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  • Kroger app enables virtual Pope visit

    Mobile customers of two discount Kroger grocery banners have a unique connection to Pope Francis’ U.S. visit.

    DigitalFood, the free mobile app for Kroger's Food 4 Less and Foods Co. shoppers, is providing a free, mobile virtual reality viewing of Pope Francis' American trip and his canonization of Fr. Junipero Serra in Washington, D.C.

  • 7-Eleven pays the bills

    7-Eleven Inc. is targeting cash-using consumers with a new mobile bill payment service. The convenience retailer is partnering with financial services technology company PayNearMe to launch the 7-Eleven Bill Pay app.

  • Google unveils new mobile payment service, Android Pay

    New York -- Apple Pay will soon have a rival. Google Inc. is launching a successor to Google Wallet called Android Pay, for Android phones running KitKat and above, PC World reported. It will be available in over 700,000 stores, including Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, and McDonald’s locations.

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  • Starbucks mobilizes customers nationwide

  • Survey: Customers notify retailers – leave us alone

    Marketing experts routinely advise retailers to send customers notifications, such as emails and texts, informing them of discounts or following up on purchases and site visits. But such notifications may be doing more harm than good.

  • Target’s Cornell tasty addition to YUM board

    A little over a year into his tenure as Target’s chairman and CEO, Brian Cornell has added new responsibilities as a member of the board of directors at KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell parent company Yum! Brands.
     
    Cornell’s appointment to the Yum board comes 13 months after he was named to the top job at Target and just three months after Target sold its pharmacy business to CVS Health for $1.9 billion. The latter is noteworthy because two executives with strong ties to CVS Health serve on Yum’s Nominating and Governance Committee.
     

  • Rite Aid beats street in Q2, adjusts guidance

    Rite Aid on Thursday reported $7.7 billion in revenue for its fiscal second quarter ended Aug. 29, representing an increase of 17.5%. Retail pharmacy segment revenues were $6.6 billion and increased 1.9%, primarily as a result of an increase in same-store sales. And pharmacy services segment revenues were $1.1 billion from the date of the acquisition of EnvisionRx — June 24 — through the end of the quarter. 

  • Retailers to get tax relief for store remodels/improvements?

    Two bills passed by a key House committee would help retailers save on store remodeling and improvement costs upfront.

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