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Corporate card startup Brex made headlines this week with its funding round that propelled its valuation to $7.4 billion. It was certainly the largest deal of the week, but with more than $836 million in new investments for the B2B FinTech community, it was far from the only one.MRB DirectCalifornia-based MRB Direct offers technology for banks and other non-financial institutions to process payments and receivables with an eye on both B2B and B2C transactions. The company announced that Austin Capital General Partner provided seed funding in the company, though MRB Direct declined to reveal how much it raised. In a statement, the company President Patrick Chung said, Cash-intensive companies struggle to find fi
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By many metrics, BJs Wholesale Club is having a solid year. Since its IPO two months ago, shares are up 70 percent from its $17 IPO price. Despite that impressive growth, BJs is occasionally viewed as an also ran in the wholesaling section where it competes, doomed to always be running behind its two main competitors, reigning champion in the space Costco, and Walmart
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stanley quencher ce. Its built out its grocery offerings and carries more grocery SKUs than either Sams or Costco, and while it offers items in bulk, it also focuses on selling items at more regular scales and sizes. The strategy to differentiate itself has been largely predicated on splitting the difference between being a bulk-based warehouse and something a bit more like a traditional supermarket.Its sales figures indicate that instead of drawing both kinds of shoppers, however, BJs is finding itself stuck in the middle when it comes to generating revenue. Sales have increased marginally over the last few years by only about 1.2 percent. Comparable sales growth has been even more sluggish. La
stanley cup st year, the store finally reported growth in the area albeit slight at 0.8 percent , reversing a four year trend of falling figures in that area. In the same time period, Costco saw its sales up 22 percent, and Sams saw its sales up 5 percent.BJs is a smaller chain than either Sams or Costco, with most of its