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

PYMNTS

“With our value propositions of high quality, high affordability and high convenience, Luckin is rapidly becoming a well-recognized, on-trend, and mass market fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brand.”. For its part, Luckin has 4,507 self-operated stores as of the close of last year. states and 24 countries.

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Stepping Into 21st Century Hospitality With Apartments And Technology

PYMNTS

The company saw the need for the best of both worlds and, to tackle this challenge, it is “evolving into a 21st-century tech-enabled hospitality brand,” DePinto told PYMNTS in an interview. And “aparthotel” company Locale , like Frontdesk, takes a multichannel approach to reservations.

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Retail Pulse: Shopify, Warby Parker Open The Doors On Digital-First

PYMNTS

Online brands continue their march into the offline world as Shopify and Warby Parker announce plans to open brick-and-mortar locations in the coming months. These openings will beef up the West Coast presence of this primarily-East-Coast value chain, which operates a total of 625 stores — but only 15 in California.

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How Ghost Kitchens Are Altering The QSR Landscape

PYMNTS

Diners will place orders via third-party online food delivery platforms, phone or the restaurant’s website. Based in Detroit, Michigan, Little Caesars has stores in all 50 U.S. News surfaced in March that the AI-powered personalization platform operator Dynamic Yield was being acquired by McDonald’s. states and 24 countries.

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Beyond Amazon Go: The Technologies And Players Shaping Cashier-Less Retail

CB Insights

Clients can view the full list of 150+ cashier-free retail operators here. Some historians date its existence to over 2,000 years ago: texts from ancient Greece describe a coin-operated machine for dispensing holy water in temples. Today, Amazon operates four Amazon Go stores: 3 in Seattle and 1 in Chicago. Companies to watch.

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Bright Paths Students Demonstrate New Skills with Incredible Variety of Apps

Perficient

Within mere weeks, 22 women are in the final stages of completing a Perficient-sponsored coding bootcamp in Detroit; their final project includes designing their own apps, all of which serve the world in various ways and all certain to make an impact. Kioshi created a site that allows users to search and save online coupons.

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Ally Financial Acquires TradeKing for $275 Million

Fintech Labs Insights

TradeKing an online brokerage firm that prides itself on straightforward, low pricing has been acquired by Detroit-based Ally Financial (NYSE: ALLY), a publicly-traded financial services company primarily known for auto-lending. billion in assets under management, will operate under the branding of Ally Financial.

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