social distancing

EU Planning For Transition Out Of Lockdown
EU Planning For Transition Out Of Lockdown
April 05, 2020  |  Coronavirus

European countries, including France, Spain, Belgium and Finland, among others, have begun tentatively etching out potential ways to ease social distancing requirements for the coronavirus...

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Supporting Social Distancing Awareness, eCommerce With Retail Innovation
Supporting Social Distancing Awareness, eCommerce With Retail Innovation
April 02, 2020  |  Today In Data

Retailers are under the gun to bolster their messaging and ordering capabilities for online shopping, as eCommerce becomes strained amid the coronavirus. Websites have doubled their ad...

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Lazada Temporarily Halts Grocery Purchases In Singapore
Lazada Temporarily Halts Grocery Purchases In Singapore
April 02, 2020  |  Retail

Amid an acute rise in orders in a climate of increasing COVID-19 cases and social distancing measures, Lazada Group SA is halting new grocery orders...

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Breakup In Aisle Three: Retail Tech Goes The Distance
Breakup In Aisle Three: Retail Tech Goes The Distance
April 01, 2020  |  Retail

That same voice calling for a cleanup in the produce aisle may also start telling people to break it up. With social distancing currently a...

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Global Tech Spending Down 4 Pct, But ‘Work From Home’ Spending Gives A Boost
Global Tech Spending Down 4 Pct, But ‘Work From Home’ Spending Gives A Boost
April 01, 2020  |  Coronavirus

Companies around the globe are looking at a a 4.1 percent decline in spending on technology as the coronavirus pandemic eats into revenues. That’s a...

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OpenTable Feature Lets People Reserve Grocery Shopping Appointments
OpenTable Feature Lets People Reserve Grocery Shopping Appointments
March 31, 2020  |  Retail

A new feature on restaurant reservation platform OpenTable will allow people to reserve grocery shopping times in the same way they reserve times to eat...

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Visa Transaction Volumes Take Coronavirus Hit
Visa Transaction Volumes Take Coronavirus Hit
March 30, 2020  |  VISA

Visa said it has been adversely affected by the limitations placed on people to avoid spreading the coronavirus, and its transaction volumes have severely decreased,...

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UK Retailers Under Fire For Nonessential eCommerce
UK Retailers Under Fire For Nonessential eCommerce
March 30, 2020  |  Coronavirus

Some U.K. retailers, brushing off accusations that they could be putting lives at risk during the coronavirus pandemic, have continued operating warehouses for distribution despite...

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eCommerce Filling Only Small Part Of ‘Retail Gap’
eCommerce Filling Only Small Part Of ‘Retail Gap’
March 29, 2020  |  eCommerce

Call it the retail gap that eCommerce can only partly fill. Earlier this month, a record number of Americans — 3.3 million — filed for...

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