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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Our Paid Search team earned some well-deserved recognition last week when their paid search campaigns for long-time client Lake Champlain Chocolates won Best Use of Search – Retail/Ecommerce (PPC) at the US Search Awards. They are administered by We Are Search and British events agency, Don’t Panic.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As 2020 unfolds, the retail business has been dramatically altered. But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. So, what constitutes experiential marketing for retailers? Wine and cheese for the shoppers?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Before the pandemic, the fitting for the bride and bridesmaids was a happy social event at a bridal shop, maybe over a shared bottle of prosecco. The David’s Bridal application was built by Vertebrae , a tech company that specializes in bringing real-world applications to retailing. Nothing counters disruption like another disruption.

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JULY 30, 2020

And in banking, credit unions are taking another look at their use of innovative tools and digital channels, as shifts in these strategies are vital for them to compete with challenger banks. Data: 50K: Minimum number of users who attended the Shopify Reunite virtual event. All this, Today in Data.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

EXCLUSIVE- Bank Innovation has released the agenda for its seventh annual fintech conference, and it is completely overhauled to enhance the event experience for attendees.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

Looking ahead to 2021, I believe that secure digital transformation will remain a priority globally as individuals, businesses and economies begin to bounce back from the events that have so challenged us all in 2020. While generational differences in buying behaviors clearly exist, those gaps are narrowing.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 16, 2017

We got a glimpse of this at Bank Innovation 2017, our invite-only event in Silicon Valley earlier this month. (If What’s keeping bankers awake at night in 2017 – and what’s helping them leap out of bed in the morning, ready to help make customers’ financial dreams come true? If you missed the action and are […].

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JUNE 24, 2020

Merchants are focusing on re-engaging shoppers now that brick-and-mortar retailers are reopening across the United States. In eCommerce, in an effort to attract and retain online customers, Amazon’s The Big Style Sale is serving as something of an event filler as Prime Day has been delayed due to the pandemic.

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JUNE 19, 2020

In today’s top news, Congress is considering passing another round of PPP loans for certain small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), and Alibaba and JD.com recorded record sales figures in their annual 618 shopping event. Alibaba, JD.com Net $136B In China’s Biggest Annual Shopping Event. The 18-day event delivered $136.5

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BankInovation

JULY 8, 2020

Bank Innovation is proud to announce the Banking Automation Summit 2020 virtual experience on Nov. 9-10, an event designed to provide industry professionals the insights, strategies and best practices to automate bank functions.

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JUNE 7, 2019

Forget millennials, that consumer segment that is blamed for the downfall of most everything while also being the target of many innovative efforts. Single consumers are a force of nature as well when it comes to retail. At least that’s the case when talking about toilet paper – specifically, the Charmin Forever Roll. Shifting Tide.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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MAY 27, 2020

retail reopening. Most reports of mall reopenings and other retail post-pandemic debuts in the U.S. Most reports of mall reopenings and other retail post-pandemic debuts in the U.S. Some stores did report good business, but the common denominator was preparing for that event via smart digital communications during the crisis.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

At the same time, retailers such as Sam’s Club are expanding delivery options to consumers with the help of Instacart. billion: Alibaba claimed this amount in gross merchandise value (GMV) for its Singles Day event last year. 29 percent: The percentage of voice-activated, connected device owners who use them to make purchases.

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JUNE 10, 2020

Consumers are now getting everything online and that’s going to shape their behavior for good. online or offline, safely or not). That’s why Shift has seen better performance from most OEMs, new retailers and traditional brick-and-mortar retailers who don’t have this formula set up to respond to this scenario.”.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Consumers shopping in droves via eCommerce channels is hardly a piece of breaking news — for the better part of a decade, that has been obvious to anyone watching the retail space. They are, Fiserv Senior Vice President of Retail Solutions John Nicola told Karen Webster in a recent conversation — and in great numbers.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. Payments Innovation.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Today a customer may walk into a retail location in the midst of a pandemic. And today a customer may avoid leaving the house because of the pandemic and shop online. In fact, experiential retail does not sleep during a pandemic or any other external event. First, retailers need the right mindset,” he said. “In

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JUNE 29, 2020

Those apps do more than act as the top of the funnel for the company’s retail division – they also generate data about user experience and product and service preference. It has changed so many dynamics so quickly that retailers who think they will just saunter into a “ new normal ” are mistaken.

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APRIL 6, 2018

He turned to the internet, but he couldn’t find a place to book spaces online. That’s hardly the easiest or safest way to book a space for an event. For event venues, Bizly seeks to reduce the cost and effort in dealing with corporate clients, as these customers may have specific rules about booking a space. Level Playing Field.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

The impending “death of retail” has been projected for decades. But, in an increasingly digital world, brick-and-mortar retail shops are embracing new ways to disrupt the system and get an edge on customer attention. One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Get the 54-page retail report.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

The combination of consumer packaged goods and a single place to buy all the food that went on a consumer’s table from one big store ushered in a huge innovation in consumer convenience, as well as expanding the selection of food that went on those tables. Delivery stands as a big area of innovation. Delivery Trends.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

To look into smart retail solutions with the Internet of Things (IoT), JD.com and Intel have teamed up to start the Digitized Retail Joint Lab. The eCommerce retailer noted that the effort indicates an “extension” of a partnership that already exists between the company and Intel.

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JUNE 17, 2019

Is the store register on its way out in favor of other retail and payments innovation? In case you didn’t hear, Target faced a register outage that lasted for about 90 minutes on Sunday (June 16), which meant the retail chain couldn’t process cards or other forms of payment.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 15, 2016

Bank Innovation Israel 2016 registration has officially opened today. The only Western fintech event in Startup Nation, the 2016 Bank Innovation Israel will take place 1-3 November at the Dan Tel Aviv. The event is presented by Bank Innovation, one of the world’s leading fintech blogs.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Alibaba ’s Singles’ Day online shopping event set a new record for performance. In luxury retail, Cartier has made an investment in Farfetch , while Burberry ’s earnings showed a return to sales growth. 550M : Amount of Cartier’s investment in online luxury marketplace Farfetch. All this, Today in Data.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

To capture this spending, grocers are driving innovation through their brick-and-mortar stores with delivery and pickup efforts (among other initiatives). The retailer has been making inroads with grocery delivery, having announced in September that it is now offering the service in 50 metropolitan areas across the country.

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MAY 11, 2020

Speaking at a virtual conference about the future of money, European Central Bank (ECB) executive board member Yves Mersch said a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) is a game-changer. “A However, a retail CBDC, accessible to all, would be a game-changer, so a retail CBDC is now our main focus.”. We have to be ready.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite. Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. You will observe grocery, as a retail category, is very fragmented. billion fine onto Google, claiming that their product carousel ads created an unfair advantage to small guy retailers who didn’t have the money to advertise. Then there’s Amazon.

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JUNE 5, 2020

The world of retail might not be quite getting back to normal, but people are starting to pick up some pieces of their old day-to-day lives again. A few big-ticket purchases of digital apparel retailers like ModCloth and Bonobos didn’t turn out as planned. That’s a big leap forward.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Big chains and eCommerce operators tend to drive retail innovation — or make the most news when commerce fails — but small, local and even mom-and-pop operations are getting more focus these days via various forms of change, innovation and disruption. Square “didn’t go in trying to change a big part of the market. Ready to Buy.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

“But I think people are now realizing that there’s a convenience factor in addition to the safety factor, around getting what you want and not wasting time going to a retailer,” he added, pointing to the discrepancy of discovering items are out of stock in-store versus the certainty of ordering something online and knowing it’s coming.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

Mastercard and Next Retail Concepts announced a new way to shop online this holiday season, with a new digital environment that lets shoppers browse and buy as if they were in a physical store. In a press release , the two companies announced they are launching the platform with Fred Segal, the retail brand. ”

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DECEMBER 20, 2019

While we are staying true to Chipotle’s heritage, we are also excited to integrate new, innovative physical features into the restaurant that complement our growing digital business,” Chipotle Chief Development Officer Tabassum Zalotrawala said in the announcement. billion in products purchased online this month and in November.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The one thing we all have to learn: it is not about the innovations themselves. We get very excited about our innovative capabilities, and we are extremely proud of all of our IP and patents in this area. Those innovations have illumination that there is value here beyond a great light,” said Karner.

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