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“COVID-19…Still Pivoting”:

• How Delta Set the Standard for the Airline Industry’s COVID-19 Response – Conde Nast Traveler
• Airline Workers Face Uncertain Future Amid Massive Layoffs Across Industry – NBC
• Disney is laying off 28,000 employees as pandemic hammers its theme parks – CNN
• Bankruptcies
  
  • Bankrupt Companies 2020: Businesses that Shut Down Because of Covid – Bloomberg
  • 24 Bankruptcy Filings Chalked Up to COVID-19 – Kiplinger
  • Century 21 files for bankruptcy and will close all of its stores – CNN
• Here are the new businesses to start during the coronavirus recession – CNBC
• Which Companies Did Well During the Coronavirus Pandemic? – Forbes
• Elon Musk could pocket another $3 billion if Tesla hits earnings goals | Markets – Markets Insider
• Jeff Bezos Becomes The First Person Ever Worth $200 Billion – Forbes
• The Real-Time Billionaires List – Forbes
• How contactless payments are driving digital payment services in times of COVID-19 – digipay.guru
• American Dream Mall Opening – Forbes

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Thanks for listening to our episode:  “Mall Anchors”

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Best of the Week / Worst of the Week (BOW-WOW):

• BOW:  Rent the Runway ditches stand alone locations – Retail Dive
• WOW:  S&P: Foot traffic to shopping centers reaching pre-pandemic levels – Retail Dive

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Flashback:

• Movie theaters are starting to reopen. Will anyone go? – CNN
• AMC is reopening its theaters next week with 15-cent tickets – CNN
• Tom Cruise’s Latest Stunt: Seeing Tenet in a Movie Theater – Vanity Fair
• Mulan is heading to Disney Plus on September 4th for $30 – The Verge

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“Mall Anchors”:

• Simon reportedly in talks with Amazon to convert former Sears, JCPenney stores into distribution centers – USA Today
  
• Amazon taking over empty J.C. Penney and Sears stores means the end of the mall: former retail CEO – Yahoo Finance
  
• Grocery stores might be the next big thing to move into malls – CNBC
  
• Eataly and Eataly Locations
  
• Apple Gets Sweet Deals From Mall Operators – WSJ
  
• Does Apple Anchor a Shopping Mall?  The Effect of the Technology Stores on the Formation of Market Structure – Harvard Business Review Working Paper
  
• Din Tai Fung and Din Tai Fung Locations

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Thanks for listening to our episode:  “Can a store be a product?”

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Best of the Week / Worst of the Week (BOW-WOW):

• BOW:  Sometimes people can be amazing! – COVID-19 boosts contactless payment adoption: NRF – Retail Dive
• WOW:  Home Depot Needs to Accept NFC again – Home Depot Quietly Drops Apple Pay, But Service Continues to Work at Many Stores – MacRumors

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Flashback:

• Simon reportedly in talks with Amazon to convert former Sears, JCPenney stores into distribution centers – USA Today

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Can a store be a product?:

• The Fourth Great Unlock – No Mercy / No Malice – Scott Galloway
  

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Best of the Week / Worst of the Week (BOW-WOW):

• BOW:  Trump’s real goal is for TikTok to disappear entirely, ByteDance CEO says – CNN
• WOW:  WHY MICROSOFT WANTS TIKTOK – The Verge

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Not Going to the Movies:

• Prime Video Direct
  
• The pandemic has been great for Netflix – Recode
• HBO Max is a branding disaster, and this ad proves it – Fast Company
• Quibi reportedly lost 90 percent of early users after their free trials expired – The Verge
• The Official Watchmen Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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Best of the Week / Worst of the Week (BOW-WOW):

• BOW:  Holiday shopping is changing amid COVID-19 pandemic with Best Buy, Kohl’s, Walmart, Target closed Thanksgiving – USA Today
• WOW:  Bankrupt Neiman Marcus to vacate the Hudson Yards mall in New York – CNBC

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Going to the Movies:

• In the Age of Digital Streaming, Are Movie Theaters Still Relevant? – NY Times
  
• Netflix Closes Deal to Buy Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre – Variety
  
• Wait, Why Does Netflix Want to Buy a Movie Theater? – Vulture
  
• Netflix takes over New York’s iconic Paris theater for movie screenings – CNBC
  
• Why is Netflix buying cinemas? The answer is Martin Scorsese – Wired UK
  
• AMC Tells Universal It Won’t License Studio’s Movies, After CEO’s Statements On Windows & ‘Trolls World Tour’ – Deadline
  
• AMC and Universal agree to let movies go from theaters to digital rentals much sooner – The Verge
  
• Walmart transforming 160 store parking lots into drive-ins – Washington Post
  
• Floating movie theater with socially distant boats coming to Paris river – NY Post
  
• Richard Linklater Talks the Future of Cinema—in His Own Empty Theatre – The New Yorker

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Thanks for listening to our episode:  “Department Store Evolved”

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Best of the Week / Worst of the Week (BOW-WOW):

• Walmart begins requiring all customers to wear face masks – CNN
• Lowe’s won’t enforce its new COVID-19 customer mask mandate, citing worker safety – The Charlotte Observer

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Department Store Evolved:

• Neiman Marcus Bankruptcy: Everything to Know About the Bankruptcy – wwd.com
• Neiman Marcus says it’s on track to exit bankruptcy by fall – retaildive.com
• JC Penny Bankruptcy – retaildive.com
• The coronavirus lockdown hit JCPenney even harder than we thought – CNN
• What an Amazon-Owned JC Penney Might Look Like – fool.com
• Nordstrom can withstand 12 months of store closures, but other department stores have much less time, analysts say – marketwatch.com
• Nordstrom did so much right but is still in trouble – WSJ
• Nordstrom tells landlords to expect just half their rent until January 2021 – retaildive.com
• A history of the department store – BBC

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Thanks for listening to our episode:  “Digital Tracing Experience”

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Best of the Week / Worst of the Week:

• Microsoft to permanently close all of its retail stores – The Verge
  
• Fisker and Karma raise millions of dollars following wave of Tesla optimism – The Verge
  

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Digital Tracing Experience:

• Big Brother Wants To Track Your Location And Health Data. And That’s Not All Bad. – Kaiser Health News
  
• Contact Tracing: Part of a Multipronged Approach to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic – CDC
  
• De Blasio Strips Control of Virus Tracing From Health Department – NY Times
  
• Exposure Notification – FAQ – Apple & Google
  
• World split between two types of virus-tracing app – BBC
  
• How Europe splintered over contact tracing apps – Financial Times
  
• How Digital Contact Tracing Slowed Covid-19 in East Asia – HBR
  
• China is fighting the coronavirus with a digital QR code. Here’s how it works – CNN
  

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News:

• Coronavirus hotels: What will my next stay look like – LA Times
• For hotels, Airbnb, cleanliness is next to essential: Hilton teams with Lysol maker, Mayo Clinic on COVID-19 cleaning procedures – Baltimore Sun
• Wynn Las Vegas Health & Sanitation Program – visitwynn.com
• Marriott International Launches Global Cleanliness Council to Promote Even Higher Standards of Cleanliness in the Age of COVID-19 – prnewswire.com
• Southwest Promise – Airline Cleanliness and Cleaning Standards – southwest.com
• Apple is developing a new FaceID feature to work with masks – CNN

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No Inventory Retail:

• Canada Goose Store Has Snow, Fake Ice and No Inventory – Bloomberg
• Store as Showroom – Forbes
• Neighborhood Goods  
  
• El Nacional – Barcelona
• INTERSECT BY LEXUS – New York City

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