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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Voice recognition could soon play a bigger role in retail — especially in the world of quick service restaurants. The company said in an announcement that the arrangement is another bold step in advancing employee- as well as customer-facing innovations while bolstering the technological capabilities of the chain. Other Moves.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological change. Similarly, Pizza Hut is piloting cubbies for pickup orders in California and plans to expand the test into additional West Coast cities next year. Contactless Payments.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Nuro has received the first-ever autonomous vehicle deployment permit from the state of California, according to a press release. The California DMV is a leader in safety standards, and we appreciate their collaboration and safety-first approach to AV regulation,” he said, according to the release.

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JULY 6, 2020

If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Last week, Constellation Brands purchased Empathy Wines , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) eCommerce business that sells wines from California vineyards. It reportedly purchased this digital upstart — one with a reported (and very small) $3.9

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JULY 30, 2020

California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) is the latest big restaurant chain to fall on hard times in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The company opened its first restaurant in 1985 in Beverly Hills, with a menu offering California-style pizza and cuisine. At the time of its bankruptcy filing, California Pizza Kitchen had just $13.5

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In a bid to increase loyalty, merchants are driving innovations in their stores. To that end, some brick-and-mortar retailers have begun to offer rewards programs for the very first time to bring shoppers through their doors. Retailers are taking new approaches to the way they attract customers.

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JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. This is only part of the innovation trend stemming from video games. In-store sales, notably, is where the retailer needs to see growth. percent, it wasn’t as much as the retailer wanted to see. Larger Trends. More Money.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

UPS , too, is going down the drone path – one that Amazon pioneered for retail delivery uses – and is seeking a certification to operate commercial drone flights. For its part, Amazon is also experimenting with other – perhaps sexier – shipping innovations. The company applied to the U.S.

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JUNE 21, 2019

Part of the future of retail is playing out inside hotels — and that’s happening as the wider part of the travel-and-tourism industry is undergoing its own significant disruption. One of the latest — and perhaps wildest — examples of the hotel-retail trend comes from Taco Bell, of all places. Unattended Retail. Deeper Trend.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 31, 2019

With the start of the new year, banks and fintech companies that do business in California will need to grapple with the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect Wednesday.

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JUNE 17, 2019

The bank today announced the opening a new location in Cupertino, California, along with 50 planned new branches in the U.S. Jeremy Balkin, head of innovation […]. HSBC, a top global bank with $2.6 trillion in assets, is making technology a core component of U.S. branch expansion plans.

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JUNE 26, 2020

billion to acquire Zoox , the Foster City, California self-driving technology company, the Financial Times (FT) reported. . The source said Amazon would collaborate with Zoox to create a ride-hailing fleet, taking on Waymo Co, the California-based self-driving industry leader backed by Alphabet, Google’s parent company.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

After Ali Ahmed founded Dispatch , a service that allowed consumers to have goods delivered from retail stores through a text message, he noticed that customers would not buy fresh fruits and vegetables. Armed with this knowledge, Ahmed developed a mobile retail store concept that he calls the Robomart. Groceries and Beyond.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Eight Roads led the round, while Telefónica Innovation Ventures, Telekom Innovation Pool of Deutsche Telekom, HKT and Singtel Innov8 also participated, according to TechCrunch reports. ClearMetal. The company plans to use the new funding to further build out its CDX Platform, a continual-learning portal to drive logistics improvements.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Despite COVID-19, we are encouraged by the increases we are seeing in shopper traffic, retailer sales and tenant rent collections across our portfolio,” CEO David Simon said in a statement. “We We have withstood fires in Northern California, hurricanes in Louisiana and elsewhere and civil unrest. We have withstood COVID.

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AUGUST 6, 2019

Amazon has begun using Scout, its six-wheeled autonomous delivery robot, in a neighborhood in Irvine, California, according to a report. As the company had been testing the robot in Seattle, it said it was accustomed to many different types of weather conditions and expected sunny California to be easier on the vehicle.

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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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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Many organizations, from retailers to local governments, are turning to self-driving technology to help them reach their goals and to get purchases and people to their destinations. The two companies will soon test the technology in San José , California. Grocery retailers in particular have taken an interest in Udelv’s service.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Sports are big business around the globe, so it comes as no surprise that retail innovation constantly takes place within that industry, and in combination with payments. The app was initially available at just six locations in California, Iowa and Texas, but now caters to more than 60 venues across the United States.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Connected and self-driving cars and truck stand as some of the next big frontiers when it comes to retail and retail innovation, but challenges to that future — real and potential problems that could slow down progress when it comes to autonomous vehicles — are increasing appearing on the horizon.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

California Pizza Kitchen has taken notice of this and has decided to raise the bar in its current mobile app, CPK Pizza Dough Rewards. By eliminating the post-meal waiting time, California Pizza Kitchen has placed value on both customers’ experience level and time. “We On Wednesday (Feb.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

EXLUSIVE – Payment protection company Earny will soon add Visa to its list of partners in the next two to four weeks, Bank Innovation has learned. Based in California, Earny files payment protection claims on […].

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

18), a San Francisco startup launched by sending roughly 60,000 credit cards to consumers living in northern California. This startup was a bank, and its innovation was a single card that could be used by consumers to purchase things on credit from many different merchants. Sixty years ago today (Sept. The startup was Visa , of course.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Andrew Zwicker (D-Hunterdon), chairman of the Assembly’s Science, Innovation and Technology Committee and lead sponsor of the legislation. The California Consumer Privacy Act went into effect in January, and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) went into effect in 2018. “It

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MAY 24, 2019

In the May Intelligence of Things Tracker , PYMNTS explores the latest news in IoT, including new innovations, security issues, and how oversight groups and governments are reacting to the growing concerns surrounding IoT. Developments from Around the IoT World. Currently, Express Logic operating systems are installed in 6.2

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MAY 27, 2020

Hunter Hall , executive director of the Main Street Business Improvement Association (MSBIA), told Karen Webster recently that Main Street has to adapt if it hopes to continue as an active commercial base of restaurants and retailers. “Up The MSBIA is an advocacy group that represents Main Street businesses in Santa Monica, California.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

These companies are most interested in payments acceptance, digital receipts and customer satisfaction rankings when it comes to features offered by consumer applications, according to the most recent PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index. And tech companies are already working with retailers on payments innovation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

As drivers of electric vehicles spend more time waiting at charging stations than drivers of traditional cars spend at the pump, Tesla is planning a retro-themed charging station with retail components in Santa Monica, California. Already, Tesla has built charging stations with some retail components.

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JULY 25, 2018

True Food Innovations has reportedly bought Chef’d’s assets after it closed suddenly on July 16, The Wall Street Journal reported. With the arraignment, True Food Innovations will sell Chef’d meal kits in brick-and-mortar grocery stores. It will, however, will halt Chef’d’s eCommerce offerings.

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JULY 11, 2019

The California-based firm reportedly has “signed yet another partner to launch a new pilot of its self-driving goods delivery service: Texas-based supermarket chain H-E-B. 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.

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APRIL 28, 2020

Indian FI Paytm launched virtual and contactless plastic debit cards to help customers circumvent using cash or having to hand over physical cards to retailers. Such users cannot do so now because many of these locations are closed during the pandemic. The Paytm cards can be used both in-store and online. Find the full story in the Tracker.

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MAY 4, 2017

Then, companies working to develop the technological means for cars to drive themselves have levied more than a few criticisms against proposed regulation changes in the state of California. Apple, for one, is hoping that California will work to toughen some of its current self-driving road test policies.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

The word “California” never fails to conjure up a mental image, though that will vary from person to person – some will think sun and sand, others will think movie stars, while still others will think internet startups. Well, if all of these California test drives go according to plan, anyway. The California Bot-Building Race.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 3, 2020

In this episode, editors discuss the following news developments: The new California Consumer Privacy Act that went into effect Wednesday; How banks are managing feature overload in their apps; New eco-friendly initiatives from Bank of the […].

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JULY 8, 2019

But that’s not stopping efforts at innovation and disruption in this space. Aspiration Bank is one of those innovators hoping to gain socially-conscious consumers via a pay-what-you-like fee structure — while also managing to please investors at the same time. We set out to build a financial firm around a sense of purpose.”.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

New York-headquartered PAAY, a consumer authentication innovator co-founded in 2011 by James Ruffer and Yitz Mendlowitz, has a new security solution that aims to obliterate hacking and fraud threats. Each $1 of fraud costs retailers $3.13. .

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