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OCTOBER 6, 2017

According to emerging news reports, the five-year-old home and body care product company is looking to raise $75 million in new Series D venture capital funding at $19.60 The big price tag on Honest Company, however, is as much a limitation as it is an honor. So, is Honest no longer a unicorn? It seems possible — verging on likely.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Eating unhealthy food has a host of downsides: It shortens people’s lives, saps their energy and puts them at greater risk for things like heart disease and diabetes. Unfortunately, for our collective waist lines, junk food is cheap in terms of actual monetary expense.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

When finished, customers can view the product they customized on a virtual body double before placing the order. The experience works on the web and inside the Amazon app and comes with a $25 price tag. The shirts can even include your name printed on the label, as a small perk.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Cubcoats was the bestselling product in stuffed animals and plush toys on Amazon Prime Day , which led to the creation of Cubcoats x Amazon IRL, an interactive pop-up space that allows children to experience the popular stories behind each character through photo opportunities, interactive adventures and special programming.

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JUNE 15, 2018

According to Chain Store Age , the 10,000 square-foot store will carry more than 8,000 items offered both in-store and online, focusing on fresh foods, fast delivery, value and everyday convenience. Electronic price tags enable the retailer to keep prices current. According to api(+), the store is already a hit with local shoppers.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

The 10,000 square-foot store carries more than 8,000 items offered both in-store and online, focusing on fresh foods, fast delivery, value and everyday convenience. Designed by Tampa-based design and architecture firm api(+), the layout gives fresh vegetables, fruit and frozen foods prominence, along with popular pre-prepared dishes.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. For LendingClub, an online lender, the bid to buy Radius Bank means that (assuming the regulatory hurdles are satisfied), within 12 to 15 months, the company will move into a branchless banking model that offers services and products beyond credit.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Vending machines may get a makeover now that Byte Foods, a startup that makes so-called smart vending machines, raised $5.5 That is made possible by RFID tags on each item that alert the machine if the customer walked off with it. That is made possible by RFID tags on each item that alert the machine if the customer walked off with it.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The food that appears on one’s dinner plate each night comes with no small amount of environmental cost. It takes much land, water, pesticides, electricity and fossil fuel to grow, harvest, package, transport and prepare the food required to make even the simplest possible meals. It is, admittedly, a pretty big mission.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

They all have divisions and products that compete with them.”. Zeiler said he wants Clarifai to be different, to focus on working with customers rather than on creating products to compete with them. “We For video, Clarifai’s API doesn’t just send back one set of tags. “We We work with them to help solve problems,” he said.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Technomic’s Top 100 Global Chain Restaurant Report for 2016 found, for instance, that 68 percent of customers in Asia reported using a mobile device to place a food order in the past three months, and in the Middle East, that statistic was about 60 percent. But in North America, placing mobile orders to restaurants is still a novelty.

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MAY 2, 2019

And when a customer speaks with an employee or interacts directly with the CallJoy agent, the call is recorded and transcribed, which enables small business owners to tag and search for a conversation based on topic. Small business owners can now sign up for early access to CallJoy, which is available for a flat monthly fee of $39.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

The retailer plans to pilot technology products using Microsoft’s Azure platform at two stores, one in Ohio and one in Washington. Kroger is seeking to bring new customer experiences to market faster, drive personalization with insights and help store associates become more productive. billion private-brand products in 2016.

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MAY 26, 2016

Whole Foods has expanded its 365 concept to Los Angeles with a new opening in the Silver Lake neighborhood. The store focuses on serving millennial customers who value convenience, are mindful of price and tend to keep away from products containing artificial preservatives and colors.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Fast food, at least, is a firm part of Americana, and has close ties to rock-and-roll, modern youth culture and even politics.) The eatery then prepares the food and puts it in the pickup pod. Fast casual and casual dining restaurants tend to get scant cultural respect. Take one of the newest developments: pickup pods.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Production companies that create advertising or marketing campaigns for corporate clients are also expected to complete their projects in a timely manner, no matter what circumstances arise. Deadlines are a huge issue in video production,” he said. “If The big thing is checking the profitability of a project,” Tayenaka said. “We

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JUNE 14, 2019

The tags can also function as anti-theft devices.)”. Probably every shopper knows the thrill of the retail treasure hunt — that odd, unexpected, but perfect product discovered on a shelf; that highly desired item almost hidden in some corner, but found via serendipity or determined effort. Treasure Hunt.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

As of now, customers must still manually scan their purchases before the system bags for them since not every item in the store has been fitted with an electronic pricing tag. Lawson said every item should have a tag by the end of February. The scale of the system looks ideal for handcart-sized grocery shopping trips. Family Hub 2.0

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Sellers that bundle tax-exempt food products with taxable items may find themselves suddenly responsible for taxes on the whole array — including items that would be tax-free if sold separately. Even the ways retailers package their items can make a difference in their taxes. Find the full story in the Tracker.

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APRIL 3, 2019

One study indicates that the answer is not really — millennials cook two fewer meals per week than their baby boomer counterparts and choose pre-packaged/pre-prepared foods 18 percent of the time, compared to 5 percent for baby boomers. The pans come with graffiti-styled labels on the bottom and plantable paper tags embedded with basil seeds.

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MARCH 18, 2020

The pain started to become very evident on Wednesday (March 18), as the trade group that represents mall owners asked for a government bailout and big retail names started to put a price tag on the revenue losses they expected to incur. ” The chain announced on Wednesday that it’s adjusting its store hours to close daily at 6 p.m.,

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These are some of the reasons that consumers are visiting brick-and-mortar grocers – from Wegmans Food Markets to Kroger – and how these grocers (as well as technology providers) are rolling out innovations and features to serve in-store customers. Roughly three in 10 – or 27.1 About one in 10 – or 9.9

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. It’s like retailers are celebrating the sale when the product hasn’t been used yet. But while the season is here, it doesn’t have to be a time of dread.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Going clean and green is just about everyone’s favorite marketing tag line these days. It seems every restaurant from fast food on up is promoting its locally sources and “clean ingredients,” while organic grocery products that would have been exotic a decade ago are now a common staple of the shelves. Real Clean Food .

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JUNE 14, 2017

So using Snapchat to illustrate grocery products’ freshness was a bit of a stroke of genius on the part of France’s U supermarkets. When shoppers go to the fish counter, they’ll find Snapcode origin labels on the shelf tag accompanying each cut. GrubHub has an active Snapchat account from which it posts food ideas and special deals.

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APRIL 26, 2018

A consumer on the hunt for fresh food and grocery items steps into a convenience store with nary a human physical worker in sight and checks in with a mobile payments app. The consumer then chooses the desired products, scans them via mobile phone, checks out and leaves. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Grubhub’s 2020 start has been a bit bumpy thus far — it was passed by DoorDash in late January in terms of food delivery market share, according to some estimates , and has been dogged by rumors that it is looking to put itself up for sale. Recruiting customers is hard to do — and comes with a big price tag. 26) called Grubhub+.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

Louisiana exempts most food purchased outside restaurants, for example, while Missouri exempts clay pigeons and targets used in skeet shooting. Millions of people who need [such products] are [living] without any incontinence supplies at all.”. Sales taxes’ price tags.

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APRIL 19, 2018

Consumers can then check out via mobile and stop by a service desk to make sure all security tags are removed and that they have properly scanned all their items. Her home products and housewares have been on offer since 2007. The foods are all designed, according to Stewart, to taste “homemade.”.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Product placement, sponsored content and influencer marketing are hardly new phenomena as the advertising world works nonstop to keep pace with the internet. Most recently, it has come to light that international food manufacturer Kellogg’s was less-than-honest when it came to the impartiality of its former “Breakfast Council.”

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Both millennials and Gen Z shoppers, no longer tagging along with mom, have been popping into stores to get their own membership cards. The latter element is also significant because Costco keeps fewer than 4,000 stock keeping units (SKU), meaning that there is only one product per type of item besides its private label (typically, Kirkland).

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Details are scant about what that shop might look like, but what is known as of earlier this week is that Amazon has posted job listings for four new positions connected to the forthcoming store, it will be a separate entity from Whole Foods and it won’t use Amazon’s cashierless Go technology in favor of traditional checkout methods.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

Food and beverage stores had an average index score of 26.9. Walgreens also plans to offer a selection of private-label Kroger products. In an announcement , Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen said, “This concept brings together the best of two great brands to rethink convenience and redefine the way America shops for food.”

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JUNE 17, 2017

Brown Cows and Chocolate Milk (and Other Odd Beliefs About Food). consumers: They don’t know where their food comes from. And the problem gets more acute the farther one lives from the means of food production. But food isn’t the only thing we buy that we have … mismatched beliefs on. Just ask them.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

.” That tax, she noted, encompasses marketing, retailer margins and other expenses that can typically push up prices on brand-name products by as much as 30 percent. Over the last three years, the firm has been vetting, tasting and sampling hundreds of formulations to create products that satisfy modern needs and value.

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MAY 26, 2020

And as Karen Webster noted in a 2016 commentary: “The generation that made sriracha a food group and yoga pants a go-to corporate wardrobe staple … the generation that every brand is desperately trying to woo is, by and large, broke.” economy would imply, and were unlikely to ever attain their parents’ earnings potential.

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

That tax, she noted, encompasses marketing, retailer margins and other expenses that can typically push up prices on brand-name beauty products by as much as 30o percent. Most notably (and most recent) is, of course, the recent Whole Foods Market acquisition.

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