PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2016

” That’s been a law of the natural retail world for as long as head-to-head competition has been the means by which one brand sinks and another brand swims. And like Walgreens is now painfully aware, sometimes the mad dash to gobble up innovative startup partners can lead merchants down a dark path.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

As an extension of its non-consumables strategic plan, Dollar General has unveiled its new popshelf retail store concept. Dollar General, which ran 16,720 retail locations in 46 states as of July 31, sells products from private brands and manufacturers like Energizer, Clorox, Hanes and Procter & Gamble, among others.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2016

Retail work has always been seen as somewhat of a transient employment prospect — from the teenagers working summer breaks to the single parents who pick up extra shifts to cover the bills — but what if investing in retail workers can not only keep them in the system longer, but produce a skilled crop of customer service experts in the process?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“Last October, Kroger introduced Home Chef retail meal kits, and we’re now expanding to add the easy-to-prepare recipes to hundreds of new locations, providing convenient access to the meal solution at more than 700 stores. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The pilot will provide service to customers in Olmos Park, just outside of downtown San Antonio where the grocery retailer is based,” according to TechCrunch. the grocery retailer, and Nuro, the SoftBank -backed robotics company, announced in March the launch of their autonomous grocery delivery service in Houston.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Our fully compliant solution allows businesses to feature a state-of-the-art retail customer experience for both in-store and delivery, while also providing in-depth business analytics and increased revenues for businesses.”. billion by 2020 — the industry is largely cash-based. billion by 2020 — the industry is largely cash-based.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

growth, IKEA is reining in its brick-and-mortar expansion efforts: The furniture retailer cancelled planned stores in North Carolina, Tennessee and Arizona. They have found that in a number of established markets, they are really behind the curve in terms of online,” said GlobalData Retail Analyst Neil Saunders told USA Today.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are reinventing their business models amid changes in consumer preferences and the emergence of the sharing economy. He noted that the retailer could then revamp the items before they are sold again. IKEA Retail U.S IKEA’s Pivot Points .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Arizona-based DriveTime, the country’s second-largest used car retailer focused solely on used vehicles, operates over 140 dealerships nationwide and sells more than 150,000 used vehicles each year. We’re just beginning to scratch the surface of the quality, efficiency and cost-reduction opportunities.”. The company counts more than 1.2

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The company also caters to snowbirds, shipping a large number of gifts to the warmer locales of southern and western states like Florida, Arizona, California and the Carolinas. In addition to selling online, Mitten Crate also launched a retail storefront at the historic Eastern Market in March, which Wright said has been well-received.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Xevo plans to show the in-vehicle experience in person at the Restaurant Leadership Conference in Phoenix, Arizona at the beginning of April. Digital Innovations. Last April, the company unveiled Domino’s Hotspots to let customers receive delivery orders in places that don’t have ordinary addresses such as sports fields or parks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

The retailer plans to pilot technology products using Microsoft’s Azure platform at two stores, one in Ohio and one in Washington. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the companies would “redefine the shopping experience for millions of customers at both Kroger and other retailers around the world.”. The Grocery Market.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Other players in the burgeoning EV/AV sector include China’s Li Automotive, Arizona-based Nikola and Canada’s ElectraMeccanica, which was founded in 2015.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Lauderdale, Florida; New York, New York; Norfolk-Portsmouth, Virginia; Orlando-Daytona, Florida; Phoenix, Arizona; Portland, Oregon; Sacramento, California; San Antonio, Texas; San Diego, California; San Francisco, California; Seattle-Tacoma, Washington; St. We’re always looking to innovate and disrupt,” Singh said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

The trips are limited to a certain area near Phoenix, Arizona, CNBC reported. Said Krafcik in a press release at the time, “This is an ideal opportunity for Waymo to bring our autonomous technology to a global stage, with an innovative partner.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

“Improving engagement” has become just another platitude in retailers’ back pockets as they figure out which channel of the increasingly fragmented online world they should focus on, but Nordstrom may have struck gold with a new Snapchat-centered production.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Autonomous vehicles hit the road this year in the name of retail, with pilots of delivery services for groceries and takeout coming to U.S. To bring these innovations to fruition, technology companies and retailers decided to join forces.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

Not all kiosks are as high-tech as CaliBurger’s machines, but QSRs and other retailers are rolling out their own versions of the machines across the country. According to the PYMNTS Unattended Retail Tracker , it comes down to “offering the right combination of in-store tech, mobile solutions and online features.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

It may sound like a silly feature, but it’s one customers actually like — as it apparently makes working with the Arizona-based startup a bit more memorable. The startup has also added some cute features, like having shoppers insert a novelty coin to start the machine and get their test car delivered.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

In real estate and in retail, location is everything. Of course the inverse effect has also been shown to be a possibility of late; the anchor stores come unmoored, that mall retail space becomes fairly useless as consumers venture out to walk their hallways less and less. Or, in the case of Nipton, Calif.’s

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Retailers lose $45B worth of inventory every year due to misplaced packages, stolen merchandise, and returned goods. Amazon’s Phoenix, Arizona fulfillment center, for one, is 1.2 In 2013, Walmart lost up to $3B due to discrepancies between inventory records and actual stock, according to Forbes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

First available online, which is still the primary purchasing option, Fan Hands can be found at certain retailers, including Amazon and soon Walmart. Everybody wants something different, and everybody wants to be innovative,” said Jones. When the pair is clapped together, the sound of the clap is amplified tremendously.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

Besides California, states such as Arizona, Texas and Florida are moving toward use of digital license plates. In a recent PYMNTS interview , she said the ecosystem for connected cars and trucks — and the retail and payment tasks they do and will support — is rapidly taking shape. “We However, progress is happening, and pretty fast.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Indeed, while so many thoughts are targeted on the coming future of autonomous cars and vehicles, the real story right now is focused on food and other retail shipments, and on solving the always vexing problem of last-mile deliveries. Technology is progressing as consumer attitudes shift on what constitutes effective deliveries.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The truck started its national tour in Washington State, where the brand began, and will hit Oregon, California, Arizona, North Carolina, New York, Michigan, Oklahoma and Colorado before ending in early April. And there’s more to come in 2019 – though what that will entail remains to be seen.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Automatic will provide its onboard diagnostics (OBD-II) adapters and mobile apps to new AmFam policyholders who enroll in the company’s KnowYourDrive program, which reportedly starts in Arizona and Indiana this month and will roll out across the U.S. throughout the year.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

Here’s how QSRs are integrating mobile order-ahead technology into their stores and where the innovation is headed in the future. — Johnson pointed out the company’s scale in mobile payments and loyalty members, which positions it well for other innovative initiatives. million active members. There was a 50 percent increase in U.S.

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Perficient

MAY 21, 2021

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2018

As many people focus on the bigger picture of self-driving experiments — for instance, the recent killing of a pedestrian by an Uber self-driving vehicle in Arizona — meaningful progress is happening behind the scenes. billion — supplying an unnamed European auto maker with enough self-driving technology for 8 million cars.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Along with an expanded lineup of general session presentations, more than 200 companies will be exhibiting at Expo to discuss the industry’s latest product and service innovations. Tech entrepreneur and New York Times bestselling author on business creativity, innovation and reinvention. ICBA Chairman, and President and CEO.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

These are some of the ways that innovators in the dining space are making it easier for consumers to order their favorite foods — and for restaurants to accept their orders: The projected value of online restaurant delivery sales by 2022, compared to $25 billion today, is $62 billion. Indiana University will have them this month.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2017

Rather, Waymo is offering households in the Phoenix, Arizona, area a chance to incorporate the company’s self-driving tech into their daily routines — a live test with live folks. Elsewhere in the Alphabet ecosystem, Waymo has moved into a new stage of its self-driving tech project: growing its public tests. Been there, done that.)

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2018

Here at PYMNTS, we see it all, often in the form of press releases – most of which claim to be the next big thing in retail, commerce and financial services. Health and wellness is paramount to success in pet innovation, and pet trends are closely following human ones. These days, those ideas are often associated with crypto.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 23, 2016

One of the world’s most innovative, fintech-friendly banks just onboarded a new boss. At Garanti, Turkey’s largest bank by market cap at $9 billion, Genç (pictured) was in charge of retail banking, private banking, and asset management. BBVA announced this week that U.S. Carlos Torres Vila is CEO.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Nuro pilot is now Walmart’s second of the kind; the first was with Udelv to test autonomous grocery deliveries in Arizona. Over the summer, the retail giant partnered with autonomous vehicle startup Gatik AI to pilot grocery delivery from Walmart’s main warehouse in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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