by Anna Hensel | Apr 22, 2019 | retail
Right when Cristina Angeli, then-CMO at Stitch Fix, joined the company in 2015, she asked her team for the documents they used when marketing for spring. “I remember being told, ‘Oh we don’t go by seasons,’” Angeli, who joined the then-startup after stints at Adidas,...
by Hilary Milnes | Apr 22, 2019 | retail
You can get the Retail Briefing delivered to your inbox every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe here. Amazon is reorienting its retail strategy, and sellers are starting to feel the effects. The shift usually goes like this: a strategy is working on Amazon,...
by Hilary Milnes | Apr 19, 2019 | retail
You can get the Retail Briefing delivered to your inbox every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe here. Not all direct-to-consumer brands are snubbing Amazon. Bark, a dog supplies brand, has embraced it instead. The brand was hoping to get its products into more...
by Hilary Milnes | Apr 19, 2019 | retail
You can get the Retail Briefing delivered to your inbox every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe here. Not all direct-to-consumer brands are snubbing Amazon. Bark, a dog supplies brand, has embraced it instead. The brand was hoping to get its products into more...
by Hilary Milnes | Apr 18, 2019 | retail
As an associate at General Catalyst, Rachel Blank was on the investor’s side of the table during telemedicine company Ro’s initial pitch to the fund for a seed round of funding in 2017. At the time, Ro was Roman, a single-product company selling erectile dysfunction...
by Suman Bhattacharyya | Apr 18, 2019 | retail
Point-of-sale loans, or loans offered to customers at checkout, are quickly picking up pace among retailers. The latest is Mastercard, who this week acquired Vyze, a platform that connects customers shopping in-store and online to a range of different purchase...
