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 The Vitamin Shoppe is strategically striving to elevate its customer experience, using tech to create a more personal omnichannel shopping experience that the company hopes will strengthen consumer loyalties.The recent rollout with Jumpminds tech marks a significant milestone for the organization, having completed the new point-of-sale  POS  system alongside the launch of a fully revamped website. This dual deployment not only modernizes the infrastructure but also integrates a new omnichannel promotion tool, requiring careful management of interdependencies across projects.This initiative implements Jumpminds cloud-native, mobile-first POS solut stanley cup ion, Jumpmind Commerce, alongside Jumpmind Promote for unified promotions across both online and physical stores. The upgrade, which began in June 2024, will enhance customer and associate experiences in nearly 700 stanley cup  stores, including Super Supplements locations, as well as on vitaminshoppe, by the end of October.For Scott Devlin, Chief Information Officer at The Vitamin Shoppe, the companys move to omnichannel has been in the works for many years. Our backend customer database actually had two versions, one for stores and one for the website, so thats not very omnichannel,  Devlin told PYMNTS.  We were just looking at buy online, pickup in store, at that time. Weve been on a pretty aggressive journey to become omnichannel. When people are going to go shop for their vitamins, theyve  stanley cup canada got choices, so for us, its about creating the best cu Uami StanChart Deepens China Focus With Innovation Lab Launch
 In 2016 hackers were able to steal about $21 million from accounts held at Bank of Russia, and this year attacks on banks around the globe are likely to get worse now that hacker group Anonymous has joined the effort.According to a report in Bloomberg, two people with direct knowledge of the groups activities said Anonymous is targeting central banks at an increasing rate. The group is known for activism against large companies, security forces and government and is now expanding into targeting central banks. Bloomberg reported Anonymous has been recruiting new hackers to help in its efforts and in February restarted attack kubki stanley s against central banks.In 2016 the group went after eight central banks, including the Dutch Cent stanley us ral Bank, the Bank stanley us  of Greece and the Bank of Mexico, the two people told Bloomberg, noting Anonymous is even mulling selling any confidential information it gets its hands on. Stefano Zanero, a professor of computer security at Italian university Politecnico di Milano, told Bloomberg the hacks of central banks  are a wake-up call that should alert us to the critical weaknesses of global financial systems. Last year hackers were able to steal $81 million from Bangladeshs central bank in a high-profile example of a central bank hack. The Bangladeshi bank case last year really brought the focus on payments systems within central banks,  said Adrian Nish, head of threat intelligence at BAE Systems Plc, in the Bloomberg report.  The realization that central banks ca

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 Leadership of the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems  J-UCAS  project has forma air force 1 lly passed to a US Air Force/Navy programme office after a two-year stint in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency  DARPA .Although the 1 November handover transitions the two J-UCAS vehicles 鈥?the Boeing X-45C and Northrop Grumman X-47B 鈥?from DARPAs laboratory setting to the centre of the USAFs tactical aircraft acquisition corps at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, little has changed about the programmes direction 鈥?so far.Michael Francis, DARPAs former J-UCAS director and now a temporary consultant to the joint office, emphasises that the transition introduces no dramatic changes to the programme, other than a new headquarters location and a change in senior management. USN Capt Ralph Alderson has been promoted to J-UCAS programme director after serving as X-45 p adidas originals samba rogramme manager, but the bulk of the DARPA technical staff remains employed by the new programme office. Schedule milestones such as first flight in late-2006 and operational assessment from 2007 remain unchanged, as do plans to demonstrate both vehicles using a common operating system.However, budget adidas samba schuhe  pressures and strategic shifts to be introduced by the pending Quadrennial Defense Review report are not likely to leave the J-UCAS programme intact. US defence officials have already decided to slow the growth of the J-UCAS development plan, moving about $1 billion in its five-year budget plan to after 2012.This could stretch the progra Xvbu Busan: Lee Chang-dong voices support for former BIFF director
 Vertical Entertainment has acquired all US rights to the thriller Scenic Route starring Josh Duhamel and Dan Fogler. Premiere Entertainment handles international sales in the Cannes market.Kevin and Michael Goetz make their directorial debut from a screenplay by Kyle Killen of The Beaver fame.Scenic Route premiered at SXSW and tells of a road trip that descends into a life-and-death struggle. Vertical Enter owala water bottle tainment will release theatrically in August.Brion Hambel and Paul Jensen of Best Medicine Productions produced with Anonymous Contents Luke Rivett and Scott Freeman. Duhamel, Keith Redmon and Anonymous Contents Paul Green served as executive producers.TopicsDistributionUnited States           No comments                                   owala canada                                      Related articles         yeezy shoes                                                                                                                                 News                                      MBS Group closes deal to manage Saudi Arabias AlUla Studios                                                        2025-05-07T08:52:00Z                    By Michael Rosser                                    US-based The MBS Group is known as the home of James Camerons Avatar franchise.                                                                                                                                Features                                       The implications could be seismic : What happens next fol

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 Forbes Media LLC is in talks about a merger with special-purpose acquisition company  SPAC , Magnum Opus Acquisition Ltd., which would lead to the company going public at a value of more than $650 million, sources told Bloomberg on Tuesday  Aug. 17 .Forbes had been in talks with GSV Asset Management about an acquisition that would have kept the business news media company private before Magnus Opus emerged as an option, per the report. Forbes spokesman Bill Hankes declined to comment, as did representatives for Magnum Opus.Forbes Media was founded in 1917. Today, the magazine reaches more than 140 million people around the world through 32 licensed local editions in 71 countrie stanley cup usa s.Related: FinTech Startup Aspiration Considers $2B+ SPACIn related news, green FinTech Aspiration is also in discussions with blank-check company InterPrivate III Financial Partners Inc. about going publi stanley termos c through a SPAC deal that would put the firms value at more than $2 billion, according to Bloomberg News.Aspiration has been considering going public for some time, PYMNTS reported in May. It also has a fee-free network of more than 55,000 ATMs, and offers customers who sign up for direct deposits access stanley cup  to their paychecks two days early.Read Next: Air Taxi Service Joby Goes Public In SPAC DealMeanwhile, aerial rideshare company Joby Aviation went public on Wednesday  Aug. 11  as part of a  business combination  with the SPAC Reinvent Technology Partners, a deal that values the company at $4.5 billion Owuc Visa Launches Advisory Practice to Help Clients Use Generative AI
 The Federal Trade Commission issued warning letters to 12 app developers that have installed software that can monitor the microphones that are part of devices. The software directs the microphone to listen to audio signals that are part of television ads.This software is known as SilverPush, and it monitors consumer television viewing habits by using  audio beacons  from TVs. Consumers cannot actually hear these beacons, as the FTC noted in a聽rele stanley cup ase. But the software would then produce what the FTC said would amount to a  detailed log  of television viewing habits that could lead to targeted advertising.The letters sent to the developers noted that SilverPush has, in fact, stated that its service is not in use in the United States, but the letters do recommend that users should be notified through the app that t stanley quencher elevision viewing could indeed be monitored through the software.In a statement, Jessica Rich, director of the FTCs Bureau of Consumer Protection, stated: These apps were capable of listening in the background and collecting information about consumers without notifying them. Companies should tell people what information is collected, how it is collected and who its shared with. The FTC has stated that app developers should ask users for permission in order to use device microphones. If聽language is used with the interface, or by the developers themselves, that implies that the software is not being used when, in fact, it is, then that  stanley deutschland would constitute a violat

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 All the Continental Airlines p owala ilots furloughed after the 11 September terrorist attacks have now returned to their job owala s, making Continental the first legacy carrier to recall all its furloughed pilots.Continental also becomes the first legacy carrier to begin hiring new pilots since the attacks. Around 100 new recruits have begun training this month. The pilots had already been accepted at Continental and were scheduled for classes in 2001, before the attacks.The remaining 19 furloughed pilots returned to work to begin retraining under a brand new labour contract on 1 April, which contains a  no furlough  clause. This is the last act required by our old contract,  says Capt Jay Panarello, chairman of the Continental Master Executive Council, a unit of the Air Line Pilots Association.  It guaranteed those who were furloughed the opportunity to return to active service by today and now that guarantee has been fulfilled. Source: Flight InternationalTopicsOps safety                                                Related articles                                                                                                                                        News                                      Absent balance weights spur directive to check 747 elev adidas campus ators                                                        2025-05-06T08:51:00Z                    By David Kaminski-Morrow                                    Boeing 747 operators are being instructed to carry out prompt el Gtok In brief
 Colm Baireads Berlin award-winning debut feature opens the Dublin Film FestivalSource: Insc茅alThe Quiet GirlDir. Colm Bairead. Ireland, 2022, 94 mins.Theres an unusual assurance to Colm Baireads feature debut, a Gaelic-language story set on a country farm during a summer of slow transformation for the titular adidas yeezy  character. The Quiet Girl is adapted confidently and faithfully from Claire Keegans short story Foster, published in 2010, and first encountered by Bairead in 2018. Even though the director has been making Irish-language short films and documentaries for close to two decades, his debut is still an u owala cup nexpectedly beautiful assembly of narrative, image and sound which takes its cue from the title to build quietly to an emotional catharsis.Should be seen as a classic of its kindThat restraint, the belief in the importance of small, understated things, make The Quiet Girl far more impactful than the sum of its parts. A winner at the Berlinales Generation youth-focused sidebar, Baireads debut now goes on to open the Dublin International Film Festival, presumably the start of a lengthy festival and awards run for a title which should be seen as a classic of  owala ca its kind. Although it occasionally slips when it comes to its devotion to the childs-eye perspective, the sparseness of the story and Baireads painterly compositions find their perfect fit with Kate McCulloughs  Arracht orMonster  sympathetic camera working in Academy Ratio and an intuitive score by Stephen Rennicks.Audiences

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Ccil Balance Lands $350M to Help Steady SMBs
 From mega malls riddled with vacancies and empty anchor tenant spaces, to giant stand-alone box stores in need of a refresh, to the realm of changed consumer expectations and shopping behaviors fueled by COVID, it would not be a stretch to say the retail industry is going through something at the moment.While much has been said about the spurt of new dollar stores dotting the landscape and accounting for the majority stanley cup uk  of new store openings, a second retail real estate rethink is emerging alongside that which could potentially dwarf the rising tide of discounters.Specifically, the embrace of the smaller, smarter, store-of-the-future trend is underway, and it carries benefits for consumers and retailers alike. Were seeing this amazing experience where new store openings are outpacing store closures  and  were seeing new formats that are highly digitized, smaller in footprint,  the National Retail Federation聽tweeted聽Monday  April 4 , citing a podcast appearance by Anjee Solanki, the head of U.S. retail at Colliers.Not only is the rise of  non-traditional retail  happening, the NRF said, but it is being done so in a manner that is more welcoming and experiential. Retail that sparks the five senses, 聽Solanki told the NRF, pointing to the creation of memorable moments and connections that she referred to as  the sixth sense of a retail experience. Real Life stanley uk  ExamplesThese  stanley borraccia comments and industry observations come at a time when a growing number of retail brands arent just talking about Ykoe QR Code Payments Woo LatAm Region s Mobile-First Travelers
 Bill secured a new $50 million fundraising round for its cloud-based digital payment tracking software for small and medium-sized businesses, which will be used to expand its customer base 鈥斅燽ringing the total amount of capital raised to more than $100 million.The company was founded in an ef stanley mug fort to fill a gap in the market for digital payment processing among small and medium-sized businesses. Rather than circulating invoices around the office on paper or in spreadsheets, Bill provides a cloud-based system that allows accounting and finance departments to view outstanding invoices simultaneously, as well as deliver solutions to make payment processing easier to handle for businesses.In the past 12 months, Bill has doubled its network to include more than 600,000 members, including 35 of the Top 100 accountin stanley fr g firms and three of the Top 10 banks in America. Over $19 billion in funds are moved annually, according to stanley quencher  company sources. Businesses today demand digital payments solutions that can make their lives easier and eliminate the headaches associated with having to process payments, checks and invoices manually,  said Ren茅 Lacerte, CEO of Bill.  With this new capital, we will continue to expand our core technology and fulfill our promise to deliver digital payments solutions to businesses nationwide. The funding round was spurred by聽tech startup investor Silicon Valley Bank 鈥?one of the most active financial technology investors for 2014聽鈥斅燼s well as聽existing investors DCM

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 Partior has raised $60 million in a Series B funding round to add new capabilities and more currencies to its global unified ledger-based interbank rails for real-time clearing and settlement.The companys infrastructure is used by major banks in financial m stanley termosky arkets that include London, New York, Singapore, Frankfurt聽and Hong Kong, Partior said in a Friday  July 12 聽press release. Partior is breaking down silos and rewriting the rules for cross-border clearing and settlement,  Humphrey Valenbreder, CEO at Partior, said in the release.  We see a very bright future for blockchain-based frictionless, cross-border transactions. Partiors global unified ledger enables banks, payments service providers and other global financial market participants to join its network and access real-tim stanley cup e, cross-border, multi-currency clearing and settlement, according to the release.Its blockchain network interoperates with real-time local currency payment and real-time gross settlement  RTGS  systems globally, facilitating both direct and indirect settlement flows with market players, the release said.The shared ledger also enables transfers with real-time settlement finality that offers instant liquidity and transparency, per the release.These capabilities are designed to improve liquidity management for corporate and financial stanley france  institutions that operate around the clock globally and face challenges in their use of traditional cross-border payments, according to the release.They also help these insti Ouzq Uber Takes Unprecedented Dip In Business Travel, Says Certify
 Wells Fago has come to a settlement agreement with customers whose personal information their staff used to set up fake bank and credit card accounts. With this announcement, Wells gets one 鈥?rather expensive 鈥?step closer to putting the incident in the rearview mirror.The latest payout comes after W stanley cup ells had already been dinged with $185 million in fines and penalties for the 2 million or so deposit and card accounts Wells Fargo employees set up for customers without their permission. The bank has also made some changes to prevent future incidents of this kind 鈥?its sales incentive structure has been modified so that creating fake accounts is no longer the best way to get ahead and fired  or demoted  the five main players who had served as senior managers in the consumer business. 聽John Stumpf, the CEO of Wells Fargo at the time the scandal broke, also resigned.The deal, announced Tuesday b stanley us y the bank and in a court filing, brings a close to the dozens of lawsuits filed across the country. 聽To go through, a judge must finalize the agreement. We want to ensure that each customer impacted by our sales practices issue has every opportunity for remediation, and this agreement presents an additional option, 聽Wells Fargo Chief Executive Officer Tim Sloan stanley quencher  said in a statement.  We continue to encourage customers to contact us directly so that we can act quickly to refund fees and address any concerns. Federal officials, notably, are still taking shots at Wells.On Tuesday, the聽Office o

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 Airbus yesterday pulled off twin orders together worth $2.8 billion. The first was for 30 A320 family aircraft worth $1.9 billion for Kingfisher Airlines. The second was from TAP Portugal for ten A350s and seven A330-200s.Kingfisher - which the day before ordered 20 ATR aircraft -yesterday underscored its ambitious expansions plans with the A320 family aircraft. Deliveries of the aircraft, which will comprise a mix of A319s and A320s, are due to begin in early 2008.Kingfisher already flies seven Airbus A320s on routes among Indian cities, and also has three A319s on order which are due for delivery by December 05. Its new aircraft will be powered by International Aero Engines V2500s, like its existing fleet. We have had a wonderful start to our Airbus A320 services within India 鈥?our guests love the aircraft and are delighted with what we offer, which is an attractive and unique travel experience at an afford adidas samba able price,  says Dr Vijay Mallya, Chairman of UB Group, one of Indias largest companies and the parent company of Kingfisher Airlines.  And when you like a product, you go out and buy more, which is what we are doing today with our additional Airbus A320 order. Kingfisher is a rapidly growing force in India, having taken a six per cent share of the domestic market in just six months. The Airline announced the acquisition of  owala ca five Airbus A380s, five Airbus A-330s and five Airbus A350s 鈥?for use on international services - earlier this year. It owala water bottle s latest acquisition means tha Ttah New fighter deployed
 Source: La Biennale di VeneziaKornel MundruczoHungarian director Kornel Mundrucz贸, whose feature Pieces Of A Woman premiered in competition at Venice last week, and representatives of the European Film Academy have joined protests against Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbans governmentsdecision to impose a new leadership on the University of Theatre and Film Arts  the SZFE  in Budapest.The governments actions have  hydro flask sale provoked an ongoing student blockade of the university. Berlinale Golden Bear winner Ildiko Enyedi resigned her teaching post at the university in protest at the measures. It is my alma mater,  Mundrucz贸, who wore a t-shirt   FREESZFE  in support of the students at Saturdays Venice press conference for his film, told Screen late on Sunday.  We would like to express solidarity with those students.  The students are protesting for the university and for freedom of the arts,  the director added, calling the governments decision to appoint the new board of trustees   yeti website very, very dangerous.  We have to keep the school as the place of f hydrojug sport reedom because art cannot be limited. On Sunday, the European Film Academy published a letter supporting the students and senate of the University in its actions against the Orban government. We deplore the fact that the University Senate has been deprived of its decision-making power and that the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest has essentially lost its academic autonomy.  read the letter. We fully support the students and t

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Irgq The Omni-Retailer   s Future
 Artificial intelligence  AI  and machine learning  ML  are starting to play a bigger role in retail, foreshadowing whats to come in the new decade of the 2020s.Walmart, for instance, hopes to reduce checkout theft by turning to cameras powered by AI, with deployments underway in some 1,000 stores.  The retailer began investing in the surveillance program, dubbed Missed Scan Detection, several years ago in an effort to combat shrinkage 鈥?loss due to sever stanley france al causes including theft, scanning errors, waste and fraud,  the report stated.  The AI-powered cameras were rolled out to more than 1,000 stores about two years ago, and the retail giant has stanley termosky  seen positive results since then, according to [Walmart spokeswoman LeMia] Jenkins, who said shrinkage has reduced in stores where the cameras have been added. By incorporating visual recognition technology and artificial intelligence into their business models, retailers such as聽Neiman Marcus,聽IKEA,聽HM and聽west elm聽 are leveraging mobile devices and AI to provide advanced customer services. Those services include visual se stanley de arches, hyper-personalization and seamless omnichannel functionality 鈥撀燼ll woven together, across online and brick-and-mortar channels, to enhance the consumer experience.Blurring the DivideAccording to聽PYMNTS research, AI and ML are blurring the divide between online and in-store shopping, and bringing an all-new human element into retail. In the wake of this  deep-learning  revolution in the retail industry, mer Qwiu How Staples Is Getting Its Groove Back
 From the point of view of a consumer in Myanmar, there is little difference between carrying a Visa and a UnionPay card 鈥?which is likely why the small Southeast Asian nation is  ground zero  for stanley mug  UnionPays attempts at expansion outside of Chinas borders.  stanley kubek Only 2 percent of the population carries plastic cards at present.Myanmar is not alone in UnionPays push to the frontier 鈥?Indonesia, Malaysia, Kazakhstan and even the Democratic Republic of Congo have all seen cards issued by the Chinese company begin swirling in their marketplaces. For many people in emerging markets, this will be the first card they come in contact with,  said Neil Katkov, senior vice-president at finance consultant Celent in Tokyo.  Thats a big shift from when Visa and MasterCard were the only game in town. Over the last decade and half, UnionPay has grown into the聽largest bank card group in the world by value of transactions, taking a 37 per cent chunk of the $21.6tn global payments market in 2015. But that size is based on a user base that is almost wholly Chinese, since state-controlled UnionPay is the only plastic game in town due to a de facto monopoly in-nation that has been the subject of a years-long fight with the WTO.Outside of China, UnionPay claims just 0.5 percent of the global market, compared with Visas 50 percent and MasterCa stanley termoska rds 31 percent.But UnionPay has bigger ambitions. This is an effort to expand Chinas financial influence globally,  said Simon Lee, an assistant dean at the Chinese Un