Pizza Hut Tries To Lure The Young; Plus Build-A-Bear's Too-Popular Promotion; And Butler Bells At Chick-fil-A. | | | | | | | | | | | | | How Headout Is Making The Spontaneous Schedulable | | Vacations are fun, but they can quickly become stressful as one tries to schedule them. But the team at Headout wants to make it a bit easier to spontaneously have a good time — with their marketplace full of vetted activities that consumers can book pretty close to the last minute. Mobile used right, according to CEO Varun Khona, can take a lot of the stress out, and bring back a lot of the fun. And the $10 million in new investment they’ve snapped up indicates others are beginning to see vacation their way. | | |
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| | | | | | | Braintree: Behind The Contextual Commerce Buy | | Giving consumers a way to buy a product or a service directly from a discovery platform is a new way for merchants to capture incremental sales and create new consumer relationships. Making the first impression a friction-free and lasting one for the consumer, Braintree’s Azita Habibi told Karen Webster in a recent podcast, is about making sure merchants — and those discovery platforms — do three things right. Read More... | |
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| | | | | Fabletics Plans Expansion, Dunkin’ Gets New CEO | | Activewear retailer Fabletics is looking to stretch its physical footprint, with plans to open 75 new brick-and-mortar stores in the U.S. and abroad. At the same time, the retail industry is seeing staffing changes with layoffs at Sears and a new leader at Dunkin’ Brands. Here is Fabletics' strategy for growth – and why Dunkin’s new chief executive takes the helm at a pivotal time. Read More... | |
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| | | | | | Creating The New Payments And Commerce Normal | | Faster, digitized and automated — the three key improvements that every payments and commerce player is looking to make these days, as consumer expectations are changing, opportunities to streamline are abundant and the rewards for the right innovation are plentiful. But as the bar gets reset, the table stakes get higher. The pressure is on to keep up, or get left behind. Read More... | |
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