Amazon's Toy Line Coming Soon; Plus Coty Brings Hair Coloring To Google Assistant; Drizly Drums Up $34.5M In Funding | | | | | | | | | | | | | Coty And Building Beauty eCommerce For A Voice-Activated World | | Coty — the parent behind 77 beauty and fragrance brands worldwide — haslaunched its first skill for Google Assistant to help walk consumers, step-by-step, through the hair coloring process. The company’s Vice President of Digital Innovation Fred Gerantabee says the future of reaching customers in beauty won't be about products, but instead about using digital to connect to expertise to unlock them at their highest level. | ` | |
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| | | | | | | Unattended Retail, Mobile Kiosk-Style | | Cashierless shopping experiences aren’t just for brick-and-mortar stores — the concept is also being applied to small locked kiosks placed in offices or hotel lobbies, which can be unlocked with a credit card or mobile device. DeepMagic Co-founder and CEO Bernd Schoner explains how payments work with the company’s mobile kiosks — and how the system can help serve consumers in a pinch. Read More... | |
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| | | | | How Five Retailers Are Catering To Smartphone Shoppers | | Retailers are increasingly embracing mobile apps that let consumers pay for their purchases in-store — and consumers are taking them up on the offerings in grocery stores and other outlets. According to the new PYMNTS Remote Payments Study, nearly a quarter of consumers who paid for purchases on location with a smartphone were at a grocery store, as shoppers trade the checkout counter for their mobile phones. Read More... | |
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| | | | | | The ‘Two Steps Forward, One Step Back’ Dance In Payments And Commerce | | Contrary to popular opinion, progress isn’t always a straight line forward. From Brexit to mobile payments and beyond, progress goes forward, backward, sideways and around. But even if pace and direction vary, the march goes on. Read More... | |
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