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Boosting The Good Growth And Killing The Weeds

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As flowers are blooming in real gardens for spring, innovative ideas are blooming metaphorical gardens in payments and commerce. Data: $365 billion: Estimated size of the global online food delivery market by 2030. $36 billion: Amount of online alcohol sales in 2017.

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AI/Bot: Dole’s Secret Artificial Intelligence Weapon

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From virtual personal assistants to video games, smart cars, online customer support, and music or movie recommendations, AI has infiltrated nearly every aspect of consumers’ everyday lives. It’s clear that artificial intelligence has had an enormous impact on the retail industry as evidence by Dole Asia’s awareness campaign results.

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Innovators Take A Bite Out Of Food Waste

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Those numbers are from Wasted, a recent documentary by American chef, author and television personality Anthony Bourdain — and backed by the USDA — which has set its own food waste reduction goal of wasting 50 percent less by 2030. Food waste at home is certainly a factor. If Bourdain is looking for allies, they’re out there.

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Warehouse Robots Pave The Way For More AI Logistics

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Hot on their trail are machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) technology — the software and algorithms promising to reduce the risks of overstocking and understocking, and providing other benefits that can boost retailers’ revenue. This minimizes the amount of time it takes to complete the majority of the company’s online orders.”

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Staring Into The Crystal Ball of Retail’s Future

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Unfortunately, there’s no magical crystal ball that can provide a glimpse into the future of retail. Considering all of the new technologies, changing consumer behaviors and innovation taking place across the retail sector, we have no way of knowing exactly what’s coming next. Seeing Retail Differently.

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Walmart Bot Strategy Is Not To Use Them

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They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. When the discount department store exploded on the market in the 1990s, three decades after its inception by Sam Walton, it played a major role in shaping the retail market for many years to follow.

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The Whole Paycheck Tracker: Walmart vs. Amazon

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There is a possibly apocryphal story of Amazon’s early days (around 2001) where Founder Jeff Bezos was invited to Bentonville, Arkansas to discuss the possibility of Walmart purchasing his still young – and, at this point, struggling – online bookstore. percent of the consumer’s total retail spend as of February 2019, compared to Amazon’s 6.4

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