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PetSmart Continues Brick-And-Mortar Expansion With More Store Openings

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Pet goods retail chain PetSmart announced Thursday it had opened 28 new brick-and-mortar storefronts in North America during the quarter that ended Nov. In addition to our store growth, we continue to take steps to further enhance the customer experience. 1, 2017, with new locations spanning the United States and Canada.

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Party City Buys Franchise Locations For $31 Million

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Building up a retail brand can be a tough task to take on. The franchising industry allows any person who is approved by the main retail company to license out the use of its name and products. The franchising industry allows any person who is approved by the main retail company to license out the use of its name and products.

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Is Disruption The Cure To US Healthcare’s High Costs?

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Walmart is looking to take its expertise at building retail supercenters and driving down costs and apply that to healthcare. The retail giant has been slowly wading into healthcare services, operating about two dozen low-cost clinics in Georgia, South Carolina and Texas. We’re not in retail healthcare,” he said.

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Publix: 88 Years In Grocery And Looking To Grow

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It didn’t work out so well, noted Jeff Green, a partner at retail real estate firm Hoffman Strategy Group. The experiment crashed and burned.”. The firm is building a new chain of standalone GreenWise Market stores, with plans to open three in Florida and one in South Carolina within a year.

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Artificial Intelligence: From Hollywood to the Mainstream

FICO

With the proper training, the data will signal a variety of transaction frauds immediately, helping mitigate losses and protect both customers and banks. Customer experience improvement: Just as AI can crunch a load of disparate fraud-related data faster than K.I.T.T. in statistics, both from the University of South Carolina.

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To Stop Scams, It’s Time to Add Sensible Friction to Easy Money

FICO

Putting some sensible friction into high-risk payments, or when customer behavior is different from the norm, can help improve both fraud losses and customer experience. in statistics, both from the University of South Carolina. TJ holds a B.S. in computer science and a M.S.

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Defending Your Fully Digital Wallet Against Fraud

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The government is so concerned about cash disappearing they have written legislation that would require retailers to accept cash payments. Understanding the tradeoff between fraud controls and customer experience, and measuring when those controls start to have an impact on the business or the customer relationship, is also vital.

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