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Italian menswear brand implements Tulip's solutions in European stores to elevate delivery of customer experiences

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BitPay, a Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment provider, announced that U.S. cardholders can add their BitPay Prepaid Mastercard to Apple Wallet, making it more convenient to purchase everyday items using the cryptocurrency payment service.

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Backcountry has expanded its partnership with First Insight, using the solution provider’s consumer-driven Experience Management (XM) platform to make faster, better merchandising decisions, with the goal of driving sales and margin gains for products.

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Angie Hospitality by Nomadix announced the Bayfront Marin House's customized Safe Stay program features Angie in-room virtual assistants to create a safer, more digitally connected experience.

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Accelerating digital and technology rollouts has reaped rewards for Yum! Brands. For 2020 Yum! Brands' digital sales increased 45% to top $17 billion.

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Infor announced that the five-star hotel El Palace Barcelona has chosen Infor Hospitality Management System (HMS) and Infor Sales and Catering (SCS) to help provide a premium customer experience.

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Koyo Group, which operates convenience stores and restaurants in hospitals and other facilities across Japan, has partnered with Zippin and Fujitsu to open a checkout-free store in the Yokohama Techno Tower Hotel in Kanagawa.

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Loop Insights Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of a Pilot agreement with Maplin Electronics, the UK’s leading online electronics retailer, to implement Loop’s real-time artificial intelligence analytics platform.

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Sabre Corporation announced a strategic long-term technology partnership with Louvre Hotels Group.

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Online retailer Lovehoney has wrapped a multi-market e-commerce launch, in partnership with Astound Commerce.

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Little Burgundy today announced its partnership with PayBright. Little Burgundy customers can now shop for their favourite sneakers, boots, sandals, and accessories today, and pay later by selecting PayBright as their preferred payment method at checkout on LittleBurgundy.ca.

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Following a record year, imports at the largest U.S. retail container ports are expected to set new monthly records from now into the summer as the nation’s economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Sheetz will leverage a state-of-the-art energy intelligence platform to manage its energy spend.

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Whistle Messaging Inc. is excited to announce it is now a Choice Hotels Qualified Vendor (QV) for its contactless guest messaging software.

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Peapod Digital Labs has launched a micro-fulfillment technology pilot with The Giant Co. in the Philadelphia market. Part of an e-commerce fulfillment center (EFC), the pilot employs a Swisslog solution including AutoStore technology powered by Swisslog’s SynQ software, as well as Peapod Digital Labs’ proprietary manual picking capabilities.

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Grocery wholesaler and retailer Alex Lee has partnered with automation specialist Dematic to deploy a mixed-case fulfillment solution for its Merchants Distributors Inc. (MDI) subsidiary.

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Coca-Cola bottlers in North America has partnered with Salesforce to digitally transform its contact center and field service operations.

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The footwear company has teamed with Cloudinary to leverage its Media Experience Platform to automate its entire image management lifecycle and deliver a more engaging, visual-first customer experience.

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The Giant Company is joining forces with Brooklyn, New York-based HowGood on an easy-to-use environmental and social-impact rating system for consumers increasingly demanding supply chain transparency from retailers.

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HMSHost and Starbucks are working to enhance the coffee experience for travelers.

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Aptech has seen a surge in adoption of its browser based PVNG enterprise accounting solution.

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Confronted with a surge in online orders, the nation’s leader in fabric and craft supplies leveraged its stores to keep the fabric flowing. The challenges it mastered provide a roadmap for e-fulfillment in the future.

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After a six-month deployment across half of Kum & Go's 400 locations, the convenience-store retailer is rolling out CB4's artificial intelligence (AI) for store teams across the chain.

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With this new agreement, Louvre Hotels Group will benefit from SynXis Central Reservations and its industry-leading reach with connections to almost 900,000 travel agents and nearly 700 online channels across the globe, including hundreds of online travel agencies (OTAs) and metasearch engines.

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M&S has launched a video chat service for online shoppers, linking them to sofa experts in-store.

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Samkaup, a grocery retailer in Iceland, will partner with RELEX Solutions, provider of unified retail planning solutions, to automate and unify its space and assortment planning.

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Skinnydip London says that it has used Nosto technology to increase average online store visit value by 16% and sales conversions by 15%.

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Working with Adyen will provide Dick’s with a centralized view of transaction data across all channels, which will help them better understand their customers so they can provide personalized experiences.

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Ahold Delhaize announced this morning it would open an automated e-commerce fulfillment center (EFC) in Philadelphia with the capability to prepare 15,000 online delivery orders a week for customers of its Giant Direct business.

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LogiNext announced a partnership with AmRest Holdings, a European multi-brand franchise restaurant operator headquartered in Spain.

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ProfitSword has announced the implementation of its performance forecasting technology alongside Event Temple's advanced group and event sales management software at Charlestowne Hotels.

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Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. has enhanced its remote-employee learning and personal development offerings to include Udemy for Business, an online, on-demand educational platform, the company said Tuesday.

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Church’s Chicken has selected Qu as its enterprise POS partner, powering omni-channel ordering for approximately 1,000 US-based Church’s Chicken locations.

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Aptos today announced that Crocs, Inc. has deployed Aptos’ customer engagement and merchandise management solutions across its global retail enterprise.

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An online prescription eyewear retailer is expanding the ability of customers to use augmented reality (AR) to “see” how different frames look on their face.

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Agilysys, Inc. announced that the Hotel Effie Sandestin has selected InfoGenesis POS solution, as well as its modern cloud-native SaaS Agilysys Pay Connect secure payment processing product to enhance their guest experience.

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A Canadian department store giant is teaming up with Mastercard to offer a credit card which links to a customer’s mobile device.

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Lidl is launching a WhatsApp Customer Care messaging service offering rapid support for day-to-day queries “for on-the-go shoppers”.

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Canada’s largest farm and ranch retailer to support their national ecommerce site with new unified commerce platform

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Double drive-thru is so last year. Border Foods, a Taco Bell franchisee, is planning a new location in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, with four drive-thru lanes – one for traditional drive-thru and three for pickup.

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