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4.2KInvestmentsBoxed Raises More Than $100M In Funding
Grocery startup Boxed announced that it has raised $111 million in a new round of funding. The company had been in talks...
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6.4KRetailThe Changing Omnichannel Expectations Of Consumers
Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are rolling out omnichannel options. To that end, Home Depot has been installing lockers in many of its locations to allow customers...
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4.9KEarningsKroger Beats Q1 Estimates Amid Restock Kroger
As Kroger cuts prices and tests out new ways to sell products with its Restock Kroger program, the grocer beat earnings estimates...
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7.6KBlockchainAmex Experiments With The Blockchain To Deliver Richer Rewards
American Express is embracing the blockchain for it’s Membership Rewards program. The project comes with a big assist from Hyperledger — whose blockchain...
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Boxed Launches Membership With Customer Rewards And Discounts
Boxed, known as the “Costco for millennials,” has launched its first paid-membership tier that will offer customers rewards and discounts. “All the...
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7.4KRetailKroger Expands Omnichannel Options With ‘Seamless Shopping’
Kroger’s fourth-quarter earnings were a mixed bag. While the grocer’s earnings fell in line with analysts’ estimates, its projected 2018 earnings disappointed...
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4.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsBoxed Says ‘No Thanks’ To Kroger’s $400M Offer
After reportedly turning down Kroger’s $400 million acquisition offer, Boxed plans to seek a new funding round to stay private, Bloomberg reported....
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5.6KRetailBoxed And Costco Have Their Roots In A 1970s New Jersey A&P Store
In the 1970s, the venerable The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) was losing market share. While Safeway expanded in the...
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4.2KRetailExecutive Departs Boxed Amid Sales Talks
As warehouse club-like eCommerce startup Boxed talks with potential buyers, the executive behind its fastest-growing business segment has left the firm. Behzad...
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5.1KSizzle/FizzleFizzle Of The Week: The Activist CFPB
It seems an era has drawn to a close at the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) as that under Mick Mulvaney, interim...
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4.8KAmazon AcquisitionsIs Amazon’s Next Target Warehouse Clubs?
Amazon is reportedly eyeing Boxed.com as an acquisition target, with Jeff Bezos inviting the company’s founder and CEO, Chieh Huang, to Amazon’s...
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15.8KRetailWhy Innovation Is Nothing Without Distribution
Charles Babbage is considered “the father of the computer.” But it was Lord Byron’s daughter, the mathematician Ada Lovelace, who wrote the...
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6.0KRetail‘Costco For Millennials’ Attracts Big Investors
A popular eCommerce retailer, which has been called the “Costco for millennials,” is attracting potential investors, according to The New York Post....
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6.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsKroger Explores Boxed Acquisition
Kroger, the grocery store chain operator that is struggling to compete with Amazon now that it owns Whole Foods Market, is considering...
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5.3KeCommerceBoxed Lowers Costs With Automation
Boxed, the eCommerce startup that sells mainly household goods, has spent tens of millions of dollars on a new automation system that...
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1.8KMerchant InnovationPayPal’s One Touch for Web Expands to Canada and UK
Less than two months after its rollout, One Touch for Web is expanding to merchants and consumers internationally, starting with Canada and the...
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Bulk Buying App Boxed Brings In $25 M
With just 30 employees and three warehouses, Boxed, a mobile application for wholesale shopping, has raised $25 million in a Series B...
