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

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Brick-and-mortar retailers are testing convenience store designs that let consumers skip the checkout line and pay for their purchases with their mobile phones. 7-Eleven President and CEO Joe DePinto said in an announcement , “Retail technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and customer expectations are driving the evolution.

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Staples To Debut New Store Format With Coworking, Podcasting

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The Staples Connect concept, which will be officially introduced in six Boston area stores on Feb. Retail, said per the announcement, “We recognize that the way people shop is changing, and with the launch of Staples Connect, we are adapting to fit the needs of our customers.” Mike Motz, CEO of Staples U.S. Puerto Rico and the U.S.

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In Search Of The Next-Gen AR/VR Retail/Payments Experience

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While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies. The hackathon began at 8 p.m.

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Why Publicity Stunts Go Wrong So Easily

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When planning a large-scale marketing push or publicity stunt, it can be easy to overlook the fact that getting attention is hard, and getting positive attention is even harder. And the summer of 2018 has already featured two flashy mass-market promotions that aimed for it, missed and got to watch things go spectacularly awry.

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Reopening: The Tech-Enabled Office In A Post-Covid World

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While still relatively new, biometric technology is a growing market , and its advantages are driving increased adoption. Miro , a San Francisco-based digital whiteboarding platform, builds customizable software to help teams collaborate across a variety of use cases from meetings and workshops to ideation and brainstorming.

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From AT&T To Xerox: 65 Corporate Innovation Labs

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Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Innovation Lab Name: One Market Center.