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Retail Bedfellows Roundup: Staples Shares Space, Affirm Finances Life Experiences

PYMNTS

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. From office supplies and communal workspaces to new ways to pay for concert tickets, more barriers to siloed retail activity are falling every day to the onslaught of retail partnerships.

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Trick Or Treat (Payments And Commerce Style)

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Retailers are stocking up to supply children, pets and adults with their favorite decorations, candy and costumes for the season.”. More than 31 million Americans plan to dress up their pets this year for Halloween, with millennials leading the pack, so to speak. Massachusetts saw a bigger peak run, with 12,900 tickets sold per minute.

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Ripple Effects: Mobile Payments Are Just The Beginning

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Cohen owns a national distribution network and deals with some of the nation’s biggest retailers. His aim is to change the way that the thousands of cases of retail goods are stored, handled and hauled. But it’s not just the retailers trying to cut costs who are embracing technology.

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From ACH To IoT: Looking Back On A Year Of Trackers

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From using virtual reality to overhauling the retail industry to shifting trends in cross-border payments, here are some of the highlights from our 2016 Trackers. Prpic and his team are hoping to use VR technology to transform luxury and high-end retail as we know it. DEVELOPER TRACKER.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

CB Insights

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending.

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24 Industries Other Than Auto That Driverless Cars Could Turn Upside Down

CB Insights

Brick and Mortar Retail. It was suggested on stage at the CB Insights Innovation Summit that car ownership may switch to a subscription model of some kind, wherein the rental company provides a vehicle and all maintenance for one fee. A shift away from licensing can already be seen in the sharp decline in millennials getting licenses.

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2019: What To Take Forward And What To Leave Behind

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This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. That makes it the most important year of the last decade. Consider this.

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