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JANUARY 8, 2020

Auto sales are driving retail trends, as online marketplace and auction site eBay has released a new eBay Motors app. And, at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, voice, as well as vehicles, are jump-starting the connected economy.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 28, 2019

LAS VEGAS — Bank of Oklahoma has adopted Blend’s digital lending platform, the fintech announced at the 2019 Auto Finance Summit. Blend’s platform is designed to simplify user experience for the consumer to drive increases in completed online applications and funding rates.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as online merchants, are offering consumers all sorts of products and services through the subscription business model, from movies to tea. Some entertainment innovators are also rolling out new subscription services. And retailers are offering innovative subscriptions for all sorts of products.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2016

LAS VEGAS — Contactless payments are not new — card-free ATM transactions have been seen at fintech conference for years now — but they are getting more buzz lately, especially as the industry continues to debate the possibility of a cashless society. How consumers will interact with their money in the Read More.

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

WHSmith has revealed it will acquire Marshall Retail Group (MRG) in an effort to boost its presence in U.S. company will buy Las Vegas-based MRG from Brentwood Associates for $400 million. airports, according to Financial Times. It plans to open another 33 stores over the next five years.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The move will bring 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. And the retailer is flexible on timing: brands can stay for as short a time period as a month. Compared to traditional pop-up stores, Macy’s own staff services the brands.

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MARCH 19, 2018

The retailer has already tested the technology at a store in New Jersey. With this technology — which as undergone a trial period at three of its locations in New Jersey, New York and Florida — customers can experiment with moving items around a virtual room through a tablet in the retailer’s stores.

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MAY 23, 2017

Phillips Edison & Company , a fully integrated real estate firm with a national platform of grocery-anchored shopping centers, released its industry insights on trending themes for retail shopping centers this week at ICSC’s RECon event in Las Vegas. The retail industry at large continues to step-up their game,” said Conway.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Restaurants that are driving food innovation with carefully chosen ingredients focused on health are seeking funding to help power their growth. And True Food is opening its first juice as well as cocktail bar next year in Las Vegas to be known as True Bar. Its sales increased 22.3 percent sales growth last year.

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MARCH 1, 2019

Brick-and-mortar fashion retailers are developing in-store experiences to encourage customer loyalty. markets, aiming to generate repeat visits as part of its experiential retail efforts. The retailer, which has 1,143 stores globally, closes an average of around 15 stores annually. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 21, 2015

BAI Retail Delivery was at the Venetian in Vegas this year, sharing conference space with a travel convention called IMEX, which made things interesting in between sessions. I gave my teams 8% of their budgets to blow [on innovation] and we talked about what we learned every week.”. Oracle’s Innovation Lounge.

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APRIL 6, 2017

As Jim Marous notes in his article, Top 10 Retail Banking Trends and Predictions for 2017 , “APIs were not even listed as a 2016 trend, but was #4 in 2017.”. They want a user experience that is designed, simple, easy to use, and innovative. Recently at IBM InterConnect in Las Vegas, IBM announced IBM Cloud for Financial Services.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

“The ones who work very close, like in the building up above, will come down even just to grab a drink because it’s so fast and easy,” said Amazon Go Vice President Gianna Puerini according to Reuters , at the ShopTalk eCommerce conference in Las Vegas, offering a rare glimpse into a very new retail format for the commerce giant.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Retailers are testing drone delivery to grow their omnichannel offerings and provide “store to door” on-demand service to their customers. The announcement was made by Worldwide Consumer CEO Jeff Wilke on June 5 at the eCommerce retailer’s “re:MARS” conference in Las Vegas. Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As department stores reconsider their real estate and business models, Macy’s is testing out pop-up stores in 10 cities — from Las Vegas to New York — in a new concept named “The Market @ Macy’s,” CNBC reported. And the retailer is flexible on timing: Brands can stay for as short a time period as a month.

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Celent Banking

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

This year was no exception and I have recently come back from two trips to Las Vegas and San Antonio. All the data breaches at retailers, from Target to K-Mart Sears, have spooked the market and stirred it into action. Banking Retail Banking data breach debit cards EMV fraud' But I did not enjoy the experience.

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MAY 24, 2018

It was a key theme at the International Council of Shopping Centers’ annual RECon convention in Las Vegas this past week, reported CNBC. Some landlords announced new deals for residential uses, while retailers and real estate owners in general seemed to be collaborating more closely to keep shopping centers alive.

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JANUARY 1, 2020

We are talking about the upcoming International Consumer Electronics Show, the annual conference and trade show in Las Vegas that goes by the moniker CES. That remains to be seen, but it’s clear that 5G is going to significantly impact not only retail and payments, but manufacturing, healthcare, transportation and other vital areas.

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JUNE 5, 2019

To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. That experience made him appreciate even more just how difficult it can be to move customers from one payment method to another without real innovation. Step back a bit first.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

For most of the year, Las Vegas is something of a specific taste. If one happens to dislike one or all of those things, Las Vegas is more or less a perfect approximation of hell on Earth. If one happens to love gambling, showgirls or extremely bright lights, it is a lot of fun.

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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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JANUARY 14, 2019

The ecosystem for connected cars and trucks — and the retail and payment tasks they do and will support — is rapidly taking shape. Just look at the recent CES conference in Las Vegas. Sure, most retail and payment efforts involve multiple players doing specific work (security, authentication, logistics, etc.).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Together with Samsung, we plan to bring the best in technology and innovation to our customers. There are plans to expand service in the first half of 2019 to parts of 7 additional cities, including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Nashville, Orlando, San Diego, San Francisco, and San Jose, Calif. Louisville, Ky.,

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JANUARY 12, 2019

There was a lot about CES in Las Vegas last week that was predictable. The Retail Robots Are Coming … Maybe. Among a slew of other announcements at CES, Samsung snuck in some rather interesting robot-related news : The firm has developed three new consumer and retail robots, as well as a wearable exoskeleton.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

The Amazon Re:MARS conference in Las Vegas has been churning out technology news for the company. First, it was the announcement that delivery drones could hit the airspace in the next few months.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

But despite the general interest in the area, the conversations around innovation and what’s next in technology isn’t always directed at women, or particularly tailored to their interests. Since Marie Claire is working with Neiman Marcus as its retail partner, they are styling outfits that fit into those three segments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

Just as businesses are reevaluating supply lines, consumers too are considering their own retail mix, and figuring out where convenience stores fit into their reformulating post-pandemic lifestyles. Convenience stores also helped pioneer faster POS terminals, among other retail innovations. Voice Commerce Fuels Up.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. From office supplies and communal workspaces to new ways to pay for concert tickets, more barriers to siloed retail activity are falling every day to the onslaught of retail partnerships.

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MAY 7, 2018

As it tests out new retail concepts such as pop-up shops, Macy’s has acquired a retail store in New York City that has a rotating selection of items called STORY. The news comes as Macy’s is testing out pop-up stores in 10 cities — from Las Vegas to New York — in a new concept named “The Market @ Macy’s,” CNBC reported.

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MARCH 25, 2016

Though every brick-and-mortar retailer and its grandmother are chattering about how nice it would be to have the same kind of personalization technology that makes online shopping so customizable, few have figured how to make it a seamless part of the shopping experience. Perhaps Adobe can help. ”That’s what we’re taking on.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

And that push continues this week with news from Amazon and others, along with the start of the annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and conference in Las Vegas — an event where even more connected car and truck news will almost certainly be made. CES (@CES) January 7, 2020. Lucrative Potential.

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MAY 19, 2016

Postmates co-founder and CEO Bastian Lehmann has pretty much nothing nice to say about Amazon’s blasted push into private label products while taking part in a fireside chat at Shoptalk in Las Vegas earlier today. Specifically, in fact, Lehmann noted that what Amazon has for sale is “crap.” We don’t limit you.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

The payments and commerce ecosystem got busy getting busy this week as the first full week of 2020 kicked off the press releases began raining down from the sky from the year’s early bird innovators. The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas certainly helped given a boost to the rate of announcements.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

They have partnered with tech innovators like Amazon ,” he said, naming Accenture as the company, with its voice-assistance retail technology already extending its dominance into homes and promising to find a big role in connected vehicles. P97 will also benefit from Accenture’s more general experience with digital data and marketing.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2017

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is attracting more traditional firms that are looking establish connections and get a first look at the new technologies shaping a wide range of industries. The opportunities here are richer than a spirits industry conference, where it is the same old club.”.

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JULY 11, 2017

Recode also pointed to job listings by the company for field technicians in Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Houston, Dallas, Las Vegas and Hoboken, N.J. Best Buy’s Geek Squad offers similar services to what Amazon now has and is placing a greater emphasis on smart home gadgets given the expected growth of that market.

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AUGUST 10, 2017

In real estate and in retail, location is everything. Of course the inverse effect has also been shown to be a possibility of late; the anchor stores come unmoored, that mall retail space becomes fairly useless as consumers venture out to walk their hallways less and less. Or, in the case of Nipton, Calif.’s

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