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AUGUST 23, 2017

Retailer Kohl’s will boost both its brick-and-mortar and eCommerce capabilities this year by adding four small-format, brick-and-mortar locations to its roster of stores and a fifth eCommerce fulfillment center. 2017 will be located in Rhode Island, Ohio, New Jersey and California.

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AUGUST 12, 2016

Donkin, who Forbes says is known for “his focus on emotional connection and loyalty to Amazon,” headed up the online retailer’s ad campaigns for Amazon Prime, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Kindle, Amazon Echo and Amazon retail, as well as other creative initiatives at the company. Donkin will start on Aug. percent.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

The credit card company and retail wholesaler announced on Tuesday (Aug. 2) that they are running a contest to reward shoppers who pay with Mastercard credit, debit or prepaid cards at BJ’s locations in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. The prize?

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

The company listed Providence, Rhode Island; Colombia, South Carolina; Little Rock, Arkansas and Athens, Georgia as newly-added service areas. Last year, Postmates launched its first-ever grocery product, Fresh, which delivers curated groceries and retail essentials in minutes.

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JUNE 17, 2019

That opens the door for producers from Southern Maine, New Hampshire, Western Massachusetts and Rhode Island.) When it comes to geography, Rhode Island, where the company is based, has advantages for a startup. For deliveries, the company does milk-run logistics. There is not a lot of noise like in Boston and New York.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

Xbox All Access represents the first time a lender, manufacturer, and retailer have come together to offer a seamless way for consumers to buy, and we believe that it will be the model for how purchases are made and financed in the future,” he added. Citizens Bank’s POS financing offers a payment and purchase model for retail purchases.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Xbox All Access represents the first time a lender, manufacturer, and retailer have come together to offer a seamless way for consumers to buy, and we believe that it will be the model for how purchases are made and financed in the future,” he added. Citizens Bank’s POS financing offers a payment and purchase model for retail purchases.

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JUNE 11, 2020

Stephen DeSousa, CEO at Broadway Hospitality Group , which represents 14 Massachusetts and Rhode Island eateries, said the first wave of people visiting restaurants now are not worried about coronavirus. They’re going to go out no matter what,” DeSousa said.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Consumers in Rhode Island and Delaware were top in the nation in local shopping searches on Black Friday — searches that contained “near me,” hours and stores. An estimated 56 percent of consumer visits to retail websites during Black Friday were made via mobile devices, and 40 percent of Black Friday sales were completed via mobile.

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JULY 15, 2016

Santander is a national bank based in Wilmington, Delaware, and operates a network of close to 700 retail branch offices in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Retailers are not just looking to donate a percentage of profits to a charity or cause, either, but are also seeing it as a way to foster customer engagement. Donating to a variety of charitable causes can expand customer reach for retailer engagement. I think it’s very important for all brands to find their niche,” he said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

It isn’t an easy year to be an apparel retailer. Americans spend about half as much on apparel and accessories today than they did 30 years ago, and former retail giants in the space are struggling to keep up with digital competitors like Amazon. So what’s an apparel merchant to do in these tough times? Go omni, of course.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2017

David Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island, sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee calling for a hearing on the acquisition, arguing that a monopoly has hurt wages for workers and created “gross inequality in the workplace.” In July, Bloomberg reported that U.S.

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JULY 16, 2019

David Cicilline of Rhode Island, a Democrat who chairs the subcommittee, stated that the desire to boost the new economy had in effect fostered a mindset that let big tech self-regulate with “little oversight,” and that concentration has resulted. Sutton countered that retailers also tend to employ that model. percent in 2018.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Matthew Britt, a chef and culinary instructor at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island told FSR that he was concerned about the long-term impact of restaurant outsourcing. Whelihan’s Pub & Restaurant, and Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The Japan Times reported that the mandate would seek to keep tech giants such as Amazon from abusing dominant market positions when competing with smaller online retailers. The suit, filed in Rhode Island, alleges that Citizens Bank violated federal consumer protection laws during the period between 2010 to 2016.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

David Cicilline of Rhode Island, who serves as chairman of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee. “It In his remarks, Barnett estimated that in 2019, his company lost an estimated $10 million in revenue as a result of not selling through Amazon Retail and Amazon’s actions.

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APRIL 8, 2020

president and owner of Energy-One , a heating, air conditioning and oil delivery service firm based in Rhode Island and serving that state and Massachusetts, told Karen Webster that survival is top of mind. I’m not a retailer – and I don’t get paid with a credit card at the end of the transaction.”. Thomas Vessella, Sr.,

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Stroopwafels were available on every corner in his home city of Amsterdam, but were more or less unheard of in Providence, Rhode Island — which meant no matter how many he brought back with him, they were always devoured in short order by his American friends.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Even school sports uniforms have been dragged into the digital age, courtesy of a Rhode Island DTC company called SquadLocker. The company took an innovative business model and serious sales momentum into the start of the year, pivoted for the pandemic and took $20 million in funding off the table.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Small retailers, manufacturers and distributors — they have, frankly, struggled over the last 10 years as the economy has been driven more by the largest businesses,” Kelly King, CEO of BB&T said in a Jan. 19 interview with Bloomberg Television. BB&T is expecting to see loan growth between 2 to 4 percent in 2018.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. Track retail tech startups.

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MARCH 15, 2016

Finder says Idaho, which leads the nation in weekly alcohol purchases at $54 per person per week, though Alabama, Rhode Island, Arizona and Iowa weren’t far behind. And just where are these plastered purchases happening? Patrick’s Day-related purchases as a whole. There are, of course, worse decisions made on St.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Steering the ship — handling all of the engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing, even when you’re taking 90 percent of the subsequent profits — was ultimately too expensive of a proposition, especially in comparison to other, less-handholding-oriented start-ups. Select VC Investors: Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation.

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MAY 8, 2020

Department of Justice said that two individuals were charged in Rhode Island with fraudulently pursuing loans through the PPP. Fitness centers and gyms are struggling to stay on an even keel as on-premise retail sales become history and members get rid of their subscriptions.

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JULY 17, 2019

The commission said it is investigating the “standard agreements” between Amazon and third-party merchants and how “the use of accumulated marketplace seller data by Amazon as a retailer affects competition.” Amazon said in a statement that it would “co-operate fully with the European Commission.”

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