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Legal Cannabis Retail Innovates Its Way Around Payments Knot

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Legal marijuana may have a massive payments problem, but that’s not stopping retail innovation in perhaps the newest area of legitimate commerce in the U.S. It’s not even a back door, it’s more like an upper window,” Jeremy Skaff of Colorado-based Journey Business Solutions told the newspaper. Big Retail. and Canada.

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Square Partners With POWDR To Offer Ski Resorts Contactless Transactions

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Over the last year, POWDR has been working to bring Square hardware, software and payments to its mountains, the release stated, including Boreal, Soda Springs and Woodward Tahoe in California; Copper Mountain and Eldora in Colorado; Killington, Vermont; Lee Canyon, Nevada; Mt.

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Bitcoin Daily: Banque de France Seeks CBDC Experiment Applications; Bitget Looks To Grow In The US

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The organization said that “the aim is to explore the potentialities offered by this technology, and to identify concrete cases integrating Central Bank Digital Currencies [CBDC] in innovative procedures for the clearing and settlement of tokenized financial assets.”

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The Future Of Fitness With Connected Devices And IoT

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And in retail, legal cannabis innovates its way around the payments knot. 280: Average value of cannabis that people are buying in Colorado per year. In authentication news, the use of digital identities is becoming more common, as consumers are largely satisfied with their presence. All this, Today in Data.

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Team USA Launches Omnichannel Strategy For Olympic Retail

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Fanatics , a company that sells Team USA merchandise, has taken a novel approach to Olympic retail this year with a physical store in a major U.S. The store marks a milestone for Team USA: It’s their first in-person retail store outside the Olympic Training Center in Colorado. Retail Gold.

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When QSRs Think Really Outside The Box In The Innovation Race

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The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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NEN Widens USAT Partnership For Cashless Payments Growth

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For more than 30 years, NEN has grown its business by bringing the best service and most innovative amusement machines to our customers, while keeping pace with the changing needs and preferences of consumers,” said Jim Sevalt, president and chief operating officer of NEN. NEN already uses the payments solution on 400 of its machines.