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Report: Address Verification APIs Fix eTailers’ Last-Mile Problem

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Merchants and other online services must be sure these processes are also secure, however, especially as fraud attempts have continued to climb. Many of these digital shoppers are now also weighing the security of this experience as top priority when they go to shop at new online retailers, according to one recent study.

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COVID-19 Sees More Online Grocers Accept EBT SNAP Payments For Food

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Since then, the program has grown even further, and today Amazon accepts SNAP EBT in all states except Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine and Montana. The online retailing giant accepts EBT on three platforms — Amazon.com’s groceries section, Amazon Pantry and Amazon Fresh, but not at Amazon-owned WholeFoods.com.

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Amazon Said To Roll Out PillPack Service To Employees

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The publication said PillPack recently filed for several new pharmacy licenses, most of which are to secure clearance to ship drugs from its warehouse in Phoenix to customers, reports said. While customers in every state, except Hawaii, can receive drugs from PillPack, only a select few facilities can deliver the product.

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Malibu Poke Is Banking On Facial Recognition Payments

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Some restaurants are now taking the self-serve kiosk to the next level by enabling biometrically secured payments. The poke bowl trend originated in Hawaii and features marinated, raw sashimi-grade fish. One restaurant that’s introducing this futuristic payment method is Malibu Poke in Dallas-area Oak Lawn.

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Grocers Get Creative With Delivery

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But sometimes, a more creative approach in retail is needed. Finally, she lobbied legislators and secured $1.5 In more traditional grocery delivery news, Instacart is coming to Maui and Oahu, Hawaii, where it will partner with Safeway, CVS/Longs, Costco and Foodland starting on Thursday, Oct. That’s the capitalist spirit!

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The Eclipse Is Coming! So Much To See, So Much To Buy

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And even in the remaining 36 states where the sky won’t go completely dark, Americans from Hawaii to Maine will be able to see a partial eclipse. where the last visible solar eclipse on the mainland was in 1979 (one only visible from Hawaii happened in 1991). Fourteen states in the U.S. More on those later. Espeically here in the U.S.,

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