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Travel, Retail Takes A Hit From The Coronavirus 

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Three quarters — or 75 percent — of companies in a poll noted they sidelined trips to Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and other places in the Asia-Pacific region. And Princess Cruises stopped operating its cruise ships for two months after two boats transported passengers who had the virus.

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Facebook And Google Payments Efforts Top Week’s News

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Amazon To Build $40M Robotics Innovation Hub Near Boston. Consumers can access a wide range of retail products through subscription boxes, including meal kits, pet supplies and beauty items — to name a few options. million American adults subscribing to some type of subscription retail product offering. Deutsche Bank told U.K.

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Mall Kiosks Find New Life As ‘Studio Shops’

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The beloved mall kiosk, or the more formally named retail merchandising unit ( RMU ), had its humble beginnings in Boston. In addition to helping entrepreneurs, the retail concept also helped malls bring in different sorts of merchants. “The industry has not kept pace with modern retail.

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Reading Predictive Tea Leaves With Smart, Big Data

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Missing the opportunity to gauge demand accurately can result in lost sales, and ramping up production or staffing while waiting for foot traffic or clicks on buy buttons that never materialize can ding operating profits. Demand forecasting is as much an art as a science, but it could use a bit more science.

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Western Union Enables Real-Time Account-To-Account X-Border Payments For Banks, Digital Wallets

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Western Union’s history as a retail cross border remittance platform is moving money between people, largely via cash, within minutes. We move money in minutes on the retail side of our business, and asked ourselves whether we could move money in real time to an account or mobile wallet,” Ersek told Karen Webster.

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Data Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens

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The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans. From an operational and risk perspective, we’ve handled the inflows smoothly, and without comprising our credit underwriting standards.”. India, the U.K.

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Building A Better Digital Bridg For Customers

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The loyal customer is increasingly the holy grail of retail — everyone wants to create them, but in an environment littered with discounts, digital offers and competing influence, holding a customer’s attention is not exactly easy work. That is the lowest for any vertical in retail. Which is where Bridg enters the picture.