Longtime J.Crew CEO Out As West Elm Exec Takes Over (And Williams-Sonoma Promotes From Within), Plus, Amazon Debuting Down Under And Father's Day Sales Should Be BIG.
 
 
 
 
 
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BLOBfish, The Cure For The Summertime Blues
 
Summer is here, and with it, as parents everywhere know, comes the stress of finding a place to put one's kids while they're out of school. The options in the past for finding the right children's summer program have involved hours of research... or, guessing, and hoping for the best.  North Carolina's BLOBfish thinks it can do better — by building "Trip Advisor" for camp-hunting parents everywhere.
 
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NEW REPORT: IoT Turns Trash Into A Shopping List
 

Throw IoT connectivity into the trash and it is transformed into data treasure that reorders the products that were just tossed. For June’s Intelligence of Things (IoT) Tracker, Rob Griffin, cofounder of GeniCan, spoke with PYMNTS about how connected trash devices are helping households ensure that they never miss buying the supplies they've just used up. That, plus the latest news and trends in connected technology (and rankings of 189 providers), inside the latest Tracker.  Read More...

 
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JamesAllen.com and Dominion Diamond's Shiny Delivery
 

Selling directly to consumers has certainly shaped the retail industry in the past few years. In our new Direct to Consumer series, we talk with JamesAllen.com's CEO and cofounder about how its new partnership changes the DTC jewelry industryRead More...

 
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Touch And Taste: The Future Of Food Is Here
 

Globally since 2012, investors have channeled almost $2.5 billion into restaurant technology, from VR and AR dining to 3D menus to DNA-based dinners and grocery runs tailored to consumers' digital taste, whatever that is. The future of food is here. Dig in?  Read More...

 
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- Amazon's HPC Sales Are On Fire Amid An Overall Consumables Industry Slowdown
 
- Consumer Confidence Is Up — Way Up — This Father's Day
 
- Video eCommerce Platform Yeay Raises $4.9M
 
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