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Walmart’s Allswell Goes On Tour; Target To Expand Debut Of New Loyalty Program

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Startups in the eCommerce space have long enabled their customers to experience their products in real life (“IRL”) through temporary retail shops, and now, digitally-focused brands belonging to major retailers are taking a similar approach. The four-room house, which is a mere 238 square feet, was built for the brand by Modern Tiny Living.

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Wendy’s Adds Flavor To Ghost Kitchen Movement

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My idea was [to] make a virtual food hall, where it has multiple brands inside, but … you order it online. But ghost kitchens are also coming into fashion with larger brands looking to tap the low-overhead, higher-margin business opportunity they represent. But can it last? Will Ghost Kitchens Go the Distance?

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Digital Sales Boost Kohl’s First-Quarter Sales Beat

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Going forward, Kohl’s announced in the call that the company is changing up its loyalty program, piloting the “next generation” in 100 stores in eight markets, including Raleigh, Phoenix and Austin. “We The program seeks to provide access to sales events that have “historically have been limited to Kohl’s charge card holders,” Gass said.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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Under Stuart’s leadership over the past 17 years, OnPoint has gone from under $2 billion in assets to knocking on the door of $10 billion, all while becoming the most recognized financial brand in the Portland market and achieving some of the industry’s best profitability in 2023. Oh, and along the way, OnPoint will provide an amazing $2.5

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Mobile Payments: What’s In It For Me?

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NanoPay is finding that for mobile payments to take off, even among early adopters, using a phone to pay must be much more rewarding and convenient than tapping a card. “You want to get into as many use cases as possible,” said Greg Weed, director of card performance research at Phoenix Marketing International.

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The 2022 GonzoBanker Awards

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As if that wasn’t enough, regulators took a sledgehammer to debit fee income with Reg II changes that will begin reducing card-not-present interchange fees starting in July 2023. Acronym of the Year – CCCA (Credit Card Competition Act). Goes to Allison Netzer and Liz High for their provocative tome, Think Like a Brand, Not a Bank.

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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

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Seedrs was one of the names on the illustrious list of 2009-founded firms that decided to make like the Phoenix, and rise out of the ashes. The race to build a great and powerfully disruptive mobile wallet to knock down the card networks started long before anyone was even speculating about Apple’s payment plans.