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Today in restaurant and grocery tech news, Uber Eats partners with French grocery chain Carrefour to launch 15-minute grocery delivery in Paris, and Brinker International teams up with drone delivery company Flytrex. Plus, Blaze Pizza CMO Vincent Szwajkowski tells PYMNTS how digital features are helping the chain keep up with consumers’ evolving needs. Blaze Pizza […]

Google has hired Megan Jones Bell, former Headspace chief strategy and science officer, to lead its push into the mental health space as clinical director of consumer and mental health, according to a Fierce Healthcare report on Tuesday (Oct. 26). When she starts next week, Bell will oversee Google’s approach to mental and behavioral health […]

Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) division has begun to allow digital bill payment through the RTP network, The Clearing House’s (TCH) real-time payment network, according to a press release. The new program — a first in the U.S., per the release — will benefit Citi’s institutional and consumer clients. “With this capability, Citi’s institutional […]

Managing accounts receivable (AR) struggles in a remote working environment is not without its challenges, as many companies have learned during the pandemic, but automation has helped companies blunt the impact and keep their cash flow steady. In fact, 62% of firms that deployed AR automation reported that their days sales outstanding (DSO) improved, according to the October 2021 Working Capital Playbook done […]

Efficiency and safety are always important to commercial fleet operators, but increasingly busy schedules triggered by supply chain challenges and a shortage of drivers have raised the stakes -- and investment – in technology that can help keep things moving smoothly. It’s a trend that was reflected in a trio of product announcements this week aimed at helping fleets meet today’s […]

You can’t be too healthy, nor can you be too “tele-healthy.” Allow us to explain. Sure, there are times when you must be in the same room with your physician. Major surgery leaps to mind, although that’s not 100% accurate as some “tele-surgeries” do occur. That’s for a future ranking we haven’t invented yet, so […]

The United Arab Emirates’ Mashreq Bank is working with Visa on a digital reconciliation platform that can track, trace and analyze company expense accounts, The FinTech Times reported. The partnership between the digital-first bank and the credit card giant has led to the launch of a new suite of digital Visa solutions for corporations, streamlining […]

RealEats has just raised some real money. The meal delivery service announced on Tuesday (Oct. 26) that it had concluded a $16.3 million Series A funding round. RealEats, a weekly subscription service that says it gives customers the chance to “enjoy the nutritional benefits of real food,” plans to use the funds to move into […]

Today in healthcare, 23andMe buys Lemonaid Health for $400 million, and Prime and Synchrony expand healthcare financing offering. Plus, online billing makes things easier for senior living facilities operators and their residents, and Anomaly snags $17 million in Series A and seed funding. Healthcare Payments Platform Anomaly Raises $17M Healthcare payments platform Anomaly announced on […]

Sweetgreen may be making major investments in digitizing its restaurants, but for a restaurant chain so focused on technology, it has made some odd choices when it comes to one of the most significant digital drivers of revenue: loyalty rewards. In late March 2021, the Culver City, California-based salad chain ended its loyalty program, citing […]

GameStop, the world’s largest video game retailer, appears ready to take on the ever-evolving internet as it seeks to fill a number of positions for its non-fungible token (NFT) platform and Web3 gaming, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 26) report from Business Insider.   Among the 6,916 current job openings the company has posted on its […]

Credit Libanais, a Lebanese bank, will test a biometric payment card that will enable users to authorize contact-free payments by scanning their thumbprint, according to a Monday (Oct. 25) report from NFCW. The cards will be based on Zwipe’s Pay One technology. Zwipe, a Norwegian startup, first launched its biometrics payment cards in 2016, as […]

GXO Logistics, Inc. and Saks on Tuesday (Oct. 26) announced the GXO eFulfillment center in Middletown, Pennsylvania, has begun shipping Saks’ luxury fashion apparel and goods directly to customers across the U.S. through shared space distribution network GXO Direct.  “When we launched Saks as a standalone eCommerce company nearly seven months ago, we set ambitious […]

Global payments technology startup Flutterwave, in conjunction with nonprofit Stellar Development Foundation, has introduced two new remittance passageways between Europe and Africa on the Stellar cross-country transaction system, according to a Monday (Oct. 25) press release.   Working with payment institution TEMPO, the primary European Union anchor for Stellar blockchain payments, Flutterwave is using the Stellar […]

The law of unintended consequences makes it so that a positive impact in one place has a negative ripple effect somewhere else. It may be the case that bitcoin-mania, as it were, and its wider acceptance (and availability) on Wall Street may give rise to speedbumps that impede cryptos’ presence within mainstream commerce. To that […]

Among the slew of announcements rolled out by Amazon at its Accelerate seller conference last week, one item stood out as a clear sign of the eCommerce giant’s omnichannel ambitions: a new set of services allowing retailers to offer in-store pickup to local customers. Jim Adkins, vice president of recreational and vocational categories at Amazon, […]

What will payments look like in 2022 and beyond? In “The Way Payments Are Now Done,” Matt Clark, president and chief operating officer of Corcentric, joins 32 other payment executives to discuss what payments’ “new normal” looks like. Clark shares the essential focal points of increasing supplier satisfaction amid the shift in B2B and B2C […]

In June 2020, national book retailer Barnes & Noble started seeing surges in sales of certain trade paperbacks and couldn’t figure out why — until the company found TikTok’s “BookTok” community, where bibliophiles post videos reacting to or sharing books they’ve enjoyed. Shannon DeVito, Barnes & Noble director of books, said in some cases, a […]

Small shops are improving their physical store experiences as shoppers return. Plus, higher wages aren’t the most important reason for people to seek new employment, and it’s a lot more expensive to acquire new customers than it used to be. Data: 60%: Share of Homebase clients that closed their businesses at the beginning of the […]

Toy and entertainment company Hasbro, feeling the stress of supply chain delays, is relying heavily on its entertainment and digital gaming divisions as it continues to develop a contextual commerce strategy for many of its major brands. Interim CEO Rich Stoddart said that as COVID-19 cases continue to fall and entertainment returns to pre-pandemic levels, […]

Beleaguered department store JCPenney has named Marc Rosen as its new chief executive officer as of Nov. 1, the latest move to help the struggling retail chain emerge from last year’s bankruptcy. Stanley Shashoua, Simon Property Group’s chief investment officer and interim CEO of JCPenney since January when Jill Soltau left after two years at […]

In lists of technology innovations and developments across West Africa, we usually see the achievements of the usual suspects: Nigeria, Ghana and sometimes Cote d’Ivoire. But one country that is making great strides in the sub-region is Senegal, a leader in information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services (ITeS) that has made the digital economy a […]

Target on Tuesday (Oct. 26) introduced enhancements to its Drive Up, Order Pickup and Same-Day Delivery with Shipt offerings that make it easier for customers to personalize their shopping experiences to fit their busy schedules heading into the holiday season. Drive Up and Order Pickup orders are free and contactless and ready withing a couple […]

Mark Smith, head of payments for financial services, Amazon Web Services, discusses how the pandemic has prompted many financial institutions to fast-track their digital initiatives to offer streamlined, end-to-end, real-time omnichannel experiences, including contactless payments. “I expect that this customer-centric drive toward contactless will continue to inform new waves of innovation in payments and personal […]

Real-time money transfer firm Payveris is partnering with the instant payments network Paymentus to advance a new payment hub — Bill Center — for expanded access and visibility. Bill Center provides a 360-degree view across all bills and financial obligations. The hub also offers more payment choices — debit, credit, and digital wallet options — […]