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A Loyalty-Driven Singles’ Day in China Lends Lessons to Sales-Centric Shopping Holidays

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For consumer brands doing business in China, no date on the retail calendar carries more weight than November 11, also known as Singles’ Day. Today, the event is the pinnacle of the global retail calendar, with over 290,000 brands offering 17 million products to over 1 billion annual active consumers across Alibaba’s ecosystem this year.

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Automatic Food Service Reports Sales Boost After Going Cashless

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The report notes that AFS was able to onboard the new technology into its operations in as little as four months, leveraging one enterprise-wide platform for its vending machine and office coffee business.

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The Connected Economy: It’s About Time

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Thanks to Huygens, the world has made a cottage industry out of watching the time, benchmarking it and counting it in any number of ways, and for any number of reasons. Everything that a person wants or needs to get done in a day has to fit within the 1,440 minutes that start every day at 12:00 a.m. and end at 11:59 p.m.,

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Amazon: QSRs? Big Threat Or Essential Lifeline?

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Meal kit options and prepared food selections in grocery stores are expanding to get feet into the grocery store and up the number of visits they make each week from 1.3 That Index score serves as a benchmark across the establishments we track and helps us identify and analyze trends and patterns. to something more. Time will tell.

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

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million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. So, eBay set in motion a number of things in an attempt to blunt the impact of these shifts and to bring new buyers and sellers into the mix. Speaking of online retailers, eBay went all out to court them. From the Living Room to the Basement. It was shuttered in 2014.

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Transcript: Elizabeth Burton, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

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So it’s a problem that institutions offer often suffer from that retail investors do not like you and me, we probably don’t have this bucketing issue. 00:12:53 [Speaker Changed] I think number one, the team, my team at Goldman and the, a broader team even and the team at Maryland are, are some of my favorite people.

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The Four Blind Spots Costing Big Retail Big Bucks

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Larger multibillion dollar retailers do no better at eliminating the friction associated with transacting online than their smaller million to ten million dollar merchant counterparts. Large retailers leave their customers abandoned at the virtual checkout aisle at the same rate that the smaller guys do. Size doesn’t matter.

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