PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

The Walmart warehouse club brand has been piloting curbside pickup at 16 clubs. Sam’s Club members have been integrating technology into their shopping habits for a while with Scan & Go , samsclub.com and in-club pickup,” said Sam’s Club Chief Operating Officer Lance de la Rosa. “As The brand has about 15,000 U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In the age of Amazon, achieving success in this market takes dozens of fulfillment centers, advanced logistics and sophisticated enterprise technology. This includes new entrepreneurial businesses like TushBaby , large CPG brands like Bulletproof 360 and top Walmart sellers like Enviro-Log.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The space-sharing company, already famous and well-funded for the value it offers to modern, technologically proficient and often geographically separated workforces, keeps making inroads in payments and commerce — in fact, it is getting into software via the just announced acquisition of Teem , which sells office management technology.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

s South West Regional Cyber Crime Unit (SW RCCU), in a joint operation with the Dutch police (Politie), Europol, Eurojust and the U.K.’s Everything from the way we operate as a team to the ways in which we partner with brands is built around this core value of giving to the community. Those numbers are expected to grow.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2020

DoorDash , the San Francisco-based prepared food delivery service, is planning to go public by year’s end, after filing confidentially in February. Goldman Sachs is pondering a $2 billion venture and growth fund that could boost its stature in the world of technology investing and help it court bigger investors and investments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

To help bring these options to more consumers, retailers and technology companies decided to join forces. It launched the expansion into San Francisco in January, with plans to extend the service into New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Chicago. and Chicago.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Students, staff and faculty at George Mason University, which is in Northern Virginia, can now order food and drinks through with the help of food service company Sodexo and robotics firm Starship Technologies. The aim is to serve students, who may be open to using the technology. CPG Brands Tap Into Robotics Technology.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

The advance of Amazon’s cashierless technology is not a new story to the retail beat as of 2020. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

The evolution began with brands like Folgers and Maxwell House, which made ground coffee available to the masses. They also might not ask the right questions or be overwhelmed by different brands as well as value propositions. Trade Coffee finds its origins from roasters who wanted to expand their brand and their reach.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

That’s thanks in large part to mobile technology and the interest of other parts of the transportation ecosystem, including from ridesharing giants Uber and Lyft , both of which are on their ways to becoming public companies. That deal came after Lyft rival Uber bought bike-sharing operator JUMP. Scooter Expansion?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

In a recent trend, eCommerce mattress brands have been moving into the world of brick-and-mortar retail by opening their own stores and pop-up shops to help let customers test-drive their products in real life. The store was to feature the brand’s original mattress along with pillows, sheets, and, yes, a dog bed made for man’s best friend.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2019

As reported in the latest Unattended Retail Tracker , done in partnership between PYMNTS and WorldNet Payments, unattended retail is gaining traction worldwide, on the heels of growth in consumer demand and as employers look to increase their operating profits. He noted that Philadelphia and San Francisco have banned cashless stores.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Despite the rise of e-commerce and mobile, the physical channel still plays an important role in consumer experience — and retailers are increasingly leveraging technologies to stay afloat. Cashier-less technology is one of the latest trends to dominate conversation. The technologies supporting a cashier-less environment.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

From Vengo Labs to Carvana , digital innovators in a variety of industries and spaces are reinventing the vending machine concepts with new technologies and features. And technology in the space is continuously evolving from the days of large, imposing machines. The machine also has a 21-inch screen that allows consumers to interact.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

The technology was just deployed at the University of San Francisco (USF), and Jain sees it coming to food service environments such as college and company cafeterias along with supermarkets, airports and health clubs (in essence, public places where people go and expect food). Technology ties it all together.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

eCommerce brands are opening up pop-up shops in cities to test out brick-and-mortar retail, and Recess is using this platform to highlight its hemp-extract beverages in a temporary space in New York City that is dubbed the Take A Recess IRL Pop-Up. The beverages themselves come in flavors such as pom hibiscus and peach ginger.)

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

This news — part of an ongoing deal between the two companies — combines two well-known brands with a delivery service that has a fleet of couriers who are pretty much ready at all times. The coffee chain said this week (Jan. 22) that it will add more cities to its delivery network via a partnership with Uber Eats. Consumer Demands.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2019

And the report noted that Lime has now added Uber branding to its scooters in those two cities. For instance, Chinese bikesharing company Mobike , which once attracted billions from big-name investors, said it is closing down all of its operations around the world, to focus solely on China. Scooter Challenges.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. Introduced in 2014 alongside a handful of other experimental services, Uber Eats operates worldwide in 29 countries. The Whole Pie.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In total, backers placed $273 million across companies operating in alternative finance, treasury management, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and B2B sales tech. The company recently launched Drift for Enterprise, enabling brands to customize messages to Fortune 100 companies and certain potential clients. trillion market.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Meanwhile, technology changes continued at a breakneck pace, with generative AI the biggest topic around management tables. The specifics are unclear, but bankers recognized that this will be an absolute game-changing technology in future years, and delivery will change in ways we can’t even conjure yet.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

After its launch in 2011, HiGear, a San Francisco, Calif.–based While the fraud-fighting technology available six years ago didn’t stand a chance of protecting HiGear, the current car-sharing market , which is projected to be worth $16.5 Additionally, today’s marketplace is increasingly technology-dependent.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Slack platform has the most mature bot ecosystem of any platform, which is why companies are putting their technologies on Slack first.”. The San Francisco-based company said this will allow users to communicate with the company in a space they are already spending a lot of time.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We all know the lure of China’s consumers for retailers and merchants of all stripes and sizes operating across the globe. Enter PingPong Global , which makes it easier for SMBs, manufacturers and global brands to collect cross-border payments from customers across eCommerce marketplaces as ubiquitous as Amazon, Wish and NewEgg.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

With premium coffees, teas, mixology and the iconic Milanese Princi Bakery, it serves as a Starbucks brand amplifier and a platform for future innovation.” According to AM New York , it has “the largest fully operational coffee roasting plant in Manhattan.” The space, of course, is a place where Starbucks will roast coffee beans.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2017

Hema’s 13 stores, based primarily in Shanghai and Beijing, operate on a hybrid online/offline model. Amazon would not be hard pressed to offer similar functionality at any physical retail site it may choose to operate. Walmart has pressed Amazon into physical retail. But, hey, you’ve got to start somewhere. Hardly seems fair, does it?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Amazon is hoping that the wider focus combined with its own in-house talent and content from brands developed in the Amazon Live Creator will find a wider and more engaged audience than its last attempt. Walgreens accept Alipay — mostly clustered in major metros like San Francisco, New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Secrecy is a funny thing for brands. It keeps consumers interested, because a consumer that is always guessing about the next product release is, by necessity, always thinking about the brand. Stringfellow was promoted to the permanent position of VP of internal innovation and operations. It is a delicate balance, of course.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Whatever else one can say about the slew of products Google set loose yesterday at its big event in San Francisco — no one will ever say that Google did not think big enough, or that it has decided to wade into the wildly competitive world of devices by half-measure or two. So what was seen — and what were the early reviews?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

Take the clothing and accessories brand TOMS , for instance. The company operates on a “one-for-one” business model, which means that it donates one pair of shoes or glasses to communities in third-world countries for every pair sold to a first-world consumer.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. Café X Technologies. Oh My Cream!

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

Then, companies working to develop the technological means for cars to drive themselves have levied more than a few criticisms against proposed regulation changes in the state of California. sales operations. Apple isn’t the only company putting dollars toward self-driving R&D that had something to say on the draft policy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Uber was a San Francisco-based on-demand black car service. Apple bought the Siri technology in an effort to ignite the notion of a digital virtual assistant, although it would a year before Siri would become an integrated part of the iPhone. Paytm was a brand-new prepaid mobile card in India.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pandemic has also accelerated recent trends in banking, especially among the millennial demographic, which tends to favor digital banking and online brands over traditional banks. However, both brands have expanded to additional products, such as Venmo’s credit card and Cash App’s stock investing offering. . Investment banking.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

It was a week with a fair amount of push back on the road, particularly on Amazon’s side of the ledger with choppy waters in both its delivery operations and ongoing expansion into healthcare. It was a big week for advances in robotic deliveries, with Postmates securing the first permit to test robotic sidewalk deliveries in San Francisco.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

It’s not as if a person making the request for a tissue, pain reliever or bandage was specifically asking for a Kleenex, Bayer Aspirin or Band-Aid brand item. But, over many decades, these three brand names achieved such dominance in their categories that they became the most natural way for people to refer to all products in that category.

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NCR

OCTOBER 28, 2016

While mega-corporations such as Sallie Mae and Wells Fargo dominate the market, there’s now a variety of fintech competitors and their technologies available to help smaller and community banks compete with conglomerates. Student loans naturally play a prominent role in this operation, with a promise of low rates from community lenders. (On

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