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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. More than 3 million retailers harness its technology. SumUp has been active in Ireland as of 2012 and has introduced digital payments to thousands of companies.

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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. There are so many risks to that,” he said.

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

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That Amazon is a widely lionized yet simultaneously imitated force in retail is not surprising. Ever since Amazon introduced a one-click checkout, a loyalty program that people willingly paid for, two-day shipping that has compressed to same-day delivery, attempts at reinventing retail by everyone in it have been never ending.

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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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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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The New History Of Black Friday

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Most people know some version of an apocryphal legend about how retailers need the holiday shopping season to get their sales “into the black,” and Black Friday is named for the beginning of the profitable season. As with many things commerce and retail these days, Amazon can rightly be held responsible for setting the pace.