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Making Shopping About The Shoppers (Again)

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One would expect that a event called the Retail Innovation Conference (RIC) would be a veritable brainstorm of big ideas as to how to improve the woeful retail space in the U.S.: Doesn’t it follow, then, that by working very hard to put innovative technologies in place in their operations, retailers are , in fact, focusing on the shopper?

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Splitty Makes It Easier To Grab A Piece Of The Travel Industry

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Travel industry services are catering to the thousands of millennial and Gen Z travelers who are booking big trips by augmenting their platforms with online and mobile support. Competition among airlines, hotels and travel agencies is fiercer, but all these platforms are approaching travel innovation in similar ways.

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Physical Retail Looks For New Life This Holiday Season

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In-store holiday returns present a unique opportunity for retailers to either upsell or capture another sale while a consumer is in the store, aided by savvy store employees and retail technology. Both of those demographics surprisingly beat out millennials, at 53 percent, and Gen Z, at 46 percent. Consumer Trends.

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American Apparel And Postmates Pair Up

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“The combination of American Apparel’s real-time, local inventory paired with Postmates’ superior delivery technology and national footprint is changing the way customers can access their favorite brands,” Luedorf said in a statement.

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Digital Spaces As Virtual Makeup Studios, Augmented Reality Style

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AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology. And new technology is in the works to help welcome them to the AR world: In October, it was reported that a Facebook executive said the company is developing augmented reality glasses.

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Meal Kit Providers Exit Q2 With Industry In Major Flux

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Blue Apron has long enjoyed the distinction of being among the early innovators in the meal kit category. With millennials working multiple gigs, very few have enough time left to make a proper meal — if they aren’t eating out at a local restaurant. Truly Innovating. The pop-up opened after Memorial Day and closed in late June.

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8 Quick Finovate 2017 Takeaways

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Finovate kicked off on 9/11 in New York City, a great message to the world about how The Big Apple operates 16 years later: living freely, building, dreaming, and getting stuff done. So, let’s get to it: Who innovates? Security innovations. was also a great demo. Bad combination. Ixnay illennialsmay.