PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

The advance of Amazon’s cashierless technology is not a new story to the retail beat as of 2020. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

A Newark Airport store will start using Amazon’s Just Walk Out cashierless technology on March 16, just days after the company announced it was licensing the platform to retailers, according to reports on Wednesday (March 11). . OTG operates 350 restaurants and shops in 10 airports, including in Minneapolis, Washington D.C.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. ABI Research predicts that one million automated retail units will be in the Asia-Pacific region by 2023.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This year, apps aimed to make it easier and more convenient for consumers to order their favorite foods and sundries, with restaurants and other retailers tapping into delivery. To help bring these options to more consumers, retailers and technology companies decided to join forces. and Chicago. and Chicago.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

But how does a retailer know how many people are coming in and out of its space? San Francisco-founded Motionloft launched in 2010 with the intent to solve the problem of inaccurate and unavailable pedestrian and vehicular traffic numbers. People are always moving. They’re going in and coming out of buildings every day.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

San Francisco-based Persona helps businesses verify customer identities in order to help with age verification, fraud prevention, and account recovery. Persona caters to a wide variety of industries, including retail, hospitality, delivery, real estate, EdTech, and fintech. HOW’S THE COMPANY PERFORMING? Want the full post?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

COVID-19 could mark the true rise of the robots in retail. After seeing an initial crash due to unprecedented demand when the COVID-19 crisis hit, the retailer is now using robots to pick and pack customer orders. consumers showed a negative stance toward robots at retail, but it will be interesting to see if that changes post-COVID.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Embedded Payments A 2022 study published by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco noted that app payments increased as a percentage of total consumer purchases from 11% in 2019 to 15% in 2020, to 29% in 2021. Technology has come a long way since then. from a bank.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It was one of the largest acquisitions at the time for the company, and it moved the retail giant closer to its goal of providing same-day delivery for all of its customers. We’re always looking for ways to make shopping Target’s selection even easier,” John Mulligan, Target’s chief operating officer, said in a blog post.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

Through their strategic partnership, the companies will experiment with the integration of Microsoft AI technologies into M&S stores, as well as the retailer’s broader operations, retail news source Chain Store Age reported. “We The news also comes as Microsoft is working on self-checkout technology.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Retailers are bringing experiential stores to big cities, and Starbucks is no exception: The coffee chain was set to open its Starbucks Reserve Roastery New York City on Friday (Dec. According to AM New York , it has “the largest fully operational coffee roasting plant in Manhattan.” million pounds of coffee annually.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The eCommerce retailer is said to be on the hunt for a space in the Oxford Circus district of London for its cashierless C-store concept, Business Insider reported. According to the report, the retailer is seeking a location with 3,000 to 5,000 square feet in the neighborhood that was described as “the busiest shopping area in London.”

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. PYMNTS: Can you show me some data or proof points on how the company has helped retailers? PYMNTS: Can you explain the business?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

comes after the online retailer opened one of the concept locations in New York City in a mall, CNBC reported. The retailer has been experimenting with the offering through an arrangement with Starbucks in Seattle.) Operating hours are between 6 a.m. The location is filled with technologies that aren’t commonly found in U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Amazon is testing the idea of expanding its cashierless checkout technology to a larger store format, experimenting with it in Seattle in a space that is formatted to be like a big store, reported the Wall Street Journal. That could mean it will take a while before Amazon could roll out the technology to larger format stores.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

Now that San Francisco is on the verge of banning eCigarettes, the question naturally turns to whether other municipalities and states will follow suit. The ban in San Francisco was, at last check, awaiting the signature of the city’s mayor before it became law. Will that happen? Likely not wide scale.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Traditional retail is getting an upgrade. Despite the rise of e-commerce and mobile, the physical channel still plays an important role in consumer experience — and retailers are increasingly leveraging technologies to stay afloat. Cashier-less technology is one of the latest trends to dominate conversation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As grocers test out different approaches to get products to shoppers in a more efficient manner, food retailers are betting big on small warehouses to shore up their growing delivery operations. The Jewel-Osco and Safeway chains owner is bringing on small fulfillment facilities at two stores in San Jose, Calif.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Using automation and unattended retail in certain food courts, the Country is proving that this could indeed be the way of the future, especially the food and hospitality industry. Obviously this unattended retail approach is a departure from typical food court concept. “We And the government knows that.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Account takeovers are becoming bigger business for criminals — or, at least, the business of preventing account takeovers in the digital retail and payments realm is becoming an increasing focus of companies and security experts. The new capital will help fuel hiring and other growth, the company said. Fraud Case Study.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

The digital shift continued to show its dramatic potential to change retailing today, as three companies announced major changes to their business models. Zara was not among the retailers seen to be at risk from the pandemic, so the move was something of a surprise. locations, around 60 percent of which are company-operated.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

The use of IoT technology is gaining steam in alternative industries, such as beer brewing. Meanwhile, in the mainstream tech industry, companies are partnering to deploy IoT technology. Currently, Express Logic operating systems are installed in 6.2 Developments from Around the IoT World. billion IoT devices globally.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

eCommerce brands are opening up pop-up shops in cities to test out brick-and-mortar retail, and Recess is using this platform to highlight its hemp-extract beverages in a temporary space in New York City that is dubbed the Take A Recess IRL Pop-Up. Witte told CNBC, “It’s a little bit of an experiment.” drugstore chain to use Alipay.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2019

The need for food delivery keeps pushing the edge of retail innovation – and could even lead to crowding on sidewalks and competing for room with pedestrians and rented scooters – as Postmates plans to test delivery robots in San Francisco. The grocer, along with Nuro, had been using a fleet of Prius cars with operators.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the San Francisco-based company announced Monday (Aug. Filing confidentially allows a company to keep its financials private until 15 days prior to the actual offering to prevent competitors from gaining more detailed knowledge of their operations. 31) in a press release.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

Retailers are seeking solutions to digitize their physical stores—both as a means to draw consumers in, but also to leverage the data that comes with digital transformation. For their part, technology startup Dor is a foot traffic counting and analytics solution vendor. Just recently, Dor announced a $3.8

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In the age of Amazon, achieving success in this market takes dozens of fulfillment centers, advanced logistics and sophisticated enterprise technology. While massive businesses like Amazon have the scale and expertise to make this a reality, the vast majority of online retailers simply can’t meet this expectation on their own.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

In total, more than $1 billion was raised this week, with funds landing at an array of technologies from B2B payments to payroll to eProcurement. The firm, based in South Africa, said it will use the funding to scale operations across Southern Africa, the U.S. Flutterwave.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The coronavirus could have wide-reaching effects on medical facilities, eCommerce retailers, technology and the economy as a whole. The eCommerce retailer told employees Sunday (March 8) that it would not count unpaid time off if they have to use it this month. Here are the latest updates on the coronavirus around the world.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

More than 100 Goodwill store locations ranging from New York to San Francisco are uploading products like collectibles, clothing and furniture to the platform to drive in-store and online sales. Other Goodwill member organizations are also tapping into technology platforms. for sellers and buyers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

We are excited to partner with Shift and its world-class management team as it leverages its technology platform to disrupt the $840+ billion used car market,” said Daniel Cohen, chairman of the board of directors of Insurance Acquisition Corp. Merging with Insurance Acquisition Corp.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 13, 2016

The San Francisco-based bank is working on deepening its links with Silicon Valley neighbors, and has a hackathon planned for June 17-19 in concert with parent BNP Paribas. Fear of fintech disruption is still common in banking, but for Bank of the West, “fintech” means opportunity.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The company currently operates in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, with expansion plans to enter other new markets in the first quarter of 2018. He added that the company operates its own sorting facility and distributes items for delivery that are picked up by drivers. “The Monday (Dec.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 23, 2016

In an effort to track product and service efficiency, as well as tease and test possible features of the future, Wells Fargo has launched Digital Express, a pilot program exclusive to its Transbay Gateway store in downtown San Francisco. Within, a section of the lobby displays tablets on a table which confronts customers Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

According to a report in USA Today , Starbucks is rolling out the delivery expansion in San Francisco on Tuesday (January 22) and will extend it into Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C. Starbucks is adding more cities to its delivery network via a partnership with Uber Eats. during the next few weeks.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the San Francisco-based company announced Monday (Aug. Filing confidentially allows a company to keep its financials private until 15 days prior to the actual offering to prevent competitors from gaining more detailed knowledge of their operations. 31) in a press release.

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