They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. Not so for Walmart employees. The company is about to dump millions into tech upgrades, but the real investment it’s making is in human...
Tune In. Turn On. Drop Out. Those six words, spoken by Timothy Leary In Golden Gate park at the 300,000 person Human Be-In in San Francisco’s Golden Gate park in 1967 are widely heralded as the beginning of The Summer of Love. That they were...
The CardLinx Association released new data from the 2017 Card-Linking and O2O Industry Annual Survey, which showed 50 percent growth in online-to-offline ads. A press release explained that the new data is sourced from the largest merchants, payment companies, digital publishers and card-linked technology companies, including CardLinx members...
Cosabella is known among connoisseurs of fine undergarments as purveyors of luxury lingerie valued particularly for being well made and comfortable. And, after 35 years in the game – the company had carved out a nice niche selling B2B to high-end retailers like Nordstrom –...
As anyone who has ever been part of a real estate transaction can attest, it is a long, friction-filled, paperwork-intensive process that seems custom-designed to frustrate everyone involved. Zillow thinks it can help with that via the launch of a new digital service called Instant...
While high tech and baseball might not seem like a natural fit, FIS and the Minors are hoping to change that. One ball park and customer experience at a time. We got the inside scoop of what the ballpark of the future might look like...
American Express announced last week the launch of the new Amex skill for Amazon Alexa during its Innovation Showcase event in New York City. In a press release, American Express said the Amex skill brings select experiences of AmericanExpress.com and the Amex mobile app to...
As part of its longstanding efforts to jump into the world of long haul trucking, reports are emerging that Uber snapped up the talent team behind Chicago transportation brokerage firm 4Front Logistics last fall. Brokerages such as 4Front Logistics are a critical component of matching manufacturers...
As of yesterday, New Yorkers had a new way to shop for groceries appear on their collective radar — Jet.com opened a temporary grocery store in partnership with Rachel Shechtman’s Story, a 2000 square foot retail concept store. “What’s fresher than fresh?” Story wrote in a release...