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How a Minnesota bank is jumping into the earned wage access market

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Stearns Bank in Saint Cloud is working with the on-demand payment technology firm Reset to launch an earned-wage card for blue collar and immigrant families struggling with access to money.

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USDA?s SNAP Benefits Can Used In 25 States, DC To Buy Groceries From Amazon

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As of this week, customers with SNAP in the states of Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin can now use their cards to buy groceries from the website’s services and have them delivered to the customers’ doors.

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DTC Brands Fill Pricing Gap In Outdoor Furniture Market

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Yardbird’s concept, which has grown into a brand with an eCommerce website and a showroom in Minnesota, offers 10 furniture collections. Yardbird always provides white-glove deliveries in Minnesota, while customers in other locations have to request the offering. Design Consultations. The Showroom Experience. The Road Ahead.

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How QSRs Are Driving Retail Innovation Via Emerging Tech

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Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological change. Self-service kiosks have been gaining popularity, and cutting-edge technology like biometrics is starting to be integrated. Pickup Windows. Contactless Payments.

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Is Self-Checkout Catnip For Criminals?

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The technology, similar to that of Amazon Go stores, uses computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to identify what customers take from the shelves. Customers can use credit cards or cash or go completely cashierless with Grabango’s payment app. In fact, roughly 90 percent said they had no plans to implement either technology.

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Automated Retail Speeds Up Delivery And Checkout

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However, that is not the case with Farmhouse Market, a cashierless store in New Prague, Minnesota, population roughly 8,000. The store was founded to bring local, organic food to the 40 percent of Minnesota’s population living outside a metropolitan area. We looked to technology to assist us,” she said.

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Farmhouse Market’s Remotely Operated, 24/7 Grocery Store

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Such locations can be critical in expanding retail options for smaller cities and towns, too, and staff-free grocery store Farmhouse Market seeks to do just that for consumers in New Prague, Minnesota. We looked to technology to assist us,” Rasmusson said. Designing For Security And Remote Management .