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Retail Pulse: Chipotle Mexican Grill Unveils Alexa Skill; Kroger Goes Back To Basics

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Retailers are tapping into voice technology to help consumers order their favorite products such as restaurant takeout as they expand their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. Diners download the Amazon Alexa app, enable the Chipotle skill, link profiles, and then reorder Chipotle meals. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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Gojek Debuts POS System For Indonesian Merchants That Accepts Cashless Payments

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GoBiz Plus works to help merchants accept cashless payment methods for offline transaction and embrace new digital strategies. The cashless payment modes accepted include debit and credit cards, the standard Indonesian QR code system, and digital wallets like GoPay and LinkAja.

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How Ghost Kitchens Are Altering The QSR Landscape

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These are just some of the ways companies are tapping into the latest restaurant innovations with the help of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and automated retail: Among diners, 71 percent would be open to QSRs incorporating AI. The new law would require most retail outlets to accept physical currency.

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Why Restaurants Are All In On Kiosks, AI Tech

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To present brands that allow them to stand out from retail competitors, merchants in the hospitality space are turning to innovations. According to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , nearly eight in 10 accommodation and food services merchants — or 77.4 percent — cite innovation as key for keeping them in the hunt.

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PDFs Are No Good — How, And Why, Governments Are Going Digital

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The reasons include the difficulty of copying and pasting PDF content into other documents, its crankiness when it comes to playing nice with browser extensions and other digital tools and how it promotes analog-centric thinking, which can gum up the process of government. Government Digital Service said. Digital Czar.

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How QSRs Are Going Digital To Counter COVID-Related Sales Declines

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Starbucks President and CEO Kevin Johnson echoed such comments on his company’s earnings call, noting that the chain experienced a “significant acceleration” in the number of customers who downloaded the company’s app and joined Starbucks Rewards during Q2. The numbers grew 17 percent quarter over quarter to reach three million.

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The 2014 GonzoBanker Awards

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With so much buzz around mobile apps with budget bubbles and alerts that only a small group of consumers ever download and try, it’s great to hear about shops like $3B Tinker Federal Credit Union, which has quietly grown to provide financial education to 20,000 people a year. That’s one helluva move up. Buena suerte, Bradley!