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Retailers Eye Industry-Shaking Innovation With Accelerators

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Retailers are turning to accelerators to drive innovation, and Target is taking its program to the international stage: It is teaming up with Germany’s wholesale and food specialist METRO AG for its cohort this year. They will also visit the headquarters of Target in Minnesota and METRO’s Accelerator headquarters in Berlin.

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How A Retail Incubator Could Produce The Next Big Innovation

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The myth of the lone (and possibly mad) scientist died out a long time ago, as the industrial age led to teams of researchers working together (or at healthy cross purposes) to enable innovation. That experience is one that is hard to gain as a vendor with new and exciting retail technology in the market.”.

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Metro Bank Plunges on Misclassified Assets, Capital Concern

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Metro Bank Plc fell the most since going public after applying an incorrectly low-risk weighting to parts of its loan book, with the British lender’s chief saying he doesn’t know how long the mortgages in question had been wrongly classified. The shares plunged as much as 34 percent Wednesday and the bank’s bonds also fell […].

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Metro Bank Announces New AI Powered PFM Service

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Metro Bank today revealed the launch of a new AI- powered money management tool called Insights. The tool will continuously monitor users’ transactions in real-time to better understand clients’ spending habits. Insights was developed with AI chat […].

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Beyond Registers — What’s Next For Retail Store Payments?

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Is the store register on its way out in favor of other retail and payments innovation? In case you didn’t hear, Target faced a register outage that lasted for about 90 minutes on Sunday (June 16), which meant the retail chain couldn’t process cards or other forms of payment.

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Grocers’ In-Store Innovations For Boosting Consumer Spend

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To capture this spending, grocers are driving innovation through their brick-and-mortar stores with delivery and pickup efforts (among other initiatives). The retailer has been making inroads with grocery delivery, having announced in September that it is now offering the service in 50 metropolitan areas across the country.

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Why Rural Shoppers Need Digital Innovation Too

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Mostly because that is where innovations tend to get their start — ridesharing, delivery on demand, one-day shipping, buy-online pick up in-store, experimental experiential retail locations, pop-up shops and the list goes on (and on). But what every big digital upgrade of the last decade or so has in common is an urban home base.