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Square Offers Beauty Sector Online Booking, POS Tool

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The app-based tool gives salon customers the ability to book their appointments online and also issues reminders. Aside from booking and payments, the enhanced Square Appointments solution also enables sellers to manage inventory. .

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With Millions Trapped At Home, Books Are Back, Baby!

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We are expecting our biggest Christmas ever, and with the ability to process up to 60,000 book sales a day, we will be able to satisfy more customers,” Booktopia CEO Tony Nash told reporters after ringing the opening bell at the stock exchange in Sydney Thursday. Booktopia currently has about a 6 percent share of Australian book sales, a $2.5

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The CB Insights Book of Market Maps

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Our 139-page coffee table book features 120+ market maps created by CB Insights analysts to help you identify which technology markets and companies should be on your radar, including AI lifecycle management, omnichannel enablement, B2B payments tech, and more. FREE DOWNLOAD: BOOK OF MARKET MAPS. First name. Company Name.

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Shogun Brings Big Retail Tech To Digital-First Retailers

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He needed a name for the company and liked the book. Clavell laid out exquisite details of life in feudal Japan so that the readers could live it as well as read it, according to The New York Times’ review of the book. Both have been key developments to helping retailers participate in the digital-first economy.

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Retail Ecommerce Ventures Calculates Its Next Moves

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When speaking with Tai Lopez , the executive chairman of one of the more disruptive retail companies in the pandemic period, it could be expected that the conversation would center around one topic: retailing. Bezos started with books, because buying a book is a low-risk transaction. But that's not the case. It paid $3.6

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Amazon Opens New Book Store, More To Come

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While much has been made in the past few months about Amazon’s grocery store of the future, Amazon Go isn’t the online retailer’s only brick-and-mortar play — and a new move indicates that Amazon looks to continue expanding its physical retail presence outside of the grocery space. That’s not all. That’s not all.

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UK Agencies Paint Stark Reality For Retail

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retail picture is bleak in this time of COVID-19. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) said on Thursday (March 26) that its monthly survey of retailers showed the weakest outlook since April 2009. The CBI says retail sales volumes will fall sharply to April, with retailers more pessimistic than at any time since April 2009.

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