Dish Network is reportedly in discussions to offer wireless plans via Amazon. The arrangement could give Dish’s fledgling mobile phone network a crucial lifeline for its 5G rollout, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Thursday (May 25), citing unnamed sources. Details of phone plans offered via Amazon’s website...
The hospitality industry has been experiencing staffing shortages across the board in recent years, with both hotels and restaurants feeling the squeeze. The industry has been slow to recover from pandemic-related furloughs and economic conditions, with many employees shifting careers entirely to work in other...
PYMNTS interviews Andrew Robbins, CEO of Paytronix, about how restaurants can mitigate their ongoing staffing problems and increase revenue. — Restaurants have an economic tailwind at their backs, but staffing shortages dating from the pandemic’s onset continue to hamper their success. The ongoing economic recovery...
The pandemic had a massive ripple effect on jobs throughout the hospitality industry. Travel restrictions and social distancing brought business and recreational travel to a standstill. The industry has been slow to recover, partly due to Zoom and other teleconferencing services supplanting many forms of...
Here’s a quick way to age yourself — remember your first qwerty keyboard phone? Whether it was a Nokia, a Motorola Razr, now known as a “dumb phone,” or a more upscale Blackberry or Sidekick, aka a “feature phone,” these devices were at one time...
For brick-and-mortar retailers — convenience stores especially — boosting foot traffic is essential. And for some forward-thinking merchants, the way to charge sales and boost basket sizes is to offer a charge in the parking lot. Literally. Earlier this month, 7-Eleven announced 7Charge, billed as...
According to the World Economic Forum 2022 Global Gender Gap report, gender parity is not recovering, and it will take another 132 years to close the global gender gap. While this is a bleak outlook for women, Payal Dalal, senior vice president of social impact,...
Despite years of hype and billions in research and development, people still have difficulty seeing augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) goggles as a viable consumer product. It’s core to the wider discussion about how consumers will (or won’t) want to experience the metaverse,...
Autonomous vehicle firms Goggo Network and Oxbotica have teamed to promote driverless delivery in Europe. The partnership, announced Wednesday (March 22), will combine U.K.-based Oxbotica’s autonomous driving software with Goggo’s middle- and last-mile delivery operations in a range of sectors, including grocery, food delivery and...
