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JANUARY 15, 2021

The Hudson Group plans to add Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology to some of the popular convenience stores the chain operates at more than 1,000 North American airports, train stations and other landmarks and tourist destinations. . Checkout-Less Retail Is Becoming A Reality . Checkout-Less Retail Is Becoming A Reality .

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

To enable customers to shop from the complete selection of multiple mall offerings and retrieve their purchases from one place, European mall operator Citycon is creating a buy-online-pick-up-in-store (BOPIS) service. Lazada, a company owned by Alibaba, is spearheading the platform to bring shopping centers into a digital place.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. These are companies like Adore Me (lingerie), Green Goo (personal care), Shift (used cars) and Misfits Market (produce). Take a look at how they operated before the pandemic.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Google Cloud is rolling out Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, a new suite of services that will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help eCommerce firms deliver personalized consumer experiences during a shopping journey’s initial phase. "As

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JANUARY 11, 2021

Retail and hospitality technology firm NCR Corporation is looking to acquire ATM operator Cardtronics for $39 per share, or about $1.7 According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Cardtronics CEO Ed West said selling the company will help it move beyond helping ATM users withdraw cash.

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JULY 20, 2018

It’s notoriously difficult to find the right recipe for a meal kit business, and meal kit provider Chef’d has struggled: The startup, which was valued at about $160 million last year, reportedly burned through its cash from venture capitalists and food companies. In Other Brick-And-Mortar Retail News….

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MAY 4, 2020

He will be tasked with developing strategy, direction and comprehensive success of Mastercard’s operations across 53 countries in Europe. Mastercard’s European businesses cater to more than 950 million people via business partnerships with retailers, financial institutions (FIs) and other companies.

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JULY 23, 2020

Walmart is selling its 28 stores and eCommerce operations in India to Flipkart Group , the online marketplace it controls. The stores operate like warehouse clubs, serving independent retailers and other small businesses. However, the two companies are facing some regulatory obstacles. The global trend is that giant U.S.-based

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MAY 12, 2020

Picture, instead, fleets of utilitarian machines, squat, careful and not at all threatening, rolling through retailers’ aisles, hospital wings and other avenues of everyday human life. told Karen Webster that retailers and other firms are going to need to consider “cleanliness as a brand value.”. Brain Corp. It became essential.”.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Don’t look now, but virtual reality and augmented reality are starting to make bigger gains in the retail world. These are still early days but trends are coming together — and expectations are rising, thanks not only the evolution of AR and VR technology, but the coming deployments of 5G mobile network ecosystems. Larger Trends.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

In today’s top payments news around the world, IBM has bought Canada-based Expertus Technologies, while Gojek is rolling out its new GoBiz Plus point-of-sale (POS) offering. The Canadian company works in cloud services for the financial sector with more than 1,000 credit unions, banks, businesses and regulatory agencies.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Retailers made all sorts of quick pivots to their eCommerce sites as the pandemic unfolded, but in-store legacy technology proved to be an obstacle for many of them. As COVID-19 has demonstrated, many retailers struggled to move fast enough to create sustainable operating models for curbside pick-up, contactless delivery and more.”.

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MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless. UR Making Me Laugh.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual reality could have more retailers reach more consumers in the coming few years — in large part by upping the consumer experience. Location-based virtual reality (VR) startup The Void is partnering with mall operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) to open 25 new entertainment outposts in the U.S. and Europe by 2022.

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MAY 5, 2020

Retail reopening events continued to draw light foot traffic on Monday, as Florida joined Texas in allowing non-essential stores to reopen. percent of consumers shop for retail goods online more often than they did on March 6, the first day of our study, and that continues to climb — up 10.5 percent from 35.5

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Voice recognition could soon play a bigger role in retail — especially in the world of quick service restaurants. The fast food operator recently announced an agreement to acquire Apprente. However, Google’s new technology is an end-to-end speech recognizer, compact enough to be kept on a phone. Other Moves. Ads for Illness.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are doubling down on digital as they look to staff their stores for the busy holiday shopping season. The company notes that roughly 125,000 team members will fill different types of roles at over 1,800 brick-and-mortar locations. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Furniture is helping to build a larger retail ecosystem, with the value proposition of Oliver Space centered around providing furnishings, along with design help, to consumers who are moving. The company, for its part, provides furniture to customers in exchange for monthly fees from customers. All this, Today in Data.

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

The hot new thing in “Big Retail” is offering in-house advertising on your website to your vendors – because why get paid only once on a purchase if you can get paid twice? In short, retailers get paid to place the ad, and then get paid again when the merchandise is sold.

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JUNE 3, 2019

Online retail has had a tremendous impact on logistics, further evidence of which emerged on Monday (June 3). and other retailers to fulfill orders from online shoppers.” That company stands as the “second largest owner of U.S. It’s not only a race for space when it comes to warehouse and logistical needs by eCommerce operators.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

The digital shift may transform retail storefronts in Europe. To that end, in Europe, Czech firm Nulisec has debuted an online B2B marketplace focused on European retailers — geared toward improving sales and procurement processes. At the moment, retailers are hostages of their local suppliers,” he said.

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APRIL 1, 2020

With social distancing currently a top priority of retailers in the current environment, a supplier of shopper engagement and loss prevention technologies has flipped the script, now making devices that heighten real-time awareness of social distancing in retail stores.

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APRIL 27, 2020

But after that initial download, retailers and purchase aggregators pretty much let users run the course of their screens, never thinking that advanced applications would someday become important. Some companies have been trying to bring retailers into the new world of “necessary” location-based app technology for mobile retailing.

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MAY 2, 2017

Mastercard today announced the appointment of CIO Ed McLaughlin to president, Operations and Technology. Everyone likes to talk about the T in operations and technology,” McLaughlin said. That’s how it lives every day, everywhere — the consumer experience is the operation.”. And likewise, knowing when to hold back.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

For the companies themselves, the top line growth underpinned by recurring revenues has been significant. Case in point: as Minna Technologies has noted, the average European consumes has 11 subscriptions in place — and the average household has 21 subscriptions. It’s an important capacity for banks as they compete with FinTechs.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Tim Moran, senior vice president of product and marketing at Worldnet , told PYMNTS that the age of automated retail is dawning — but there is no one-size-fits-all approach. The tech savvy consumer, he told PYMNTS, expects choice and autonomy in a retail setting.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Large, well-established companies were once seen as relatively insulated from disruptions wrought by Amazon, Netflix and other Silicon Valley giants. This was a doubtful proposition to begin with, but the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken such assumptions to the core, for companies both large and small. billion in 2020.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

We’re charging forward on our journey to revitalize the chain drug store experience — store by store, community by community — and today we’re ready and excited to invite customers to join us on this journey,” said Rite Aid Chief Operating Officer Jim Peters. The company is also upgrading its digital experience.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Canadian global point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce firm Lightspeed is teaming up with Silicon Valley payments platform Stripe to advance in-store and online payments for retailers and restaurants in the U.S. and Canada, the companies announced on Thursday (Feb. Last month , Lightspeed announced the launch of Lightspeed Payments for U.S.

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APRIL 10, 2019

From CVS to T-Mobile , retailers and technology providers are catering to the trend of contactless payment acceptance with new solutions and methods of handling cards from customers. While the pharmacy retailer had slowly brought the functionality to its brick-and-mortar stores, the rollout was subsequently publicized.

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JULY 31, 2019

Smartphone shipments for Samsung increased in the second quarter of 2019, the company said in its latest earnings report , thanks to retail sales of its mid-level models. Samsung’s earnings provide a glimpse into the intersection of retail and mobile. trillion won ($47.4 Profit Problems. trillion Korean won ($5.3 and Korea.”.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Robotics and artificial intelligence company Berkshire Grey has raised $263 million in Series B financing to continue providing global Fortune 100 companies with retail, eCommerce and logistics fulfillment automation. The company seeks to enhance its growing reputation as a global provider for AI and robotics solutions.

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MAY 2, 2018

Retailers and retail landlords are reporting strong first-quarter earnings results, beating analysts’ expectations in many cases. and abroad, companies such as McDonald’s are off to a positive start in 2018. While mall owners and operators face their share of challenges, Simon Property Group’s revenues clocked in at $1.4

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MARCH 20, 2019

Square has two new offerings: the revamped Square Online Store and Square For Retail, introduced in an announcement by the company on Wednesday (March 20). With the new Square Online Store, we’re excited to integrate Weebly technology and bring the Square omnichannel experience to everything from retail businesses to restaurants.”.

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JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). This QR code can lead to a more expensive transaction and a less seamless experience compared to NFC.”.

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MARCH 1, 2019

That includes, as Roadie CEO Marc Gorlin said, a Delta ticket agent in the California Bay Area who, through Roadie’s digital technology, delivers misplaced bags to travelers who happen to be located along the route that the agent uses to drive home after shifts. “He The general experience can apply to retail goods, including groceries.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Brick-and-mortar retailers are testing convenience store designs that let consumers skip the checkout line and pay for their purchases with their mobile phones. 7-Eleven President and CEO Joe DePinto said in an announcement , “Retail technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and customer expectations are driving the evolution.

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