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JUNE 20, 2019

No, that doesn’t mean that PYMNTS takes sides in the struggle for retail supremacy, but only that we like to note when someone or some organization mounts a challenge to the eCommerce and logistical behemoth. High-End Retail. The battle for Amazon retail supremacy also involves pets. Retail Challenge.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Retailers, too, have higher education on their minds. After all, college is not only a place where many young men and women learn who they really are, but where operators of commerce, big and small, often find their next lucrative ideas. Mobile Innovation. Take one of the most recent examples, from Amazon. Subscription Rising.

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Bobsguide

JUNE 3, 2022

Auriga was recently honoured with the prestigious Peter Kulik Innovation Award from the ATMIA, the leading non-profit trade association representing the entire global ATM industry. Q: How do you feel about your Peter Kulik Innovation Award win? Q: Finally, do you have any thoughts on upcoming ATM innovations and trends?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Retail technology is undergoing big changes in the restaurant world, and that includes the drive-thru. The acquisition aims to help McDonald’s improve order-taking operations in its drive-thru facilities by implementing voice-recognition technology to help customers navigate increasingly complex quick-service restaurant (QSR) menus.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Part of the future of retail is playing out inside hotels — and that’s happening as the wider part of the travel-and-tourism industry is undergoing its own significant disruption. One of the latest — and perhaps wildest — examples of the hotel-retail trend comes from Taco Bell, of all places. Unattended Retail. Deeper Trend.

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MAY 23, 2019

When it comes to innovation, go to the source. has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. QSR Innovation. The PepsiCo innovation effort comes at a time of significant technology development in the world of restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs). In other words, PepsiCo Inc.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? According to a new report from PwC titled “Retail Banking 2025 and Beyond” (see sidebar), the retail banking industry is undergoing tremendous change—but, of course, community bankers already know that.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Luxury style and quality brands, offered at a more middle-class price point and sold directly to consumers, is increasingly crowded terrain in apparel retail. Or, perhaps more accurately, through tactics that are so traditional they are surprising to see in a modern retail context.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Fitness and wellness are helping to change the face of retail in 2020. And, of course, habits vary according to factors like geography, age and even fitness level. Furthermore, consumers are always looking for variety, and for community — something a digital operation like ClassPass can help build in almost a social media-like way.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

But the same technology that enables those transactions also can bring the benefits of consumer intimacy to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that are often struggling to win more market share in a retail world dominated by the likes of Amazon, Walmart and other large retailers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Sometimes innovation in the commerce and payments space is a matter of a new technology or a new process. The eCommerce operator reportedly is leasing some 500,000 square feet of space in a three-story warehouse in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle, according to The Wall Street Journal. Robot Efforts. The company applied to the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

That holds especially true for service retail, where contractors and mechanics might still be more likely to quickly answer an actual phone call than respond to an email. Indeed, to many service providers, “innovation” can seem like nothing more than a buzzword, Koopman said. Of course, there are reasonable explanations for that.

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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. Amazon is also active in this game, of course, and is expanding the use of voice recognition technology. Other Moves. Ads for Illness.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

However, that’s only part of what’s really going on when it comes to this particular card payments mark for convenience stores and gas pumps, according to a new PYMNTS interview with Chris Triconi, director of petro, convenience stores, and fuel retail at payment technology firm LISNR. That’s one part of the EMV story for U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

That’s because cameras are playing a much bigger role in retail, a trend that will keep gaining steam in the new decade. The Associated Press reports that cameras are, at least somewhat quietly, making inroads into a number of retail outlets in a bid to, well, get to know you. Security cameras are another area of innovation. “We

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Herrick expects that ReplyBuy and Airship will create a holistic ecosystem, allowing retailers to use its engagement technology to acquire customers and then use conversational commerce to retain them and grow their value. Or would she prefer to visit the store (mask required, of course) for a custom fitting? Herrick agrees.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a world where retail has changed and consumers remain at home, how do brands reimagine the task of getting products to customers? podcast , we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a rapidly changing digital-first economy.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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PYMNTS

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. That, of course, “assumes a smooth, scheduled rollout of 5G networks.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Recent developments call for a fresh look at the progress being made, and what’s in store, possibly, for predictive ordering capabilities when it comes to retail. Predictive retail – or what is sometimes called anticipatory shipping – depends on fulfillment prowess , of course. Such projects are a step toward predictive retail.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2019

The race to 5G retail is on. The new, faster mobile network technology is a big part of the plans for many commerce and payments operators, even though specific use cases have been only slowly emerging as the technology and the devices to support it are deployed. 5G Retail Plans. The company said nothing more on the issue of 5G.

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MAY 23, 2017

Innovation is happening at the speed of payments — which, as it turns out, can be pretty fast these days. OA: As president of Western Union Global Money Transfer, I oversee our global person-to-person money transfer via our combined digital and retail walk-in agent network that connects more than 200 countries and territories.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Fast-forward to the present, and Afterpay now counts more than 11 million active customers at 63,000 retailers – and most recently reported doing $2.1 One is regulatory trends, where regulators are looking to increase competition in this field and drive innovation. The other is technological innovation. According to J.P.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

But as time passes and a new decade approaches – one that promises even higher levels of digital innovation and disruption – it’s becoming ever more clear that 5G mobile network technology will help power the so-called Industrial Revolution 4.0. And, of course, the factory promises to further fuel the deployment of 5G mobile technology.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In the meantime, the digital, mobile, delivery and other innovations that are taking place in this sector are also promising to impact retailers and the consumers who shop not only with mom-and-pop stores but with the bigger chains. The latest example of that comes from one of the biggest retail chains out there — Walmart.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the connected age, consumers have more ways to interact with retailers than ever before. The executive also said the retailer saw an “1,000 percent increase” in purchases of pizza slices made through the SmartPay service since January 1. One of the retailers to tap into this technology?

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The latest example of the power of those digitally-enabled innovative efforts comes from online freight marketplace operator Convoy. Founded in 2015, Seattle-based Convoy is among the biggest operators of online marketplaces that match truckers with shippers needing to move cargo,” the report said. Rowe Price Associates.

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JUNE 18, 2019

Pet retail is having a moment, with innovation and other efforts helping merchants better reach owners of dogs, cats and other household animals. Pawscout, as it turns out, just launched its $20 pet tags in Walmart — and is selling the product via other retailers, Chavez told PYMNTS. physical retail landscape.

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MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri. The Rocky Mountain High Cheeseburger.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

Those two retail trends have recently collided in Southeast Asia, where Carro, an automotive marketplace and financing provider, reportedly has bought Jualo, an online marketplace for used goods from some 300 product categories. The deal is not the only recent news involving the online retail sales of automobiles. Retail Waste.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

To that end, Ken Gavrity , head of enterprise payments at KeyBank , told Karen Webster that companies must re-examine the most basic operations in order to stay afloat and maybe even thrive – or face existential threats as they mull the great digital shift. Tech helps, of course, but innovation alone won’t solve corporates’ problems.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

But we want to take a few minutes to talk about pop-up shops, and how those temporary but often lucrative retail efforts are shaping commerce — and being shaped by payments — and what could be coming next. Even so, the company has certainly not given up on physical retail. Riding Retail Trends.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Retailers are bringing experiential stores to big cities, and Starbucks is no exception: The coffee chain was set to open its Starbucks Reserve Roastery New York City on Friday (Dec. With premium coffees, teas, mixology and the iconic Milanese Princi Bakery, it serves as a Starbucks brand amplifier and a platform for future innovation.”

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

That’s just one example of how POS innovation is filtering down to the world of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) everywhere — and how, in turn, better POS technology and deployment are making for richer consumer experiences. These days, of course, it’s not just about the payments. It’s a lot cheaper,” he said.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

Ever since 2013, when Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the eCommerce giant was working on a 30-minute drone delivery program called Prime Air, people have been saying that delivery is the big retail use case for drone technology. Amazon is reportedly pushing for safety approval on its drone designs in addition to precise operating rules.

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JUNE 2, 2016

The common theme to all the “stores of the future” currently under construction across the retail landscape is the centrality of the consumer and the necessity of rebooting the shopping experience. There have been advances, but no miracles, unless of course one counts Amazon’s continued growth trajectory as miraculous.

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