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Retail Waterloo
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NEW RETAIL PERSPECTIVES
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Remember the old neighborhood video
stores that cropped up in every town and
seemed to die out as quickly with the
advent of streaming services? Well, they’re
still around thanks to increased demand
and some new strategies. There are still
about 100 video store holdouts across the
U.S. selling DVDs Blu-Ray and even VHS
tapes – many of them in places were you
find a large locavore population. Places
like Video Free Brooklyn in New York,
Vulcan Video in Austin, Texas and Movie
Madness in Portland, Ore., have become
one-stop shops for popular and obscure
films you would need to get from multiple
streaming services like Netflix or Hulu
and movie props and accessories.
Global supplies of
coffee are tightening,
but demand is at record levels.
Research indicates that Americans
are becoming addicted to the
beverage at an earlier age – even
in China – as demand dwindles
among older consumers.
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Turns out you can teach an old dog new tricks. In this case, an English bulldog –
new tricks. The former Eurostar terminal at London’s Waterloo Station is being
refitted for 135,000 square feet of retail space on three floors. But the project isn’t just
for the benefit of commuters. British Railways and the Department of Transportation
want to make Waterloo station as much a retail destination as the High Street.
Remember Boston Market – the darling of the
fast casual dining industry? The chain has been
pretty quiet of late, but that may be coming to
an end. The company hired a new ad agency,
The Richards Group, to get back some of the
luster it lost to Chick-fil-A. Plans include new
branding and creative strategy.
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