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How Cashierless Checkout Can Power Brand Marketing Experiences

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Cashierless stores aren’t just for mega retailers like Amazon to sell prepared food from their kitchens or products from other producers: Beverage brands, among other companies, are getting into the action and choosing this checkout experience for stores that showcase their own products IRL (“in real life”) as a marketing tool.

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WeWork Makes Its Pitch As An Innovation Enabler

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The innovation economy requires more than caffeine and collaboration for fuel. WeWork also wants to make a bigger name for itself as an enabler of innovation. Its founders, three sisters from San Francisco, turned down Mark Cuban’s $30 million offer to buy the startup in 2015. Innovation Program. Innovator Awards.

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Apparel, Embracing Digital, Drives Innovation In Retail

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Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. Customers on Walmart.com can access styles from brands like C&C California, Butter Super Soft, Puma and BCBG.

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Fast-Casual Brands Make Their Mark, Right On The Burger

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In a competitive fast-casual and dinner delivery world, how can one brand make its mark? San Francisco chef Anthony Strong launches his new restaurant, Young Fava, today, June 14. Meanwhile, established restaurants are keeping their brand in the spotlight by putting it directly on the food. It doesn’t have a dining room.

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Amazon Go Has Spawned Imitators, But Also Innovation

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Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for “just-walk-out” technology has been tempered by the stores’ limited locations. French retail giant Carrefour SA has also been testing camera and image-recognition technology in grocery stores.

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Why Brick-And-Mortar Merchants Are Tapping Into Unattended Retail

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New digital innovations, however, provide the promise of offering valuable customer data to merchants. From Rent the Runway to McDonald’s , retailers are tapping into a world of technology that lets customers make transactions without visiting a cashier. Approximately one quarter — or 25.3

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Car Marketplace CarGurus Has Acquired Autolist

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Autolist is based in San Francisco, and the terms of the deal were not revealed. CarGurus is a successful company that went public in 2017, and it’s going to keep Autolist as its own brand and website. PistonHeads also still operates under its own brand name. “We Autolist Founder Corey Lydstone will report to Trevisan. “We