After a couple of decades of selling their books through Amazon, Powell’s books has decided to stop selling through Amazon. Listen to the briefing to find out why they made this decision.
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389: RUSH Auctions wine and Guitars for Hospitality
Check out waddingtons.ca to see the wines and guitars that Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are auctioning off to support the Ontario Hospitality Industry.
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388: Hashtag Holidays Early October
Here are the hashtag holidays trending all over social media for early October.
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387: Amazon Launches Paying with Palm Recognition
Amazon has just announced they are launching technology that lets customers pay with their palm print.
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386: World’s First Pizza Subscription Service
A premium pizza restaurant – General Assembly Pizza has launched a DTC (Direct to Consumer) subscription model for its pizzas.
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385: Target Announces “Target Deal Days” to Compete with Prime Days
Start your engines; the big boys of retailing — Amazon and Target are running their “Prime Day” sales mid October.
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384: Dining Outdoors Year Round?…Yes.
New York City has close off 87 streets completely to traffic so restaurants can use the space outside to dine in a safer manner. The city has decided to extend this to a year-round option. Listen to the briefing to hear how this could play out long term.
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383: Walmart Plans to Extend Black Friday
Walmart and Amazon are expecting this holiday season to be primarily an online and more extended event. Listen to the briefing to hear where to begin to prepare for a very unusual holiday 2020.
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382: Looks Like We Know When Amazon Prime Day Will Be
Black Friday and Cyber Monday will be a more protracted period of time this year. There’s strong rumour that Amazon Prime Day will be announced on September 27. Listen to the briefing to hear when the holiday retail period will kick off.
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381: Pick Up Lockers
As BOPIS becomes more prevalent — delivering goods in a safe contactless way will be an important service. Pick up lockers are on the rise to solve this problem. Listen to the briefing to hear more.
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