PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Voice recognition could soon play a bigger role in retail — especially in the world of quick service restaurants. Founded in Mountain View, California in 2017, Apprente was started to make voice-based platforms for complex, multi-accent, multilingual, and multi-item conversational ordering. Other Moves.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

Mullin was bitten by the aviation bug when she was 14 years old and a freshman in high school in Burbank, California. Current sales are split at 70 percent through the Abingdon site and 30 percent via retail partners that include Amazon and the AAFES , which is the Armed Forces’ retail network.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

retail rents falling in many locales by percentages even greater than those seen in or after the 2007-08 Great Recession. These decreases are historic,” the Real Estate Board of New York wrote in a new report showing that average Manhattan retail asking rents fell in all of the island’s 17 retail corridors during autumn.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Retailers are facing a personalization paradox. Fifty-three percent of consumers want retailers to respect their anonymity in 2020; at the same time 61 percent want more personalization in marketing, messaging and promotions. That transaction has spawned major regulations in the European Union (GDPR) and California (CCPA).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

The lawmaker behind a proposed California consumer protection law indicated that it will not proceed in its current iteration, CNBC reported. The conversations were productive as we worked to move beyond the ‘buyer beware’ mentality, and toward an online policy that has been the law for brick-and-mortar retailers in California for decades.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

Organized crime rings are taking advantage of the pandemic, looser police enforcement and a softening in anti-shoplifting laws to swipe tons of merchandise from retail stores and warehouses across the United States. KPIX-TV reported that the shop proudly advertised on Facebook Marketplace that customers “never pay retail.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Commercial landlords were greeted with some good news in July as rent collections for retail properties increased by double digits compared to May and June, GlobeSt.com reported. A survey by Datex Property Solutions, the California-based real estate portfolio management company, revealed that retail rent collections were 68.8

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PYMNTS

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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AUGUST 6, 2020

economic recovery’s unpredictability in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic is on display in California. More than half, or 57 percent of the initial unemployment claims filed in California for the week ending July 25 were from workers who reopened previous claims. Evidence of the U.S. As of mid-July, 3.3

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JUNE 28, 2020

Mayor London Breed tweeted Friday (June 26) that the city will wait as the number of COVID-19 cases rise across California, CNBC reported. On June 15, when we first reopened outdoor dining and in-store retail, we had 20. As California Gov. California is not the only state to reconsider its reopening as cases surge.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

That includes, as Roadie CEO Marc Gorlin said, a Delta ticket agent in the California Bay Area who, through Roadie’s digital technology, delivers misplaced bags to travelers who happen to be located along the route that the agent uses to drive home after shifts. “He The general experience can apply to retail goods, including groceries.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Online delivery platform Instacart is teaming up with regional Midwest retailer Meijer to provide same-day delivery of groceries. Customers rely on Instacart to get the groceries and goods they need from the retailers they love," Instacart President Nilam Ganenthiran said in a Thursday (Dec. 3) press release.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

And in retail, several reports are indicating healthy inventory positions as a point of optimism in retail’s comeback process. 33.8%: Increase in import traffic through the Southern California gateway from June to July. 33.8%: Increase in import traffic through the Southern California gateway from June to July.

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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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PYMNTS

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 instance, Amazon has begun using Scout , its six-wheeled autonomous delivery robot, in a neighborhood in Irvine, California, according to a report.

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Payments Dive

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Berkleley, California-based company is looking to expand by building ties with established retailers, CEO Will Glaser said.

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APRIL 14, 2020

Some other names include office retailer Staples, French luxury conglomerate Louis Vuitton and fashion retailer Burlington Stores. However, some states like Ohio, Wisconsin and California have implemented policies making it harder for landlords to evict tenants for nonpayment during the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

But no matter the case, music is a big part of the retail world, and is helping to create new harmonies of innovation and disruption. Apple isn’t the only band on the radio when it comes to changes in music retail in early 2020. Others don’t. New Partnerships and Services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

to bring its products to shoppers through the web and at certain retail locations, according to a Tuesday (Nov. Shoppers will have the ability to purchase Casper’s mattresses and sleep accessories through the web at Nordstrom.com and in some Nordstrom retail locations starting this November. Casper Sleep Inc. 10) announcement.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

liquor industry), who has combined the ongoing consumer desire for online subscription retail with the rise of craft distilleries. Along the way, he learned more about the power of brick-and-mortar retail in this increasingly online world. We had to buy a retail store to fulfill this dream. We didn’t plan on any of that.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2020

California became the first state in the country to declare a lockdown 11 weeks ago to slow the spread of the

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Payments Dive

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The 5,000-square-foot location in Southern California marks the latest addition in a region where the e-commerce giant operates numerous brick-and-mortar retail stores.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Wool footwear brand Allbirds is wagering on physical retail stores despite the coronavirus. In October, the firm will open its 22 nd retail location in its home state of California. One rationale for the company making its own retail location network was to steer clear of the pressures from merchants and wholesalers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2020

Comparatively, 149 of every 1,000 businesses in California received loans. Jackie Speier of California said on Twitter. Blue states like California got a pathetic number of loans issued.”. The top three states by economy — California, Texas and New York — got $82 billion or 23 percent of the loans. told Politico.

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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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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

While Amazon has performed better for its own goods than other retailers, its independent sellers are also stressed about the delays. Thompson told the Seattle Times that UPS carriers consistently miss delivery windows to pick up new merchandise from Plugable’s California warehouse to deliver to Amazon.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The company, based in Santa Monica, California, has spoken with some special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) about acquisition deals, although none have reached any agreements, Bloomberg reported, and some SPACs have expressed inbound interest.

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PYMNTS

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 18, 2020

What makes the story stand out among the reams of local retail crime reporting is that the crime was actually committed. Botched crimes in local retail are common. In California, a local caricature artist had a client sit down, commission a caricature, rob him of $500 and then run off. These criminal gangs are sophisticated.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

18) that it has secured a distributor license from California, bringing it one step closer to bringing its first electric SUV, Byton M-Byte, to the United States. We clearly notice this momentum in the current discussions with retail and after-sales partners,” Dr. Daniel Kirchert, BYTON CEO and founder said last month in a press release.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

11), reported by CNBC , that retail behemoth Walmart has struck a partnership with Instacart to offer same-day deliver across a few, select markets in the United States, focused on four initial pilots in Oklahoma and California. News came Tuesday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

One of the overlooked elements from the retail earnings reports of recent weeks is inventory levels. But several reports are pointing to healthy inventory positions as a point of optimism in retailing’s comeback progress. Its latest monthly retailer inventory-to-sales ratio report for June indicates a significant drop — from 1.35

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Mastercard has partnered on the pilot with NMI and Global Payments along with Computer Engineering Group (CEG), a Napa, California-based independent IT services provider. billion transactions a year from retail POS, eCommerce and self-service terminals.”. The software is being hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

could be the first major delivery company to limit the number of items retailers can ship to protect its network from being overwhelmed during COVID-19, The Wall Street Journal reported. For now, the impacted retailers say they are coping. PYMNTS reported last week that the retailer is negotiating to purchase portions of Deliv Inc.

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PYMNTS

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.

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CFPB Monitor

APRIL 26, 2022

In a rare development, a California state court of appeals has opined on the requirements for obtaining authorization for background checks pursuant to the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In Hebert v. Barnes & Noble, Inc. ,

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