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The Retail Innovation Race Pits Products Vs. Services

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Innovation takes many flavors and paths, and that’s especially true when it comes to merchants who sell retail products and companies that sell retail services. Innovation Role. But that doesn’t mean innovation is impossible for those service providers, of course. According to the PYMNTS/AEVI research, 44.8

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Mastercard On Helping Retailers Strike The Right Innovation Balance

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And nowhere is that aphorism better illustrated over the last decade than with the statistic that more than 90 percent of all retail sales took place at brick and mortar stores. It gave retailers the illusion that digital was the retail cart driven by the physical store horse. Testing Innovation .

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Back-To-School Season Fuels Retail Activity And Innovation

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Not only is it a big time for retail but, in a sense, a kind of dress rehearsal for the upcoming all all-important holiday shopping season. Retail back-to-school spending for families will hit an average of $696.70 last year, according to the National Retail Federation , a trade group. this year, up from $684.79 Amazon Effort.

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Apple Loses A Key Retail Innovator

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It often seems that technology makes retail innovation. It can be easy to forget that people are behind those innovations. Ive has earned a place in the history books, at least when it comes to the history of this particular era of retail. That brings us to Jony Ive.

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Retailers Head To College For The Latest Commerce Innovation

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Retailers, too, have higher education on their minds. Mobile Innovation. College is also a notable location for the rise of other retail innovation — including technology that is changing the QSR word, mobile order-ahead. Another hot retail trend that is also being honed on campuses is subscription retail.

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Generation Life launches lifetime annuity solution using GBST’s Wealth Management technology

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Generation Life – a leading life insurance company that’s been providing Australians with tax-effective investment solutions for over 18 years – has launched its innovative new lifetime income solution, known as Generation Life LifeIncome, on GBST’s cloud-based wealth administration platform, Composer.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

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Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has written a new book about building the video-streaming powerhouse that now has nearly 200 million subscribers globally, as of the end of July. In the book, he freely admits that his formula might not work for every company. I Don’t Want To, But I Have To’.