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Weekly Wrap: Visa acquires Plaid and retailers embrace fintech

Bank Innovation

In this episode, editors discuss the following news developments: The overlap of retail with financial services, and reflections on the National Retail Federation annual conference in New York; Visa’s acquisition of Plaid and what it means […].

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Retail Pulse: goop Finds Stickiness In New York, Opens ‘Lab’; Nordstrom To Offer Early-Bird Pickup

PYMNTS

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. Since then, the company has tried its hand at pop-up locations in areas like Aspen, Sag Harbor, New York, Dallas and London.

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Shake Shack On Tapping AI And Other Tools To Optimize The Customer Experience

PYMNTS

The health crisis has forced the sector to hasten its use of technology to improve customersexperiences at the drive-thru, to streamline curbside pickup orders and to cater to a limited number of dine-in patrons. . New York-based burger chain Shake Shack is no exception.

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Starbucks To Open Pickup Location In New York City

PYMNTS

As the company modernizes and reimagines the customer experience in stores located in high-traffic metropolitan areas, Starbucks plans to open a Starbucks Pickup store in New York City on Tuesday (Nov.

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Retail Pulse: Toys R Us Returns With Small Retail Stores

PYMNTS

Iconic brick-and-mortar retailers are sometimes reinvented, and return to the world of retail with smaller-format concepts. Tru Kids has entered into a joint venture with the software-powered experiential retailer b8ta to offer a new store experience with curated toys in “highly immersive, smaller-format spaces.”.

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Shogun Brings Big Retail Tech To Digital-First Retailers

PYMNTS

Clavell laid out exquisite details of life in feudal Japan so that the readers could live it as well as read it, according to The New York Times’ review of the book. Some retailers are just excellent about telling stories about themselves and about the products that they're selling,” Taylor told PYMNTS.

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How Experiential Retail Is Giving Physical Stores An Edge

PYMNTS

As 2020 unfolds, the retail business has been dramatically altered. But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. So, what constitutes experiential marketing for retailers? Wine and cheese for the shoppers?

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