PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

The world of retail might not be quite getting back to normal, but people are starting to pick up some pieces of their old day-to-day lives again. A few big-ticket purchases of digital apparel retailers like ModCloth and Bonobos didn’t turn out as planned. Innovation Add-On of the Week: Amazon Embraces Supply-Chain Blockchain .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

-based Niantic , the company behind the mobile and augmented reality gaming behemoth Pokémon Go, is touting its growing role in the global tourism industry (which, as PYMNTS readers know , is undergoing its own digitally-fuel period of innovation and disruption). The gaming part of the mall will reside alongside some 200 retail stores there.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Santa: The Original Experiential Retail Strategy. Santa showing up in retail marketing, as far as historians can tell, dates back to the 1840s when some stores went as far as putting up life-sized models of jolly old St. And while much has changed in retail, Santa’s popularity has not. In fact, it is growing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

In the meantime, the digital, mobile, delivery and other innovations that are taking place in this sector are also promising to impact retailers and the consumers who shop not only with mom-and-pop stores, but with the bigger chains.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

TSYS, a global payment technology company based in Georgia, announced Wednesday (March 7) a new payment solution dubbed Advanced AuthControl will be implemented at Walmart and Sam’s Club locations around the United States.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Retail/Consumer Goods.

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William Mills

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Approximately 1,300 attendees (including bankers, credit union executives, industry analysts and media representatives American Banker , Banking Exchange and BIG Media ) joined 30 sponsor companies to immerse themselves in all things retail banking at BAI Beacon 2017, held at the Georgia World Congress Center October 4-5.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

One of those places is just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, though what’s stored inside won’t be hard to spot. Amazon announced on Wednesday (June 22) that it had finalized plans to open a new fulfillment center in Braselton, Georgia.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

In its oversubscribed series A funding round, OnPay , a Georgia-based payroll software startup, secured $6 million, the company said this week. The firm said it plans to focus on scaling up and product innovation, building out its staff, and strengthening marketing initiatives. Berkshire Grey.

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BankInovation

MAY 19, 2020

Barwick Bank is the smallest bank in Georgia, according to CEO Jim Bange, but the $15 million bank aims to grow its assets to between $350 to $500 million in the next five years. While many banks try to grow by overhauling their digital channels, Barwick still has yet to create any. Right now there […].

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2018

In a press release , VisaHQ said Fliggy has access to 580 million mobile monthly active users across Alibaba’s Chinese retail marketplaces. Those countries include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Georgia, India, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkey and Vietnam. as the biggest aviation market in the world.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

Small but mighty, German discount grocer Lidl — a brand known for not only its low prices, but also its innovative store layouts and private labels, including clothing — has already gobbled up 3 percent of local market share since the chain came to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in June 2017. jobs in the next year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Two big innovations: Walmart’s Network Of Healthcare Clinics. Walmart is looking to take its expertise at building retail supercenters and driving down costs and apply that to healthcare. The retail giant has been slowly wading into healthcare services, operating about two dozen low-cost clinics in Georgia, South Carolina and Texas.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

DealNews predicts Amazon will offer discounts of up to 50 percent on its own clothing brands during the Big Style Sale and will push other brands and retailers to do the same. The company opened two other Georgia health centers in 2019, and the company said the sites have thus far received high praise from the public.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2018

In one state, a retailer might have to pay for beer on delivery in cash, while they might be able to get credit terms for spirits, for example. With the latest round, however, Provi seeks to continue to innovate its product offering and speed up its expansion into new markets. And that’s the long-term plan for the company.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

First up is AutoNation , the nation’s largest retailer with 325 locations. The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has been collaborating with Ford Motor Company, which has committed to making all cars connected by 2022. Governments are also stepping up to connect technology with auto safety.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

With traditional retail, it takes a long time to get beer from overseas, and you have strict shelf sets. What you put out is what you get,” said Jenna Behrer, senior director of innovation at Heineken USA, in the Digiday report. A direct-to-consumer service means Heineken can be fast to market, she said.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Now that Fyle has officially launched operations, the company said it would deploy the funding to focus on product innovation and global growth and to invest in sales and marketing efforts. MaxAB targets informal food and grocery retailers and suppliers, connecting them on a digital platform to conduct trade. SaaSOptics.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

Saladworks also plans to plant corporate stores in key markets in Atlanta, Georgia and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas over the next six to 12 months. At fast casual Saladworks, he’ll be responsible for identifying and recruiting multi-unit franchisees who want to diversify their portfolio with a new growth vehicles.

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JUNE 10, 2016

The office will feature a variety of positions interacting, including software developers and managers whose focus will be on creating, developing and innovating new tech-based solutions for Amazon’s varied and complex operational challenges.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2016

VentureBeat explained that this announcement is the natural extension of the virtual reality roller coaster that Samsung demoed at this year’s Mobile World Congress, but with the first three real-world applications coming to Six Flags parks by late March, consumers in Texas, Georgia and southern California won’t have to wait long.

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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

JULY 13, 2017

Launching ‘Ask Peapod’ on Alexa was a natural innovation for Peapod as we continue to create real meal solutions that fit into normal at-home behaviors,” said de Merode. “We Possibly Texas, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and/or Delaware, according to Lidl’s website.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2016

But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. So, providing retailers with a new storefront in an ecosystem of 1.5 Last week , Walmart Pay rolled out in Alabama and Georgia.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The solution features the user experience of Digital Insight’s Mobile Banking Apps , ensuring a familiar, retail feel, and includes TouchID and EyePrint ID biometric authentication options. Headquartered in Georgia, NCR demoed its Transaction Data Manager at FinovateSpring 2016. Bill Nuti is president, CEO, and chairman.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 26, 2016

A year-over-year gain of 219% in new bookings growth is the highlight of a record fourth quarter from financial-supply-chain innovator, Taulia , which added 50,000 suppliers across 71 countries in Q4. Before working with SAP, Holzapfel did strategic marketing at The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia. hospital networks.”

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

In the past decade, restaurant and bar purchases have grown at twice the rate of general retail spending. Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. The kombucha taproom: Cultured South (Georgia).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

In today’s everchanging sales landscape, Southern Glazer’s has invested in a business unit that is poised to deliver innovative solutions for the evolving eCommerce needs of our customers,” Southern Glazer’s Chief Commercial Officer John Wittig said in the announcement. 1) announcement. “In

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Abrigo

MAY 8, 2024

An example of a use case for predictive AI is Signature Bank of Georgia ’s addition of AI-driven check fraud detection software that finds fraud faster. The greatest absolute gains forecast (largely from increased productivity) are tied to corporate and retail banking.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Pet goods retail chain PetSmart announced Thursday it had opened 28 new brick-and-mortar storefronts in North America during the quarter that ended Nov. This quarter, for example, we launched The Groomery by PetSmart, our innovative new store concept focusing exclusively on pet grooming services.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Two innovators approached a well-heeled investor asking for money. They told this investor that their innovation was so incredibly cutting-edge that only the hopelessly uninformed would fail to recognize its value. The innovators said that they had picked him because he was smart and forward-thinking enough to see the potential.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Allowing users to “cut” by referring other users was an innovative idea, and it worked. Much of Mint’s early success can be tied to a very simple product innovation. Robinhood’s goal was not to build an app for day-traders or portfolio managers; it was to build an app for the first-time retail investor.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

The major mass-market producers – Procter & Gamble (Charmin), Kimberly Clark (Cottonelle, Scott) and Georgia-Pacific (Quilted Northern, Angel Soft) – make their products primarily (and, in some cases, exclusively) from fresh-cut trees, which are mostly grown in Canada, and sometimes in boreal (ancient) forests.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

online grocery sales since 2017, the largest share of any single retailer and double its closest competitor. Acceptance of SNAP/EBT online : Amazon is one of several retailers, including Walmart, selected by the USDA to pilot the use of SNAP/EBT online to buy groceries. According to the Harris Poll, Amazon is the most trusted U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

They grilled execs from Google, Amazon and Facebook over claims of their size and power, which is said to be driving smaller companies out of business, reducing opportunities for new innovators to emerge and tilting the competitive playing field too far in their direction. Stranger Things and Retail. Even 100 years later.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Auto-financing is ripe for innovation. 10:50 am Moonraft Innovation Labs – [link] – @moonraft. Our platform is open source, which makes it more reliable, innovative and secure. Based in Porto, Portuga they provide “Omnichannel Innovation” Truly integrated Omni channel middleware platform. “We

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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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