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Jeanel Alvarado

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Jeanel Alvarado is a marketer and retail strategist, leveraging 15+ years of cross-disciplinary expertise in retail, e-commerce, technology, consumer and shopping trends. She is the former Senior Managing…

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About Jeanel Alvarado

Jeanel Alvarado is a marketer and retail strategist, leveraging 15+ years of cross-disciplinary expertise in retail, e-commerce, technology, consumer and shopping trends. She is the former Senior Managing Director of the School of Retailing at the University of Alberta. Jeanel’s insights appear in Nasdaq, Entrepreneur, Fortune, TIME, and the US Chamber of Commerce, among others, with recurring commentary on top retailers and brands for financial markets, consumer insights, shopping trends, tech Innovation, and the luxury sector.

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Stor.ai Announces Partnership with Vallarta Supermarkets

A chain of grocery stores located across Southern California, to implement its platform in Vallarta stores. Vallarta will use stor.ai’s ecommerce and picking platform to support their stores in deploying advanced online shopping, delivery and fulfillment solutions. Online grocery shopping…

GroceryRetail

New Amazon Tool Unveils Prime Day Brand Scoreboard

A modern digital retail consultancy, Momentum Commerce today announced the release of the 2022 Amazon Prime Day Brand Scoreboard. This resource provides a unique accounting of how hundreds of thousands of different brands across more than 1,500 categories approached Amazon…

EcommerceFashion

Sephora and Afterpay Partner On Buy Now, Pay Later

The leader in “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) payments, Afterpay today announced a partnership with the leading prestige beauty omni-retailer Sephora to offer customers the flexibility to pay in four installments when shopping for their favorite beauty brands and products…

BeautyRetail

Google Cloud Partners With Fashion Retailer H&M

Google Cloud today announced a new partnership with global fashion retailer, H&M Group. The alliance will see the Swedish multinational leverage Google Cloud’s extensive data analytics capabilities and secure, sustainable global infrastructure to further enhance its customer experience and supply…

FashionRetail

Ezinne Iroanya Wins $20K Black Female Founders Grant From Cantu Beauty

Cantu Beauty Continues Commitment to Elevate Black Female Founders, Announces Winner of Second Cantu Elevate Entrepreneur Pitch Competition. Cantu Elevate, the brand-owned initiative and entrepreneurship accelerator program from award-winning multicultural hair and skincare brand, Cantu Beauty, together with BrainTrust Founders Studio (BTFS), the…

Programs

Meijer Partners With Small, Local, Diverse Businesses

Meijer is sourcing for new businesses to achieve their Supplier Diversity Program and Lift Local Supplier Event, giving local businesses across the retailer’s six-state footprint the opportunity to virtually showcase their offerings to Meijer buyers and procurement teams. A few…

Retail

KISS Partners with International Rapper and Model BIA

KISS is thrilled to announce its newest brand ambassador for KISS fashion nails and false lashes, international rapper, singer-songwriter, and model, BIA who will be partnering with the brand through June 22-December 31, 2022. BIA is known for her bold…

Retail

Vow Beauty Launches Skincare On Walmart marketplace

Vow Beauty announces the expansion of its Something Borrowed…Something BHA 2% Toner retail footprint to walmart.com. The active-ingredient, Gen Z friendly brand is known for its clean, pH balanced, cruelty-free formulas that feature active ingredients in high concentrations at or…

Beauty