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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

The issue with this is that both retailers and customers have to have accounts set up in the same exchange platform. It also requires businesses to create a digital wallet, obtain a shareable QR code and keep track of every checkout location. But for now there are very few alternatives that aren’t third-party hybrid providers.

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Serendipitous Social Impact is Just One Click Away

Cisco Retail

This is where I listened in on two topics that were quite new to me: first the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge, which rewards the best technological projects solving a social problem, and secondly how Cisco was solving connectivity problems in remote locations, in partnership with Mercy Corps. from TIC A.C. was one of the winners!

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Driving Health Equity with Technology

Cisco Retail

Studies estimate social, economic, and environmental “drivers of health” (also known as social determinants of health) can account for up to 80% of health outcomes, whether positive or negative. Collaboration technologies like Webex Instant Connect can bring care to remote and underserved populations by removing the barrier of location.

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What the ‘Next Normal’ in Consumer Behavior Means for the Hourly Economy

Retail TouchPoints

In 2019, for example, internet grocery purchases accounted for only about 3% of total sales, according to a Deutsche Bank Securities report. It now offers more than 3,200 pickup locations and delivery from more than 1,600 stores. The magnitude and speed of this acceptance suggest it’s unlikely to recede. Walmart, the largest U.S.

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What Is a Digital Twin?

Nvidia

By many accounts, NASA was the first to introduce the notion of the digital twin. NASA had set up simulators of systems on the Apollo 13 spacecraft, which could get updates from the real ship in outer space via telecommunications. It also plans to take into account measurements of the environmental impacts of human activities.

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Jason & Scot Show Episode 270 – Microservice based commerce platforms with Kelly Goetsch

Retail Geek

DSW shoes and Taylor a lot of those Mall brands that were big atg customers back then and I started getting involved with the different Walmart accounts there my first one actually was it was a combination between Blockbuster and Walmart. And the website was movie downloads. grocery was the very first u.s.