PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Don’t look now, but retailers and commerce are getting more visual with reality. the company that owns popular social media video platform Snapchat, to provide 5G content for users, including enhanced augmented reality (AR) experiences. Recently, Verizon announced that it’s partnering with Snap Inc.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2020

Sensory branding is having a moment. These are some admittedly “out there” examples of sensory branding, which is popular lately for several reasons. Supplementing the “sight” of marketing and branding with a taste or a sound creates an entirely new set of tools to attract consumers. And sensory branding isn’t limited to sound.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

When he first came up with the idea for an eCommerce technology company, Co-founder and CEO Finbarr Taylor was in the process of plowing through this story of medieval Japan. He needed a name for the company and liked the book. Or you could find a tool like ours and customize and optimize on your own.”. A new Shogun was born.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

As eCommerce revenue has risen, so has the need for consumers to return their purchases, sometimes surprising retailers that might not have seen the order scale they’ve seen for April and May. The company combines expertise in eCommerce, supply chain management and customer service to amplify the all-important customer experience.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

Designer Brands Inc. The company operates almost 1,000 retail stores under names like DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse and The Shoe Company. The company’s net loss for the first quarter was $215.9 In separate news, retailer Express Inc. reported that net sales plunged by 44.7 percent to $482.8

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Direct-to-consumer wedding brands are opening stores in real life — and personalizing the customer experience within them through digital technology. At the same time, the brand seeks to create personalization through every one of its touchpoints. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

She said the biggest and best-in-class brands had been on that path long before the pandemic. But the pandemic-inspired shift to digital commerce has raised consumer expectations for seamless simplicity in multichannel journeys and pressured retailers slower to enter the world of omnichannel to work double-time to catch up. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As 2020 unfolds, the retail business has been dramatically altered. But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. So, what constitutes experiential marketing for retailers? Wine and cheese for the shoppers?

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

Retail reopening events continued to draw light foot traffic on Monday, as Florida joined Texas in allowing non-essential stores to reopen. percent of consumers shop for retail goods online more often than they did on March 6, the first day of our study, and that continues to climb — up 10.5 percent from 35.5

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The holiday season comes with extra expenses for consumers, and financial companies want to help customers budget. Peer-to-peer payments network Zelle, which has been active in elevating its brand to […].

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Furstenberg said the partnership is a unique one and will help the company connect with its customers in a real way. Connecting is really important, especially if you want to be a brand that stands out to consumers today,” she said. issuers for Mastercard.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But the challenge for retailers now is deciding what to do next, Amazon Pay Chief Marketing Officer Kelly Wenzel told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. Wenzel told Webster that what retailers need to think about is those things that actually aren’t going to change in an environment where it feels like everything is changing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Iconic brick-and-mortar retailers are sometimes reinvented, and return to the world of retail with smaller-format concepts. The parent of the Toys R Us brand, Tru Kids , plans to bring stores under the legendary name to the United States for the 2019 holiday season. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

New developments are focusing on supply chain, government activity and infrastructure to improve the customer experience as post-pandemic retail finds its legs. Among the companies making accommodations for SMBs is FedEx. Now that the digital shift is well underway, the attention turns to keeping the momentum going.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It's no secret that restaurants have been hurting since the pandemic caused a seismic, almost-overnight shift in their customer engagement strategies. The QSR began as a hot dog stand in New York City’s Madison Square Park in 2001 and has since grown to become a global brand, with more than 250 locations around the world. .

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 11, 2019

As consumer-facing brands roll out augmented reality and virtual reality tools to improve the customer experience, financial services companies are just beginning to test their capabilities -- with mixed results. Meanwhile, supply-chain logistics companies are examining its capacity […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Brands reported that worldwide system sales excluding foreign currency translation increased 10 percent, with Taco Bell at 13 percent, KFC at 11 percent and Pizza Hut at 7 percent. The company opened 1,029 net units for 4 percent net unit growth, as reported in its fourth-quarter results. Pizza Hut U.S. New Zealand and Australia.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Canadian global point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce firm Lightspeed is teaming up with Silicon Valley payments platform Stripe to advance in-store and online payments for retailers and restaurants in the U.S. and Canada, the companies announced on Thursday (Feb. Last month , Lightspeed announced the launch of Lightspeed Payments for U.S.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 26, 2019

N26 is building out its perks ecosystem, adding partnerships with new brands at a rapid clip. This month, the company partnered with scooter rental company Lime and online travel platform Booking.com to offer added rewards to customers who transact using their N26 debit cards.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

Brian Billingsley, CEO North America at Klarna , joined Karen Webster to discuss those partnerships and the benefits that it believes its more streamlined financing options can bring to the consumer purchasing experience. The Revolving Difference. Financing For Consumer Segments. Klarna launched its financing platform in the U.S.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Retailers are dutifully speaking with their payment service providers (PSPs) and industry partners to adhere to these shifts, but they must also keep their customers’ experiences in mind. retailer trade group, Retail Industry Leaders Association ( RILA ), told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Kroger and Walgreens are expanding their partnership to create a new group purchasing organization (GPO) called the Retail Procurement Alliance, which will pool resources to cut costs and advance innovation, the companies said in a press release on Wednesday (Dec. and reinvent critical components of our sourcing practices.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

Over the last few years, chatbots have taken the retail space by storm, helping to automate several key aspects of customer service. With 100,000 branded chatbots and growing on Facebook Messenger alone, it doesn’t appear that chatbots have any intention of going away any time soon. Are they helping or hindering?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). That’s the tech part.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

And in the retail world, apparently, that holds as well. Apparently, while it may seem like a no-brainer, consumers are both happy and loyal when brands deliver on what they feel they were promised from a retailer. Retailers need to deliver what they promised consumers. Bottom line?

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APRIL 17, 2019

Returnly , the post-purchase payments company, announced on Tuesday (April 17) that it has raised $19 million in venture funding. In a press release , the company said the Series B round of funding was led by Craft Ventures, the venture capital fund co-founded by serial entrepreneur David Sacks.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I’ll be participating in an excellent panel, “ Balancing Fraud Prevention & the Customer Experience ,” at the first virtual edition of CBA LIVE , the must-attend annual event for the retail banking industry. Andy Collins, Fraud Prevention Industry Insights/Industry Relations Executive, Wells Fargo and Company, Inc.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Consumers may have only two to three shopping apps on their phones – even though there is a whole universe of eCommerce companies with mobile apps. Brands and retailers face a dilemma then: How do companies reach consumers through their phones? The Platform. Those simple queries we can automate,” Kolacz said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s time for retailers to stop looking at brick-and-mortar like it’s dying. Traditional retail is changing, it’s true – and that has manifested as a fair amount of growing pains – but the perception that physical retail is a sinking ship may be leading merchants astray. How can customer experience be improved?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

Luxury department store retailers are combining digital shopping technology with dining experiences in their latest locations as part of their overall innovation plans. Neiman Marcus is gearing up to open what it describes as a “multi-level retail experience” at a new development in Manhattan.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Mastercard and Next Retail Concepts announced a new way to shop online this holiday season, with a new digital environment that lets shoppers browse and buy as if they were in a physical store. In a press release , the two companies announced they are launching the platform with Fred Segal, the retail brand. ”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Point of sale (POS) platform PredictSpring announced that it is partnering with beauty brand Deciem and is also planning to expand into new sectors following a strategic investment from Salesforce Ventures. . 21) that PredictSpring offers the type of “modern” POS platform the company had been searching for. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Fabric, a new headless commerce platform startup for retailers, came out of the gate with a head of steam on Tuesday (Aug. The product is a cloud-native platform that enables retailers to deliver digital commerce experiences without having to rely on expensive engineering resources. Shopify and BigCommerce have a new competitor.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

If so, one can probably remember the fantastical predictions that, before too long, brick-and-mortar retail would go the way of the horse-and-buggy. Physical retail may be going through some tough times. It should almost feel like you are walking in a live Instagram account,” she said when describing the ideal SHOWFIELDS experience.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

No longer are retailers working with marketers to figure out a way to mass market products and services. With the advent of connected devices in the palm of almost every consumer’s hand, the retail ecosystem has certainly seen a shift. Through this omnichannel experience, retailers have more ways to connect with consumers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2019

Closing the pop-ups does not mean that Amazon is giving up on its brick-and-mortar strategy, as the company is expanding bookstores and its 4-star stores , where Amazon sells high-rated items that people order online and will “provide a more comprehensive customer experience and broader selection,” the spokeswoman said. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

A study by Dotcom Distribution, a logistics and fulfillment firm, found that close to 90 percent of online shoppers consider delivery times central to their decision to shop with an eCommerce brand in the future. But speed is not the only way for eCommerce retailers to build loyalty: Packaging aesthetics are also top of mind.

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