While the B2B marketplace has operated at an accelerating pace year after year, today's COVID-19 crisis drives unprecedented market conditions that are forcing businesses to be more agile than ever before. Businesses need to adapt to changing customer demands and stay attuned to changing buyer preferences in order to better serve their clients—downstream businesses who are likely trying to make sense of how to reliably service their own customers in this new environment.
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Stembel told Ryssdal that Farmgirl Flowers only had eight weeks of runway when San Francisco (where the company fulfills 85% to 90% of its orders) issued a shelter-in-place order.
"With only 12 hours to shut down a whole facility, you know, we had to throw out $150,000 worth of flowers, we had to furlough almost 200 people, and then I had to figure out very quickly how to pivot," she said.
For Stembel, that's meant scrambling to open new distribution and fulfillment centers outside of San Francisco to keep the company operating ahead of its most important holiday of the year — Mother's Day.
Today's numbers on COVID-19 - Marketplace
Welcome to Marketplace’s daily, at-a-glance update. Like you, we're overloaded with info on COVID-19 developments. So here’s our effort to track a few critical numbers on the pandemic and the broader economy.
Keep in mind: The tally of COVID-19 cases represents only the ones that are documented. Since many remain untested, surely the real number is higher.
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In April the price of U.S. crude oil fell into negative territory for the first time ever. Essentially, that means producers are paying buyers to take supplies off their hands. But it's hard for consumers to benefit from any price drop when lockdowns are in place and there is nowhere to go.
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More than 84 million Americans were unbanked or underbanked in 2017, according to the latest Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation survey , meaning they either don't have a relationship with a bank or they rely on alternative financial services like check cashers and payday lenders for everyday banking needs.
The coronavirus pandemic has underscored the challenges of not having access to a bank account, which can complicate everything from buying household essentials online to getting — and cashing — your government stimulus check.
DineMarket is Another (NYC) Restaurant Supplier Marketplace Now Selling to Consumers
One trend emerging from this COVID-19 pandemic is startups that once connected restaurants with food supply companies are pivoting into direct consumers sales. DineMarket is the latest entrant we’ve come across in the category: the company launched its own D2C marketplace earlier this month.
Since 2011, DineMarket had been a service for restaurants to buy food and other supplies from wholesalers in the New York area. As the pandemic spread and New York shut down for sheltering in place, DineMarket changed up its business so consumers can buy and get home delivery from these restaurant suppliers.
Grass Valley City Council to resume Dorsey Marketplace public hearing | TheUnion.com
The Grass Valley City Council this evening will resume a public hearing on the Dorsey Marketplace project after researching and incorporating feedback from its initial January hearing.
If approved, the project will advance to a first reading at the council's next meeting. A second reading must occur before final approval.
At issue in tonight's vote is what form the project will take, with a handful of alternatives having been discussed over several months.
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