PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Thousands of miles from Seattle, where Amazon Go opened in January , the cashierless checkout model is taking hold in other parts of the world. It allows them to fully immerse themselves into the retail space with convenience and efficiency.”. The Marketplace of Cashierless Ideas.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2020

Embedded finance, or the concept of payments and banking being appended to other consumer use cases, is quickly evolving beyond retail and e-commerce, industry executives said at the Bank Innovation Ignite forum in Seattle this week.

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Payments Dive

JUNE 8, 2017

Amazon has been a source of stiff competition for online retailers around the world of many years. And, with the launch of its Amazon Go concept store in Seattle last year, the online giant brought itself out of the cloud and into direct competition with brick and mortar stores.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Amazon has announced that it is opening a pop-up store at its headquarters in Seattle, according to a report by GeekWire. The store is an expansion of one of Amazon’s new concepts that hasn’t been talked about much in comparison to the company’s other retail initiatives, like Amazon Go.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

For now, the feature will only be available at two Amazon Go stores in Seattle, at 7th Avenue and Blanchard Street and its store in South Lake Union at 300 Boren Avenue North. But there are plans to expand it across Seattle, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, the company said.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Amazon is pushing retailers to accept yet another digital wallet at the point of sale -- its own Amazon Pay, which until now has been used almost entirely in the e-commerce world, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2018

To help shoppers check out without waiting in line, grocery retailers are rolling out entire stores centered around cashierless shopping experiences, enabling consumers to purchase fresh food and grocery items with a mobile payments app. This marks the fourth Go store, and the first to open outside of Amazon’s hometown of Seattle.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

billion for Whole Foods , the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol Hill district, The Seattle Times reported. Three years after it paid $13.4 And it’s not stopping there.

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MARCH 4, 2020

SEATTLE — Embedded finance, or the concept of payments and banking being appended to other consumer use cases, is quickly evolving beyond retail and e-commerce, industry executives said at the Bank Innovation Ignite forum in Seattle this week.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Seattle-based remittance startup Remitly is expanding beyond money transfers to a full suite of banking products for new arrivals to the U.S. The company this week launched Passbook, a bank account for immigrants that relies on foreign identity documents to help customers open accounts.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 13, 2020

The Seattle-based bank said the small business loans are meant to help struggling […]. As the novel coronavirus continues to spread, rattling the economy, banks are reevaluating their business propositions to clients.?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

With unemployment at new lows, staffing has become a challenge for retail companies. Retailers had 757,000 job openings in July, which is roughly 100,000 more than they had a year before, The Wall Street Journal reported. Retailers are hosting “recruiting marathons” to help hire thousands of people.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Amazon has opened a smaller version of its cashier-free Amazon Go food stores in one of its Seattle offices, according to a report by the New York Post. Located on the sixth floor of Seattle’s famous Macy’s building, it’s only open to Amazon employees and their guests.

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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. As the company had been testing the robot in Seattle, it was said to be accustomed to many different types of weather conditions, including that of sunny California.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

To help consumers conveniently access their favorite products, retailers are offering a wide array of merchandise through automated retail technology. According to The Future of Unattended Retail Report from PYMNTS, “Unattended retail touchpoints populate a broad and diverse set of locations, and have taken various shapes and forms.”

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PYMNTS

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.” Data: . 42%: Share of U.S.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Bank Innovation Ignite, which will take place on March 2-3 at the Grand Hyatt in Seattle, is an invitation-only practitioners’ retreat that will explore the evolution […].

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JUNE 23, 2023

Amid strong competition for deposits, Seattle Bank’s CD Valet, which assists customers in finding the most competitive certificate of deposit rates, this month added digital account opening capabilities to the platform.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

Historically, large retailers tend to move more slowly. With those challenges in mind, StyleSage seeks to help brands and retailers through its competitive intelligence tool that works across four areas: pricing, assortment building, trends and promotions. Brands and retailers work on a global scale, after all.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

Can cameras replace cashers in retail? The paper noted that many such retail innovation efforts for grocery start in Europe. The apparent payments policy shift comes amid criticism that cashless retail discriminates against unbanked consumers. The grocery industry is making a go of it. The latest effort comes from the U.K.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless. And Amazon and 7-Eleven aren’t alone.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Consumers can buy furniture anywhere. Private Label Pivot.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Rob Guilfoyle, CEO of Abe AI, will be speaking at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 on March 11-12 in Seattle. Guilfoyle will be on the panel titled “The Future of Banking Experience,” where he will address topics such as the role of natural language in customer experience as well as the type of solutions that can […].

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from cool concept toward everyday consumer reality, and signs of that innovation are increasingly appearing in the retail space. Take the issue of retail security as one example. Retail Trust and AI. Based in Seattle and two years old, Xnor develops low-power edge-based AI.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Retailers are bringing experiential stores to big cities, and Starbucks is no exception: The coffee chain was set to open its Starbucks Reserve Roastery New York City on Friday (Dec. According to the announcement, the offering is available on the retailer’s eCommerce site and at its 1,400 retail locations.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 14, 2019

When it comes to innovation, banks in 2019 should look to partner first, buy second and lastly build, Jeremy Balkin, head of innovation at HSBC Bank USA said at BI Ignite 2019 in Seattle earlier this week. It makes more sense for banks to make a strategic investment in fintech companies than to try and build […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

In today’s top retail news, CarLotz, Inc. Plus, retail rents have fallen to historic lows in the Big Apple amid the coronavirus pandemic. The firm will expand into the Seattle–Lynnwood, Washington market and will also provide a hub for the Orlando–Merritt Island, Florida area. Retail Rents Plummet In NYC As Vacancies Rise.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

By some accounts, the 2018 holiday season is going to be a bang-up year for retailers. retailers are expected to increase 4.8 percent this year, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF) — well above the 3.9 percent growth seen by the retail market one year ago. However, the hiring is not limited to retailers.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2020

Melissa Stevens, chief digital officer and head of digital and design at Fifth Third Bank, will attend and speak at Bank Innovation Ignite event on March 2-3 in Seattle. She will share insights and perspectives on digital customer experience in a dynamic one-on-one fireside chat at the conference.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2020

Alvaro Teixeira, executive vice president and head of customer value management at HSBC Bank USA, will attend Bank Innovation Ignite this March 2-3 in Seattle. Teixeira is speaking at the Ignite Ideas session, in which financial industry leaders will highlight case studies.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

No exact date has been given, but Business Insider reported that Amazon told one retailer to expect the event to be held around Oct. The Seattle-based online behemoth already twice rescheduled the event from a previously planned July date. A definitive date will be announced as we get closer to the event.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

As Prime Day continues to roll along, retailers are doing anything and everything possible to capture consumers suddenly inspired to go on a midsummer shopping spree. The plan, Metzger noted, wasn’t to start a retail recycling revolution — or even a business at all. It pretty quickly spread from there. “And

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

comes after the online retailer opened one of the concept locations in New York City in a mall, CNBC reported. The retailer has been experimenting with the offering through an arrangement with Starbucks in Seattle.) The first Amazon Go opened last January at the online retailer’s Seattle, Washington headquarters.

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Bank Innovation

JULY 30, 2019

was illegally accessed after prosecutors accused a Seattle woman identified by Amazon as one of its former cloud service employees of breaking into the bank’s server. Capital One Financial said data from about 100 million people in the U.S.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 23, 2020

Bank Innovation has hand-selected 10 companies to participate in its DEMOvation Challenge at Bank Innovation Ignite, which runs from March 2-3 in Seattle. The companies focus on a variety of use cases including customer acquisition, loan underwriting technology, conversational AI, fraud prevention, and other digital capabilities.

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