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Retail Innovation Has Changed — Can SMBs Keep Up?

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The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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Saving Main Street: How A Business School Is Helping Toronto SMB Retailers

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If there’s a playbook for Main Street’s migration to digital, Toronto’s Schulich School of Business is authoring a very effective chapter. In an interview with Karen Webster, Chris Carder , co-director of Entrepreneurial Studies at Schulich School of Business, outlines the story of how innovation can become teamwork.

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New Data: Inside Main Street SMB’s Digital Shift

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Confronted with the option, most SMBs chose to innovate. In Main Street On Lockdown: Business Recovery edition, we surveyed 431 SMB owners from across the U.S. In Main Street On Lockdown: Business Recovery edition, we surveyed 431 SMB owners from across the U.S. Our study finds that 33.4

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Main Street?s Digital Shift, ATM Innovation, PPP Loans Top This Week?s News

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We have deep dives on Main Street’s digital shift, ATM innovation and PPP loans. The pandemic has sped up the digital roadmap for everyone in financial services, providing for more innovation in the last few months than had been seen during several years. NEW DATA: Inside Main Street SMBs’ Digital Shift.

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Apparel, Embracing Digital, Drives Innovation In Retail

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Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online.

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Cameras Help Fuel Retail Innovation

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When it comes to retail innovation — changes that promise to influence commerce not only this year, but in the 2020s — cameras could have a significant role. This data certainly isn’t nothing, but it pales in comparison to the data troves that digital retailers have. Take security cameras for starters. “We Data Blocks.

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The Road To Recovery: Main Street SMBs And Closing The Cash Flow Gap

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To gauge the economic health and vitality of local economies, one need look no further than the financial stability of the small and medium-sized businesses that line the main streets and side streets of communities across the nation. One of the digital tools in which Main Street SMBs show great interest is real-time merchant fund settlement.

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