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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a world where retail has changed and consumers remain at home, how do brands reimagine the task of getting products to customers? podcast , we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a rapidly changing digital-first economy.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Today, of course, is the day after Thanksgiving. In a season where tradition is key, retailers are setting new ones with the help of emerging products and services on this Black Friday. Rethinking Conventional Retail Wisdom . It was hard to pick up any article about retail and not end up reading an obituary for a mall in 2014.

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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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JULY 9, 2019

Retailers surely have more than enough to worry about these days. For one, the pace of innovation keeps speeding up – and that holds true for all types of retail niches, from apparel to grocery to others. Fast on the horizon, of course, is the new mobile network technology called 5G.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Out of the haze of uncertainty emerged a new mobile network, and from the new mobile network came new retail applications and experiences, all taking advantage of the faster speed of the technology, and the potential to reduce friction. 5G Retail Deal. 5G Retail Deal. VR Retail Growth. A new report also says the U.S.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Everyone needs furniture and home furnishings, and that need is helping to drive innovation in that sector of the retail economy. Indeed, augmented reality (AR) and other visual technologies can be seen as a progression from the earlier days of eCommerce, from all those photos, images and videos placed on retail websites.

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JULY 8, 2019

Can cameras replace cashers in retail? The move, of course, is inspired by what Amazon is doing in its Amazon Go grocery stores. The paper noted that many such retail innovation efforts for grocery start in Europe. The grocery industry is making a go of it. The latest effort comes from the U.K. European Role.

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JULY 6, 2020

If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Worse yet, some analysts fear the triggering of break-lease clauses for retailers in malls if anchor stores leave. All of this will only make malls an even tougher sell to consumers, and to retailers that want consumers to buy their stuff.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Sometimes innovation in the commerce and payments space is a matter of a new technology or a new process. That might not sound like such a big deal, but it really is – at least when it comes to Amazon and retail fulfillment in the U.S. Amazon, of course, is the leader and main inspiration for such same-day delivery efforts.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

But the same technology that enables those transactions also can bring the benefits of consumer intimacy to small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that are often struggling to win more market share in a retail world dominated by the likes of Amazon, Walmart and other large retailers.

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MAY 23, 2017

Innovation is happening at the speed of payments — which, as it turns out, can be pretty fast these days. OA: As president of Western Union Global Money Transfer, I oversee our global person-to-person money transfer via our combined digital and retail walk-in agent network that connects more than 200 countries and territories.

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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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DECEMBER 31, 2020

Fast-forward to the present, and Afterpay now counts more than 11 million active customers at 63,000 retailers – and most recently reported doing $2.1 One is regulatory trends, where regulators are looking to increase competition in this field and drive innovation. The other is technological innovation. According to J.P.

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JULY 7, 2020

The vicious cycle of physical retail is meeting the virtuous cycle of digital, at a time when companies are aiming to chart a course toward a future that is without precedent. In retail, merchants need to enter a new kind of gig economy that can be called “gig retailing.”

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APRIL 17, 2019

The race to 5G retail is on. Recent news out of Asia serves as solid foreshadowing of how 5G could enhance retail in the coming few years. 5G Retail Plans. South Korea’s SK Telecom and retail conglomerate Shinsegae Group have joined forces on 5G retail, for instance. What’s Next?

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 10, 2017

Of course, keeping a watch on the best newcomer apps can be a little challenging. That’s why Bank Innovation has put together its annual list of the best newly-arrived fintech […].

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MAY 23, 2019

When it comes to innovation, go to the source. has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. QSR Innovation. The PepsiCo innovation effort comes at a time of significant technology development in the world of restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs). Mobile Innovation.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

And, of course, being surrounded by all those fur pillows and easy to assemble coffee tables more often might convince consumers to buy a bit more than they might have otherwise, particularly with the added inducement of the time currency discount. The big question, of course, is will it work? These criminal gangs are sophisticated.”.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the connected age, consumers have more ways to interact with retailers than ever before. The executive also said the retailer saw an “1,000 percent increase” in purchases of pizza slices made through the SmartPay service since January 1. One of the retailers to tap into this technology?

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The answer is yes, of course there are. Of course, Covid-19 has exposed digital weaknesses and accelerated digital transformation for all industries. Financial institutions that best leverage digital strategies and technologies in innovative ways will create new value for consumers and businesses. The Approach.

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JULY 17, 2019

That holds especially true for service retail, where contractors and mechanics might still be more likely to quickly answer an actual phone call than respond to an email. Indeed, to many service providers, “innovation” can seem like nothing more than a buzzword, Koopman said. Of course, there are reasonable explanations for that.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Those who work in and around high tech and innovation are lulled into a narrative about progress being on a march ever forward, rarely slowing, never stopping and certainly never turning around and marching in the wrong direction. . Even worse, it’s having an impact on how quickly their innovations can get to market.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Herrick expects that ReplyBuy and Airship will create a holistic ecosystem, allowing retailers to use its engagement technology to acquire customers and then use conversational commerce to retain them and grow their value. Or would she prefer to visit the store (mask required, of course) for a custom fitting? To her home?

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Bobsguide

JUNE 3, 2022

Auriga was recently honoured with the prestigious Peter Kulik Innovation Award from the ATMIA, the leading non-profit trade association representing the entire global ATM industry. Q: How do you feel about your Peter Kulik Innovation Award win? Q: Finally, do you have any thoughts on upcoming ATM innovations and trends?

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JULY 22, 2020

Goldman Sachs also noted that eCommerce penetration rose to more than 40 percent in May from 16 percent of retail spending domestically in the first quarter of 2019.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2018

There isn’t a lot of room to really innovate the Thanksgiving turkey. So is this innovation worth investigation? Perhaps the best innovation to bring to the Thanksgiving turkey is also the oldest: find someone else to cook it. Or is there? The Instant Pot Solution. It depends on one’s appetite for bird-related risk.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Consumers are firing brick-and-mortar retailers from the jobs they held years and decades before. To get their shopping jobs done, consumers are now hiring retailers that make it convenient to do business – anywhere, anytime, through any channel and on their terms. But it’s more than that.

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MARCH 12, 2020

Today a customer may walk into a retail location in the midst of a pandemic. In fact, experiential retail does not sleep during a pandemic or any other external event. First, retailers need the right mindset,” he said. “In Only then can retailers use technology properly, to yield time well spent.”. How to do that?

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But I think people are now realizing that there’s a convenience factor in addition to the safety factor, around getting what you want and not wasting time going to a retailer,” he added, pointing to the discrepancy of discovering items are out of stock in-store versus the certainty of ordering something online and knowing it’s coming.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

Fitness and wellness are helping to change the face of retail in 2020. And, of course, habits vary according to factors like geography, age and even fitness level. Innovation is also taking place within retail brick-and-mortar pharmacies. Fulfillment, too, is serving as fuel for innovation in this area of retail.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? According to a new report from PwC titled “Retail Banking 2025 and Beyond” (see sidebar), the retail banking industry is undergoing tremendous change—but, of course, community bankers already know that.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

So-called Generation Z is also driving much of the innovation when it comes to retail. To reach consumers on the hunt for offerings that are “clean and natural,” the retail chain rolled out its Everspring household brand. And six in 10 shoppers said it factored into their decision of where to transact, Retail Dive reported.

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OCTOBER 1, 2019

However, that’s only part of what’s really going on when it comes to this particular card payments mark for convenience stores and gas pumps, according to a new PYMNTS interview with Chris Triconi, director of petro, convenience stores, and fuel retail at payment technology firm LISNR. LISNR Offering.

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JUNE 3, 2019

The two most powerful forces shaping the future of retail payments have nothing to do with payments at all. It’s a world in which new retail models and new places to shop have emerged to satisfy that need, blending the online and offline worlds in ways that benefit the digital and marginalize the physical – at least as it operates today.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

The Commerce Department released July’s retail sales last week, showing an increase in seasonally adjusted retail spending – up 1.2 Analysts reported that physical retail sales, seasonally adjusted, were up 2.7 And what we also see is only one part of the retail sales story. percent growth in June.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

But as time passes and a new decade approaches – one that promises even higher levels of digital innovation and disruption – it’s becoming ever more clear that 5G mobile network technology will help power the so-called Industrial Revolution 4.0. And, of course, the factory promises to further fuel the deployment of 5G mobile technology.

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