Petco and San Diego Padres Go into Extra Innings, Resurgent Brands Announce Petco Park Naming Rights Extension
Petco Launches Strategic Partnership with Players and Pet Parents Manny Machado and Fernando Tatis Jr.
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SAN DIEGO, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Petco Health and Wellness Company, Inc. (NASDAQ: WOOF), a complete partner in pet health and wellness, and the San Diego Padres today announced they have agreed to extend the naming rights for Petco Park through the 2027 Major League Baseball season. The two-year extension on this now 17-year relationship is emblematic of the continued strength and recognition of the iconic Petco brand and the company s strong roots in San Diego.
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SALZBURG, Austria and COLOGNE, Germany, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ For the 14th time, EHI has selected the winners of the reta awards, those companies with the best ideas for technologies in retail. The winners will be announced today via video at the EHI Innovation Days, powered by EuroCIS. For the first time, there will be an award in the new category Best AI and Robotics Application with which Checklens, an A.I. company from Salzburg, Austria, will be honoured as Top Supplier Retail 2021 . In cooperation with Diebold Nixdorf, Checklens has developed an AI-based system for IKEA that automatically detects scanning errors at the SCO checkouts. A smart camera above the self-checkout area detects each individual product and notifies the customer via the POS software if a product has not been scanned. The system can currently recognise more than 15,000 IKEA products.
Digital Cash enables cryptocurrency in physical retail
STOCKHOLM, March 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Crunchfish has created its own cryptocurrency Crunchcoins in an official Ethereum blockchain based test network and integrated it with Crunchfish s Digital Cash with the purpose to showcase cryptocurrency offline payments and interoperability in physical retail.
Digital Cash may be integrated with any of the current payment schemes - card, Real-Time Payment and closed-loop wallets - as well as the payment schemes of tomorrow - Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) and cryptocurrencies.
Crunchfish has created its own cryptocurrency Crunchcoins to experiment and showcase that the world s cryptocurrencies may be used in physical retail by integrating Digital Cash in a digital offline wallet. Digital Cash is based on a patent-pending two-tier settlement architecture, first offline at the moment of payment followed by settlement online to move money between accounts. VISA has recently propos