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Publix Debuts Personalized Membership Program With Mobile Payment

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“We’re always looking for ways to create a more convenient and rewarding shopping experience for our customers that delivers more of what matters to them,” Mark Irby, Publix vice president of Marketing, said in the announcement. Go Grocery is selling about 5,000 stocked items in its roughly 10,400-square-foot store.

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Smart Cities? Sure, But Not Without Big Roles For Payments

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That includes Birmingham, Alabama , where city leaders are touting “smart” utility payment options – a program that basically means giving consumers many more places to settle their power bills, including common retail locations. billion by 2023.”. Parking Growth.

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NEW REPORT: Hibbett Sports (Finally) Steps Up To The eCommerce Plate

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But while most merchants are embracing omnichannel strategies as the market continues to evolve, some established retailers are still looking to get the eCommerce ball rolling, dot-com-style. In 2017, are such belated efforts too little too late? Meanwhile, Walmart aims to improve operations capabilities with a newly opened 2.2

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SNAP Users Shut Out Of The Digital Grocery Aisles

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The government first began investigating the prospect of allowing SNAP card recipients to pay for their groceries online four years ago, in 2016 , and had begun to design a pilot program with grocery players. We’re looking forward to being able to bring the benefits of the online market to low-income Americans participating in SNAP.”.

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Propel CEO Sees App As Aid to Low-Income Consumers, Beyond The Grocer’s Aisles

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Propel’s initial and basic purpose is to inform food stamp users via their smartphones of how much money they have left on the EBT debit cards used to buy groceries. Those cards replaced paper food coupons — a process completed in 2004, according to the U.S. Fresh EBT users can also link their grocery store loyalty cards to the app.

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Sizzle Or Fizzle: Facebook, Online Lending, Cash – And The Twilio Surge

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But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. So, providing retailers with a new storefront in an ecosystem of 1.5 So, providing retailers with a new storefront in an ecosystem of 1.5

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The Whole Paycheck Tracker: Bringing SNAP Recipients Into The Digital Fold

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The big news of the week, the USDA’s decision to start officially moving forward with digital ordering and delivery capacity for 38 million or so Americans enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ( SNAP ), hit both retailers, as they are two-thirds of the grocery participants in the initial New York-based pilot round.

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