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GM’s Electric Vehicle Makeover Reverberates Far Beyond Detroit

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While the wisdom and strategy can be debated, there is no arguing the fact that GM’s decision to wean itself — and the world — off of fossil fuels will have tectonic effects that will be felt far beyond Detroit, and will take along for the ride scores of ancillary businesses that keep America’s love affair with the automobile rolling.

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Detroit Red Wings IT exec: Mobile enhances the customer experience

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If there is one reason retailers must move forward with a mobile app strategy it’s this: consumers not paying in cash spend an average of 13 percent more when it’s a mobile payment experience.

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‘Non-Essential’ Retailers Step Up For Their Employees

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But for non-essential retail, stepping up takes more commitment, risk and money. It’s in the non-essential category that true retail heroes are showing up amid the coronavirus pandemic. 1: In Detroit Bedrock LLC real estate company is giving free rent for the next three months to its small-business retail and restaurant tenants.

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Retail Pulse: Luckin Taps Into Automated Retail; Little Caesars To Team With DoorDash

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Coffee retailers are tapping into digital technology that helps them grow their reach beyond their stores, especially in China, where competition has been brewing between Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee and Starbucks. Luckin is hardly the only retailer tapping into the potential of vending machines. states and 24 countries.

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Can 5G Power Retail Drone Deliveries?

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The worlds of drones and 5G mobile network technology – two of the most promising trends in digital payments and commerce – are colliding. 11) from the two companies, “the blazing-fast, high-capacity mobile speeds provided by Sprint’s 5G will be essential for making autonomous drone deliveries to smart mailboxes successful.

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Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium To Accept Only Cashless Payments

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Only credit cards, debit cards and mobile payments will be accepted at the venue beginning on March 10, Bloomberg reported. The news comes as the Detroit Lions deployed digital and physical upgrades to kick its dining game up a notch in the midst of significant renovations to the Ford Field stadium.

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Little Caesars, DoorDash Grow Partnership

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Little Caesars and DoorDash have grown their partnership by expanding the accessibility of Little Caesars delivery to the DoorDash website and mobile program, according to a Monday (Oct. Little Caesars delivery was already accessible through the Little Caesars website and mobile program in the United States as well as Canada.