PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

These retail models cater to customers who are on the go by offering seamless experiences and convenient payment methods. Such locations can be critical in expanding retail options for smaller cities and towns, too, and staff-free grocery store Farmhouse Market seeks to do just that for consumers in New Prague, Minnesota.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Automation promises many benefits in retail, including the potential to reduce costs and improve the customer experience. The July Automated Retail Tracker examines the latest cashierless efforts in retail and finds which are experiencing uptake and which may fall flat. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should, though.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

The technology is changing the design of restaurants, as some coffee chains are rolling out pick-up only locations while others are refreshing stores with pickup windows. Large chains like Dunkin’ and Starbucks were among the first to embrace mobile order-ahead technology.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2020

The technology is changing the design of restaurants, as some coffee chains are rolling out pick-up only locations while others are refreshing stores with pickup windows. Large chains like Dunkin’ and Starbucks were among the first to embrace mobile order-ahead technology.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2016

Retail chain Best Buy is betting big on customer service to keep its stores busy and beat competition from the likes of Amazon. There is a growing gap between what technology can do and what we as consumers understand what technology can do.”. The market is not responding well.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

But though technology and art by nature seem to be fundamentally different things with different purposes, sometimes they can come together in unexpected ways. The pilot will be done in collaboration with Artory, a blockchain-based digital registry for the art market. He added that the pilot has been paired with the Barney A.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The Minnesota-based firm is a an old-school kind of company; founded in 1865, it sells a pretty old-school product, as Americans have been eating turkey on Thanksgiving Day since the 1800s. Cargill’s birds came equipped with a tracking code powered by blockchain technology.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This is a classic bank deal – one acronym buys another at a good price and plans to cut the hell out of cost while adding markets. Credit Union Merger of the Year Minnesota-based Firefly and TruStone credit unions come to terms on a solid combination in the Twin Cities area. Market cap in January: $19B. In December: $113B.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Being too successful at flying under the radar, at best, confuses the target market or audience and, at worst, just misses them entirely. The new, super-secret but definitely revolutionary project is the latest expansion of Target’s very aggressive and rapid push into the digital retail reinvention space in the last 12–18 months.

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Independent Banker

JUNE 30, 2022

He sensed the family’s passion and liked their idea of starting with selling milk at farmers’ markets, roadside shops and small grocery stores. In each new market opened in 2021, the community bank found an experienced ag lender who was seeking a new position. First State Bank Minnesota. Citizens Bank Minnesota.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

Its areas of focus include cable TV, telecom and retail, and many analysts have said STARTEK is exactly the type of firm a player planning to go into cable home shopping might buy. It has been a fairly dramatic piece of the retail landscape for the last few years — albeit a quiet one. You have to make it convenient [for them].”.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

I’m not sure how we would have processed all of the PPP loans and everything else in the last 18 months without some of the technology that we have implemented,” says Chris Jundt, senior vice president and chief lending officer at First State Bank & Trust. First State Bank & Trust in Williston, N.D.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

The Prime Day countdown clock is ticking down, and with all the media reports about what Amazon is doing to prepare (and what everyone else in retail is doing to prepare for those preparations), it might be hard to believe that there is news to be had outside of the Amazon-invented shopping holiday. So where were the highlights?

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

Both species, a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School has found, express profound regret over how much time is spent waiting for something to happen. And, who knows: The market may catch up — one day, eventually — and make the wait worth it. The Weight of the Wait.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 20, 2017

Minnesota-based Auego will add Edo’s CLO technology to its loyalty and engagement offerings, which will provide Edo access to a larger client base. Since launching in 2007 Edo has partnered with hundreds of national and local merchants, helping each tailor a personalized digital marketing campaign to drive sales.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 13, 2016

HQ: Minnesota City, Minnesota. Messaging technology for financial institutions and others. Retailer point-of-sale system. Global tournement to predict the stock market. Financial trade automation technology. EMV and mobile payments technology . Source: Crunchbase. Bright Health. Source: Crunchbase.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 12, 2016

Qingshongchou Network Technology. Financing solutions for retailers & manufacturers. Retail finance gateway. HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota. Tags: Institutions, marketing, customer service, retention, NICE Systems (investor), Finovate alum. Source: Crunchbase. Mobile savings account. Latest round: $22.5

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 11, 2016

Retail deposits platform. Guideline Technologies. HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota. AI for detecting stock market manipulation. Latest round: $17.5 million Series B. Total raised: $20.4 HQ: Bangkok, Thailand. Source: Crunchbase. Deposit Solutions. Latest round: $16.5 million Series B. Total raised: $23.6 HQ: Hamburg, Germany.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 21, 2016

Creating local currencies using blockchain technology. HQ: Minneapolis, Minnesota. Retail investment product marketplace. Sentiment analysis for capital markets. HQ: San Francisco, California. Source: Crunchbase. Latest round: $9.6 million Series A. Total raised: $12.1 HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel. Source: Crunchbase.

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