Petco, where the pets go. That’s the motto the specialty retailer aims to bring to its latest retail development: Petco’s flagship store in Union Square in New York City. The store is open and located at the corner of 17th and Park, at 44 Union...
General-purpose digital wallets started life in most parts of the world, including the U.S., as substitutes for physical credit cards at the point of sale — and promised to change how people pay. In truth, as Jenny Cheng, vice president and general manager of Google...
The recent banking crisis has strained the U.S. government’s deposit insurance fund. That’s according to data released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) Wednesday (May 31) as part of its quarterly banking profile. It showed that the government’s Deposit Insurance Fund had $116 billion...
Amid the great digital shift, and in the post-pandemic world, the transportation industry is undergoing significant changes. With those changes come new vulnerabilities that need to be addressed as the trucking industry, dominated by small fleets and operators, embraces digitization but remains vulnerable to bad...
Cardinal Health, a manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products, has teamed up with Square to provide payment solutions for independent pharmacies. This collaboration aims to help independent pharmacies increase operational efficiency, stay current with customer payment preferences, and access integrated software tools for...
Overdraft fees have been a hot button issue in financial services. But they’re less of a revenue source for banks — significantly less — than they were not all that long ago. To that end, as reported last week by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
IKEA stores will soon be operating with a new warehouse management system designed to improve the omnichannel experience. Ingka Group, which owns and operates IKEA stores in 31 countries, has acquired Made4net, a provider of supply chain software solutions, Ingka Group said in a Wednesday (May 31) press...
Wells Fargo reportedly expects to see losses from real estate loans. CEO Charlie Scharf said Wednesday (May 31) at an event that there are significant risks in the office sector, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. “We look city by city, we look property by property to look at our exposures, and I...
A University of Oxford professor said the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) centers on “bias, discrimination and the environmental impact.” Sandra Wachter, professor of technology and regulation, said these are issues “right here, right now,” as opposed to the “science fiction fantasy” raised in a recent statement...
