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European Mall Operator Citycon Works On BOPIS Service

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To enable customers to shop from the complete selection of multiple mall offerings and retrieve their purchases from one place, European mall operator Citycon is creating a buy-online-pick-up-in-store (BOPIS) service. Citycon runs 40 shopping centers throughout Estonia and the Nordic nations, Bloomberg reported.

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Today In Digital-First Banking: MercadoLibre Gets License From Brazil, Alacriti Collaborates With Glia On Customer Service

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The new license from Ireland’s financial services watchdog will let it provide its services throughout 26 European nations. Employment retraining and new skill sets are needed to foster economic expansion, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia President Patrick Harker said per a published report.

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CVS Expands Membership Program Nationwide To Lure Millennials

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After successful test runs in Boston, Philadelphia and Tampa, the CVS membership program CarePass will expand nationally with free delivery for an annual fee, CNBC reported on Monday (Aug. Hourican told CNBC the “vast majority” of purchases are made in stores, but CVS doesn’t want to lose customers who prefer to shop online. “We

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Reinventing Retail’s ‘Anchor Store’ For The Omnicommerce Age

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Once upon a time in retail, the term anchor store referred to the big, national department chains that anchored the various corners of shopping malls and drew consumers into it to shop. We estimate that we will still see 70 percent of the purchases we deal with happening online. Redefining The Anchor Store.

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How Connected Consumers Order Ahead During Their Commutes

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From SPOT to Starbucks , online platforms and retailers are providing consumers with new ways to place orders or make purchases from the car. SPOT serves cities including Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia, per a report last year. Retailers are tapping into buy-online-pickup-in-store (BOPIS) offerings for consumers.

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Digital Shift, COVID Fears Push Black Friday To Brink Of Irrelevance

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A summer headline from The Philadelphia Tribune declared: “Black Friday as we know it is finally dead.” As Scott Rankin, principal and national consumer and retail strategy leader with KPMG US, told the Tribune , "with everything that's going on, there may be no Black Friday at all.

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Deep Dive: Contactless Payments And Touch-Free Ordering: How QSRs Are Reopening Their Storefronts

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restaurants have permanently shuttered operations, and more than 110,000 anticipated closing their doors in April, according to recent estimates from the National Restaurant Association. Approximately 30,000 U.S. Fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is expected to cause roughly $225 billion in lost sales by the end of May.

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