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APRIL 25, 2023

The technology that allows a contactless payment using a customer’s palm is being tested at the first stand-alone convenience stores.

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MARCH 7, 2024

“Apple is trying to cynically kill off developers that stand up to them,” Epic Director of Public Policy Leo Rees said Wednesday.

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APRIL 21, 2022

The grocery chain added Amazon One technology, which lets users pay with their palm prints, to a newly opened store in Austin, Texas, this week and plans to bring it to six other area locations in the coming weeks.

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Payments Dive

MAY 15, 2023

Currently focused on e-commerce, Catch seeks to bring its ACH payment option into stores.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The retailer is working with artificial intelligence startup Grabango to offer the service for the first time in the U.S. at a location in the Chicago suburb of Aurora, Illinois.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The retailer brought the automated platforms to 2,200 stores across North America, and 40% of in-store payments at these sites run through them, CEO Brian Hannasch said.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Students at the Loyola University Maryland store will scan a QR code in the food delivery app to enter the frictionless shop and pay for items.

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AUGUST 14, 2023

The store uses AiFi and Verizon Business technology to power a frictionless shopping experience where customers swipe a credit card at the entrance, grab their items and leave.

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JANUARY 26, 2020

Analysts and grocery stores alike are saying that the store pharmacies have several issues. The trend is indicative of the losses felt by smaller mom-and-pop stores and grocery retailers, as people have tended to order more of their medications by mail or get them in large 90-day supplies. prescription revenues in 2018.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

Department stores like Sears, JCPenney, Lord & Taylor and others have either gone under or closed hundreds of stores, threatening to take down shopping malls where they once served as anchor tenants — but dollar stores are booming. Dollar Store Chains Are Expanding . Same-store sales likewise expanded 17.5

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Payments Dive

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Grab & Fly is the latest airport convenience store to use Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, following a Hudson Nonstop store at Chicago Midway International Airport that debuted last summer.

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MARCH 7, 2023

The company will close the checkout-free stores next month as it struggles to get its physical retail footprint right.

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OCTOBER 7, 2022

As spending shifts back to stores, retailers are side-stepping big-name buy now-pay later providers, such as Affirm and Afterpay, in favor of offering their own in-store options, a recent survey revealed.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

The 5,000-square-foot location in Southern California marks the latest addition in a region where the e-commerce giant operates numerous brick-and-mortar retail stores.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

By the numbers, convenience stores are America’s gas stations. For convenience store chains and independents, fuel is a razor-thin business. It also represents a chance for convenience stores to embrace advanced payments technology and contactless payments, which have been accelerated by the pandemic. They account for 63.7

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

As major retailers get ready for a wave of October holiday shoppers, store design and safety is still top priority. The new Walmart in-store design starts with an invitation to a digital experience. The days of lazily strolling through store aisles are over, at least for a while,” it said.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

The upgrade adds the ability to pay for fuel at the pump, and using ACH allows the convenience store chain to save on swipe fees.

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JULY 2, 2020

If department stores survive this pandemic, July 1, 2020 will almost certainly mark the point where the format reached one of its darkest days. s biggest department store, was laying off corporate and store personnel and would soon start closing stores. What will be the fate of department stores? percent over 2019.

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Payments Dive

JANUARY 17, 2023

The fuel and convenience store company is considering expanding payment offerings through the self-checkout kiosks, including mobile and ACH options.

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MARCH 5, 2020

tax policy at Avalara, explains why the technological innovation taking place across the convenience store industry has drastically increased the burden of product management, compliance, and shipping on businesses placing their stake in the omnichannel landscape. Scott Peterson, VP of U.S.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

And as compelling as the current eCommerce expansion is, counting out stores is a big miscalculation. Noting the ways COVID has permanently changed retailing, CNBC recently reported , “As more and more stores go dark at the mall, some major retail executives are looking to grow outside of it — a tactic they hadn’t touted so publicly before.

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MAY 22, 2020

Amid the ongoing spread of the pandemic throughout the country, Ross Stores, Inc. The retailer said it wasn’t reporting comparable-store sales, as its shops were open for less than seven weeks of the 13-week period, per an announcement. Ross Stores also registered a loss per share of 87 cents compared to earnings per share of $1.15

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JUNE 15, 2020

The largest brick-and-mortar retailer in the United States is replacing its traditional, cashier-staffed checkouts with self-checkout registers at its store in Fayetteville, Ark., If the pilot is successful, Walmart may move ahead with a wider rollout of cashierless stores. according to local news reports.

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MARCH 28, 2022

PayPal's Happy Returns services will now be available at the beauty products store chain. PayPal has integrated its returns services into multiple retailers’ brick-and-mortar locations over the past few years.

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OCTOBER 11, 2020

9) denied a request by Epic Games to make Apple reinstate Epic's Fortnite game on its App Store before a lawsuit Epic brought against Apple is resolved at trial, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). She also noted that Epic chose to breach its agreement with Apple with the result that Apple excluded Fortnite from the App Store.

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Payments Dive

JUNE 27, 2019

Are cashierless stores the future of retail? Exactly how pervasive the concept will become remains uncertain, as demonstrated during a recent panel discussion at the Interactive Customer Experience Summit in Dallas.

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JULY 10, 2020

To be effective in reaching customers and keeping pace with changing consumer preferences, convenience store leaders must keep these factors in mind as they embrace new channels and capabilities.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

As criticism of the app stores run by Apple and Google heats up in the U.S., India is now reportedly planning to launch its own app store as an alternative. 24) with a goal of pushing for legal and regulatory changes regarding Big Tech’s app stores, in particular. In the U.S., The Times newspaper launched ET Now in 2009.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

30) unveiled a new store design intended to evoke walking through a well-signed airport, with the goal of adding a digitally inspired feel to in-person shopping. We developed simple yet thoughtful designs to replicate these navigation efficiencies, which will help us move customers through the store more quickly.".

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

While in many places, the “best” time of day for a trip to the grocery store is a matter for debate, for some shoppers in Finland, the answer is easy. and midnight – when grocery “happy hour” begins at S-market’s 900 stores around the nation, at which point grocery items that are scheduled to expire at midnight tumble into deep-discount mode.

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AUGUST 28, 2020

While a judge may not settle the dispute between Apple and Epic Games for months, the computer giant pulled the Fortnite maker’s games from the App Store on Friday (Aug. In response, Apple said it would end Epic’s access to the App Store on Friday (Aug. 28), 9to5Mac reported. 28) arguing that Epic violated Apple’s rules.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to modify ideas around how we shop and pay, consumers and B2B buyers are also making choices about where to shop: online or in-store? But expectations have changed dramatically, and shrewd physical store operators need to respond accordingly. The answer is “both,” but there the simplicity ends. With the U.S.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The Rakuten In Store Network has turned on offers in Google Pay, allowing users of the payment method to receive cash back on promotions connected to their cards for eCommerce and brick-and-mortar purchases, according to a Tuesday (Dec. In separate news, Klarna has debuted Google Pay for in-store purchases in the U.S. 8) announcement.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Apple 's App Store had a good year last year, generating over $64 billion, CNBC reported. The numbers from 2020 seem to suggest that the pandemic had given a strong boost to usage of the App Store, as people quarantined and stayed away from public gatherings to avoid contracting the virus. billion in 2018, according to the report.

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JANUARY 27, 2020

The new year has not been kind to retail stores around the country, as the trend of accelerating store closings continues, according to a report by Yahoo! Last year, 9,200 stores closed, including locations like Payless ShoeSource, Fred’s, Gymboree and Charlotte Russe. Bed Bath & Beyond will shutter 60 stores as well.

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Payments Dive

AUGUST 21, 2023

In a company podcast, the grocer’s new CEO and president slammed the popular checkout method as being bad for employees and too much work for shoppers.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

In the bid to hasten their digital transformation, when it comes to innovation , financial institutions (FIs) may benefit from an “app store” approach as they weigh existing and new solutions. The app store approach, he said, can help solve some of what’s missing along banks’ digital pivots — namely, transparency and standardization.

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