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JANUARY 18, 2019

Walmart has announced it is adding four delivery companies to its team to help expand its online grocery delivery option. The pilot program, which will start next month at stores in Surprise, Arizona, will initially have human drivers as backups “until both companies and regulators deem them approved for a safe removal of the safety driver.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The states leading the probe include Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee and Utah. billion in sales during Prime Day on Amazon’s online marketplace, as eCommerce activity surges in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the tech giant reported. Third-party sellers generated over $3.5

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

operates a nationwide chain of casual dining restaurants offering a diverse range of menu items. We are excited to be expanding our delivery options and combining BJ’s extensive menu with the convenience of Grubhub,” said Lon Ledwith, executive vice president of operations at BJ’s Restaurants, Inc. BJ’s Restaurants, Inc.,

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JULY 25, 2018

Also, Waymo will begin offering self-driving rides to Walmart customers in Arizona and Grubhub is acquiring LevelUp. Consumers will be able to get hours of operation, location, contact information and other data, just using voice commands. to offer diners and shoppers rides to a shopping center in Chandler, Arizona.

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APRIL 27, 2018

We began piloting Buyonic with our online buyers beginning in December of last year, and it is now in use with all of our in-lane and online buyers,” Maureen Needham, Director/IT, Inventory for DriveTime, said in the announcement. We’re just beginning to scratch the surface of the quality, efficiency and cost-reduction opportunities.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

News of Amazon ‘s acquisition of online pharmacy startup PillPack have had analysts assuming the eCommerce conglomerate is ready to introduce an online pharmacy to its suite of services. However, new reports from CNBC on Wednesday (Nov. 21) said Amazon may first be gearing up to introduce the service to its own employees.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

We’ve been looking at our structure for some time as we explore ways to operate more effectively,” the company said in an emailed statement. Earlier this month, it suddenly closed 63 Sam’s Club warehouses in several states, including in Arizona, Alaska, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana and New York. Those efforts continue.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. Those efforts come as voice-assistant and voice-activated technologies — different, of course, from voice-print biometrics — are having a moment in the retail spotlight. Voice-Print Efforts.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

“Improving engagement” has become just another platitude in retailers’ back pockets as they figure out which channel of the increasingly fragmented online world they should focus on, but Nordstrom may have struck gold with a new Snapchat-centered production.

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MARCH 7, 2020

Well, except for the good people of Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, the U.S. Their clocks will stay exactly the same – and Arizona will go from being in the Mountain Time Zone to being in the Pacific Time Zone. Thus far, only Arizona and Hawaii have bowed out. local time. You didn’t fail. The clock did.

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APRIL 14, 2016

The upshot for the wholesale manufacturers behind those brands is, of course, that they are able to set their suggested retail prices a little bit (or, sometimes, a lot) higher than items bearing lesser-known labels. And that has become something of a problem for brick-and-mortar retailers. To private label.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

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 grocer, along with Nuro, had been using a fleet of Prius cars with operators.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

To be successful, restaurant operators will look to strike the perfect formula of on- and off-premises for their business as consumers strive for convenience, but continue to look to the social escape that restaurants provide. That explains why Seamless and Door Dash are investing in logistics and operational costs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2018

Similarly, it may not be the price or product that breaks the retailer – it may be the last mile. Speed and scale and shipping make for tough adversaries in the world of retail. The online grocery market share wars are fought over a $12.6 It’s not the fall that kills you. It’s the landing, as they say.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Getting one’s wheels online. Carvana operates differently than most other car dealerships, used or new. If satisfied, a buyer can even purchase her new car online and have a Carvana employee drop the vehicle off at a scheduled time, or can schedule a time to pick it up from one of the company’s distinctive automobile vending machines.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Indeed, while so many thoughts are targeted on the oncoming future of autonomous cars and vehicles, the real story happening right now is focused on food and other retail shipments, and on solving the always vexing problem of last-mile deliveries. And as more consumers order food online, they are getting less willing to tolerate tardiness.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

These are some of the ways that innovators in the dining space are making it easier for consumers to order their favorite foods — and for restaurants to accept their orders: The projected value of online restaurant delivery sales by 2022, compared to $25 billion today, is $62 billion. Indiana University will have them this month.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The clock is ticking — holiday shipping deadlines are approaching and the last of the holiday shopping procrastinators are either rushing to order online or resigning themselves to a last-minute trip to a crowded mall or shopping center to tough it out in line with all the other procrastinators. said in the release.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

American businesses had more tax minimizing options prior to the ruling, as retailers selling all across the country were taxed on their physical presences. consumers online are typically exempt from federal taxes, but they must comply with localities’ new sales and use tax laws.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

billion in assets and operates 60 retail locations, is licensed to originate reverse mortgages in most of the United States. Yet Ardesson says he is the only banker based in Arizona that he knows of making reverse mortgages. There are a lot of tire kickers” among online shoppers, he says. FirstBank, which has $2.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

The fleet from Nuro will serve certain Domino’s customers in Houston who place their orders online, the company said in an announcement. In other Nuro news, the SoftBank-backed robotics company and grocery retailer Kroger Co. announced in mid-March the launch of their self-driving grocery delivery service in Houston.

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MAY 21, 2021

In her first semester at Southwest Minnesota State University, she majored in Computer Science and learned quite a lot about terminals, using Jedit, and also learned about gates and machine languages operating off binary numbers. Emily Merline, originally from Milwaukee, WI, attended Arizona State University on a National Merit Scholarship.

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MARCH 6, 2019

After soaring to a multi-billion-dollar valuation behind an iconic founder, a team of prominent backers, and a promise to revolutionize blood testing, Theranos officially ceased operations in 2018. That July, it banned Holmes from owning or operating a lab for two years. The rise and fall of Theranos. The rise and fall of Pets.com.

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JULY 9, 2018

Unless one is nostalgic about cars and trucks, and gearhead and cruising cultures (not that such an attitude is the worst thing in the world), that’s probably a good thing — not only for those drivers, but for payments and commerce operators. Look no further than Carvana , the eCommerce platform for buying and selling used cars.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Yet, at Bank Director’s Acquire or Be Acquired conference last week in Scottsdale, Arizona, they resembled a college football squad that had just taken down a rival in the BCS championship. Many are undervaluing and underinvesting in their retail franchises. With banks now regularly fetching 2.5

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Yet, at Bank Director’s Acquire or Be Acquired conference last week in Scottsdale, Arizona, they resembled a college football squad that had just taken down a rival in the BCS championship. Many are undervaluing and underinvesting in their retail franchises. With banks now regularly fetching 2.5

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