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Retail Pulse: 7-Eleven Tests Cashierless Tech; Staples Debuts Connect Store Concept

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Staples is thinking creatively with a new store format that spotlights coworking, podcasting and community events. The Staples Connect concept, which offers experiences and solutions as well as a place to transact, debuted in multiple Boston area stores on Feb. The company works with around 100 brands in total.

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Top 13 Bank, Fintech & Financial Services Marketing Conferences

Fintech Labs Insights

It’s time to register for the events you’re considering. For financial marketers, especially those in credit unions and community banks, the biggest event of the year, The Financial Brand Forum , is just two months away. Some events pay referral or listing fees, which could impact positioning.

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Data Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens

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In fact, in general, a “more is more” attitude prevails – from the decorations to the lights to the proliferation of sales events, it seems the entire commerce ecosystem has adopted a “go big or go home” mantra for the last eight weeks of the decade. Thus far, it doesn’t seem like anyone is all that interested in going home.

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The community bank’s complete guide to building trust

Independent Banker

But for most community banks, building a trustworthy brand isn’t a conscious effort. So first, we’ll look at how two community banks have become trusted pillars of the community through charity work and good old?fashioned billion-asset community bank. Build your community. It’s in their DNA.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s Tying community bank relationships with mobile banking is like peanut butter and jelly—it adds lots of stickiness and feeds the relationship.”. —Ed Ed Bachelder, payments consultant.

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Why Doing Retail For Runners Isn’t About Chasing The Mass Market 

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As a quick Google search will quickly demonstrate, runners do not seem to be an underserved consumer demographic, nor would they have appeared as one to most observers in 2013, given the number of large, global brands selling athletic wear at the time. He also had a very up-close view of the problems.

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FinovateSpring 2016 Live Blog – Day 2

William Mills

Helping banks with customer retention by transforming data into knowledge about their customer’s engagement and key events on their journey. This looks like a polling tool, to get quick client feedback, mostly about current events. Branded version is available. ^KT. Turn data into energized relationships.

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