The IKEA Furniture Robots Are Coming!; Plus, Disrupting The Flower Bouquet; And Walmart's $1 A Day College Plan Expands | | | | | | | | | | | | | Finding A New Way To Sell Flower Bouquets | | Flowers are a $60-billion-a-year industry — although it’s been dominated by only a handful of very well-known players. That’s why Farmgirl Flowers Founder Christina Stembel set her sights on disrupting the industry seven years ago with a wholly bootstrapped firm run out of her San Francisco apartment. Almost a decade and $23 million in 2018 profits later, her crazy idea is starting to look a lot less crazy. | | |
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| | | | | | | Retailers Make Bigger Moves Into Experiential Digital Advertising | | Target wants to follow the lead of Amazon and get into digital advertising. Such moves help retailers expand their overall operations and give them a bigger voice in reaching today’s online- and mobile-focused consumers. But competition is fierce within digital advertising, and retailers playing the game face significant challenges. Here’s the experiential lay of the land. Read More... | |
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| | | | | How Connected Cars Are Changing The Game For QSRs | | Cars and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have been interconnected since the dawn of the drive-thru. But now, cars are transforming from vehicles to ordering platforms, and QSRs have been on the forefront of this transformation. Find out how QSRs and auto manufacturers are using connected commerce to their advantage. Read More... | |
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| | | | | | The Evolving Terrain Of Fighting Fraud | | The tools for fighting fraudsters are ever-evolving — but so are the tools for committing fraud. Will artificial intelligence be the magic bullet — and if it is, will ecosystem players ever trust AI enough to use it to its full capacity? Read More... | |
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