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MAY 5, 2016

Absolutely no need to panic, then — unless the topic is retail bankruptcies , which increased year over year by 24 percent. Such is the double-edged sword of a retail industry swept up in innovation. For every new path cut through the market, the retailers standing in the way are cut down. January — Wet Seal. As of Feb.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

As retail pushes further into online spaces, many marketers and merchants alike are focused on clicks and open rates to measure the success of campaigns and consumer outreach, said Matt Williamson, cofounder and CEO of Windsor Circle. based company takes a different, data analytics approach to online retail marketing.

Retail 100

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JUNE 3, 2016

These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. According to Dasilva, the past decade-plus has brought three major payments revolutions, each of which shook the retail industry. There’s increasingly less middle ground between getting omnichannel right or fading into oblivion.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

Brett took over just over a year ago, and the retailer’s “404 stores have cleared out inventory left over from his predecessor, in time for Brett to give the brand a makeover,” the report said. The company went private in 2011 and has about $1.7 billion worth of debt.

America 103

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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).

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In this analysis, we’ll explore the immediate and long-term challenges facing the CPG industry, as well as the business strategies that CPG brands are using to adapt. Since then, Peltz has continued to push P&G to re-evaluate its R&D strategy, bring in more external talent, and focus on innovation. Short-term challenges.

Branding 73

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

One popular approach: in-house financial innovation labs. We’ve created a list of finance innovation labs from some of the biggest names in the industry, as well as from newcomers looking to make a name through tech. We’ve written about corporate innovation theater before — and how sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

After turning Taco Bell into a lifestyle brand and introducing breakfast at the quick service restaurant (QSR), CEO Brian Niccol is heading to Chipotle Mexican Grill. Niccol, who came to Taco Bell in 2011, became CEO in 2015 after holding the position of president. He brought mobile ordering and payments to Taco Bell’s 7,000 U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

But The Verge offered another interpretation: It’s minimizing the price bag as brick-and-mortar retail diminishes. We’re excited to be opening a brand new store in a popular shopping center in a growing part of the Salt Lake City market,” Jeff Shelman, a Best Buy spokesman, told the StarTribune in April.

Retail 100

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JULY 2, 2019

It is perhaps unsurprising in the era of food innovation that so many startups have gone after the holy grail of proper pizza creation. Pizza is a crowded innovators’ party to hang out at, as it turns out, and standing out in the crowd is not easy. The brand was founded on the theory that it could be the Chipotle of pizza.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Perhaps unsurprisingly, a veritable legion of DTC brands and startup shops have sprung up in the last several years to fill the holes in the market – and even reshape it. Victoria’s Secret has seen its sales stall , as the brand has been accused of being out of step with the tastes of contemporary consumers.

Data 122

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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. Why physical retail still matters. to $355.9B

Retail 49

Retail Online Branding New York 49

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.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

There are still retail clerks and waiters; tailors and dry cleaners; drivers and warehouse workers — just as there were when the 21st century got off the ground. Uber , Lyft , Fiverr , Airbnb , Postmates were the early names in the game, all founded between 2009 and 2011. Some lasted; some did not.

Community 236

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MARCH 8, 2019

When the world first encountered the brand in 2011, Dollar Shave Club didn’t have much more than an innovative idea for selling razors and a viral video about the concept. On top of razors, toothpaste and cologne, the brand will now offer deodorant sticks and wipes. Same quality, but 90 percent less expensive. “We

Branding 115

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2016

Despite being placed front and center on jerseys, those are actually the brand names (or slogan, in Emirates’ case) that sponsor teams whose actual names are Arsenal FC , Chelsea FC and Manchester United , respectively, all members of the English Premier League. There’s one that clearly says “Chevrolet,” so that’s obviously the team’s name.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Jewelry shopping doesn’t seem like a friction-filled retail category, but any consumer who has spent time trying to purchase the right piece can affirm it’s not exactly a consumer-optimized process. And re-wear doesn’t have the same “ick” factor for some consumers that one tends to see in other retail items, like shoes.

Ohio 107

Ohio Retail Innovation Technology 107

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans.

Apple 101

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

The notion that Facebook is going to launch and ignite a global payments network, at scale, based on its own branded cryptocurrency and achieve global merchant and consumer acceptance is as likely as the predictions a decade ago that bitcoin and blockchain would, by now, become the internet of money. Curtain Call: The media goes nuts.

Innovation 209

Innovation blockchain Payments cryptocurrency 209

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

MARCH 2, 2016

The continued revelations of just how hard hit the retailer truly is keep coming, but that hasn’t stopped Macy’s from trying out some radical concepts — the type that might just be crazy enough to get it out of the mess it’s in. And what happened to Johnson’s bold retail experiment? It was a disaster.

Retail 100

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Once widely considered an eCommerce-proof vertical because of consumers’ basic insistence on seeing and handling fresh produce, that conventional wisdom has dissolved through a steady drumbeat of innovations by several smaller online grocery players and some massive investments from major players like Amazon, Walmart and Kroger. .

Los Angeles 131

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

Also a factor in both countries, casual restaurants have been on the rise for 15 years, with innovation and food delivery propelling it forward. an additional challenge is that most of its casual dining outlets are global (read: American) brands. GDP growth rate is at its lowest since 2011. In the U.K., percent, the U.S.’

Chicago 100

Chicago National Trends Branding 100

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AUGUST 5, 2016

What’s the hottest new industry in retail? men report shaving less often, grooming innovations, such as cleansing gels or holding creams for facial hair, and facial hair grooming tools present opportunities in the men’s personal care market.”. How about the razor. Despite the fact that many U.S.

New York 100

New York California Retail Online 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

The specific issue that I’m referring to is merchant surcharging – a fancy term to describe the fee charged by merchants when consumers use network-branded card products to pay for their purchases. Merchants, especially in an increasingly tough retail environment, just want the sale. Innovation by Any Other Name. is nothing new.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Since its founding in 2011, Stitch Fix has had a difficult challenge: how to ship customers clothing that matches both their size and taste preferences once a month, without the client ever having to be present for a measurement or inventory check. The simple answer, is data (of course) but in Stitch Fix’s case there is a lot of data in play.

Minneapolis 116

Minneapolis Branding Data Course 116

PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

StyleSeat Founder Melody McCloskey knew she had a good idea when she launched StyleSeat in 2011, because the concept seemed so intuitive. They didn’t get the all-female customer side of the platform or the hairstylist side of the platform. Everything McCloskey explained mostly fell on confused ears. .”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

has strongly hinted that the agency she birthed in 2008 and opened for business in 2011 — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) — should be given the authority to do even more. That business was called The Retail Credit Corporation. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D – Mass.) Kinda makes you wonder why.

Report 202

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2017

But in 2011, two Brown University seniors, Walker Williams and Evan Stites-Clayton, discovered how hard bringing T-shirts to market was when they tried to create a website to sell T-shirts commemorating the closing of their favorite Providence bar. We wanted to prove that we could be great at apparel.

Kentucky 116

Kentucky Marketing Branding Innovation 116

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

Neo4j is used in financial services and retail, government, telecommunications and more for mission-critical applications as diverse as real-time pricing, online product and service recommendations, fraud detection, enterprise search and the Internet of Things (IoT). So how did this idea go from two-ply to worldwide?

Technology 101

Technology Data Retail Fraud 101

CB Insights

APRIL 29, 2019

INNOVATION IS MORE THAN FANCY JOB TITLES. Get the free 31-page State of Innovation report to find out how 677 corporate strategy execs are driving change and growth. Innovation Evangelist. Both SAP and Google have employed an innovation evangelist in years past. Innovation Alchemist. Retail Jedi.

Innovation 78

Innovation Software Taxes Google 78

PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2018

Here at PYMNTS, we see it all, often in the form of press releases – most of which claim to be the next big thing in retail, commerce and financial services. Health and wellness is paramount to success in pet innovation, and pet trends are closely following human ones. These days, those ideas are often associated with crypto.

New York 103

New York Branding Trends Course 103

PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

When Birchbox began offering men’s subscriptions in 2011, it was an idea small enough to almost be considered a throw-away. was a limited collection of products on offer as a special during the 2011 holiday shopping season. Birchbox Man version 1.0

Millennials 116

Millennials Marketing Capital Branding 116

PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

Amazon has been hard on Best Buy’s bottom line over the last several years, a situation that makes it almost entirely non-unique among the big-box retailers that exploded during the late ’90s and early 2000s. In 2007, unable to turn a profit in an increasingly crowded market, specialty electronics retailer Tweeter went bust.

Retail 100

Retail Comparison Innovation System 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

It’s a thought that was triggered recently after reading and reflecting on recent developments across three innovations heralded as FinTech’s poster children — disruptors out to change the world and eat the proverbial lunches of incumbents they say are too big and too unmotivated to change. Blockchain. Marketplace lending. Digital banks.

Fintech 183

Fintech blockchain Lending Digital Banking 183

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

Beyond BMW and Cadillac , the subscription market is growing as consumers and brands take note: Software vendors, too, are turning to subscriptions, according to the PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Tracker. Here is how different industries are innovating with subscriptions. in Q1 2018 to 64.0 in Q2 2018.The

Marketing 110

Marketing Software Nashville Tennessee 110

CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Declared Bankruptcy: 2011. By December 2011, it was under $30/kg. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart. The company’s assets were acquired by Q Holdings in 2015, and the firm quietly relaunched the Quirky brand in 2017. Founded: 2011. Dart Music. Earth Class Mail. Founded: 2005.

Apple 78

Apple Branding Google Company 78