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JULY 24, 2019

Umpqua Bank, the Portland, Ore.-based based regional bank with $28 billion in assets, is growing its human-digital strategy through its Go-To app. Through the mobile digital platform, the bank is putting customers directly in touch with a personal banker who customers can text.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 14, 2019

Access to the Go-To platform is free for the Portland, Ore.-based Umpqua Bank’s Go-To human-digital live support platform is moving to a 24/7 service, Cort O'Haver, President and CEO of Umpqua Holdings Corporation, announced at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle on Tuesday. He said the decision had been made just that morning.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

O’Haver has been CEO of Portland, Ore.-based Cort O’Haver, CEO of Umpqua Bank, will join the fireside chat at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019. The event will take place March 11-12 at Seattle’s Hyatt Olive 8 Hotel. You can join the event by registering here.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

And five additional locations will open on the West Coast, with three in California — Roseville, San Diego and San Jose — plus Portland, Oregon, and Bellevue, Washington. 18, followed by Portland on Feb. Brooklyn will launch first on Jan. Boston’s Seaport district and Roseville are scheduled to open in March.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

Paul, Nashville, New Jersey, the New York City suburbs, Raleigh-Durham, Richmond, Portland, Salt Lake City, Seattle, St. To help keep up, UPS started imposing shipping restrictions on some large retailers. Louis, Tucson and Upstate New York.

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MAY 2, 2018

Retailers and retail landlords are reporting strong first-quarter earnings results, beating analysts’ expectations in many cases. billion, according to news from Retail Dive. In some cases, the retailer is demolishing existing stores to create new uses of the land. billion on Friday (April 27).

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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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DECEMBER 21, 2016

The gift of giving just got a whole lot easier and more digital, thanks to CashStar, a Portland, ME–based prepaid and digital gifting solutions provider. According to data from the National Retail Federation, about 15 percent of holiday sales were returned last year — an estimated $90 billion worth of merchandise.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

While Nordstrom is planning to open two full-line locations this year, the fashion retailer intends to close two locations at the beginning of April. The outlet reported that the retailer has shuttered roughly two locations each year in recent times. area store in the middle of 2017.

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MAY 3, 2018

Log another win for brick-and-mortar in the retail history books: Despite years of retail apocalypse criers, the industry continues to show that it’s not dying at all — it’s just evolving. The company opened its first store in Portland five years ago and is now about to open its second in New York City this May at 252 Lafayette.

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JUNE 17, 2016

Blame the people or blame the media, but Portland has acquired a reputation as a haven for the slightly off-kilter and the anti-mainstream. Fortune is reporting that sources have confirmed Amazon’s intentions to open a third brick-and-mortar bookstore in Portland, Oregon. “Stay tuned for additional details down the road.”.

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BankInovation

MAY 10, 2021

BBVA faced a storm of criticism from former customers of the Portland-based Simple neobank, who said they were locked out of their accounts and unable to get help from BBVA call centers over the weekend. It is an awkward predicament for the $105.1 billion BBVA, which in 2018 showcased Amelia, an automated chatbot designed to […].

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AUGUST 30, 2018

India-based eCommerce marketplace Paytm Mall wants to work more closely with regional retailers and team up with eCommerce grocery service BigBasket to compete with Flipkart and Amazon, according to recent Reuters reports. It is currently the third-largest company competing in the country’s retail space. “We

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BankInovation

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Portland, Maine-based, $469 million credit union first selected Access Softek for mobile banking more than five years ago and added its online banking capability in 2020 to resolve its […].

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JANUARY 5, 2017

The Big Apple expansion comes as part of Amazon’s larger push into physical retail — the mostly e-commerce firm has already opened locations in San Diego, Seattle and Portland. Ironically, part of what is driving Amazon into physical retail is falling rental rates — spurred on by consumers’ mass adoption of online shopping.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Halloween is a big event for many retailers, whether they’re seasonal pop-ups or eCommerce mainstays. Through a service called Frightgeist , results can be sorted by popularity and by region, so users can find out exactly how people are getting spooky from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon. eCommerce Is Cleaning Up.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Walmart ‘s online home brand Allswell has announced the launch of its Tiny Home retail concept. Atlanta, Georgia, Nashville, Tennessee, Austin, Texas, Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles, California, San Francisco, California, and Portland, Oregon. Allswell is affiliated only with Walmart and not with its online counterpart Jet.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

The gift of giving just got a whole lot easier and more digital, thanks to one Portland, Me.–based Prepaid commerce solutions provider CashStar recently announced the release of its new Product eGifting solution for retailers. based company. Giving presents often drives lower conversion rates but more costly returns.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

2) as The Wall Street Journal reported it imposed shipping restrictions on some large retailers such as Gap, Nike, L.L.Bean Inc., The company positions itself not only as a shipping service but as a “data-driven marketing and omnichannel enablement” platform that allows retailers to connect with high-value customers. Hot Topic Inc.,

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MARCH 13, 2020

Mayors from New York City, Chicago, Boston and Portland are participating in a program where Grubhub will suspend the collection of up to $100 million in commission payments from restaurants across the country.

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MAY 30, 2016

The diamond retailer announced the opening of its second brick-and-mortar store at The Westchester mall in White Plains, New York. The opening of the new store comes after the Seattle-based online retailer opened its first physical store at the Roosevelt Field mall in Garden City, New York, in June last year.

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

Well, according to Cofounder and CEO Eric Breon, scaling was a matter of necessity when Vacasa first started out because rental homes were illegal in the company’s home turf of Portland, Oregon, in all but commercial areas (which greatly limited the company’s initial reach). Italy, Spain, Belize and Chile.

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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. Additionally, the majority of our colleagues – full-time, part-time and seasonal – are eligible for our Path to Growth Incentive in 2018.”.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Amazon Books also announced plans for its fourth physical retail location — this one planned for the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. The drugmaker has pledged to release a generic version of the EpiPen that it says will retail for around $300, but for many, the damage to the company’s brand and reputation has already been done.

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JULY 27, 2020

” The Seattle-based Amazon added that it has “piloted deliveries of hundreds of thousands of meals with Portland Public Schools and Seattle Public Schools, and delivered meals and devices for the Los Angeles Unified School District.”

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APRIL 8, 2016

metro Area and one in Portland. Expanding … to the West Coast is a huge move for us and one we think will benefit customers in the Seattle and Portland markets who might want to see an engagement ring in person before buying online,” Yoakum said in a statement.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Legal weed has already driven up rents in cities such as Denver, Seattle, and Portland, which had previously relaxed cannabis laws. Industrial rents in Seattle and Portland each rose 27 percent in the same period. In Denver, for example, rents rose 33 percent from the first quarter of 2014 through May 2017.

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JULY 29, 2019

Mastercard is expected to report strong revenue growth in its second-quarter earnings, thanks to a continued increase in retail spending and digital transactions, according to analysts. The company introduced a new open banking platform in June that supports connectivity, security and compliance, dispute resolution and consulting services.

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JULY 7, 2016

spent six weeks in Portland, Ore. — Square Inc. — a city with a strong existing base of micro-merchants — to transform it into one of the company's top U.S. markets in total Apple Pay transactions conducted with its card readers.

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MAY 2, 2019

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JUNE 13, 2019

But when retail gets more niche or specialized, like in the arena of specialized outdoor good and equipment – the consumer’s interests and needs get a bit different. Quality and function are generally more key considerations than price alone – which means the customer is often looking for a wider range of very specific products.

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JUNE 13, 2019

But when retail gets more niche or specialized, like in the arena of specialized outdoor goods and equipment, the consumer’s interests and needs are a bit different. All of those points of expansion, Phillips said, are intended to build a retail operation around a community of enthusiasts, and to reap the rewards of those synergistic effects.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

But it wasn’t until many years later that he decided to go all-in on the mushroom jerky concept, working with them to reformulate the recipe and manufacture the jerky in Portland, Oregon. Pan also believes that plant-based foods are growing at five times the pace in retail sales versus regular groceries.

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JULY 8, 2019

The wage increases in Portland, San Francisco and Seattle carried wage expenses to $10.6 “We believe this path offers the greatest potential for stability and future growth,” the company said. There have been some offers to buy the company as well, and a sale could be completed as soon as Sept.

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MAY 24, 2016

Which is why the results of a recent study from Mintel are so surprising, and make one wonder if we have perhaps been missing out on a group that might just be a distinct and important part of the retail picture going forward. Millennial dads could be the future of retail. Which is increasingly looking like a lost opportunity.

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JULY 18, 2016

This newfound cost consciousness is reshaping the retail industry in everything from spurring the rise of fast fashion at the expense of mall “anchor stores,” to the increasing popularity of off-brands or store brands in the supermarket, to the shift in the apparel business, to off-price retail outlets over full-priced department stores.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

It serves roughly 120,000 households across nine major markets and recently expanded into San Diego, Portland, New York City and New Jersey. The five-year-old startup, which focuses on Asian groceries, has seen 600 percent year-over-year growth. The firm also staged a $35 million Series C financing round led by DST Global.

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