In a move that could raise at least $100 million, Goldman Sachs-backed online pet shop Boqii Co. is planning an initial public offering (IPO), per unnamed sources. The eCommerce firm, which is based in Shanghai, is mulling offering shares in U.S. or Hong Kong, Bloomberg...
Convenience stores (C-stores), overall, are in an innovation rut. While there are some larger chains that have made great leaps and bounds into the digital age of commerce and mobile omnichannel experiences, the encounter one has at the average corner C-store today bears an uncanny resemblance...
Travel companies often tackle the odyssey from home to destination and back, but Welcome Pickups is taking a different approach. The Greece-based company focuses squarely on transportation and other services once a consumer has arrived, such as airport transfers or airport pickups. The company aims...
The concept for Heyday, a New York-based startup aiming to bring facials to the masses, was dreamt up by Co-Founder and CEO Adam Ross when it occurred to him that the world of facials had a hollow middle. A consumer already very into them could...
Consumers may be curbing their spending, and perhaps even anticipating a new recession, but that could all serve as fuel for certain types of retail expansion — in this case, more brick-and-mortar stores for deep discount chain Five Below. It stands as one recent example of...
Following the lead of other municipalities, New York City could be going fur-free with a proposed law on the horizon. Council Speaker Corey Johnson recently introduced a bill to ban companies from selling fur apparel in the city, which comes after similar efforts in cities...
The vacancy rate of community shopping centers in the U.S. reached 10.2 percent in the first quarter — up from a year earlier but unchanged from the fourth quarter of 2018. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free...
To serve a wide range of consumers in the digital age, innovators are rolling out subscription offerings ranging from news content to gaming. Some providers are capitalizing on the concept by launching new services that offer access to premium content such as newspapers and magazines...
There are a lot of brands new and old that want to take care of the consumer’s skin. The world is full of serums, creams, elixirs and exfoliants guaranteed to reverse the effects of aging, toxins and the sun. All for the good, particularly as...
