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Innovative Approaches To Retail, Digital Payments And Healthcare 

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And shoppers want technology solutions like self-checkout in post-COVID-19 retail environments, while healthcare companies are teaming with pharmacies to provide patients with access to primary care clinics. 87.6B: Projected value of the global payment gateway market by 2027. All this, Today in Data.

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How Retailers Could Turn Smart Vending Into A $15B Market By 2025

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As technology reshapes the way buyers access goods and services, consumer expectations are moving targets, and merchants that hope to survive can’t afford to fall behind. From Reis & Irvy’s to Vengo , merchants and technology companies are reinventing the world of vending technology through smart devices.

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Report: Social Commerce Market Reaches $89B

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Regardless of what happens with the sale of TikTok, social commerce could become a retail factor to reckon with in Q4, and is definitely ready for its close-up in 2021. In fact a new report puts the global market for social commerce at $89.4 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 31.4

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Mercari Acquires Rival Marketplace App Origami

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Mercari , the flea market app in Japan with nearly 15 million users, announced Thursday it is purchasing Origami , a payments platform also in Japan. markets against larger companies with similar business models like Craigslist and eBay, Mercari intends to improve current money losses with the expansion. With plans to compete in U.S.

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Location, Location, Location: Google Maps Get Birthday Upgrade

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Google Maps is getting a makeover and retailers will be a beneficiary as it enables more location sharing, data access and social media integration. The global location intelligence market size was valued at $10.6 billion by 2027. Google is bringing it to the broader retail market this year.

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Shift4 Introduces Contactless QR Pay Tech

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Shift4 Payments calls its contactless technology QR Pay and says it won’t cost existing Shift4 clients extra to add the service. “As The overall contactless payment market is expected to hit $4.68 trillion by 2027, according to a recent report by Grand View Research. QR code-based payments already are routine in China.

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AI/BOTS: Artificial Intelligence’s Impact On Jobs

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As more chatbots enter the enterprise arena, as well as the retail industry, for customer service needs, this concept has morphed from fantasy into reality. Earlier this year at the National Retail Federation’s Big Show, the hot topic of debate was how chatbots can be beneficial to consumers if implemented in the correct way.

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