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Legal Pot Starts Pulling Its Retail Weight

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Trends in legal cannabis retail are just now emerging, and fresh numbers from Colorado are providing insight into how the industry is evolving. Other figures also point to how much consumers are spending on legal retail pot. Legal retail cannabis may be spreading throughout the U.S., Companies also have made more than $6.5

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The Rise Of Organized — And Disorganized — Crime In Physical Retail

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What makes the story stand out among the reams of local retail crime reporting is that the crime was actually committed. Botched crimes in local retail are common. In Colorado last week, police managed to arrest the same man for three attempted car thefts — two of which happened on the same night on the same block.

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MainStreetEXPO.com Aims To Help Small Merchants With New Platform

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The website is now being piloted with retailers from Montana, Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, Massachusetts and Maryland. Retailers will have the capacity to quickly grow their customer base and offer a digital storefront for shoppers who are geared toward purchasing from small companies, per the release.

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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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NEN Widens USAT Partnership For Cashless Payments Growth

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Cashless payments firm USA Technologies (USAT) is expanding its partnership with amusement kiosk operator National Entertainment Network (NEN) to bring expanded cashless payment options to more vending machines and devices, the companies announced in a press release on Friday (Nov. and Puerto Rico.

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Retail Enablers: PlaceIQ’s LandMark Turns Location Into Leverage

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Location is everything, and PlaceIQ has created a new way for retailers to leverage it. We really passionately believe in the power of location to solve real business challenges for retailers, casual dining – for all sorts of businesses,” said CEO and Co-Founder Duncan McCall. How much foot traffic is their store seeing? to the U.S.

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USAT: Unattended Retail’s (Dawning) Age Of Self-Serve Ubiquity

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Evolution is the hallmark of everything that survives over a long period of time — and so it should come as no surprise that unattended retail has evolved, too, over more than a century since the first coin-operated vending machines made their debut in the late 1800s. To quote a line from an old song, “we’ve only just begun.”.

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