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Legal Cannabis Retail Innovates Its Way Around Payments Knot

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Legal marijuana may have a massive payments problem, but that’s not stopping retail innovation in perhaps the newest area of legitimate commerce in the U.S. No one would ever mistake a marijuana dispensary for a food truck, but that is what one shop in Reno, Nevada calls itself when charging customers’ credit cards. Big Retail.

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Square Partners With POWDR To Offer Ski Resorts Contactless Transactions

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Over the last year, POWDR has been working to bring Square hardware, software and payments to its mountains, the release stated, including Boreal, Soda Springs and Woodward Tahoe in California; Copper Mountain and Eldora in Colorado; Killington, Vermont; Lee Canyon, Nevada; Mt.

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POSaBIT Rolls Out Mobile POS For Cannabis Merchants

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Our fully compliant solution allows businesses to feature a state-of-the-art retail customer experience for both in-store and delivery, while also providing in-depth business analytics and increased revenues for businesses.”. billion by 2020 — the industry is largely cash-based.

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Kroger Expands Home Chef Meal Kit Offerings To New Stores

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“Last October, Kroger introduced Home Chef retail meal kits, and we’re now expanding to add the easy-to-prepare recipes to hundreds of new locations, providing convenient access to the meal solution at more than 700 stores. .

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Nipton, Calif., Goes To Pot, Literally

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In real estate and in retail, location is everything. Of course the inverse effect has also been shown to be a possibility of late; the anchor stores come unmoored, that mall retail space becomes fairly useless as consumers venture out to walk their hallways less and less. Or, in the case of Nipton, Calif.’s

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New Big Tech Attacks, Uber Subscriptions Dominate Week’s News

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Nevada Marijuana Dispensary Uses Food Trucks to Sidestep Cards Regs. Among the main stories in payments in recent months has been the increasing push to reform federal banking laws so that legal cannabis retailers can move away from their cash-based businesses and further into the world of the digital payments.

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Drones In Reno Will Now Bring You Slurpees From 7-Eleven

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The delivery took place on July 10 at a home in Reno, Nevada, which is where Flirtey is headquartered, according to TechCrunch. Flirtey believes its technology can be applied to the food and retail industries, as well as health care and humanitarian fields. The order was flown by drone to the home of the family who placed the order.

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