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Retailers Show The Path Forward On AI Innovation

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Retailers are getting smarter about artificial intelligence (AI), and the latest example of that innovative effort comes from Walmart. According to a new report , the retail chain, hoping to reduce checkout theft, is turning to cameras powered by AI, with deployments underway in some 1,000 stores.

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Reynolds CEO: Recreating Grocery’s Home Goods Aisle For The Millennial

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Its precursor — tin foil — was used for cooking, starting in the early 1800s. In 1910, the world of foil enjoyed its most important historical innovation: The Swiss figured out how to make it out of aluminum instead of tin. In 1947, Reynolds Group Holdings began mass manufacturing it for home use. Moving On Millennials .

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Toys”R”Us, Millennial Moms And In-Store Omni — Oh My!

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Mothers have always been a desirable retail demographic. In the days when mom (and only mom) balanced the checkbook, retailers that could influence her purchasing decisions often had an entire family’s disposable income at their, well, disposal. As it is in nearly every other generational subsection, millennial moms love mobile.

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What Payments Players Had To Say About Innovating Payments In A Pandemic

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How ‘Contact Us’ And The Kardashians Ignited Afterpay In The US. When you look at the spending graphs for millennials at that time, debit was growing at twice the speed of credit, but the average order value was much lower, which correlates with the lower disposable income in the demographic at the time,” Molnar noted.

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How Verishop Is Using BNPL To Enable More Convenient Shopping

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Convenience is key in the retail sector, especially in eCommerce, where merchants with frustrating or complicated online shopping processes can easily lose customers. Avoiding such an exodus means retailers must be flexible when developing the tools consumers use to make purchases. How Millennials Are Driving BNPL Growth.

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Enticing Millennials With Experiences Using ?Neighborhood Goods?

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The old model of opening a retail store with merchandise as a main focus of the space may not appeal to today’s consumers – millennials in particular. The opportunity is us to open in some of these unexpected locations,” Neighborhood Goods CEO and Founder Matt Alexander told PYMNTS.com in an interview.

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Retailers Give Fresh Focus to Single Consumers

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Forget millennials, that consumer segment that is blamed for the downfall of most everything while also being the target of many innovative efforts. Single consumers are a force of nature as well when it comes to retail. At least that’s the case when talking about toilet paper – specifically, the Charmin Forever Roll.

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