PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless. And Amazon and 7-Eleven aren’t alone.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Personal finance, banking and investment platform MoneyLion has named Samantha Roady chief operating officer as it makes moves to expand its customer base. Roady, who has been on MoneyLion’s board of directors since 2016, was previously a founding partner at GAIN Capital and president of its global retail brokerage business.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

But no matter the case, music is a big part of the retail world, and is helping to create new harmonies of innovation and disruption. Although Apple will operate the playlist, a fairly young label called UnitedMasters , founded in 2017, will provide much of the music. Others don’t. New Partnerships and Services.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

One of the biggest retail stories as we head into 2020 is how India is a battlefield of digital commerce, along with a hotbed of retail innovation. The company was founded in 2016. The eCommerce retailer is said to be working with Catamaran and has started hiring workers for the operation per unnamed sources, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

It’s not enough to just be a retailer these days, it seems. The retail chain reportedly has been in discussions with Triad Retail Media , the retail advertiser owned by WPP PLC, to acquire it. WPP had purchased Triad for about $300 million in 2016 from Rockbridge Growth Equity, the private equity firm.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Change came from various areas for retail in 2019. Retail merchandising was, at best, a hit-or-miss system in its heyday, Nextail CEO and Co-Founder Joaquin Villalba told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Analytics, too, was another hot spot for retail change in 2019 and will continue to be for the 2020s. Role of Data.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Oracle has announced new enhancements for its Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service , which will enable retailers to monitor the integrity of their materials and end products. For example, in 2016, a multi-state listeria outbreak in the U.S. affected a number of well-known supermarket chains.

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Insights on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Operational innovation is vital in a highly competitive financial services sector, with a new community of digital banks and other firms vying for market share. In 2016, the IBM Institute for Business Value teamed up with the Economist Intelligence Unit to interview global bankers. Drivers for Operational Innovation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

While Starbucks aims to streamline its operations in places that are seeing challenges with sales, the coffee chain plans to give a longtime partner the rights to operate cafes in four European markets. In addition, Alsea will take over operations at 177 franchisee-owned stores, according to reports. and 3:00 p.m.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

It’s not enough to just be a retailer these days, it seems. The retail chain reportedly has been in discussions with Triad Retail Media , the retail advertiser owned by WPP PLC, to acquire it. WPP had purchased Triad for about $300 million in 2016 from Rockbridge Growth Equity, the private equity firm.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Wells Fargo has revealed that it is firing around three dozen district managers due to the retail banking scandal that happened more than two years ago. The firings are the result of a scandal that started in 2016, when investigations revealed that employees trying to meet sales targets opened about 2.1

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

After news surfaced in May that Golden Gate Capital was considering a merger of Eddie Bauer and Pacific Sunwear of California , the private equity firm has created a new operating company comprised of the two retailers. Golden Gate acquired Eddie Bauer out of bankruptcy protection in 2009 with a cash bid of $286 million.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In a sign of the times in consumer lending, Auto Finance News today announced the launch of Auto Finance Innovation 2016, a new industry forum to explore the fintech revolution and how it is reshaping automotive lending and leasing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Walmart is making some organizational adjustments with its executives to help better integrate its retail store and digital operations, according to a report by CNBC. The company has been pushing to better integrate its online and physical divisions ever since it acquired Jet.com in 2016.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Even before the holiday shopping season began, Amazon already commanded a growing share of consumers’ retail spending, according to The Amazon Paycheck Index from PYMNTS. percent in 2016. Over the last four years, retail sales have shifted to Amazon in key categories that were once the domain of the physical store. Voice Retail.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2017

There are rarely second acts in retail — particularly once bankruptcy is in play — but, every so often, the unexpected happens. Last week, footwear retail company Payless ShoeSource was one of those unexpected stories, a company pulled into the bankruptcy whirlpool but getting plucked out before being sucked all the way down to the bottom.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The first were the Pepsis, Heinzes and Krafts that either didn’t like their retail distribution or saw a pandemic-driven opportunity to get new products in new configurations to the consumer. Formed in 2008, Green Goo is a women-owned, family-operated company that started out making skin products and first aid salves for friends and family.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

In a way, watching the emergence of legal retail marijuana in North America is like watching someone grow up. Not really a toddler or baby — even black-market sale of recreational and medicinal pot took on many traits of legitimate retail — but more like a once gawky teenager growing into a graceful, confident person. and Canada.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

Ever since 2013, when Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the eCommerce giant was working on a 30-minute drone delivery program called Prime Air, people have been saying that delivery is the big retail use case for drone technology. Domino’s furthered the point by delivering a pizza by drone in 2016. Patent and Trademark Office.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

Amazon is replacing some of its retail veterans with software that predicts what shoppers want and how much merchants should charge for it. The shift to automating retail team jobs started several years ago with an initiative called “hands off the wheel.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

A new index from The NPD Group’s Checkout Tracking SM shows that Walmart, McDonald’s and Target top the list of retailer and food service chains, with better than five out of six U.S. consumers shopping with them in 2016.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Those promise to stand as two main traits of the 2018 holiday shopping season , and retailers that gain an edge and increase revenue during the all-important fourth quarter will likely have exploited such tactics during this period, at least according to new data that strives to paint a detailed picture of U.S. percent, reaching $124.1

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Look to China, and look some more — that’s one of the main messages in mid-2019 for luxury retailers, at least for ones not based in the U.S. Luxury retail is a hot space in China. The latest evidence of that comes from Louis Vuitton. JD is also one of Farfetch’s largest shareholders. Back in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are teaming with logistics firms to test drones for delivery — and making progress on their experimental flights. A remote operator monitored them and could step in if needed.) Department of Transportation’s Integration Pilot Program, starting in 2016. UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward Inc.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

A new study has found that retail global expansion has lost some steam, and while the United States remains the most active, Europe is now the preferred spot for expanding retailers, according to Chain Store Age. The results found that retailers’ expansion into new markets increased by 2 percent in 2016, down from 3.1

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The panel of judges — Scarlett Sieber of BBVA; Sam Maule of Carlisle & Gallagher; Ryan Falvey of the Center for Financial Services Innovation; Matt Wilcox of Fiserv; and Phil Ryan of Bank Innovation — will decide which company is worthy of the “Best in Show” DEMOvation crown at Bank Innovation 2016.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Many retail companies rung in the new year with a new CFO. Or, at least, many retail companies wanted to. Turns out, at least 45 retail companies have had their CFO exit in the past year. This means that CFOs have to participate in the strategy and operations of some organizations, where they didn’t used to.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

FinTech is no stranger to this pattern, and while venture capital levels have seemed to dwindled in certain markets (analysts found VC funding down by 29 percent in 2016 compared to last year), B2B startups remain the apple of many investors’ eyes. India saw a particularly lucrative year. Business Services.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This holiday season, consumers are boosting their expectations when it comes to their eCommerce retail. Cloud-based operations solution provider Voxware released consumer survey data that points to the increased standards consumers are holding online retailers to during the 2016 holiday shopping season. Although few U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

And to make sure that everyone starts off 2016, Part II on the same footing, we thought we would bring you a few of the top trending stories, as well as hot data/research topics, that will give you a head start on that all-important planning for 2016 and beyond. Store Front Business Index: Main Street USA, A-OK? Are SMBs Ready For EMV?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Ask a brand, retailer or marketer, and they’ll all probably say the same thing: Brick-and-mortar retail stores are dying thanks to the rise of eCommerce and online shopping. And if brick-and-mortar retail really is dead or dying, then maybe somebody should tell that to the retailers themselves? And DSW’s U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Immediacy in retail is no small advantage. While being invisible is something of an odd goal in retail — as it’s hard to sell one’s goods and services if consumers don’t know you exist — Darkstore, as its name implies, is a bit different. Brands and retailers that don’t have a local foothold for their inventory now get one.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

21) that Acima founder Aaron Allred and his team have created a leading virtual LTO solution for retailers and consumers. “We We all share a common vision to expand the virtual LTO offering across a broader set of retail partners and to meet the needs of more customers through an integrated omnichannel strategy. billion in 2020.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2018

Amazon announced its plan to build a totally unattended retail store in early 2017, but there was something of a gap between the announcement of the company’s plan for a sensor-based, cashier-less shopping experience here in the United States and its actual rollout in late January of this year. but it seems to be catching fire in China.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 5, 2017

Unicorns had some fluttering of wings into the end of 2016, more a soft rustling than might be termed full flight. Those two retailing giants are overhauling at least part of their fashion categories, with private-label launches. What’s the one thing unicorn watchers watch for the most? IPOs, of course.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2017

Retail sales increased 4.1 According to a report , retail sales during the month of December increased 0.6 Among the retailers that led the charge in terms of sales, it was squarely in the eCommerce camp, with sales at Amazon and eBay seeing strength. For all of 2016, retail sales came in up 3.3

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a world where retail has changed and consumers remain at home, how do brands reimagine the task of getting products to customers? In 2016, Jon joined fan and light maker Big Ass Fans as its first chief operating officer. She specializes in digital experience, retail, and digital. In Episode 4 of the What If?

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