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More Retailers Are Checking Into Hotels In Search Of Innovation

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Part of the future of retail is playing out inside hotels — and that’s happening as the wider part of the travel-and-tourism industry is undergoing its own significant disruption. One of the latest — and perhaps wildest — examples of the hotel-retail trend comes from Taco Bell, of all places. Unattended Retail.

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Retail Pulse: Luckin Taps Into Automated Retail; Little Caesars To Team With DoorDash

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Coffee retailers are tapping into digital technology that helps them grow their reach beyond their stores, especially in China, where competition has been brewing between Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee and Starbucks. Luckin is hardly the only retailer tapping into the potential of vending machines. states and 24 countries.

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Want To Build A Retail Experience? Get An Incubator

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You’ve probably gotten the memo already, but in case you missed the message, here you go: Mere retail is boring. Mere retail is not enough. According to Foot Locker , that store has 8,500 square feet of retail space and “is home to an activation space that will host regularly scheduled events and activations for the sneaker-obsessed.”

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Innovation on Display: The 2017 Ford GT and FIS Connect 2017

Celent Banking

As sharp-eyed Celent retail banking subscribers know, I'm an avid collector of good analogies. My favorite and I believe useful analogy for banking system engineering is that of automobile engineering, an industry that has a similarly colorful past and has been marked by fits and starts of innovation over the past 120 years.

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The 2017 Ford GT and FIS Connect 2017: Innovation on Display

Celent Banking

As sharp-eyed Celent retail banking subscribers know, I'm an avid collector of good analogies. My favorite and I believe useful analogy for banking system engineering is that of automobile engineering, an industry that has a similarly colorful past and has been marked by fits and starts of innovation over the past 120 years.

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Sainsbury’s Introduces New C-Store Format; SHOWFIELDS To Open In Miami

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Brick-and-mortar retailers are opening smaller-scale locations packed with technology designed to meet the needs of shoppers in cities. The retailer said that “almost 90%” of the selections in the store were chosen to meet the needs of Mansion House customers. billion by 2024 from £18.5 billion last year per IGD. properties as of Sept.

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Giving The Gift Of Michigan With Curated Boxes

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The company carries brands such as the Detroit Spice Company and Lush Gourmet (Nuts). When people try a crazy recipe for a hot sauce that uses locally grown peppers or other high-end ingredients and put it next to a regular national brand, “it doesn’t even compare,” Wright said.

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