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Retail Transformations With Digital Innovations

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Retailers that sell products and services online have been steadily removing payment frictions from their online checkout processes, adopting checkout features like refund policies and free shipping. And, in grocery, innovators are connecting retailers with shoppers to help sell surplus food that might otherwise go unsold.

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Pet Retail And CBD Combine Innovative Forces

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Retail trends and innovation can come from unlikely places, and that seems to be the case now when it comes to pets and CBD, two hot areas of commerce that are intersecting. Not only that, but pet retail is gaining steam. The owner said the compound did indeed ease the dog’s pain.

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Peter Kulik Innovation Award: How Auriga’s WWS is innovative

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Auriga was recently honoured with the prestigious Peter Kulik Innovation Award from the ATMIA, the leading non-profit trade association representing the entire global ATM industry. Q: How do you feel about your Peter Kulik Innovation Award win? An organisation’s security policy needs to consider the status of devices.

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Australia Central Bank Sees No ‘Public Policy’ Case For CBDC (For Now)

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In notes on its most recent (August) meeting of the bank’s Payments System Board, the members said that “at present there is not a strong public-policy case for issuance in Australia, given that the electronic payments system in Australia compares very favorably with those in many other countries and access to cash remains good.”.

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Cashierless Innovation In Retail Gets A Fresh Boost In The UK

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Can cameras replace cashers in retail? The paper noted that many such retail innovation efforts for grocery start in Europe. The apparent payments policy shift comes amid criticism that cashless retail discriminates against unbanked consumers. The grocery industry is making a go of it. European Role.

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Digital Currency Eyes Wholesale — Not Retail — Payments Down Under

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An idea that may get a splash of cold water is that the development of a digital fiat (at least, in Australia) would lead to a groundswell of payments at the retail point of sale — in other words, through a boost in use cases. There are inherent risks, too. The exploration and testing of the CBDC , however, does not mean deployment.

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Retail Trade Groups Test Post-Pandemic Strategies

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As retailers reopen and take stock of new post-pandemic consumer dynamics, the role of industry trade groups is changing. Groups like the National Retail Federation (NRF) focused more on economic forecasts and supply chain issues as other advocacy groups that have taken the fight for more stimulus dollars to Washington, D.C.

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