They’ve tried drone deliveries of Slurpees and now 7-Eleven is testing a completely cashierless store at its Irving, Texas headquarters. The fast-food giant announced the pilot in a news release saying a 700 sq ft, non-traditional convenience store is now operating and available for employees ...
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Disruptive Technologies
Disruptive Technologies
The spirits and beverage industry is being disrupted just like the payments and financial world. Craft beers have displaced Bud and Miller. Craft distilleries are doing the same with tequila, vodka, rum, and other hard spirits. And of course, boutique wineries have thrived for years ...
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It’s Veterans Day in the US, Remembrance Day in Canada, and Armistice Day in the UK where we reflect and honor military veterans and those who served our countries in the past. Thank you for your service! In this same spirit of reflection, I was ...
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In just 10 years, robo-advisory investment services have taken a moonshot in the number of clients and the value of assets managed on robo-advisory and related digital platforms. According to Aite Group research, robo-advisors could be managing more than $1.26 trillion in investments by 2023, ...
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Residents of Christiansburg, Virginia will be looking to the sky a lot more in the near future, and it won’t be with a prayer. Rather, they’ll be buzzing about Walgreens, FedEx and Sugar Magnolia package deliveries by Alphabet subsidiary Wing Aviation’s fleet of drones. Wing ...
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Time flies when you’re in the payments industry and we’ve got some global payments news to help you quickly keep up with the latest. We look at Mitto, an innovative Spanish virtual card design for Gen Z and financed by mom and dad. Clarus Commerce ...
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Accenture predicts UK digital-only challenger banks will triple in size from 12 million users to more than 35 million users in the next 12 months. A new Accenture report says five million new customers opened digital-only bank accounts in the first six months of 2019, ...
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By Matt Lang, Strategy Director and Will Hall, Chief Creative Officer of Rain When we visited the topic of voice-enabled shopping last year, we concluded that brands and businesses looking to take advantage of the new medium would need to do some significant legwork across ...
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Hard to believe I know but 25 years ago, on August 11, 1994, Visa processed the first-ever online payment. And what was that first purchase? Some claim the first-ever online purchase was a large pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut, long before the days of gourmet ...
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Last-mile delivery is one of the biggest logistics challenges in business and e-commerce, no matter if you’re Amazon or an agile startup. In fact, whether it’s groceries, the latest electronic gadget, pizza, or your favorite summer reading novel, last-mile delivery makes up 25% of the ...
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