New York City’s shelter-in-place measures profoundly challenged rotating retail concept store Showfields, a business offering an immersive shopping experience for digital-first and digital-only retailers. Showfields’ four-story location was designed to showcase both retail products and art curations side by side, underscoring the extent to which...
More than 100 million consumers in the United States have switched from shopping in stores to shopping online since the pandemic began, and 83 percent of them plan to keep shopping with merchants they have discovered since then, even after the crisis has subsided. In...
Daymond John of Shark Tank is lending his star power to the Lowe’s Cos. Inc. initiative to infuse $55 million in small business grants to minority-owned, women-owned and rural companies, according to a Tuesday (Sept. 15) press release. The cash gifts are designed to provide...
For platforms offering a variety of services — courting sticky relationships with their end users — the holy grail is the super app. It’s a way to build an ecosystem, a conduit to daily interactions that run the gamut from travel to healthcare to banking....
There are many wild stories in the annals of concert history: Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat; Hells Angels handling security (with deadly results) at Altamont; or Jimi Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire on stage. Such expect-the-unexpected environments are a big part...
U.S. car culture has been making a big comeback, driven by a global pandemic that’s pushed a major restructuring of many consumers’ lives. After all, a car isn’t just a way to travel in these days of social distancing — it’s become a place to...
Uber Health made big news this past week with the announcement that it was scaling up its delivery services to include pharmaceutical products in some locales. That’s a major new add-on for Uber Health, which the ride-hailing firm launched in 2018 to provide patients with...
Looking for a travel-related business that’s actually booming during the year of COVID-19? It’s out on the water, in rented boats of every shape and size from kayaks to luxury yachts. “We had our drop-off in April, and then come May we saw a very...
Navigating the pandemic-altered landscape has been difficult for fitness operators forced to close their physical locations and translate in-person services into digital offerings. But CEO Fritz Lanman of ClassPass, a platform for online and in-person fitness classes, told Karen Webster that digital offerings have partly...