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How QSRs Are Driving Retail Innovation Via Emerging Tech

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Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological change. These lanes allow customers to order and pre-pay online and pick up at a designated time. Loyalty, too, is a source of innovation. Contactless Payments.

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Target CEO Still Bullish On Brick-And-Mortar Retail

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The winning retailers of the future are going to combine great physical assets with the ease that comes along with that digital interaction,” Cornell told CNBC. retail sales will still take place at stores.”. Same-store sales at the retailer increased more than 3 percent in November and December.

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Is Self-Checkout Catnip For Criminals?

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Great news for innovative retailers. Labor laws were the impetus for French grocery conglomerates Casino Guichard Perrachon and Carrefour to begin experimenting with automated retail. The move helps both retailers circumvent laws that prevent grocers in France from making employees work late-night hours or on Sunday afternoons.

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Target Expands Curbside Pickup

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Following a beta test in Minnesota, Target is expanding its Drive Up curbside pickup service. By the end of 2018, the retailer plans to introduce the service to nearly 1,000 of its brick-and-mortar stores, TechCrunch reported. Through the service, customers order products through Target’s app and drive to the store.

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Should Unstaffed Stores Be Shelved?

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Automation promises many benefits in retail, including the potential to reduce costs and improve the customer experience. The July Automated Retail Tracker examines the latest cashierless efforts in retail and finds which are experiencing uptake and which may fall flat. grocery spending occurs online, compared to the U.K.’s

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

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But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. So, providing retailers with a new storefront in an ecosystem of 1.5 Online to offline coming to Walmart near you, and we mean that sincerely.

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Why Best Buy’s Betting On Customer Service

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Retail chain Best Buy is betting big on customer service to keep its stores busy and beat competition from the likes of Amazon. The pace of innovation [in tech] is very extraordinary, but for the customers, it’s a bit confusing knowing what to buy,” said Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly in an interview with Fortune. percent compared to the 1.2

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