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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

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Square, for example, said in its latest earnings report that revenue from bitcoin trading came to $1.6 Jeremy Allaire , CEO of financial technology firm Circle , told PYMNTS that digital currencies are ready to transition from speculation to become more broadly adopted in everyday commerce. . Building The (Retail) Use Cases.

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Baby Boomers Vs. Millennials: Eerily Similar?

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While most millennials were brought up in the age of the computer, baby boomers can remember a time when they weren’t surrounded by technology. With the multitude of new technology that has been integrated into the workforce over the past 20 years, baby boomers are at a point where they can no longer ignore it.

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Clienteling Gives Retailers COVID-19 Interaction Options

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According to Boston Retail Partners , 63 percent of retail personnel can’t identify customers prior to checkout. Clienteling has been around for several years as a way to empower sales associates with customer data and mobile customer engagement technology. They can also send customers attachments from a photo library.

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Retail Personalization May Not Come Soon

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Research from Boston Retail Partners (BRP) and Manhattan Associates shows that while 70 percent of surveyed North American retailers understand the importance of personalization and are putting it at the top of their objectives list in 2017, many don’t have any actual plans to put the wheels in motion for a few years out.

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Why Health And Beauty Retailers Are Driving Digital Innovation

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Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings.

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McDonald’s Big Mac ATM

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Other global competitors have beaten McDonald’s to the punch tech-wise — Starbucks, Domino’s and Taco Bell, for example, are years ahead of Mickey D’s when it comes to ordering online and using digital tools to enhance the consumers’ experience. Kenmore Square, Boston will activate what it calls a “customized digital Big Mac ATM.”

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

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Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Presto Eats is a good example of that.

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