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JD.com Launches SEVEN FUN Experiential Store; Walmart To Put Focus On Supercenters

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Retailers are designing brick-and-mortar spaces around experiences to attract and keep customers. Chinese eCommerce retailer JD.com , in one case, has just rolled out its inaugural SEVEN FUN lifestyle space in Galaxy SOHO in Beijing. 1 through Christmas Eve in comparison to the same time last year.

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Germany Says Amazon Dash Button Breaks Consumer Law

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A regional consumer protection watchdog organization brought the case against Amazon, arguing that Dash buttons don’t let customers know what they’re paying. We are always open to innovation. But if innovation means that the consumer is put at a disadvantage and price comparisons are made difficult, then we fight that,” he said.

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Chick-fil-A And The Power Of Payments Innovation

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By comparison, there are more than 150 McDonald’s. Factual looked a bit more deeply into what the second favorite fast food chain in each state was and discovered that Chick-Fil-A deserved some applause for its regional dominance, garnering the title of No. There are only two Chick-fil-A’s in Oregon.

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Kroger’s Private-Label Grocery War Advantage?

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Even so, the retailer missed Wall Street’s quarterly same-store estimates as it contended with strong competition from Amazon and Walmart.). McMullen said the company knows that shoppers love their brands “and that they are hungry for innovative new products that they can only get by coming to and shopping with Kroger.”

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How will the Apple Watch and other tech evolutions impact banking?

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When the Apple Watch hits retail shelves within the next few weeks, chief technology officers and developers at financial institutions will be working to make sure that their mobile app translates to the latest wearable tech. An innovation like that can make the Apple Watch and Bitcoin seem archaic in comparison.

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Data Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens

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That sounds like a large number, though it is difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison with cards issued by others, since as a general rule banks do not break out performance by individual cards. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub.

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For UK’s SME Lending, Looking Toward Tech For A Boost

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where FinTech is a prized industry and payments innovation is a seeming constant, the retail banking sector has been rather set in its ways, dominated by a few big players who have been less-than-speedy in granting loans to small and even micro-sized businesses. In the U.K.,

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