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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

More than 30 companies are supporting the effort, with the inclusion of global brands such as Amazon, Salesforce, Bose, Spotify, Sonos and Baidu, among others. Amazon has rolled out a virtual health clinic with in-home follow-ups for Seattle employees. Users can choose to pay in real time or with their cards.

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MARCH 22, 2019

Online brands are stepping into the world of brick-and-mortar, opening their own physical locations to help consumers experience their concepts in real life with the help of digital technology. The coffee chain, which operates in 78 global markets, opened its first store in Seattle in the 1970s. The 20 largest brands notched a 1.2

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

It’s been a busy few months for the Seattle-based retailer. Just this month, it was announced that Starbucks joined WeChat’s payments family , which includes other major brands, such as KFC, Disney and fashion retailer Uniqlo, among others. Starbucks customers can now use WeChat Pay at the nearly 2,500 Starbucks locations across China.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. Already, a cashless store concept is already up and running in a Seattle pilot. . But McDonald ’s Corp. While Burger King’s domestic sales only increased by 1.5

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Consumers don’t have to be Amazon Prime members (or Seattle-area residents living near the first Amazon Go markets) to have a checkout-free grocery experience. Shoppers who live in Ellerslie, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, can get the same at the local Four Square store — and soon, they may not be the only ones.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Experts are predicting the promotion — dubbed the “Big Style Sale” — might be just the lifeline that apparel brands desperately need to reach radically diminished customer bases. After all, brands of all kinds will be looking for a fast way to clear out spring and summer stock in anticipation of fall. And with Amazon in U.S.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

As Amazon continues to keep its Prime Day cards close, its decision to launch the event in India has come under scrutiny. The Seattle-based retailer is fighting giant rival Walmart Inc.-owned With no entertainment property to counter with, Walmart will need to make sure the $98 per year is a worthwhile expenditure.

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MARCH 23, 2022

So here we go again with the upcoming launch of Zion Bancorp’s Zifi brand. They are currently creating a waitlist and experimenting with search engine advertising (that’s where I saw it first, ad based on my Google search for “best small business banks” from a Seattle IP address). Debit card. Invoicing tools.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

In another commercial , a spokesperson proclaimed, “It’s a brand-new concept: You shop at a modern supermarket with wild warehouse prices,” as the slogan “wild warehouse prices” flashed across the screen. If Amazon does end up acquiring Boxed, perhaps the new Costco card will be an Amazon Prime membership.

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AUGUST 10, 2018

Nordstrom , the Seattle-based fashion retailer, has aggressively pursued changes in both its in-store presentation to customers and its drive to improve its omnichannel approach with changes to its digital operations. The company also launched a new co-branded Visa rewards card with Alliance Data.

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MARCH 11, 2020

with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year. Shoppers enter the store using a credit card. And, as of reports two weeks ago, cashierless tech is breaking out of the small footprint, convenience store-esque locations that are Amazon Go stores.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

This week, digital poster child Square jumped into the plastic gift card market. Unlike many of its new endeavors, old-school cards were met with a decided lack of enthusiasm in the tech press (and my Twitter feed). Many recalled the company''s failed efforts with virtual gift cards (which I liked then, and still do).

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APRIL 19, 2018

In 2016, for example, Amazon began running pop-up kiosks for Kindle eBooks in convenience stores around the Seattle area, GeekWire reported. Kiosks can be implemented for a variety of products — even eReaders. That use of technology allows YOTEL to invest in the human talent to help guests with the things that are not so easily automated.

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APRIL 28, 2017

Revenue from a co-branded credit card deal and from third-party sellers paying to promote their products on Amazon.com also rose 56 percent to $850 million. Sales in the eCommerce core business were up 23 percent year-over-year and retail subscription services (mostly Amazon Prime) were up 49 percent at $1.94

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“ Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year ad campaign launched by American Express in 1987 to persuade consumers that it was worth it to pay an annual fee for one of its charge card products. As the slogan implied, being an American Express card member was the only way to unlock those benefits.

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OCTOBER 14, 2014

But with only a couple contactless terminals in my usual Seattle haunts, I guess I''ll be buying lots of coffee at Peet''s and Tully''s while I test it. However, I would not be surprised if major issuers, who''ve already seen contactless card usage fizzle, take a wait-and-see approach for the remainder of 2014. But I digress.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Unmanned retail can: Set up points of sale in new places: As shopping malls struggle and brick-and-mortar foot traffic declines, brands don’t want to wait for shoppers to come to stores. Today, Amazon operates four Amazon Go stores: 3 in Seattle and 1 in Chicago. Photo credit: Jason Del Rey / Recode. Theoretically, (i.e.,

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The new shops will feature 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores, and will be housed in The Market @ Macy’s. The Market @ Macy’s helps both emerging and established brands reach new audiences by showcasing them in a physical space inside Macy’s.

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APRIL 10, 2019

Facial recognition, along with AR, is also making brands data rich — especially beauty brands. Face scanning helps to prevent fraud by eliminating the need for a PIN or even a card swipe, both of which are susceptible to being stolen. It analyzes their face, identifies them, and allows the student onto the campus.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

can’t provide a flow of inbound leads to the agents; this is where established FI brands can leverage their standing in the community (within RESPA guidelines, naturally). Reward point bonuses for home-related purchases on your credit/debit card. Traditional home financing : Standard & jumbo mortgages, purchase and refi.

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JUNE 28, 2019

In partnership with Boulder-based company Nite Ize , a maker of specialty lights and phone mounts under the Steelie brand, Amazon has filed suit in a Seattle federal court, accusing a group of counterfeiters of selling fraudulent Nite Ize products. All in, the suit names 11 individuals and businesses accused of selling the fake goods.

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APRIL 4, 2016

An app with a card on file, Uber, as all of us who are addicted to it know, requires no intervention on the part of the consumer to pay and tip the driver. Cards on file are charged once the rider’s destination has been reached and the consumer left the vehicle. started life as an option inside of the Uber app.

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JUNE 6, 2019

The company’s assets were acquired by Q Holdings in 2015, and the firm quietly relaunched the Quirky brand in 2017. Second, the thesis that one or two brands would quickly go on to own on-demand food turned out to be either wrong or too early. Julep started out as a single nail salon in Seattle. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That means our focus in payments should be about swapping out mobile phones for plastic cards at the point of sale inside the store — right? Those are also the same things that most people couldn’t care less about being a name brand, meaning it’s not just the grocery stores that are singing the blues. Then, there’s fuel.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. Acronym of the Year – CCCA (Credit Card Competition Act). Goes to Allison Netzer and Liz High for their provocative tome, Think Like a Brand, Not a Bank.

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JUNE 1, 2016

My favorite website of all time was from the ill-fated dot-com “fintech” card issuer, NextCard. In an era where most traditional brands dumped everything they could think of on the homepage, NextCard made due with just 50 words of copy, an almost “Google-like” experience (and this was before Google).

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JUNE 17, 2020

Meanwhile, brands that were already virtual-first have seen dramatic increases in adoption during the crisis. Sales of the interactive at-home fitness brand Mirror doubled in the weeks following Covid-19’s arrival in the US. The average number of daily sign-ups for workout streaming platform NEOU grew 600% in one week.

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