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Amazon To Launch Sixth Pop-Up Store In Seattle

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The store is an expansion of one of Amazon’s new concepts that hasn’t been talked about much in comparison to the company’s other retail initiatives, like Amazon Go. This is the sixth pop-up store Amazon will have built recently, with others in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, as well as Chicago, Denver and Houston.

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What’s The Reward For Early 5G Deployment? Asia Will Soon Find Out

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It’s difficult to say what retail and payments use cases will emerge from these early 5G deployments in South Korea – but they are coming, and not just from that country. A big part of the 5G pitch involves its retail capabilities. At the CES show in Las Vegas this week, companies are demonstrating potential 5G use cases.

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Big Brick-And-Mortars Double Down On Same-Day Delivery

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As brick-and-mortar retailers continue to struggle to bring in consumers, a few are taking a page out of Amazon’s book and working instead to meet consumers where they live. Kohl’s has expanded same-day delivery to Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle and Washington, D.C./Baltimore And quickly.

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Lackluster Earnings Tank Bed Bath & Beyond’s Stock Price

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Domestic merchandise retailer Bed Bath & Beyond’s stock took a 12-point hit after Wall Street got a look at its latest earnings report and did not much like what it saw. Same-store sales — the Street’s favorite metric for physical retail — were down 2.6 Retail sales clocked in at approximately $2.9

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AT&T Jumps On The 5G Bandwagon

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Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Fla., There are plans to expand service in the first half of 2019 to parts of 7 additional cities, including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose, Calif. Louisville, Ky., Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Raleigh, N.C.,

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Amazon Takes On Best Buy With Its Take On The Geek Squad

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Recode also pointed to job listings by the company for field technicians in Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Houston, Dallas, Las Vegas and Hoboken, N.J. Best Buy’s Geek Squad offers similar services to what Amazon now has and is placing a greater emphasis on smart home gadgets given the expected growth of that market.

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Verizon 5G Network Launch Foreshadows Mobile Commerce Changes

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The announcement from the mobile network provider serves as the latest demonstration that 5G is coming, and that retailers and payment services providers should get ready to operate in the 5G world. Meanwhile, at the CES show in Las Vegas in January, companies demonstrated potential 5G use cases. 5G Potential.

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