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Airbnb Pushes Major App Update, Expands Into Services and Experiences Bookings

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Opening with a bit of self-congratulatory praise for its 2 billion guest arrivals and interest in changing the face of modern travel, the organization pivoted to explain a bit more about each of its new services. With the launch of services and experiences, were changing travel again. People choose hotels for their services.

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Burton, GANNI, Outdoor Voices and Vince Add Tap to Pay on iPhone Option

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Select Burton , GANNI , Outdoor Voices and Vince locations have rolled out the new Tap to Pay on iPhone feature from NewStore , a modular, mobile-first omnichannel cloud platform for retailers. The service requires brands to use iPhone XS, or newer devices, with iOS 15.5

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Three Lessons Grocers can Learn from Specialty Retailers

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While most supermarkets prioritized developments that facilitated COVID-era shopping behaviors like grocery delivery, curbside pickup or self-checkout, grocery shoppers are now looking for improved in-store experiences. For many, it has worked. For many in the grocery industry, however, adopting these practices has been slower.

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Is Curbside the New Holiday Retail Battleground?

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While health and safety concerns and local restrictions have prompted many retail operators to expand their businesses to the curbside, the longer-term story behind that shift is as much about convenience. Outdoor Technology Options. The biggest technical challenge is a simple one: You just need to power the units.

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What to Consider When Incorporating AI into Your Retail Business

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Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the way businesses and individuals operate by using data to power tools that can analyze, respond, predict and create in a manner similar to the human brain. These types of uses should be carefully implemented to ensure compliance with relevant privacy laws. Bias concerns.

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How a B2B Resale Platform can Solve your Holiday Returns Pile-up

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By moving everything onto a single online platform, these companies have a single system of record and are able to tackle what’s historically been a fragmented and extremely manual process. Ex: outdoor furniture fetches higher pricing in a shallow SKU listing. can make a big difference.

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Shinola and Filson to Update In-Store Experience with Omnichannel Platform

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Both retail brands are owned by Bedrock Manufacturing ; Filson is known for high-end outdoor clothing and accessories, and Shinola offers products including timepieces, leather goods, jewelry and audio. Filson operates a total of 14 stores in the U.S., Shinola operates 21 stores across the U.S., Canada and Japan.