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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. Sales for the 40-year-old, Washington State-headquartered company in the last 18 weeks boosted 2 percent overall, with stores in the U.S. and more in Canada (7 percent). Canada, the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

As one might expect, the price tag goes up the more genuinely once-in-a-lifetime the experience gets — and for the more luxurious and exotic packaging options, prices on the site quickly span to thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. But, he noted, in the case of millennials some of that fear is not just the same old alarm.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

We remain focused on providing excellent customer service and high-quality fashion products at great value for our customers. Fast fashion retailer Zara is facing a lawsuit from U.S. consumers that alleges that the firm intentionally misleads American consumers as to the price of its products.

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MARCH 2, 2019

She was deluged with offers for the coat she wanted, listed on the site as “by Canada Goose,” which she took to mean she was buying from the brand itself. That wasn’t the case, she soon learned. “My My new Canada Goose coat was on its way from Singapore, by way of Hong Kong. Wait, what? Wasn’t the whole point that the coats were made in Canada?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Amazon Web Services also defeated the largest DDoS attack ever attempted. The massive attack attempt was thwarted by AWS Shield, a service custom-built to defend the cloud-computing platform’s clients from being tagged by DDoS attacks. The latest developments: Amazon . Big News Of The Week: Mr. Bezos Is Going To Washington .

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PYMNTS

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. 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.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2017

To help bring high-end pieces of furniture to the public without having an out-of-reach price tag, the company works directly with two factories to help build on-demand custom sofas. Finding the right piece of furniture for the space people live in can be a difficult task. Given the fact that people move an average of 11.7

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For the food industry — that waste adds up to a $990 billion price tag, according to Alex Garden, chairman and CEO of Zume Inc. The food that appears on one’s dinner plate each night comes with no small amount of environmental cost. The population is growing and is on track to reach 10 billion by the middle of this century.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2017

A study by YouGov revealed news that 55 percent of Americans think they are smarter than the average American. A little over a third of all Americans think of themselves as of average intelligence, and only 4 percent of Americans rate themselves as of below average intelligence. And we couldn’t help but notice that those numbers really don’t add up.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2016

The merger between Staples and Home Depot is over — and not in the ways either party were hoping for when the possibility of the two office supply chains merging first hit the headlines a year ago. Facing issues both firms found to be unsolvable, Staples and Office Depot have said they are giving up the ship and abandoning the $6 billion deal.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Apple’s big selling point for the HomePod was its superior auditory quality, which was supposed to justify the $349 price tag. Nordic financial services company Nordea announced Thursday (Nov. Nordic financial services company Nordea announced Thursday (Nov. Finally, while the U.S. million through the site.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Finally, a couple of partnerships for the eCommerce giant: Ally Bank has launched a new voice banking service powered by Alexa, and Allrecipes has integrated AmazonFresh within some of the site’s top recipes, so customers can have that one missing ingredient delivered to their door on the same day rather than visiting the store themselves.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

When it comes to grocery shopping, we know customers love choice, and this new store offers another grocery option that’s distinct from Whole Foods Market, which continues to grow and remain the leader in quality natural and organic food,” said an Amazon spokesperson on the news, adding that more Whole Foods locations are forthcoming.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Beyond the sales, though, Amazon also reported a record day for signing on new members to its $119-a-year Prime service. Most weeks, the tale of Amazon and Walmart’s ongoing battle for the larger share of the consumer’s whole paycheck is a fairly evenly run race. Everyone else – including Taylor Swift – was just a player in it.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Now, identity is verified hundreds of times a day in everything a consumer does, from buying goods and services to interacting with payments systems and even visiting the doctor. It’s what the fraudsters tag onto because it’s the most current opportunity. And with a pandemic still raging, new issues have come to the fore.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

He has a fascinating background in technology and software, and is interested in all sorts of interesting things, ranging from climate change to humanism, to the huge transitions that humans have gone through as a species and what it means to society, investing, scarcity and just the quality of life that we will enjoy as a species.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Of course, and with small businesses, especially those built around personal services (a doctor or plumber’s practice), it is part of the valuation process, where the key person is valued or at least priced and incorporated into valuation. Can one person make a difference to the value of a business? Who is a key person?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

Laundry service startup Laundrapp announced that it has merged with its biggest competitor, Zipjet , to become the largest on-demand laundry service. It has always been our mission here at Laundrapp to open up our service to as many people as possible. “It He added that there are plans to expand the service into new regions.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

JOHNSON: So I spent a year, my father said to me, “Look, if you’re going to be in the financial services business you should probably work in New York.” Otherwise, the West Coast, if you were in the financial services business, it was rough life. Jenny Johnson is CEO of investment giant Franklin Templeton.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In the span of about a decade, the smartphone has gone from revolutionary technology to an everyday tool that everyone on Earth carries in their pocket. Okay, not everyone – but that’s not much of an exaggeration. According to estimates, nearly 80 percent of the U.S. According to estimates, nearly 80 percent of the U.S.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Luxury Garage Sale may not have started with an intention to become a full-service, omnichannel luxury consignment business, but that is how the market evolved – and the business had no choice but to evolve along with it. But Luxury Garage Sale Co-founders Brielle Buchberg and Lindsay Segal had much smaller ambitions in mind.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Luxury Garage Sale may not have started with an intention to become a full-service, omnichannel luxury consignment business, but that is how the market evolved – and the business had no choice but to evolve along with it. But Luxury Garage Sale Co-founders Brielle Buchberg and Lindsay Segal had much smaller ambitions in mind.

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JUNE 30, 2016

This is why Index has sought to build the world’s best customer database for every single retailer, Freed-Finnegan explained, to give retailers access to high-quality data necessary to improve the customer experience. “Because frankly, most of the time shoppers are anonymous.”

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes Stitcher , Bloomberg , Spotify , Google , and YouTube. That has to be a little bit of a surreal experience. GREW: It is nothing short of surreal. And it sounds a little trite.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

We’ll continue to work closely together to ensure we’re consistently surprising and delighting our customers while moving toward our goal of reaching more people with Whole Foods Market’s high-quality, natural and organic food.”. And that rally continued throughout the week. As of the time of this story (Nov. Gobble, gobble.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices. The quality was poor: Latency issues and sub-par picture resolution made it a less-than-ideal “face-to-face” experience — particularly when those without access to the tech had to join by phone or not at all.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , YouTube , and Bloomberg. All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ ANNOUNCER: This is “Masters in Business” with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio. It’s so great to be here.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Benjamin Clymer and Jeffery Fowler of Hodinkee , is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on iTunes , Spotify , Stitcher , Google , YouTube , and Bloomberg. I’m going to launch a site about watches, which has been my hobby, and see where this goes.”

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Angus Deaton on America’s Wealth & Inequality , is below. You can stream and download our full conversation, including any podcast extras, on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube , and Bloomberg. He won the Nobel Prize in 2015 for his work on consumption, poverty, welfare wealth and health inequality.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Video surveillance captured Brinton removing the suitcase from the carousel and putting the bag’s tag in their handbag before leaving ‘at a quick pace,’ the police complaint read. By Lambert Strether of Corrente. Patient readers, I got wrapped around the axle on the New School strike. More Politics in just a bit. Bird Song of the Day.

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