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Retail Pulse: Walmart To Boost Supply Chain In China; JD Sports Rides Athleisure Popularity

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Retailers are bolstering their supply chains in China as they seek to enhance their service and offer customers fresh products. The post also pointed out that the retailer invested over RMB 700 million – which is approximately $100 million – to create the South China Fresh Food Distribution Center. Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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Retail’s Ups And Downs: Best Buy, Outlet Malls And Pokémon GO

PYMNTS

The world of retail can be a fickle mistress. With that said, PYMNTS decided to take a look at some of retail’s biggest winners and losers of the moment. With wages, taxes and energy costs about 25 percent less in Phoenix than in the Bay Area, the city has seen an 8 percent increase in tech jobs in the past year alone.

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Crossing the Mobile Divide

Independent Banker

How millennials will accelerate innovation and technology change. It’s where older, profitable customers have been slower to adopt new banking technologies that not-yet-profitable millennials pick up quickly and easily. Millennials, who will make up half the U.S. Millennials, who will make up half the U.S. By Paul Schaus.

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

PYMNTS

London transportation that accepts Oyster will support mobile payments of up to £30 only, and for larger amounts, users can use Vodafone Pay at retailers, which requires a PIN. “You want to get into as many use cases as possible,” said Greg Weed, director of card performance research at Phoenix Marketing International.

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Why millennials still want free ATMs and branches

NCR

Research has suggested that the answer to that question is a resounding ‘yes’, particularly among the millennial generation. As important as new technologies and digital convenience are, the concepts that millennials value most are freedom and choice. This is particularly true when it comes to their financial affairs.

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Bank branches: Out of favor, but far from dead

ForwardBanker

Kudos to Deluxe for assembling a great roster of thought-provoking content for its Deluxe Exchange in early February. One of my KPIs for the value of such conferences is the volume of notes I’m inspired to take for future reference. I left Miami with ten pages of food for thought in my notebook—and the actual.

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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So many miles to go, retail bankers! In a mature credit cycle with a tough yield cure, Chase is still growing retail revenue a 7+% and mobile banking users by 12+%. Consumers was the first big credit union to deploy the Phoenix core system and this year was the first big go-live of the Lumin digital banking system.

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