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How Can Automakers and Suppliers Win Over Customers With Digital?

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Customer expectations have evolved drastically due to the impact that digital technology has placed on the customer experience. We’ve helped many of the world’s most innovative and customer-focused brands, including automotive companies, transform how they serve, engage, and support their customers.

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Retail Pulse: Stop & Shop To Deploy Autonomous Vehicles; Chico’s FAS Plans To Close 250 Stores

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Grocers are using autonomous vehicles to help bring fresh food to the doorsteps of consumers, and news came this week that another retailer plans to use the technology: Approximately one month after Kroger announced that it had started to use autonomous vehicles in Arizona, Stop & Shop is intending to use them in the Bay State.

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Delivering Restaurant Innovation With Mobile Tech

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And, as consumers have many options, fast-casual and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) realize they must meet growing diner expectations and embrace technology to stay relevant. And food-ordering platforms are teaming up with restaurant technology companies to make it easier for eateries to accept delivery orders.

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Red Robin Looks To Balance Respecting Its Roots With Embracing The Digital Future

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There has been no shortage of food fads, dietary crazes and “restaurant of the future” concepts that have played out nationwide, most of which the brand has politely passed on. And that has presented a challenge to the Red Robin brand. Olo was the mobile order-ahead technology firm that Red Robin enlisted to enable mobile order-ahead.)

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Walmart, Udelv Pair On Self-Driving Delivery Vans

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Udelv also debuted its brand-new delivery vehicle, called the Newton, which is based on Baidu’s Apollo open source platform. The pilot program with Walmart will happen at stores in Surprise, Arizona. The company made the announcement on Tuesday (Jan. 8) at the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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With New Microsoft Partnership, Is Kroger Digging In Against Amazon?

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The retailer plans to pilot technology products using Microsoft’s Azure platform at two stores, one in Ohio and one in Washington. According to a Bloomberg description of the system, shoppers at the two pilot stores will be able to use the technology find products on an in-app shopping list. The Grocery Market.

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Understanding Artificial Intelligence as a Financial Brand

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Does the temperature of the room goes from being in a freezer to the middle of an Arizona desert? Then I’ll end it with how the use of technology is currently, or will eventually, help your financial brand. View our Resources on Marketing Technology. How can financial brands use AI? You aren’t alone.