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JANUARY 22, 2021

Social media image-sharing platform Pinterest is introducing an augmented reality (AR) try-on tool to help users assess and compare eyeshadow. . The roll-out follows the success of Pinterest’s try-on tool for lipstick, which was launched last year. 22) press release. “The 22) press release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.

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JULY 17, 2020

The rise in online shopping amid the pandemic is making digital payment options essential to healthy cash flow. Smart routing is quickly gaining momentum as one of the tools at a merchant’s disposal.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. About the same share — or 60.9

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retail can get a bad rap these days, as its considered old-fashioned and on the decline. But recent developments show that innovation in commerce does indeed happen in this area of retail. That’s why [the] brick-and-mortar retailer isn’t going anywhere. You cannot replace that experience (online).”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Google Cloud is rolling out Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, a new suite of services that will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help eCommerce firms deliver personalized consumer experiences during a shopping journey’s initial phase. "As Vision API Product Search.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2020

When Home Depot announced last month its plans to acquire HD Supply Holdings , it wasn’t just a sign of expansion for the home improvement retailer. According to Disque, the technologies are already in place for B2C firms to take the leap into B2B, but businesses must be strategic about the tools they choose to adopt.

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MARCH 26, 2020

Cross-currency money transfer firm Western Union has announced the launch of Digital Location, a new tool that enables people to send money from home. Due to limited services via retail locations in some areas impacted by restricted movement guidelines, we are seeing increased demand for our online services. “Due

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Retail giant Target is collaborating with Ulta Beauty in a strategic partnership that will bring a shop-in-shop concept to 100 Target locations across the country, the companies announced in a press release on Tuesday (Nov. More than ever before, now is the time for innovation in retail,” said Ulta Beauty CEO Mary Dillon. .

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JULY 30, 2020

And in banking, credit unions are taking another look at their use of innovative tools and digital channels, as shifts in these strategies are vital for them to compete with challenger banks. 30%: Share of Gen Z consumers opting for online-only bank accounts. All this, Today in Data.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The tool also gives full management to facilities managers and eliminates paperwork, according to the announcement. Other functions include a connected online shopping capability that comprises popular retailers for facilities management, according to the announcement.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are starting to play a bigger role in retail, foreshadowing what’s to come in the new decade of the 2020s. According to PYMNTS research , AI and ML are blurring the divide between online and in-store shopping, and bringing an all-new human element into retail. Role of Data.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? According to a new report from PwC titled “Retail Banking 2025 and Beyond” (see sidebar), the retail banking industry is undergoing tremendous change—but, of course, community bankers already know that.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

That holds especially true for service retail, where contractors and mechanics might still be more likely to quickly answer an actual phone call than respond to an email. Indeed, to many service providers, “innovation” can seem like nothing more than a buzzword, Koopman said. Of course, there are reasonable explanations for that.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

A Year of Innovation in the Face of Adversity Digital and omnichannel consumer journeys have accelerated during 2020, as click and collect, buy online pick up in-store (BOPIS), and contactless payments and touch-free shopping have all seen an enormous boost this year. Challenges And Opportunities Ahead In 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

But nowadays, “every decision that we make — ‘Should I go to the grocery store or should I order my groceries online and then pick them up from the curb? Should I leverage the online capabilities?’ — taxes that budget,” Gauthier said. As long as retailers focus on creating such safe spaces, he said, “the future is bright.”.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual reality could have more retailers reach more consumers in the coming few years — in large part by upping the consumer experience. billion for retail and marketing in the year 2022, with revenues from VR initiatives expected to increase by 3,000 percent over the next four years. and Europe by 2022. Amazon VR Push.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

Within the retail industry specifically, artificial intelligence (AI) is moving the ball for a lot of merchants looking to not only streamline their business operations but provide a more personalized experience for consumers. In 2016, online financial fraud hit 15.4 In a sense, machine learning is the autopilot for the digital arena.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 24, 2017

EXCLUSIVE – It is not everyday that a new tool for banking at the infrastructure level is introduced, but that is exactly what Finspace has unveiled today. The new tool, a beta of which is being made available today, is called Finspace, and it serves as a pipeline between banks and businesses for the exchange of […].

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

These predictions for health plans are in light of the five themes I see for 2021: Telehealth as a competitive advantage, New insurance markets, More self-service digital triage tools, Mega-mergers of vertically integrated health delivery models, and. Buying Innovates. This year, innovation will shift to outside organizations.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

This includes shifts in which consumers are shopping and paying, and in the payment tools or methods they are using to finalize their transactions. It also examines the tools that FIs can use to stem the rising tide of fraud as well as how features such as contactless or peer-to-peer (P2P) payment tools factor into this changing environment.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 20, 2019

Citizens Bank is generating one-third of its mortgage applications online, thanks to a suite of tools the company rolled early this year and a partnership with San Francisco-based fintech firm Blend.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Consumers who previously paid for purchases by swiping or inserting their cards at in-store point-of-sale (POS) terminals are now turning to contactless cards and online shopping to safely and easily obtain needed goods. How Music Retailers Can Harmonize Security And Seamlessness. The COVID-19 pandemic is shaking up shopping behavior.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

EXCLUSIVE- SME banking app, Seed, is gearing up to roll out a tool that supports Apple iPhone X’s new Face ID feature, Bank Innovation learned. This makes sense, since the San Francisco-based digital bank’s mobile app is currently only available on iOS.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Bolt was founded in 2014 in San Francisco and works on tools to streamline web transactions. Retail Index showed that this accelerated the digital shift by five years, with eCommerce transactions for grocery orders alone hitting $5.9 Data from the IBM U.S. billion, the report says.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2020

In this month’s FI’s Guide To Modernizing Digital Payments, Elliott discusses how legacy infrastructure can get in the way and how turning to cloud-based tools can help FIs. New Report: Helping Retail Treasurers Navigate The Digital D2C Shift (“How To” Playbook). How AI Helps Visa ‘Step In’ (Smartly) When Issuers Go Offline.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Flipkart , Walmart’s supermart online grocery store in India, has introduced a voice assistant that allows users to buy products in multiple languages, starting with Hindi and English. Flipkart said the artificial intelligence-powered (AI) tool makes users feel like they are talking to their neighborhood store staff, TheNextWeb.com reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led consumers to try digital tools for grocery shopping, and the total number of online grocery orders in the U.S. That month saw 40 million customers head online to shop for groceries, and these customers are expecting their preferred chains to keep up with that shift. . reached a record 62.5

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2018

challenger bank Metro Bank could extend its AI-driven money management tool Insights, designed for its retail side, to its business customers. Formed in partnership with Israeli AI company Personetics, Metro Bank is currently preparing to roll out Insights in beta over the summer.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

So-called Generation Z is also driving much of the innovation when it comes to retail. To reach consumers on the hunt for offerings that are “clean and natural,” the retail chain rolled out its Everspring household brand. And six in 10 shoppers said it factored into their decision of where to transact, Retail Dive reported.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Pet retailer Petco is launching same-day nationwide delivery in partnership with DoorDash that can be accessed via a redesigned website and upgraded app. . Consumers want more than a transactional relationship with the companies they do business with," Petco Chief Digital and Innovation Officer Darren MacDonald said in a Thursday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

(and a can-do spirit), a country that rewards ambition and innovation — and where individual success stories of, say Google and Amazon customers are folded into the testimony in efforts to show how tech can help smaller firms pivot and embrace the great digital shift. More than 80 retailers in the U.S. Experiments — And Trust .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Card-skimming devices hidden on gas station card readers or carefully integrated into ATMs used to be especially troubling for merchants and consumers, but retailers and financial institutions (FIs) have stepped up their measures to protect physical card readers in recent years. Responding Rapidly.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

With the most recent COVID-19 studies from PYMNTS reinforcing the need for health and safety in the retail world, some retailers are stepping up to accommodate consumers’ concerns. The survey and consequential retail index shows how retailers are dealing with consumer fears, which extend to having groceries delivered to the home.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Worse yet, some analysts fear the triggering of break-lease clauses for retailers in malls if anchor stores leave. All of this will only make malls an even tougher sell to consumers, and to retailers that want consumers to buy their stuff.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

The team at my Mystore-E believes they can solve that problem, with an AI tool called Tore-E that is specifically designed for retail environments. Our goal is to create a personalized shopping experience that benefits retail stores, while also catering to the customers’ wants, needs and style preferences.”.

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JUNE 7, 2020

The online news service reported Facebook revealed 13,000 human to human conversations across two retail spaces, furniture and fashion, were used as data for the training. Facebook’s mission is to imitate human chat by responding to images and messages as a person would.

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