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A lot of these things would have been niche projects in in any other year besides 2020, but some of these are really truly scalable meaningful parts of our business for Q4,” said Brommers. However, this creates a new challenge in maintaining an optimal customerexperience, particularly in touch-sensitive retailing segments like grocery.
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