PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

You will observe grocery, as a retail category, is very fragmented. Its “Whole Paycheck” image combined with the rise in availability of organic foods in more traditional grocery stores put pressure on its stock, which was in the dumper, and the management team to do something to turn things around. This one is particularly amusing.

Innovation 109

Innovation Online Google Millennials 109

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

But as the pandemic has progressed it has become increasingly clear that Target is also laying claim to the paycheck, and is often more innovative and digital-first than Walmart. It’s hardly competing with Amazon yet, but Target has shown more digital momentum than any major retailer during the pandemic.

Comparison 165

Comparison Strategy Retail Minneapolis 165

PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

If Nordstrom is looking to strengthen its eCommerce capabilities, the retailer certainly looked to the right place in a recent hire. In announcing Srinivasan’s hiring, shares CSA, Nordstrom highlighted its new CTO’s experience developing “highly innovative customer-focused outcomes” and cloud expertise.

User Experience 100

User Experience Retail Software Technology 100

CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Retail/Consumer Goods.

Innovation 74

Innovation San Francisco Georgia Technology 74

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Vice President, Product Management, Payment Security at CA Technologies. James Rendell heads Payment Security Strategy and Product Management for CA Technologies. Vice President / Senior Business Leader, Identity Solutions Product Management, Enterprise Security Solutions at Mastercard . DIGITAL DISCUSSION PRESENTERS.

Security 100

Security CA Cards Strategy 100

Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

Innovation 15

Innovation Fintech Online Mobile 15

PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

Innovators with better tech will appear and — literally overnight — snatch your customers out of your calcified incumbent arms and build scale, they say. Especially if any of those innovations touched the physical world. Broadband wouldn’t become pervasive in homes until about 2005. These innovations would usher in digital’s 2.0

Innovation 214

Innovation Mobile Capital Operations 214

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Today, the “membership has its privileges” mantra is at the core of the latest face-off between the two retail behemoths vying for an increasing portion of consumer spend: Walmart and Amazon. Amazon Prime became the catalyst for the consumer’s shift to digital and for the decline of physical retail.

Millennials 246

Millennials Retail Online Report 246

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

Additional investors also included Global Blockchain Innovative Capital, AlphaBlock Capital and AlphaCoin Fund. The equity, provided by the Ontario Pension Trust, Abu Dhabi Capital Group, Credit Suisse Asset Management and Myer Family Investments, is bolstering the company’s efforts to evolve into more than a FinTech.

Fintech 104

Fintech Capital blockchain Security 104

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2019

Much of the coverage was about the hit to Q2 profits from the additional investments in logistics, warehousing and inventory management required to cut the current default shipping option in half. Ordering ahead and managing pickup (or delivery) gives the consumer a way to create both predictability and assurance – on their terms.

Online 162

Online Retail Study Cards 162

CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

Innovation 78

Innovation Google Apple Video 78

PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

Two of the largest retail players in the luxury department store space – Neiman Marcus and Hudson’s Bay – may soon be joining their fortunes. If the deal were to go through, it would mark the third-time Neiman Marcus has changed hands since 2005 (it has been owned by private equity firms for the last 12 years).

Fort Worth 100

Fort Worth Retail New York Branding 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

At the intersection of data privacy and security and payments innovation lies friction, possibly, for the consumer experience. That may be a knotty issue when, especially for retailers, online orders are coming from all over the world. In the retail environment, one can buy online and return in store,” he emphasized. “In

Mobile 106

Mobile System Data Course 106

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. A payment method that has managed to capture nearly a quarter of sales over a decade hasn’t done badly. And what was the product?

Branding 184

Branding Cards Payments New Jersey 184

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. That makes it the most important year of the last decade. Consider this.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

the company the original team of four created) in 2005 and two years later launched it, along with a consortia of hardware, software and telco companies, to advance the notion of open standards for mobile devices. Historical landmarks get brief bios; storefronts yield hours of retail operation and contact data.

Google 108

Google Samsung Apple Software 108

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Cohen owns a national distribution network and deals with some of the nation’s biggest retailers. His aim is to change the way that the thousands of cases of retail goods are stored, handled and hauled. But it’s not just the retailers trying to cut costs who are embracing technology. Jobs, perhaps? Well, probably not.

Mobile 100

Mobile Payments Los Angeles California 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

In an interview with PYMNTS, Bradley Wiskirchen, CEO of fraud protection tech firm Kount, detailed the landscape of online fraud, where it is going, and the challenges and opportunities that confront innovative fraud detection. BW: It’s hard to pick just one – but here is one that I think underscores our approach to innovation.

Fraud 100

Fraud Idaho Innovation San Francisco 100

CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date : September 2005. Date: August 12, 2005.

Google 76

Google Software Innovation Company 76

NCR

APRIL 12, 2016

When the switch was made in 2006, just over half (55 percent) of retail spending was done on card. The move to online retail, at the expense of the high street, has undoubtedly fuelled card payment growth. By the end of 2015, the figure had risen to more than three-quarters (78.5 But was EMV the cause of this rise in card spending?

Fraud 40

Fraud Cards Payments Industry 40

PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Thirteen years later, in 2016, American consumers now spend 46 minutes a day shopping, with women dedicating about 35 percent more of their day to retail pursuits than their male counterparts. Fifty percent of retail spend happened there. In 2005, online sales accounted for 2.3 A LITTLE WALK DOWN SHOPPING’S MEMORY LANE.

Google 100

Google Mobile Apple Online 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

online grocery sales since 2017, the largest share of any single retailer and double its closest competitor. Acceptance of SNAP/EBT online : Amazon is one of several retailers, including Walmart, selected by the USDA to pilot the use of SNAP/EBT online to buy groceries. According to the Harris Poll, Amazon is the most trusted U.S.

Branding 101

Branding Florida Retail Online 101

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While they enjoy many FinTech innovations, most millennials don’t have a snowball’s chance of earning more than their parents — ever. It’s one thing for the millennial offspring of the billionaire hedge-fund scions to fall short of making a billion because they only manage to pull down $760 million a year. It’s a fact. population.

Millennials 100

Millennials Fintech Cards Groups 100

Tomorrow's Transactions

JANUARY 27, 2017

The Forum will be held at the America Square conference centre in London on 26th/27th April and Kevin Amateshe, the current M-PESA product manager will be coming in from Nairobi to give us a detailed picture of where M-PESA is now and where it will be going next. As of today, it has 25 million users and 261,000 agents across 11 countries.

Industry 30

Industry America Study Conference 30

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

A top retailer said that its counterfeit fraud rates declined by 90 percent the first 30 days after flipping the switch. I think what we’re really going to see is the smaller retailer — the mom-and-pop stores — leading the way. I think we will see small retailers overtake the larger ones for sheer breadth of innovation.

Fraud 100

Fraud Cards United States Payments 100

CB Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Meanwhile, nearly 5 million retail workers are at a medium risk of automation within 10 years. With the emergence of industry-specific AI, the effects of automation — initially felt in manufacturing — are seeping into retail sales, restaurants, e-commerce, marketing, and even software development. million jobs in the US.

Software 69

Software Industry Retail United States 69

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

He mocks himself for making mistakes, and sings the praises of Berkshire’s army of CEO-managers. For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.” ( 2005 ). “Be Management. The result of this type of plan was to make each manager at H. Don’t invest only because you expect a company to grow.

Omaha 78

Omaha Company Capital Management 78

CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation. 2005: Don’t get fixated on short-term numbers. 2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation. 2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation.

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Innovation Company Technology 78

CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Founded: 2005. The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. Dart Music. Earth Class Mail. Declared Bankruptcy: 2011. Total Funding: $60M.

Apple 78

Apple Branding Google Company 78

CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Few places are more receptive to new ideas and innovative business models than Silicon Valley. Select Investors: MasterCard, Wellington Management. Demonstrating sales is a necessity for retail startups, especially those operating in the intensely competitive food vertical. But the model doesn’t always work perfectly.

Fraud 78

Fraud Las Vegas Company Video 78

Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Jack Henry began offering P2P payment capability in 2005 and expects the new method to boost usage. The agreement enables consumers to make transactions of up to £30 ($36.60) at 400,000 retail locations. The partnership enables banks to offer funds-transfers a day sooner, or even same-day. Ready, set, ACH. The blockchain.

Trends 12

Trends Fintech blockchain America 12

CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

New Frontiers in Retail Tech. Download this research briefing to see how corporates and startups are shaping the future of retail with tech. They don’t need to rely on traditional retail stores for exposure. They’re competing more efficiently by rethinking not just the product, but also the retail model.

Video 78

Video Branding Company Strategy 78

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

. “The general consensus of the employee base is that there was mismanagement of finances,” said one former company executive… The day after the shutdown announcement, one Mode manager of an overseas office described receiving frantic emails from headquarters requesting immediate transfer of all funds and assets back to the US.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Series A into Facebook in 2005, taking a 15% stake in what was then called “Thefacebook.”. He positioned himself on both sides of the Groupon deal through various privately-owned investment vehicles and management roles. At the time of the company’s IPO 2014, Apax’s stake was worth about 100x what they paid in 2005.

Lending 78

Lending Capital Company Google 78