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New Toshiba Commerce System Offers Retailers ‘Amazon Go At Scale’

PYMNTS

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. The company said that while retailers often come up with innovations , “bringing these ideas to in-store trials, iterating them quickly and rolling them out at scale takes years.

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Bye Bye Bougie: Curtsy Offers Closet Strategies For Gen Z

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I think to a lot of Gen Zs, a pair of Yeezys is a pair of Yeezys, whether they got them fresh from a retailer or they scored them from a resale app,” Oates said. So, Curtsy by comparison is, like, dummy-proof.”. Resale Versus Rental. “I But it wasn’t always that way. Oates said. Dummy Proof.

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Voice-Activated Tracker: Milestones

PYMNTS

That night, the “name that tune”-style game was given the Alexa treatment, adding voice functionality to the user experience. While 10,000 seems like a major milestone — and it is in some ways — the statistic still pales in comparison to the number of apps that major smartphone operating systems boast.

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Can An ‘Agnostic’ Platform Help eCommerce Merchants Make It?

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Instead of convincing a customer to choose their products over those offered by another retailer or two, merchants must now compete with everyone from traditional brick-and-mortar stores to eCommerce warehouses like Amazon to other online and mobile shopping destinations. BigCommerce’s big takeaway?

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Finovate Spring 2018 – Day 2

William Mills

Presenter Profile: How they describe themselves: AI Foundry uses AI and user-guided machine learning to transform enterprise operations by integrating information, people and processes. With so many companies showing web-based platforms the quality of the user experience is paramount. Good job AI Foundry!

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

William Mills

Silver Fusion Retail Outlet: Where Snowbirds Shop”. Integrated with major retailer API’s like Amazon, eBay, Best Buy and several other aspirational brands. Most PFM solutions come from a bank-oriented side; this seems to be taking the model from both the retailer and the banking side. operation of Russian-based company.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

The Pivot : We came up with a fresh take on the plethora of AR-style apps that create visual effects based on face detection and tracking… [Poor user experience] had a big impact on our retention metrics. Title: ChaCha, unable to find financial answers, shuts down operations. The clock kept ticking. Product: Quidsi.

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