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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Even with the liquidation of Toys R Us operations in the U.S., consumers can engage with Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us again this holiday season.” consumers can engage with Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us again this holiday season.” He added that “a significant amount of market share has been left on the table.”.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Benetton Group , an Italian fashion company, is teaming once more with retail market intelligence firm EDITED as an "essential platform" for its future three-year roadmap, according to a Wednesday (Dec. 16) announcement. “As

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 6, 2022

New technologies are reshaping nearly every industry — and decision-makers need an efficient way to sort through technologies to make better business decisions. If you’re a tech nerd like us, we think you’ll enjoy this one. FREE DOWNLOAD: BOOK OF MARKET MAPS. First name. Company Name. Phone number.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Starting with the release of Apple Pay in 2014, there was a veritable rush of proprietary mobile wallets sent to market, a host of “. And in many places, for the first time, our retailers are open to it. And I said, ‘well, funny enough, the puck went right to us.’”. Mobile payments have long been billed as the next big thing.

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Bobsguide

MAY 26, 2022

Generation Life CEO, Grant Hackett OAM , said: “Working together with the GBST team, we have been able to improve and expand our financial technology capabilities to allow us to build out an innovative solution for the retirement income market.

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MAY 12, 2020

Not the humanoids that are the stuff of science fiction that ostensibly, one day, will do our bidding (and, depending on who you read, perhaps conspire against us). told Karen Webster that retailers and other firms are going to need to consider “cleanliness as a brand value.”. Brain Corp. It became essential.”.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform Afterpay is teaming up with retailer Gap to offer flexible spending options as the holiday shopping season gears up. The BNPL market includes Klarna, Splitit, Openpay, FuturePay, Sezzle, Affirm, Quadpay, and others. It also teamed up with major retailers across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Start creating more customer data to feed the algorithm and then you too can join the artificial intelligence (AI) retail revolution. Retailers can engage with an “AI lite” strategy that produces lookalike customer data and a level of predictive analytics. But the present and future of AI in retail is much richer. Not so fast.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The hot new thing in “Big Retail” is offering in-house advertising on your website to your vendors – because why get paid only once on a purchase if you can get paid twice? In short, retailers get paid to place the ad, and then get paid again when the merchandise is sold. Enormous Potential.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Technology is the new norm for restaurant customers worldwide — especially if those customers happen to live in Asia or the Middle East. This doesn’t mean that North American customers aren’t pining for mobile ordering options — especially the millennial market. In another restaurant technology survey of U.S. fall short.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

market share with CVS and Walgreens, unveiled its rebranding Monday (Nov. We’re charging forward on our journey to revitalize the chain drug store experience — store by store, community by community — and today we’re ready and excited to invite customers to join us on this journey,” said Rite Aid Chief Operating Officer Jim Peters.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). This QR code can lead to a more expensive transaction and a less seamless experience compared to NFC.”.

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JULY 9, 2019

Automated retail might conjure up images of robot cashiers, but beyond a few convenience stores in Japan and Korea, that sci-fi development hasn’t yet become reality for the wider world. The latest Automated Retail Tracker explores these trends and new developments in the unattended retail space.

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MAY 2, 2018

Retailers and retail landlords are reporting strong first-quarter earnings results, beating analysts’ expectations in many cases. billion, according to news from Retail Dive. In some cases, the retailer is demolishing existing stores to create new uses of the land. billion on Friday (April 27).

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JULY 5, 2020

billion for Whole Foods , the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol Hill district, The Seattle Times reported. Amazon must like the supermarket business. Three years after it paid $13.4

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The payments industry is no different, and we’re quickly approaching a new intersection point due to the Real-time Payments’ movement into the US. These days, as the US prepares to embrace real-time payments in 2023, the intersection of real-time payments and automation has become a key point of discussion.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

China has taken over as the world’s largest logistics market, spending a whopping 12.1 trillion yuan (US$1.76 And it is estimated that total costs in China will be close to or exceed 13 trillion yuan (US$1.89 trillion) in logistics costs last year.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 28, 2019

As contactless payments gain wide adoption in Europe, there are questions around how quickly the technology will scale to U.S The Czech Republic, for example, has seen wide adoption based on infrastructure upgrades from both payment providers and retailers.

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MAY 25, 2017

USA Technologies (USAT), a payment technology provider of cashless and mobile transactions in self-serve retail , announced Wednesday (May 24) a strategic agreement with Five Star Food Service, a full-service vending, micromarkets, office refreshment services and corporate dining company, to expand their partnership.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

billion financing infusion from a group of lenders led by JPMorgan Chase, toy and game retailer Toys R Us is announcing new steps in its post-bankruptcy restructuring. In recent retail news, Chain Store Age reported Monday (Oct. One week after reporting a $3.1

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

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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Bobsguide

JUNE 22, 2022

Interswitch, Africa’s leading integrated payments and digital commerce company, and Compass Plus Technologies, an international provider of retail banking and electronic payments software, have announced a partnership to further strengthen Interswitch’s payment card processing capacity in Africa.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

However, he pointed out that “some pruning” and “a complete reversal” are very different, given how much the market has expanded over the past year. It requires moving away from the “sell the sizzle, not the steak” model of moving retail goods to one of observing the customers and modifying offerings to what the data indicates they want.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

retail economy is unprecedented. What are some of the retailing changes that could last beyond the end of the coronavirus crisis? Contactless payments, however, will fit nicely into what will be a need to have low-touch or no-touch retailing experiences. They want contactless payment technology. So what sticks?

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MAY 2, 2019

” According to Fortune , the company will test the service in 18 markets: Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Ft. stores with the technology this year. Convenience store operator 7-Eleven is launching beer and cider delivery in select U.S. Customers can place their beer orders via the 7Now app.

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MAY 28, 2020

But when it comes to the digital customer experience, retailers are playing catch-up. The issue is critical as retailers either move online or put more effort behind their eCommerce capabilities. Coming from AppDynamics , 95 percent of respondents said they have changed their digital technology priorities as a result of the pandemic.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Ikea and Hennes & Mauritz ( H&M ) are putting money into technology startups as a way to help them sidestep retail disruption, the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (Nov. It was the first acquisition of its kind by the company in the United States, Ikea’s second-largest market behind Germany.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The real reason that this conference makes our favorites list is that this is one of the few conferences where we can learn what the largest and most progressive banks are doing in the market. Many banks expressed frustration over keeping small business banking housed within the retail bank channel.

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

We are pleased that our unique business model enables us to quickly deliver solutions that are helping our clients adapt to these rapidly shifting market dynamics. Norcross told the earnings call that technology and digital-first solutions were a key to Q3 and will be important in Q4. “We

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Cashierless stores aren’t just for mega retailers like Amazon to sell prepared food from their kitchens or products from other producers: Beverage brands, among other companies, are getting into the action and choosing this checkout experience for stores that showcase their own products IRL (“in real life”) as a marketing tool.

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APRIL 12, 2017

USA Technologies (USAT), a payment technology provider of cashless and mobile transactions in self-serve retail, announced Tuesday (April 11) that Sneaker Syndicate, a high-end athletic shoe boutique in Orlando, Fla., The ability to easily accept payments using the ePort platform has made a critical difference for us.

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MARCH 20, 2018

As sad as the end of Toys R Us may be, the iconic toy store is far from the only retailer struggling these days — and it’s not the only one throwing in the towel this week. The Latest from Toys R Us. The Easter bunny will not be paying a visit to Toys R Us this year, unless it’s to get a discount on toys for Easter baskets.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Help yourself: Unattended retail just got more seamless and widespread with USA Technologies ’ acquisition of Cantaloupe Systems, Inc. The deal is expected to close by the end of this week, according to a press release from USA Technologies. Consumers want faster, easier, customized and convenient retail experiences.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

However, while women may be founding more businesses in the second decade of the 21st century than ever before, they are still collecting merely a fraction of the funding, Visa ’s Senior Vice President and Head of North American Marketing Mary Ann Reilly told Karen Webster.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Retail is perhaps an unexpected entrant into the augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) market, but it’s proving to be an area in which being there virtually can be seamlessly substituted for being there actually. The applications for such technology are wide-ranging.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Kathy Strasser of IncredibleBank is evaluating marketing campaign management platforms. We asked several banking leaders how they’ve employed fintech to ramp up their marketing campaigns, hone their analytic strategies and gain new patrons in the process. Their ability to market and add banking functionality … is a natural fit.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Big brands are opening big stores in big cities, but Nike is taking a decidedly digital approach with its New York City flagship: that is, the customer payment and shopping experience in the new space is powered by mobile technology. In Other Brick-And-Mortar Retail. The retailer’s comparable sales slid by 5.4

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