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PRnewswire | August 18, 2023

Bleisure travel has been deemed a pandemic silver lining, according to The Year of “New” Traveler report from the American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA), published in 2022. Although combining leisure and business travel wasn’t a new concept before 2020, such arrangements have become more commonplace as multi-day bleisure trips are a new travel norm. Further, today’s traveler wants it all from their lodging and travel provider. While cleanliness and...

pymnts | February 12, 2020

Regardless of whether you think it’s a good idea for the market or a legal misstep, the T-Mobile and Sprint merger is going to put 5G on a faster track. Exactly how fast the technology will be a consumer factor depends on the prognosticator you subscribe to. But one thing is clear. For retailers, 5G stands to be an opportunity to get closer to consumers and amp up the in-store experience. The new combined company “will compete for consumers at all price points, and customers includin...

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Big Y, NCR | December 22, 2020

Big Y is the most recent autonomous retailer that has chosen the retail cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) stage from NCR Corporation, a worldwide supplier of driving retail technology solutions that run the store. Big Y will utilize NCR's answer for incorporate its grocery and corner shops with a brought together stage and advancement instrument. NCR Emerald is a key segment of NCR's Next-Generation Retail Store Architecture, giving retailers the ability to simplify store ta...

fool | March 16, 2020

Walmart began the second round of bidding today for Asda, a chain of UK supermarkets owned by the U.S.-based retail titan, according to company sources. Three private equity firms are currently in the running to make bids on the brand. These include TDR Capital, Lone Star Funds, and Apollo Global Management, Inc., all three of which participated in the first round of bidding when Adsa first went on the block. Asda controls approximately 15% of the British grocery market. Yet investors are also e...