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24 Dec

These Black Owned FemTech Firms Brought Retail Innovation …

These Black Owned FemTech Firms Brought Retail Innovation …
Big data has long had a giant inclusivity problem. Often, AI algorithms are built with systems that may contain racial and gender biases that leave a big group of individuals unseen and unheard. That’s what led Jessica Couch and Brittany Hicks to found consumer insights and consulting firm Fayetteville Road–the name is a play on their North Carolina roots. Graduates of North Carolina State University andNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University respectively, they each learned in regards to the inner working of retail management and recognized a number of the blind spots. “I worked in tech as a product manager for several years for a whole lot of retail tech firms, and I had also gotten my experience...
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22 Dec

Gianvito Rossi on Milan Store Revamp, Retail Push and

Gianvito Rossi on Milan Store Revamp, Retail Push and
MILAN — Gianvito Rossi’s list of fine intentions for the brand new 12 months is brief and pretty straightforward. “To maintain doing what I like, that is gorgeous shoes, and have customers experience the brand in a way that matches the standard of the product,” he said in an interview held at his newly revamped flagship store here. The primary unit launched by the brand, the 1,400-square-foot location opened in 2008 within the historic Nineteenth-century Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi in town’s golden shopping triangle with an interior concept developed in partnership with Milan-based architect Patricia Urquiola, with whom Rossi teamed again for the refurbishing. In sync with Rossi’s approach to his designs, the revamp was more about an evolution of the previous space...
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13 Dec

These Black-Owned FemTech Corporations Brought Retail Innovation To Essence

These Black-Owned FemTech Corporations Brought Retail Innovation To Essence
Big data has long had an enormous inclusivity problem. Often, AI algorithms are built with systems that may contain racial and gender biases that leave a big group of individuals unseen and unheard. That’s what led Jessica Couch and Brittany Hicks to found consumer insights and consulting firm Fayetteville Road–the name is a play on their North Carolina roots. Graduates of North Carolina State University andNorth Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University respectively, they each learned in regards to the inner working of retail management and recognized a number of the blind spots. “I worked in tech as a product manager for several years for numerous retail tech firms, and I had also gotten my experience for data and...
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4 Dec

More Than Half Of Small Retail Businesses Might Close

More Than Half Of Small Retail Businesses Might Close
Every industry is being impacted by inflated costs, but retailers appear to be getting it the worst. Retail Dive recently reported that based on recent report findings by Alignable, a referral network for small business owners, the industry is poised to lose greater than half of their firms. Per the findings, nearly half of small business owners, including 59% of outlets, shared they’re liable to shutting down before winter, a jump from 12% from the 35% that said the identical a yr ago. It looks much more troubling for minority-owned businesses (52% could possibly be shuttered by fall) and women-owned businesses (53%). It looks like those in certain parts of the country are more vulnerable to financial struggle....
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