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Legal Cannabis Retail Gets Big, Feminine And Luxurious

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It’s not often that one gets to see a new form of retail emerge, but that’s what’s happening with, of all things, legal recreational cannabis. So far, this retail is taking a form that is big, feminine and even a bit luxurious. The retailer said it is launching The High End, a luxury cannabis lifestyle and wellness concept shop.

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

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Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009.

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Tech, Global Network Of Merchants Can Combat Ecommerce Fraud

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We compare the email address to a digital passport, because it’s the true global identifier used by merchants, cloud services and even operating systems.”. Research by Aite predicts that by 2020 card-not-present (CNP) fraud will reach $7.2 billion in the U.S. CNP fraud is on the rise in the U.S. CNP fraud is on the rise in the U.S.

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New Business Ventures Expected To Drive Amazon Q2 Earnings

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Earnings should reflect strength in the company’s increasing profitability and web services growth, but an increase in spending will lower operating income, according to analysts. and a cashierless Amazon Go store to New York City.

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Renewed Energy Around Convenience Stores As DashMart Joins The Fray

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Did these savvy operators imagine that the tech disintermediation scene hadn’t noticed them? Just as businesses are reevaluating supply lines, consumers too are considering their own retail mix, and figuring out where convenience stores fit into their reformulating post-pandemic lifestyles. Well, they did. Now, here comes DashMart.

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Trulioo On Tweaking The Odds In Favor Of Online Sports Betting

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Will Tom Brady turn in his jersey after the game for an AARP card and hit the celebrity golf circuit? In the meantime, what should businesses that want to operate in that new world do besides sit around and wait? The new view of the Wire Act reportedly follows a long lobbying effort by Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson.

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Unattended Battery Rentals Keep Mobile Phones Mobile

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In a recent interview with PYMNTS, Palmer explained why turning this goal into a business required an efficient and unattended retail model. Customers pay with cards and are charged a rental fee for the first 24 hours; if they do not return the device, they are automatically charged a lower fee each day they keep the battery.

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