PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

To help consumers conveniently access their favorite products, retailers are offering a wide array of merchandise through automated retail technology. large eCommerce retailers and local businesses alike are tapping into the world of unattended retail. From Amazon to Blanchard’s Coffee Roasting Co.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The worlds of drones and 5G mobile network technology – two of the most promising trends in digital payments and commerce – are colliding. 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. The company applied to the U.S.

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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. Its technology works like Google , in a sense. An International Market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Seattle locals dropped everything once word started to spread online that the yellow vending “Snapbot” was spotted at Dick’s Drive-In restaurant. Spectacles, retailing for around $142, are sunglasses that allow wearers to record 10-second video snaps of life from their perspective and then download those memories onto Snapchat.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

Can cameras replace cashers in retail? According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, British grocer Tesco plans to open a “pick and go” or “frictionless shopping” store to the public next year, following testing the store technologies with employees. The grocery industry is making a go of it. The latest effort comes from the U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

At a prime retail location in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, the Amazon Go team is running “internal tests.” Zippin and Standard Cognition are two firms that are putting forward their apps and systems as alternatives to the cashierless technology of Amazon. Challenging Amazon isn’t an easy feat, however.

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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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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. I’m excited to join Bank Innovation Ignite to dive further into how technology […].

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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.

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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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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty. Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv.

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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

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. But we can’t get it fast enough.

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2020

District Court in Seattle, alleges Washington-based Robojap Technologies and Quatic Software Solutions in Punjab, India have scammed Amazon users by offering help to install Alexa on their devices through fake websites and applications. The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Amazon is testing the idea of expanding its cashierless checkout technology to a larger store format, experimenting with it in Seattle in a space that is formatted to be like a big store, reported the Wall Street Journal. That could mean it will take a while before Amazon could roll out the technology to larger format stores.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

The advance of Amazon’s cashierless technology is not a new story to the retail beat as of 2020. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year. with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Sometimes innovation in the commerce and payments space is a matter of a new technology or a new process. The eCommerce operator reportedly is leasing some 500,000 square feet of space in a three-story warehouse in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2018

JD.com Chief Executive Richard Liu is predicting that robots will eventually supplant human workers in the retail industry. JD.com is already investing in technology such as drones, robotics and automation. Even so, Liu thinks it may take another decade for the technology and for shoppers to be ready for fully automated retail stores.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

With the opening of Amazon Go in Seattle in January , Amazon arguably popularized the cashierless store concept. Since then, the eCommerce retailer has brought the store to other locations in the city and Chicago as well as one location on the way in Lower Manhattan. He also said the technology could be deployed in office spaces.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

According to the eCommerce giant, the new technology will allow consumers to pay via a palm-print scan that verifies their identity and pushes their payment using whatever card they have stored. The technology will make its debut at two Amazon Go locations in the company’s hometown of Seattle, according to published reports.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

retail economy is unprecedented. What are some of the retailing changes that could last beyond the end of the coronavirus crisis? Contactless payments, however, will fit nicely into what will be a need to have low-touch or no-touch retailing experiences. They want contactless payment technology. So what sticks?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Amazon wants to bring its cashierless Go technology to other places, like airport stores and movie theaters, in a bid to expand its reach and potentially win more cloud customers, according to CNBC. It’s also looking into the potential to add the technology to concession stands at baseball games. The business model is still evolving.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

The eCommerce retailer is said to be on the hunt for a space in the Oxford Circus district of London for its cashierless C-store concept, Business Insider reported. According to the report, the retailer is seeking a location with 3,000 to 5,000 square feet in the neighborhood that was described as “the busiest shopping area in London.”

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Cashierless stores aren’t just for mega retailers like Amazon to sell prepared food from their kitchens or products from other producers: Beverage brands, among other companies, are getting into the action and choosing this checkout experience for stores that showcase their own products IRL (“in real life”) as a marketing tool.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Big retailers are opening smaller-format stores in major U.S. Already, the retailer has opened a Planning Studio across the pond in London in October. In the announcement, IKEA Retail U.S. As it stands, Amazon Go stores in Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco use the cashierless technology.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, three Seattle entrepreneurs have created a wristband that vibrates when the person wearing it goes to touch their face, artificial intelligence (AI) startup Immutouch announced on Tuesday (March 10). It typically takes over a year to bring a product to market. Immutouch took 1/50th of that time.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

25) in Seattle, according to reports. . Located in Seattle’s Capitol Hill, the space is four times bigger than the first cashierless location that opened to the public in January 2018. . We’re not trying to replace them,” Cameron Janes, vice president of Amazon’s physical retail division, told CNBC.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

The greatest health crisis in a generation is poised to accelerate innovation at the intersection of healthcare , technology and payments as never before. We’re not in retail healthcare,” Walmart senior director of strategy and customer experience for health and wellness Matt Parry told MedCityNews. We’re in healthcare.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

CNBC reported giant retailers and health plans are acquiring online pharmacy startups as a way to make it easier for patients to access medicines. In June, Walmart reportedly paid some $200 million to buy key assets from CareZone, a Seattle-based health-technology startup that promises to manage prescription drugs for patients.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

Over the course of the last few years, eCommerce has sprung up and put the brick-and-mortar side of the retail industry on notice. With the opening of the Amazon Go grocery store and bookstore in Seattle, Amazon is breathing innovation into the stodgy brick-and-mortar experience. More retailers are likely moving in a similar direction.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Traditional retail locations, ranging from fashion and home furnishings to hardware and department stores, have been forced to make significant changes in the face of heightened competition from eCommerce giants like Amazon and omnichannel powerhouses, like Walmart and its online unit, Jet.com.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 25, 2019

Eleven startups participated in the Demovation challenge at the Bank Innovation Ignite conference in Seattle earlier this month. These startups, diverse in focus, comprised a wide range of the fintech ecosystem, including payments, security and blockchain.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite. Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

To provide retailers with an automated option for last-mile deliveries, shipping carriers are entering the world of robotics technology. The company said that the bot, in turn, would complement its FedEx SameDay City service and it is “collaborating” with retailers such as Target, Pizza Hut, Walgreens, Walmart, Lowe’s and AutoZone.

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