PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2019

Higher-end retailers, however, were charging $4,000 to $5,000 for a set of outdoor furniture. Yardbird’s concept, which has grown into a brand with an eCommerce website and a showroom in Minnesota, offers 10 furniture collections. The designs weren’t that impressive, and the quality wasn’t great,” Dillon told PYMNTS in an interview.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should, though.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

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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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2017

When you cut subjectivity out of the mix, a bot’s smart recommendations may just be the thing to help consumers shop better and enable retailers to get a grip on the future of fashion (and conversions). Chatbots, robotics and other smart technology aren’t just powering online purchases — they’re in stores too. About the Tracker.

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Perficient

MAY 21, 2021

Technology Stack: Python, Flask, HTML, CSS, SQLAlchemy, Jinja2, PostgreSQL | APIs Used: Cloudinary Media Optimizer. Technology Stack: Flask, SQLAlchemy, Bootstrap, ForeignKeys, Jinja | APIs Used: Used data from “California regulations of possibly harmful products”, which was a CSV file. Bright Paths Project: Plenti.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

The logistics IT center is slated for downtown Minneapolis and will reportedly create 100 new technology focused full-time positions. Amazon is already a large-scale employe in Minnesota, with hundreds presently employed and about 1,000 more currently being hired to staff the firm’s new Shakopee, Minnesota fulfillment center.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

These retail models cater to customers who are on the go by offering seamless experiences and convenient payment methods. Such locations can be critical in expanding retail options for smaller cities and towns, too, and staff-free grocery store Farmhouse Market seeks to do just that for consumers in New Prague, Minnesota.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Verizon’s 5G stadiums include those of the Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, New England Patriots, Miami Dolphins, Indianapolis Colts, Carolina Panthers, New York Giants and Jets, Baltimore Ravens, Houston Texans and Minnesota Vikings. AT&T will host four 5G experiences at the Cowboys’ Sunday, Sept.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2016

Retail chain Best Buy is betting big on customer service to keep its stores busy and beat competition from the likes of Amazon. There is a growing gap between what technology can do and what we as consumers understand what technology can do.”. One such recent initiative is with the Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

But though technology and art by nature seem to be fundamentally different things with different purposes, sometimes they can come together in unexpected ways. The exhibitions are open to the public in San Francisco at Minnesota Street Project Oct. 16 – 20, and in Los Angeles at Christie’s Beverly Hills Gallery Oct. 23 – 27.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

On the football field, the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings are showing flashes of brilliance, but at this early part of the season, they’ve posted only one win in six games and trail their division rival, the Green Bay Packers. Off the field, however, is a different conversation, as the Vikings just might be leading the league in technology.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

The technology is changing the design of restaurants, as some coffee chains are rolling out pick-up only locations while others are refreshing stores with pickup windows. Large chains like Dunkin’ and Starbucks were among the first to embrace mobile order-ahead technology.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The Minnesota-based firm is a an old-school kind of company; founded in 1865, it sells a pretty old-school product, as Americans have been eating turkey on Thanksgiving Day since the 1800s. Cargill’s birds came equipped with a tracking code powered by blockchain technology.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

The technology is changing the design of restaurants, as some coffee chains are rolling out pick-up only locations while others are refreshing stores with pickup windows. Large chains like Dunkin’ and Starbucks were among the first to embrace mobile order-ahead technology.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

Over the past calendar year, 700 engineers have joined the Target family in Minnesota, while 800 positions in its IT department are currently listed and unfilled. “I We need to own our technology.”. I could easily fill another thousand positions,” McNamara said. “We

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Payments Source

JUNE 17, 2016

Bank Stadium in downtown Minneapolis, where games for the NFL Minnesota Vikings, and other special events will take place. Tablet-based point-of-sale provider Appetize has landed the contract to provide terminals at the new U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2016

The last few quarterly reports have been marked by falling revenue and slipping sales at comparable stores, and Q2 wasn’t exactly one for the books when it came to physical retail. Or maybe it was — but not the books retailers would like to revisit. consumer electronics retailer also forecast revenue of $8.8-8.9

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Out of necessity, restaurants are turning to a wide range of new technologies to deliver on changing ordering preferences. While drive-thrus can be a source of retail innovation , traditional operations aren’t what they used to be. percent of Taco Bell locations featuring the technology, while only 7.3

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

The Goldfish team will work out of Target’s tech office in Sunnyvale, California, under West Stringfellow — one of three entrepreneurs in residence who joined up with Target last year to help drive the firm’s latter-day efforts at innovation and out-of-the-box retail thinking. The long game involves spending as much as $2.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

PYMNTS recently reported that the Minnesota Vikings “became the latest pro sports organization to sign with GameOn Technology , a San Francisco-based conversational commerce company that has taken chat to a new level.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Credit Union Merger of the Year Minnesota-based Firefly and TruStone credit unions come to terms on a solid combination in the Twin Cities area. During a busy year we saw Jill supporting her local community, blogging with Mark Cuban, spinning up new PPP technology and innovating with things like curbside banking.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Its areas of focus include cable TV, telecom and retail, and many analysts have said STARTEK is exactly the type of firm a player planning to go into cable home shopping might buy. It has been a fairly dramatic piece of the retail landscape for the last few years — albeit a quiet one. You have to make it convenient [for them].”.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

First State Bank Minnesota. Citizens Bank Minnesota. Rowland; and EVP and chief technology officer Mike Beattie. Self Financial handles the technology, including access to online accounts and an app, as well as marketing aspects of the program, and Lead Bank provides the compliance and access to the banking system.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

I’m not sure how we would have processed all of the PPP loans and everything else in the last 18 months without some of the technology that we have implemented,” says Chris Jundt, senior vice president and chief lending officer at First State Bank & Trust. Beth Mattson-Teig is a writer in Minnesota.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 20, 2016

Scott Guilfoyle and Annick Fuchs will serve as advisors for the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based payments innovator. The company uses bank sign-on and ACH rails to provide lower cost, immediate payments for retailers. A pair of former PayPal vets are joining Team Sezzle. And in charging 1.5%

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

Both species, a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School has found, express profound regret over how much time is spent waiting for something to happen. It’s not surprising that retailers have invested in making speed and convenience the hallmark of a great consumer experience.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 20, 2017

Minnesota-based Auego will add Edo’s CLO technology to its loyalty and engagement offerings, which will provide Edo access to a larger client base. As is typical with explosive trends such as these, we’re now seeing industry consolidation. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 13, 2016

HQ: Minnesota City, Minnesota. Messaging technology for financial institutions and others. Retailer point-of-sale system. Financial trade automation technology. EMV and mobile payments technology . Source: Crunchbase. Bright Health. Consumer health insurance plans. Latest round: $80 million Series A.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

When football fans do arrive in Minnesota, they can take advantage of cheaper rentals by taking a drive in Teslas for as short a time period as an hour. We believe we can learn how this technology performs within our supply chain, as well as how it could help us meet some of our long-term sustainability goals, such as lowering emissions.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

The Prime Day countdown clock is ticking down, and with all the media reports about what Amazon is doing to prepare (and what everyone else in retail is doing to prepare for those preparations), it might be hard to believe that there is news to be had outside of the Amazon-invented shopping holiday. So where were the highlights?

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 11, 2016

Retail deposits platform. Guideline Technologies. HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota. Latest round: $17.5 million Series B. Total raised: $20.4 HQ: Bangkok, Thailand. Source: Crunchbase. Deposit Solutions. Latest round: $16.5 million Series B. Total raised: $23.6 HQ: Hamburg, Germany. Total raised: $29.75 HQ: London, England, UK.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 12, 2016

Qingshongchou Network Technology. Financing solutions for retailers & manufacturers. Retail finance gateway. HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota. Source: Crunchbase. Equity crowdfunding platform. Latest round: $20 million Series B. Total raised: Unknown. HQ: Bejing, China. Source: Crunchbase. Total raised: Unknown.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

Digitally-native brands are testing the brick-and-mortar retail waters, and, now, new malls are set to have entire spaces designed around them: Hudson Yards, which is under development in Manhattan by the Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group, will reportedly house a dedicated floor for these brands called The Floor of Discovery.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 21, 2016

Creating local currencies using blockchain technology. HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota. Retail investment product marketplace. HQ: San Francisco, California. Source: Crunchbase. Latest round: $9.6 million Series A. Total raised: $12.1 HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel. Source: Crunchbase. Source: Crunchbase. B2B ecommerece credit management.

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