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Retail Pulse: Luxury Brands Eye Airport Retail; Panera Bread Tests Dinner Menu

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shopping malls are on the decline, are also becoming locations where brands are innovating with products. Through product innovation at the airport, luxury brands are aiming to reach on-the-go travelers who have the time — and the desire — to try something new on the way to their destinations. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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How QSRs Bring Mobile And Digital Payments To The Table

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In the age of quick-service restaurant (QSR) dining technology innovation, restaurants are frantically looking into ways to provide consumers with mobile ordering bells and whistles like third-party payment integrations, rewards programs and surprise-and-delight offers.

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Are Postmates Sidewalk Robots Just The Tip Of The Self-Delivery Frontier?

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The need for food delivery keeps pushing the edge of retail innovation – and could even lead to crowding on sidewalks and competing for room with pedestrians and rented scooters – as Postmates plans to test delivery robots in San Francisco. The concept has been in development with Nuro since 2016.

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Retail Pulse: Mattress Firm Mulls Bankruptcy; Walmart Plans Robotic Grocery Pickup

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Steinhoff International Holdings NV, which acquired the company in 2016, has reportedly sought to restructure some of its subsidiaries’ debt. told the Houston Chronicle that “bankruptcy for Mattress Firm would make sense, as it would allow them to reposition their real estate portfolio and close stores to become profitable.”.

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Apart-Hotels Turn Apartments Into Boutique Lodging

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Locale currently lists locations in Austin, Houston and Nashville on its website. In an announcement, the company noted the raise was the first funding round since its late 2016 launch.) Quality is also important: The company is looking to work with properties that are usually newer and well-located. The Apart-Hotel Market.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

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William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. Houston Frost (SVP, Prepaid Products). Mills-Grimes will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. We expect to see innovations in mobile, security, analytics, customer experience, and more. Check back for new updates throughout the day.

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The Apple Pay Pivot?

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After a bit of a bumpy start to the year, what has become a now multi-week debacle with the FBI over that phone and a solid month of share prices below $100, it has been a while since Apple has managed a whole week of headlines that were, more or less, positive and even hopeful about innovation in the offing.

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