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Cooler Screens Brings New Look To Retail Innovation

PYMNTS

For most of us, a stroll down the chilled or frozen food aisle in the supermarket is essentially an in-store version of window shopping. From a business standpoint, we believe that things like sales lift are obviously a really important metric,” Dravenstott said, “and you don't hear that much in brick and mortar retail.

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Tango Card: Innovations Through Uncertainty

PYMNTS

In " A Look Forward: What Executives Wish for America and the World in 2021 ," Nat Salvione, chief commercial officer of Tango Card , discusses the innovations that have emerged since the pandemic: specifically, the use of pay-ahead apps and remote team engagement. It took us several months before we hit our groove working remotely.

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RBC to launch retail bank for US customers

Bank Innovation

You’ll see us likely launch a direct-to-consumer bank in the United States sometime at the end of this year or early next year, really focused on a higher net worth customer, not dissimilar to some of […]. Royal Bank of Canada plans to launch a direct-to-consumer bank in the U.S. in hopes of reaching affluent consumers.

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How A Retail Incubator Could Produce The Next Big Innovation

PYMNTS

The myth of the lone (and possibly mad) scientist died out a long time ago, as the industrial age led to teams of researchers working together (or at healthy cross purposes) to enable innovation. That experience is one that is hard to gain as a vendor with new and exciting retail technology in the market.”.

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Retail Innovation Has Changed — Can SMBs Keep Up?

PYMNTS

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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Goldiam International Debuts B2B Website For US Retail Jewelry

PYMNTS

retail jewelry industry. He said the smaller stores were a "lifeline" for India and that Udaan was at the "forefront" of the innovative new ways to run a digital economy. Some of the innovators in the space, PYMNTS writes, included Spryker, which raised $130 million, and Miraki, which raised $300 million.

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US Retailers Confront Data Privacy Shifts

PYMNTS

This can leave merchants and retailers operating online platforms in various states caught in the middle, said Nicholas Ahrens, vice president of innovation for retailer trade group the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA), in a recent interview with PYMNTS. To find out more about how U.S.

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