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US Retailers Confront Data Privacy Shifts

PYMNTS

European Union and other regions currently fighting the pande mic. State regulators such as those in California, New York and Washington also recently passed rules just before the outbreak, with California regulators in particular still discussing potential changes to its California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

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Local Governments Move In On Retail Vacancies

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It was supposed to be a thriving retail center in Milwaukee when it was built seven years ago. The DEO “seeks concepts and an operator to program the space to boost innovation and entrepreneurship, demonstrate creative placemaking and feature the Made in Fairfax Network. But it never happened. and San Francisco. Starting Jan.

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Philadelphia Mall Owner Takes Care Of Its Own

PYMNTS

There’s arguably no more polarizing macroeconomic issue in the retail world than the fate of the American mall. The problems start with how retailers view and serve the customer. The entire process, cradle to grave, has failed to evolve and innovate with the customer in mind.”.

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Kroger Becomes First North American Grocer To Launch In-Store Farms

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Grocery retailer Kroger is partnering with Berlin farming startup Infarm to offer “living produce farms,” Kroger announced in a press release on Tuesday (Nov. market, but it already has more than 500 farms globally and has teamed with 25 major food retailers in the U.K. This is the vertical farming company’s first venture into the U.S.

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Innovation All the Time

Independent Banker

Even with technology’s increasing influence on retail banking, it’s not typical for a community bank to have one of its most senior and trusted executives concentrate primarily on leading consumer product and payments innovation. Retail offices: 85. But then again, Rockland Trust Co. is not typical. Alex Jimenez. Rockland, Mass.

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Amazon Exec Questions Drone Laws At CES

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During a panel at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president of global innovation policy and communications, warned that current state laws governing drone operations would continue to pose problems for developing drone delivery systems.

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Why eCommerce Will Create More Jobs Than It Kills

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One of the casualties of the ongoing retail death spiral seems almost certain to be the retail workforce. But one economist – Michael Mandel, head of the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington – says that narrative is fundamentally flawed. economy between 2007 and 2017 as tradditional retail had shed about 76,000 jobs.

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