PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

Brick-and-mortar merchants are far from being free from the problems that plague their particular brand of retail, but even they have to look at online retail rising rents for warehouse space with a little bit of mirth. Of the 57 major retail markets studied, 37 of them posted decreases to warehousing availability.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Retailers that are unable to call on substantial financial reserves are struggling in the current environment. Consumers want everything these days, from online shopping with one-click ordering and fast delivery to an exciting and high-tech shopping experience at physical stores. Here’s an update on some of the recent casualties.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Online luxury marketplace 1stdibs stands as an example of that kind of content, along with providing — as do some other companies — a demonstration of the appeal of both digital and physical forms of content to tie consumers to a brand or ecosystem. But catalogs can work, as 1stdibs and other retailers have learned.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2018

based retailer Boohoo offers. While the reigning champions of fast fashion still need about a month to turn over their collections, Boohoo (and its associated brands Pretty Little Things and NastyGal) sees its ideas go from the drawing board, into production and onto shelves in as little as two weeks. million ($246 million).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2016

department stores to return to their productivity of a decade ago, approximately 800 such retail locations — equal to one-fifth of all anchor space in the country’s malls — would need to be shut down. As The Wall Street Journal shares, Green Street estimates that, for U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Separately, Pepsi spent $705 million to acquire Be & Cheery , a Chinese company that sells online snacks, per reports in February. The country’s snack market is said to be very profitable, seeing a 400 percent increase between 2006 and 2016, per a 2019 study from China’s Ministry of Commerce.

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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.

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TheGuardian

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Department store chain’s demise can’t simply be put down to high street crisis and online competition Debenhams stores set to close with 12,000 jobs at risk Chain ‘never recovered from private equity ownership’ What went wrong at Debenhams? We believe that there is the potential to increase the number of our department stores up to 240.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And while 2020 has represented an unusually sharp drop, teen spending has been on the decline for some time — peaking in 2006 at $3,023 on average. Those fears turned out to be well-founded, particularly for younger workers often employed in service jobs as retail clerks, waitstaff, child care, etc. A Foreseeable Fall-Off .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Since 2006, loyal fans of the soft drink have been collecting bottle caps with numbers printed inside to collect points for items. Over the years, loyalty programs have refined themselves to a process where either physically entering codes online or cutting off box tops has become a painful process.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Founded in 2006, Visual IQ provides businesses with its SaaS-based IQ Intelligence Suite, which measures, analyzes and offers actionable data on its clients’ marketing efforts. Its biggest industries are retail, financial services, insurance and high-tech, according to Gross. Needham, Mass.–based

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

And the smaller “mall brands” that exist alongside them in America’s various shopping enclosures have seen their bottom lines eaten alive. A little under two years ago, while watching the holiday shopping season increasingly unfold online, Karen Webster had a not-so-holly-jolly prediction. Retrofitting is expensive.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Haythornthwaite has served as chairman since May 2006. Speed is the name of the game in the online shopping space. seconds, in fact — to finish the average online shopping purchase. The coronavirus has already dented supply chains — notably those that serve auto manufacturers and retailers, among others.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

However, online sales bounced up 21.6 Mastercard’s Steve Sadove — who served as chairman and CEO of Saks from 2006 to 2013 — told Karen Webster in a recent discussion that consumers are likely doing the right thing by skipping the packed-in doorbusters line-ups. “And percent, according to preliminary data from Sensormatic Solutions.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

That brought about an idea to create a card that would give kids — who didn’t have a credit card, but did have access to high-speed internet at school — a way to buy things online. The iGen product was sold — and loaded with funds — at convenient retail locations around college campuses and upper middle-class neighborhoods.

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NCR

APRIL 11, 2018

That marks an increase of 50 percent from the end of 2012 (54 percent penetration) and compares to just three percent in December 2006. People who are used to receiving bespoke recommendations and engagement from online retailers, streaming services and other digital providers will expect the same from their banking apps and mobile wallets.

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Gonzobanker

JANUARY 19, 2015

New you are able to(Ap)Vital discounts drew american to store y simply and online for holiday gifts component to november, providing cheer and delivering the best gains for retailers in four years! ? ! Which are considered a key indicator of a retailer health! Holiday shoppers came out to swap spend i l november.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

The impending “death of retail” has been projected for decades. But, in an increasingly digital world, brick-and-mortar retail shops are embracing new ways to disrupt the system and get an edge on customer attention. One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Get the 54-page retail report. Founded: 2012.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Watching it at home in the comfort of the living or family room wouldn’t be an option until nearly two years later: August 22, 2006 , when the DVD was finally released. Dining out, though, is just one example of the consumer’s “don’t have to but want to” activities that brands can meet with digital-first solutions to keep consumers engaged.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Valentine’s Day on 14th February every year to commemorate the introduction of chip and UK In the UK on 14th February 2006. From The entire retail payment system is moving to t… – Accepting Payments – Quora. Roses are lovely / so is wine / EMV won’t help / the fraud’s online. We celebrate St. Valentine’s Day.

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CB Insights

JULY 24, 2018

The most potent symbol of the ascendance of e-commerce and downfall of physical retail is, of course, Amazon. 15-Min Flash briefing: Can AI Save Physical retail? Learn how Walmart, Amazon, Sephora, Zara, and other retailers are using AI to reinvent the brick-and-mortar store. During those same 10 years, Amazon went from $17.5B

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Bankruptcy claims a marquee name in tyke-focused retailing, as the Amazon effect continues. It is well below that of 2006, when that same figure hit 558,000 – and still trailing the 500K-600K that was the average in the U.S There was, of course, added pressure from carrying debt to the tune of $5 billion. The good news? The bad news?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, Date: November 30, 2006. Date: February 6, 2006. In 2006, it was the most-visited website in the US, even beating out Google. Zynga and OMGPOP.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

It’s enough to compel a retailer to make substantial changes as the holiday season heats up. The Rakuten-owned fashion site has addressed the various complexities of the market and the uniqueness of its own business model by adding new brands, partners and entire product categories to meet shoppers where they live – online.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Around the middle of the twentieth century, there was what The Atlantic called a “Cambrian explosion” of brands. Tide, Crest, Band-Aid, Lipton, and other branded packaged goods — and the conglomerates that manufactured them — reigned. Store brands from retailers were seen as down-budget choices. Why the shift?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One of the most recent examples of that movement comes from Walmart , the venerable retail chain locked in mortal combat with Amazon, and Green Dot, the 20-year-old payment services provider that has managed to not only survive in a cutthroat industry, but innovate and thrive. But news broke late Tuesday afternoon (Oct. Omnichannel Power.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

But this week, his new multi-year contract gives him a coveted spot as a headliner on one of Nike’s “Just Do It” ad campaigns, as well as a branded line of Kaepernick shoes and apparel. And embracing a controversial ad campaign is something of a mixed bag for brands that try it. When it hits, it can be a very powerful tool.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

retail, the first products they sold were diamonds, watches and jewelry – exactly where Tiffany started 39 years prior. The subsequent rise, dominance and fall of Sears is a well-known and well-covered story, but suffice to say it has been quite a long time since it was thought of as primarily a catalog retailer.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

” For example, the rise of “athleisure” brands like Lululemon and Athleta has been attributed to millennials’ search for clothing options that let them easily transition from the yoga studio to the office. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

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. In September 2015, Quirky finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections. Total Funding: $60M.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Pixelon: Online video vaporware. The Honest Company’s branding and promotional materials claimed that the firm’s goods were free of synthetic chemicals. Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal founded healthcare information startup Outcome Health in 2006 while the pair were still studying at Illinois’ Northwestern University.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In 2006, investment banks were at the top of the finance world. In the middle market (deals worth between $10M to $1B in value), private, online networks and SaaS tools are giving smaller company executives and brokers the ability to conduct M&A transactions on their own more quickly and far more affordably.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The online bookseller didn’t turn a profit for six years — today, it’s the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap. 2006: Nurture your seedlings to build big lines of business. The customer is more empowered than ever, and as a retailer, that means you’re never safe from your competition.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

And the evolution of who had access to Fashion Week in turn changed how brands started thinking about letting consumers access the goods they’d seen on display. Their recommendation pushed it into mass-market brands, where the questionably dressed intern “probably fished it out of some clearance bin.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

His premise knits together a series of storylines that regular readers of PYMNTS are quite familiar with: That the Amazon Effect on retail , despite the company’s 4 percent share of it, is real and that it uses its diversified sources of revenue, like Amazon Web Services, to subsidize its retail business at the expense of traditional retail.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

An explosion of new consumer finance brands is transforming how people save, spend, and manage their money. Robinhood’s goal was not to build an app for day-traders or portfolio managers; it was to build an app for the first-time retail investor. In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending.

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