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Ron Johnson’s Enjoy Technology Files for Bankruptcy, Set to be Sold

Retail TouchPoints

Back in 2016, Ron Johnson was asked in a fireside chat at Shoptalk about the biggest mistake he had ever made. Six years later, Johnson might answer that question differently — his “commerce-at-home” startup Enjoy Technology filed for bankruptcy on June 29, 2022, after a series of setbacks including staffing shortages and dwindling liquidity.

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AT&T Resets Account Passcodes After Big Leak of Millions of Customer Records Online

Retail Wire

The telecommunications giant AT&T is resetting millions of customer account passcodes due to a huge leak of records online earlier this month.

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Baltic Telecom Company Trials Self-Service Store to Reach Small-Town Customers

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Telia — a telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic states — is piloting a new self-service store model in Tartu, Estonia, as it looks for cost-effective ways to serve customers in regions where full-service offices aren’t in place.

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Best Buy Canada to Operate 165 Small-Format Bell Canada Stores Under Renamed Banner

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We’re excited to collaborate with Bell on this unique venture to expand Best Buy’s presence to new communities across the country,” said Ron Wilson, President, Best Buy Canada in a statement.

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Crypto Payments Adoption in FinTech: How Do Retailers Fit in?

Retail TouchPoints

Do you ever think about the customer instincts at checkout? This would allow your online customers to check out with crypto — whether it’s Bitcoin, Ethereum or even Dogecoin — and then have the product delivered or pick it up at a retail location. Get ready for a technology retouch. Expect the need for a crypto manager.

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Flight Centre to reopen 35 stores as travel demand soars

Inside Retail

At a time when regional and suburban communities in Australia are witnessing services such as banking and telecommunications closing branches and becoming available only online, Flight Centre will continue to provide customers with the choice.”.

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AWS to Invest an Additional $7.8B to Expand Ohio Facilities

Retail TouchPoints

This includes a combination of actual Amazon employees and employees at local vendors that support the Amazon facilities, in sectors including telecommunications, software development, facilities maintenance and electricity generation. Since 2015, AWS already has invested $6.3