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Skincare Startup Fights The Good Fight For Its Future

Skincare Startup Fights The Good Fight For Its Future
Skincare Startup Fights The Good Fight For Its Future
April 16, 2020  |  Retail

Hundreds of retailers – both direct-to-consumer (DTC) and traditional – have lent their expertise and capital to helping the world recover from the devastation of...

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Canadian D2C Seller Brings Unique Business Model To Furniture Market
Canadian D2C Seller Brings Unique Business Model To Furniture Market
April 15, 2020  |  Retail

Companies that do business in the furniture space have to deal with some serious competition. IKEA, Wayfair, Overstock and others are holding down the mass...

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AI Holds Answers For Retail’s Post-COVID Future
AI Holds Answers For Retail’s Post-COVID Future
April 13, 2020  |  Retail

At some point after the COVID-19 crisis passes, retailers will need to reckon with artificial intelligence (AI). It may seem like an advanced data application...

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Telehealth Service Puts A Retail Spin On Its Business Model
Telehealth Service Puts A Retail Spin On Its Business Model
April 10, 2020  |  Retail

The rapidly evolving telehealth category has a new business model. Fruit Street – a virtual one-stop-shop digital diabetes prevention program (DPP) – has partnered with...

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Could TJX, Other Offline Retailers Regret Their eCommerce Abandonment?
Could TJX, Other Offline Retailers Regret Their eCommerce Abandonment?
April 09, 2020  |  Retail

It seems like a year ago, but it was actually only March 8 when discount retailer Burlington announced that it was abandoning its admittedly watered-down...

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Wedding Catering Company Shuffles The Deck
Wedding Catering Company Shuffles The Deck
April 08, 2020  |  Retail

Imagine if your business was planned in this way: minimal revenue for Q1, and maximum revenue for Q2. And for Q2, an unprecedented pandemic has...

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Healthy Snack Company Rewrites Its Wellness Story
Healthy Snack Company Rewrites Its Wellness Story
April 07, 2020  |  Retail

When the chapter is finally written on business during the COVID-19 crisis, there will be stories of the companies that simply fell victim to the...

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Green Goo (That’s Right, Green Goo) Gets Ready To Break Out
Green Goo (That’s Right, Green Goo) Gets Ready To Break Out
April 02, 2020  |  Retail

Full disclosure: This story is about a company called Green Goo. The name should bring a smile to your face – its founders are okay...

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