PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Amazon has selected New York City and Northern Virginia as the homes for its second and third headquarters. Virginia has also pledged $195 million in infrastructure improvements, work that involves subway stations and a pedestrian bridge for people headed to Reagan National Airport.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2016

Today, in McLean, Virginia, guests of the local Hilton can have their questions answered 24/7, 365 days a year by what is likely the world’s first robot concierge, Connie (named for Conrad Hilton, the patriarch of the Hilton brand), which is powered by IBM’s Watson AI. Some believe the rest of the nation should be following that example.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The Fort Worth, Texas-based retailer franchise said it filed for chapter 11 protection Monday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond, Virginia. Wells Fargo National Association and Pathlight Capital LP will allow the company to operate while finalizing sales. The bankruptcy financing from lenders including Bank of America N.A.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The 2020 outlook report from the National Restaurant Association was released today and it paints a picture of an industry dealing with the countercurrents of solid consumer spending and disruptive technology. In fact, by 2030, the National Restaurant Association expects that technology could completely change the face of dining.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

announced a 10-year extension of its fleet fuel card contract with convenience chain retailer Sheetz, Inc., states, including Maryland, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. On Wednesday (Oct. 18), payment solutions company WEX, Inc., a press release published by Business Wire reported. billion range.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Grubhub , a mobile food ordering and delivery platform, is expanding its range of delivery and catering options once again, this time by announcing news of a partnership with another national leader in food services: BJ’s Restaurants and Brewhouse. BJ’s Restaurants, Inc., Additionally, corporate catering is available for business functions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

And into the mix this week drops Macy’s — the latest in a string of the biggest names in retail to get on the stick with its own unique contribution to holiday retail hiring. But this year, Macy’s is trying out a new version of the hiring process with a national hiring holiday on Sept.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Some families pay more in taxes on diapers in a year than a month’s supply actually costs, Phillip Vander Klay, director of policy and government relations for the National Diaper Bank Network , noted in a recent discussion with PYMNTS. Tax law changes can hit retailers hard if states do not carefully announce and implement them.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

From rough sledding in Nebraska to West Virginia, where conditions are best described as dismal, the voters voting today are hoping for a turnaround soon. percent growth, whereas, again, the nation saw 3.1 West Virginia. percent nationally. Store front and Main Street businesses to be specific. percent improvement.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

can now have alcohol delivered in as soon as an hour from national, regional and local grocers as well as wine and liquor stores. Instacart said customers in participating states will now see a new in-app banner that lets them shop directly from beer, wine and spirit “aisles” of select retailers on the Instacart marketplace.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Viettel, for its part, has over 110 million clients in 11 nations, including Peru, Hati and Cambodia. Richard Burr from North Carolina and Mark Warner from Virginia have put forward a bill to push back against the dominance of China in 5G by offering to subsidize firms in the U.S. Viettel announced the plan Friday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

In separate news, reports surfaced in September that mobile sports betting is quickly growing to a point where New Jersey is close to topping Las Vegas as the biggest market in the nation. Mobile betting, however, is only allowed in five: New Jersey, West Virginia, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Nevada per earlier reports.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The retailer said that around 23,500 of the seasonal positions will be based in facilities that support online sales, an increase of 5,500 positions compared to 2017. The company also announced its national hiring event for the year, which will take place on Oct.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

One of the more long-grumbled complaints in retail is that Amazon and other eCommerce players are able to exploit a loophole that allowed them to mostly avoid charging sales tax. Would collecting sales tax 100 percent of the time take a bit out of Amazon’s bottom line? Recent data suggests — probably not.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2016

26) that its grocery delivery platform, AmazonFresh, is continuing its march toward national domination with the addition of two new cities : Chicago and Dallas. Amazon announced yesterday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

And this week, it seems, the delays are continuing to compound — and retailers of all kinds are reporting bumps in their distribution processes. The net result is that Maryland has distributed 46 percent of doses, well below the national average of 53 percent. But it's not all bad news.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

Food trucks have been around since the 1970s, when taco trucks began making the rounds in New York City, but didn’t become a national sensation until 2008 when two events coincided in such a way as to make a long extant — but largely niche — subsegment of the restaurant game into a mass market phenomenon. economy was blowing up in a bad way.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and National Governors Association (NGA) convened in 1999 to seek methods of making state tax systems easier for interstate businesses to comply with and understand. Wayfair ruling have made tax compliance challenges highly visible.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2018

In 2014, Amazon ’s Whole Foods became Instacart’s first national partner. But, following Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon started offering its own two-hour delivery from stores in Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas and Virginia Beach in February. In March , it rolled out the service to Atlanta and San Francisco.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

After referencing its results with national crime statistics from the FBI, Shorr Packaging found that cities with high rates of larceny thefts also often had many Google users searching for “Amazon package stolen.” followed this pattern, while cities such as Virginia Beach had fewer people searching for that term and lower rates of larceny.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2019

Not all Americans celebrate the Fourth of July by doing something special, but about 86 percent do, and will spend several billion dollars celebrating the nation’s 243rd birthday. According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), that would be food, mostly — Americans will spend about $6.7 So, what will be we buying up?

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

I''m writing this post sitting in my car while my 11 year old warms up for a soccer match in Richmond, Virginia. I took a brief walk down the front of the store, past The Money Center, and encountered my second glimpse of Wal-Mart’s banking strategy, Woodforest National Bank (see photo). This store was six months old. million, on $3.1

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2016

A little over 40 years ago, the Pet Rock was a national phenomenon. Dahl’s guess was that with some clever branding, cute packaging and a clever enough pitch, the Pet Rock would soon be a national sensation. Our favorite out-of-the-box application for Pokémon GO in recent weeks actually goes to law enforcement, not retail.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

On average apartment rent rates have gone up about 36 percent in the last decade according to retail data firm Yardi Matrix , and in particularly desirable marketplaces like Denver, Austin and Seattle rents have gone up by more than 70 percent. I’ve got to deal with an insurance claim and get my attorneys involved.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Pawn shops, historically speaking, are “mom and pop” operations, and not the kinds of outfits that tend to attract eight-figure investments in the form of an $80 million senior credit facility to fuel their national and global expansion. Not that Smart Financial ever refers to itself as a pawn shop.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But somehow, we are a nation of chronically under-rested people. We are at this pivotal moment,” Lee Ritterband, a psychiatry professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, noted on the emergence of various digital therapy apps. For years, these have been bubbling under the surface.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. So, providing retailers with a new storefront in an ecosystem of 1.5 billion people a month who visit it.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Bank, Old Second National Bank, lost a whopping $156 million in 2009 and 2010. Independent Bank Corporation (Nasdaq: IBCP) Independent Bank dates back to 1864 as the First National Bank of Iona. (Nasdaq: OSBC) Old Second is a single-bank holding company headquartered in Aurora, Illinois. How did they lose it? Welcome to the list!

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

From creating checkout-free retail stores to eliminating concert tickets, here are 16 industries that are starting to transform with facial recognition technology. Linking facial recognition to personalization for shoppers presents a big opportunity in retail. Law Enforcement.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The maritime logistics industry is enormously important to the global economy, with 90% of all internationally traded goods transported by sea, according to the United Nations. San Francisco-based ClearMetal provides AI-powered insights into the logistics and transportation process for retailers and logistics providers.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

Education: Stanford University (MBA), Australian National University (BA/BSC). Education: University of Virginia (JD), Harvard College (BA). After a brief role with DLJ, Kirsten joined Banc of America Securities as an Equity Research Analyst focused on the specialty retail sector. Current Firm: Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Retail locations: Seven. National Management Association/Grand Lake chapter, treasurer and president. Kelly Pike is a freelance writer in Virginia. Thoughtful lending and an open mind keep profits strong for incoming ICBA chairman Jack Hartings. By Kelly Pike. The Peoples Bank Co. Coldwater, Ohio. Assets: $450 million.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Over a year of research, development and beta testing, Shopkick Grocery was found to increase consumer basket sizes to $59 in grocery, drugstore and retail spend per trip versus the $32 national average. Retail brands and partners for Shopkick include Best Buy, Clorox, Nestle and Starbucks, among others.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

Once the 24 competitors (tributes) get to the games, they then battle to the death for a national audience that is required by law to watch the games. online grocery sales since 2017, the largest share of any single retailer and double its closest competitor. According to the Harris Poll, Amazon is the most trusted U.S.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Indeed, co-founder Alejandro Resnik, the CEO, told the WSJ in 2015 that it was looking to raise a “monster round” of $300 million at a $2 billion valuation to fuel its national expansion. The bet was risky because it required large geographies — indeed, entire nations — to adopt the technology in order for it to scale successfully.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Some interesting finalists would be: M&T and People’s United Old National and First Midwest Webster and Sterling Columbia Bank and Umpqua. Congrats on a brave move and national recognition Jim! Goes to Larry Mazza and the crew at MVB Bank in West Virginia. Chuck Snyder, chief executive of National Cooperative Bank (NCB).

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