PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

In the retail world, one pachyderm has been learning to dance in all manner of ways, displaying the chops to tango, watusi and foxtrot as situations demand. But, other numbers matter in the retail world, and here is where there is steak with the sizzle. Small, but smart : Dollar Tree shows smaller can be better in retail.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

Currently, Amazon hopes to take advantage of recently loosened restrictions on foreign retailers in India by expanding its online grocery venture into the nation of some 1.3 Back in 2015, the company launched its Prime Now service in Bangalore , which included some restricted and hyperlocal grocery delivery. in 2017, said GeekWire.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

Brazil and Mexico — the total amount in cash payments for the region was $3 trillion in 2015, with weighted average cash use at 14 percent of GDP, with an estimated increase, annually, of 4 percent through 2020 in absolute dollars but a decline in percentage of GDP by 1.2 Turning to the Americas — defined as the U.S.,

ATM 192

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2016

Online retail has taught merchant and consumer alike a pertinent lesson for the age of digital retail: Everything might have a price, but the quest for the ultimate bargain means it can always be lower. The story starts with a somewhat out-of-the-blue move from leading discount retailer Dollar General.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Streamlining operations and improving customer insights were key, but so was protecting against fraud, Koch said. Greyhound’s digital push comes as more consumers — many of them millennials — are demanding added affordability, convenience and safety from travel companies. Overcoming legacy systems.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2019

L’Occitane said the acquisition of the Elemis brand — which is popular with millennials and Generation X consumers — is intended to strengthen its global growth as it expands its market, particularly in Asia where high-end skincare is a rapidly growing area of interest and spend for consumers. billion euros ($2.5 The firm reported 1.3

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Q3 operating profit hit $792 million, up from $254 million the previous year. Midwest retailer Meijer has signed on with the service to provide same-day delivery of groceries. The service is already online in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and Wisconsin — the range of states Meijer operates in currently.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

As a result, the once-pioneering grocer entered the second tier of retailers. Years later, of course, the defunct retailer filed for bankruptcy for the second time in five years in 2015 — before disappearing from the American retail landscape. Costco makes up for its low margins on its goods by charging membership fees.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

And, as the company operates on a D2C model, Lupberger noted that it can use better components — essentially using “the cleanest ingredients on the market,” he said. And, beyond its own eCommerce channel, the company has taken an omnichannel strategy to involve brick-and-mortar brands as well as an online retailer. The Business Model.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

million buyers who operate in industries such as website development, logo design and blog writing. Smartphones contributed one trillion dollars to overall retail sales in the United States during 2018. percent – is the total compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of the mobile payment transaction market from 2015 to 2020.

Apple 159

Apple Mobile Fraud Branding 159

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. In 2016, 5 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since Walmart is the nation’s largest retailer, operating more than 11,000 stores globally and 4,300 in the U.S. alone, and takes in about $480 billion in sales annually, the insight into the retail giant’s average customer is particularly interesting and comes about thanks to Kantar Retail , a retail analytics and consulting firm.

Retail 100

Retail Comparison Millennials Analytics 100

PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2017

Likewise, earnings per share (EPS) and net income hit well above expectations, with the online retail giant raking in $1.48 The online retail giant is already a major contender in online apparel sales among millennials. Amazon has been building out its private-label offerings for apparel since at least the end of 2015.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2 Share of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

Brick-and-mortar retail will forever remember the day that Nintendo released Pokémon GO , a mobile game that has caused millions of millennials to suddenly discover outside again. However, some retailers prefer to play cards of the kind as close to the corporate chest as possible. Bankruptcies. Store Closures.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

Though millennial parents were hit with nostalgia, when it comes to the world of toy sales going forward, market watchers of all kinds have been asking themselves the same question for weeks: Now what? As for opening a retail store — a toy store no less — just as the biggest toy store in America is going down? Pop-Up Toy Stores.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 9, 2016

According to the 2015 Colloquy Customer Loyalty Census, the average American household maintains memberships in 29 loyalty programs (1). Statistics are especially compelling for those trying to attract and maintain the millennial segment. Customer Loyalty Program Memberships Top 3 Billion For First Time, 2015 COLLOQUY Census Shows.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Cat & Jack is Target’s newest vision — a line of baby and kids clothes, approved by kids, featuring funky colors and cooler cuts — and it is a big move on the rapidly growing market for kids clothes among newly reproducing millennials. Just another big-box retailer fighting on price. And of course, a big risk. percent a year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

You will observe grocery, as a retail category, is very fragmented. billion fine onto Google, claiming that their product carousel ads created an unfair advantage to small guy retailers who didn’t have the money to advertise. I’ll point out that those retailers did, apparently, have the money to hire lawyers. Investors put $2.65

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. Millennials and Gen Z are driving the growth of the secondhand market and eCommerce, generally. Online Resale.

Online 101

Online Fraud Branding social media 101

PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

It has been a particularly grim retail season for the mall staples that defined landscape of the late ’90s and early 2000s. Karen Webster described this scenario in 2014 as The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral. “So Same-store sales in retail locations were up on average 1 percent from the same time in 2015.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

That includes growth areas like mobile banking, of course, but also covers traditional cornerstones of retail banking like the ATM. In the rush to serve the tech-savvy millennial market and keep up with the latest developments in mobile and digital banking, some FIs might fall into the trap of overlooking traditional channels.

ATM 85

ATM Mobile Strategy Fraud 85

PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Today, the brand is very different than the soap-making operation that was formerly run out of its founders’ kitchen. Instagram has been particularly crucial to building its loyal following among millennial and Gen Z shoppers, with a follower count of 450,000 and growing. The brand they created was called Herbivore Botanicals.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

“We are going to have to lean into this digitized world, so that we can continue to serve our customers well into the 21st century,” ICBA President and CEO Cam Fine told the 24th World Congress of Savings and Retail Banks in Washington, D.C., See “Closing the Gap” in the November 2015 issue, online at www.independentbanker.org.).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Last week, along with its launch of the new operating system iOS 11 , Apple rolled out a whole new design for the iOS App Store. smartphone owners now download a grand total of zero apps per month, and most new app downloads are (unsurprisingly) concentrated in the millennial demographic. All of the above are being tried….

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. And that will become this salon’s standard operating procedure going forward. We’ve also seen a shift to digital for retail purchases of 3.4

Cards 147

Cards Study Maine Payments 147

Gonzobanker

MARCH 6, 2018

Big banks have been in the driver’s seat on growing their market share in retail, while paring down branch networks. Meanwhile, Wells plans to close 450 branches by 2019, BofA has closed 1,600 branches since 2009, and Chase closed 365 since 2015. Aligned and Future-Ready.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Of course, it’s not just the FinTech industry and tech-savvy millennials who are fueling digital change. Telcos and retailers weren’t far down the list. Citing the PYMNTS Global Fraud Attack Index , Jenkins explained that there were 27 fraud attacks for every 1,000 transactions in Q4 2015, an increase of 215 percent over 12 months.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

In a new PYMNTS interview, David Roger, co-founder & CEO of Felix Gray , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) eyewear seller that is also trying to tap into broader wellness trends, talks about what’s coming next for this particular brand of online retail, and why Amazon may — or may not — get more involved. Wellness and Sustainability.

Retail 116

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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. 26 in App Annie’s list of popular apps by time spent — to get to the first retail app.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

We made significant progress in 2015, transforming our product operating model, enabling us to be more responsive to trends and market conditions and consistently deliver on-brand product collections. The work is deep and it centers around core processes in the business,” Peck said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

In 2015, Grubhub extended its model and stepped into the delivery business, first through the acquisitions of local platforms that both enabled online ordering and offered delivery services and later through the expansion of their own delivery capabilities — recruiting drivers and building out tools to support the delivery side of their business.

Online 125

Online Branding Mobile Millennials 125

PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2017

After many fits and starts, Square pushed into an IPO in late 2015. Among sellers who have accepted a loan from Square Capital, 54 percent are women and 46 percent are men; among millennial business owners, 60 percent are women and 40 percent are men. It was one that was widely thought was headed for a fizzle. The Square Evolution.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Unlike supermarkets and retail stores, landlords didn’t see the value in accepting digital payments. “A Strike number two: Landlords weren’t all that keen on adding unnecessary cost to their operating budgets. Millennials, Villante explained, are willing to “set it and forget it” on auto pay for $3.95–$4.95

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

In 1985, Microsoft released its first (not so popular) version of Windows — an operating system that enabled applications to deliver functionality on a variety of personal computers. Two: Platforms have to operate at scale. A few centuries and a personal computing age later, there’s the Windows OS. And, to use our word, ignition.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Diana Chin (HR & Operations). Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. If you have a large retail investor base, and no resources to interact with them, then perhaps there some value? ^SR. Svyatoslav Ostrovsky (Head of Retail Digital Business).

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Amazon’s next big move could be in beauty retail. Retail partnerships to add value for SMB clients. The first image below — taken from Google’s 2017 patent application titled “ Escalation to a human operator ” — shows the operator dashboard showing progress of existing tasks. YouTube powers beauty influencers.

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