PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2019

People in Arkansas can now get groceries delivered with a new Walmart pilot with Gatik using self-driving cars that include a human safety driver behind the wheel. million in seed funding in June led by Innovation Endeavors, with Dynamo Venture Capital, AngelPad, Fontinalis Partners and Trucks Venture Capital also participating.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Walmart noted the introduction of smart boxes opens up the possibility of deliveries any day, any time, and although the retailer is not looking up to follow up on that with 24/7 service, Ward did say it has “a nice ring to it.”. The pilot program will launch in the spring in Bentonville, Arkansas. Tesco’s Big End To 2020.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

FedEx is coming to Walmart in the form of internal shops that will help customers print, pack and ship out of 500 of the retailer’s locations nationwide. Retailers are looking at all the tools at their disposal,” Philips said. Target recently acquired Grand Junction and grocery delivery service Shipt to bolster its supply chain.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2016

After several years spent trying to infuse its multi-billion dollar business with more forward-thinking concepts with mixed results , last week, the retail giant announced that it will be conducting what amounts to an open call for tech innovation. “I can’t wait to see what ideas and inventions we’ll discover! .

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BankInovation

MARCH 9, 2023

Southern Bancorp’s innovation division is looking to gain a competitive edge against larger financial institutions by developing products specifically for the communities it serves.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. 3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

As competition makes it challenging for retailers to retain customers, Walmart has created a new position of chief customer officer, which will be responsible for its in-store and eCommerce offerings. While Whiteside will be based in Jet ’s home state of New Jersey, Messing will work out of Walmart’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2016

It’s become a tired trope to complain about how much better customer service was in the good old days of retail, but one company at least thinks that a more academic approach to greeting, bagging and all-around assisting can make a difference.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

Companies often also feel that tools like eInvoicing do not offer clear advantages over paper checks, Ernie Olsen, vice president of growth and engagement for liquor retailer Macadoodles , told PYMNTS in a recent interview. Arkansas’ laws mandate that alcohol shipments be paid for upon delivery, for example.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

As a reminder, Q2 is typically our largest volume quarter for the retail business. According to Bloomberg, the retailer is also reorganizing its 4,750 U.S. 40/29 TV News in Arkansas said it obtained a letter sent to an employee stating that their job would be permanently eliminated. That’s not the case this year,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2017

During a panel at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Paul Misener, Amazon’s vice president of global innovation policy and communications, warned that current state laws governing drone operations would continue to pose problems for developing drone delivery systems. Here in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

That can make cash-related innovation sometimes easy to overlook in a country that is moving forward digitally with great alacrity. Which also makes cash innovation disruptive, when targeted at a pain point that cash-centric consumers have. And while cash represents only about 14 percent of the transaction value in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week was one of the latter, as Walmart hosted its investor meeting in Arkansas and Amazon decided this week’s menu of technological innovations in retail would be an all-you-can-eat buffet. That Amazon is making a major push into apparel retail is, at this point, well known to everyone.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2019

Grocery delivery is coming for Walmart customers in Arkansas in a way few customers have ever seen before. The pilot is made possible by the state’s new autonomous vehicle law which made it possible for the Arkansas Highway Commissioner to give Gatika license to launch a commercial service with Walmart.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

There is a possibly apocryphal story of Amazon’s early days (around 2001) where Founder Jeff Bezos was invited to Bentonville, Arkansas to discuss the possibility of Walmart purchasing his still young – and, at this point, struggling – online bookstore. percent of the consumer’s total retail spend as of February 2019, compared to Amazon’s 6.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

region — states such as Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Georgia. In the near future, Waitr hopes to expand up the Eastern seaboard and into the Midwest, and eventually further west. But, right now, the company is focused on the Southeastern U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

cities could compete, Walmart’s construction of a new HQ in Bentonville Arkansas has been a comparatively quiet affair. McMillon notes the retailer is progressing to serve as a “digital enterprise,” CNBC reported. “As ” If passed, the measure would require the retailer to consider its 1.5 AI Enhancement.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 15, 2017

. “This program is a great example of how we are harnessing the spirit of entrepreneurship with the power of applied innovation to bring breakthrough products and services to our clients,” FIS president and CEO Gary Norcross said. “We take two to three years of credit or debit card data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

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. After two years at the world’s largest retailer, Bonobos Founder Andy Dunn is leaving Walmart in early 2020, Reuters reported on Thursday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. When the discount department store exploded on the market in the 1990s, three decades after its inception by Sam Walton, it played a major role in shaping the retail market for many years to follow.

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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

Retail is under pressure to crack the AI code. After all, corporations in every industry are scrambling to adapt and integrate artificial intelligence into their products — and retail is no exception. 15-Min Flash briefing: Can AI Save Physical retail? Using CB Insights data, we dug into the changing retail landscape.

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