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OCTOBER 26, 2017

Those who travel to some of the wealthier parts of the world, however, will discover the well-to-do have much more expensive unattended retail tastes. shoppers got their own taste of unattended luxury retail when vending machines dispensing caviar were installed in several Los Angeles-area malls. A few years ago, U.S.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

It all depends on how you look at it — and where you look, of course. Bitcoin, of course, exists as one of the most widely recognized cryptocurrencies. Building The (Retail) Use Cases. And, of course, the crypto landscape extends well beyond bitcoin. Of course, it’ll take some time to get there if we do.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

For most people, parenting is an all-or-nothing endeavor, a constant mindset and lifestyle, the lens through which the rest of life is filtered, and a bond that can connect fathers and mothers across neighborhoods, states, time zones and countries (thanks in large part to the internet, of course).

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

In fact, 2020 opened with retail reports decrying the great toy sales slump , citing the 4 percent fall-off in toy sales, the rather tepid holiday sales season reported between 2018 and 2019 and the fact that toy sales came up short during last year’s holiday season.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The way the eCommerce operator uses the data it collects from those merchants who list and sell their products via Amazon’s marketplace, putting them into competition with the marketplace host. Expansion into Turkey is just the latest in Amazon’s efforts to be operational across the globe. based tech firms operating there.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

He added that small shopkeepers had to figure out almost overnight how to move their businesses online and digitize even their physical operations so they could keep the customer relationships they already had. And of course, they also need customers’ support. SMBs Still Need Help. Most consumers do a mix of both.). What Comes Next.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over the course of years, Facebook reportedly enabled some of the world’s biggest tech companies to access the personal data of users — which amounted to the social media giant exempting some businesses from the privacy rules its customers thought they were protected under.

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AUGUST 16, 2018

” Winky Lux, of course, is by design an Insta-immersive brand that leans hard into selling not just cosmetics, but a certain whimsical experience of beauty as well. “No one seems excited to go to traditional retail,” said Winky Lux’s Co-founder Natalie Mackey.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

In an interview that springboarded the findings of the Retail Innovation Readiness Index , published late last year, Nicky Koopman, vice president of content and value-added services at AEVI , stated that when it comes to apps, one maxim holds true: One size does not fit all. Laying The Groundwork. Ah, but how to get there?

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JUNE 21, 2019

In the latest edition of the PYMNTS weekender, coverage includes the latest about PayPal and Google’s views about bank charters, a deep, analytical dive into Facebook’s new payments idea, a look at the new rise of pet retail and other stories you might have missed or simply want to review. Why Pets Are Pulling Retail Innovation’s Leash.

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MAY 14, 2018

Until very recently, Evine — the bronze medalist in the home shopping 100-yard dash — barely registered on the radar of anyone watching the space, unless, of course, he happened to be an Evine Live shopper himself. It has been a fairly dramatic piece of the retail landscape for the last few years — albeit a quiet one.

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AUGUST 24, 2019

According to Zach Hensley, vice president of operations and guest experiences for the Seahawks and CenturyLink Field, these services are changing how fans experience live games and boosting their overall enjoyment. we can also expect more voice-assistant retail as part of the games. million people in 2016 to 17.2

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JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. Social Media’s Role. Back to 2012.

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JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. Social Media’s Role. Back to 2012.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

She took to social media this past week to state that the continued use (and pursuit) by Wells to deal with its legal issues in arbitration renders the stated goals of making things right with customers basically a moot point. percent less according to the National Retail Federation. Elizabeth Warren. Questrom noted.

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JUNE 24, 2020

It’s hard to find a major eCommerce retailer that has evolved more than Newegg. It functions as both an omnichannel contact center solution for suppliers as well as a social media monitoring service. One of those changing dynamics, of course, is the pandemic.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Increasingly, companies like Oculus, which has been owned and operated by social media company Facebook since 2014, are already using it to enhance everything from the way enterprises train their employees to the way customers treat entertainment. VR as a Tool for the Retail Experience. VR as an Enterprise Tool.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

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.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Attention-starved celebrities and people showing off on social media used selfies, not serious, reputable companies competing for market share in the digital economy. Nothing offers a sure promise against fraud, of course, and nothing likely will. Biometric Shift.

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DECEMBER 28, 2016

Mall operators are cooperating with law enforcement on investigations, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). Some have speculated that the fights may have been premeditated, coordinated online in a manner similar to the fad of “flash mobs” that ran its course a few years back.

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JUNE 13, 2018

. “But if you enjoy tapping on a device to consume everything from news to shopping to social media, using a self-serve kiosk will probably seem faster and more intuitive, even if doing so means the demise of jobs for minimum wage workers,” the article concluded, rather dramatically. But correctly?

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MAY 6, 2017

It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms. What would Sinatra say? Think blazers.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

Just like retail, this is the state of the restaurant industry as we kick off 2020: caught in the throes of a digital reinvention as the role of the physical footprint is being rethought, and as tech plays as much of a starring role in its top- and bottom-line success as the products it produces and delivers.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

percent of consumers have switched from shopping for retail products in stores to shopping for them online, while 16.6 percent of consumers who have shifted to retail shopping online plan to keep doing so as often as they are now once the pandemic has subsided while 80.1 SMB economy this year. billion in sales.

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APRIL 19, 2019

Larger merchants appear to be better prepared than the roughly 800,000 smaller ones operating across the continent. Retail Sales: Rally 1.6 Spotify: Amazon just launched a free ad-supported music service — which means, of course, that the (free) streaming music field is about to get a bit more crowded.

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MAY 4, 2019

The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri. The concept was invented by a Guatemalan McDonald’s franchise operator, Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño, in the mid-70s. we will leave to your imagination.

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JULY 18, 2016

Big Data can present big rewards or big headaches for retailers. The sources of data can be as variant as the data itself, coming from transactions, of course, with information about every purchase, every swipe, every dissatisfied return to the retail brick-and-mortar location or online. What to do with all of this data?

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MAY 1, 2019

That results in a positive feedback loop for Amazon, according to a report from NPR : The more often consumers start their searches with Amazon, the more data about their browsing and shopping experience is collected and analyzed by the eCommerce operator. Google, of course, doesn’t intend to let that happen without a fight.

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JULY 5, 2017

Like Amazon’s Echo, Alibaba’s smart speaker will be able to carry out verbal commands and enable users to purchase products from Alibaba’s shopping platforms Taobao and Tmall – all, of course, in Mandarin. Amazon, says Ma, is at its core a retailer, andAlibaba is more like a small business ecosystem. Alibaba isn’t just a copycat.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

That was in the days before the internet became a staple of daily life, of course. As Mahoney noted, the pandemic has transformed the way businesses operate and reach their consumer. Social media represents another way to leverage and reward loyalty, noted panelists. Are firms getting the proverbial bang for the buck?

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MARCH 15, 2015

Customer contact centers are reshaping retail service for the technology age. But in today’s world of proliferating digital devices and communication options, customer contact centers, once operating primarily as telephone switchboards, are turning into full-service and multichannel communication hubs. Bob Meara, retail banking expert.

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MAY 31, 2019

Silly question — of course you are. Businesses of a certain size — and in industries as varied as construction and restaurants — know the pain of wondering if they will have enough capital to fund operations, inventory, expansion and other mission-critical business activities. Are you ready for the weekend?

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2017

The massive South by Southwest conference and festival features startups in a number of categories — transportation, augmented/virtual reality, and of course fintech — plus several others. More fintech is coming to Austin. The event is the 9th annual pitch session for SXSW’s accelerator.

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DECEMBER 22, 2018

million of them sold last year, and an average price of $107 (artificial trees, of course, can last more than one holiday season; indeed, some are promoted as being able to give 30 years or more of use). Christmas Tree Landscape. First, a little bit about the landscape for live Christmas trees — in 2017, U.S. consumers bought some 27.4

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MARCH 17, 2017

However, earlier this week, we reported on a virtual insurance agent company partnering up with Facebook to offer quote comparison shopping via the social media giant’s Messenger chatbot. There are a growing number of sectors that are finding relevant solutions: healthcare, automotive, retail and, of course, finance and insurance.

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MAY 18, 2018

The nation’s largest supermarket operator announced this week that it has officially signed a deal with U.K.-based based retailers. But the firm had operational difficulties, and after a few rounds of layoffs, the firm officially closed down operations everywhere except its home city of San Francisco in 2015.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The eCommerce giant, of course, examines frequency of purchases, cadence of purchases, and even the images of what has been browsed alongside those purchases to get a sense of what the end user is seeking — like whether the focus has been on a brand, for example, or on a specific product.

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