PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

For inspiration in banking innovation, we often look to other industries. Honkook Kim and his Gentle Monster Brand is a perfect example. Instead of thinking traditionally, Gentle Monster pursued a strategy of innovation and creativity to become the hottest sunglass company globally, creating a company currently valued at $900 million.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2017

Facebook has just about maximized the amount of money it can make from people scrolling their newsfeeds, so the social media giant is shifting its ad placement focus to sister platforms WhatsApp, Instagram and most recently, Messenger. The time for innovation was ripe. Despite a rousing success in Q3 of last year, with 4.67

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

According to Flow CEO Rob Keve, advances in social media and the way things are marketed throughout platforms have made it easier for direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands to reach customers. Solving that problem is among the main tasks of cross-border retail innovation and disruption in this brand new decade.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Pet retail is having a moment, with innovation and other efforts helping merchants better reach owners of dogs, cats and other household animals. Amazon also has its Wag pet food brand, and Target has teamed with BarkBox to offer chew toys and treats online and in-store. Better Pet Tag.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Before jumping head first onto the AR bandwagon, though, retailers need to ask themselves: How do AR features like these build up the brand names of the retailers that use them? Do they add value or are they frivolous marketing ploys? As we will demonstrate, the answer depends on the use case.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

In the new Digital Banking Tracker , PYMNTS examines how startups are competing with legacy brands, social media services and even eCommerce companies that want to add financial capabilities to their platforms. However, legacy banks across the globe have been far from idle when it comes to digital and mobile innovation.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

Bad actors are trying numerous scams to take advantage of customers using digital and mobile channels for the first time, including setting up false accounts and restaurant brands online to drain consumers’ funds. It is also redesigning its stores to better prepare orders that come both from digital channels and in-store customers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. “As Even if one particular retail chain or another is having trouble keeping its edge amid such changes, apparel as a whole is driving a good amount of merchant innovation. The company owns 458 stores in the U.S., Larger Trends.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Participants could use Visa’s APIs to create a payment solution, leverage social media channels to engage people at Visa-sponsored events or persuade Visa cardholders to go cardless. helps brands build and manage chatbots that consumers can use to transact inside popular messaging apps. Humanizing The Brands. In the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

In-house ordering apps are typical for large quick-service restaurant (QSR) companies, with only those who are willing to take risks and innovate standing out from the herd. Main Street USA Was Healthy In February, But Coronavirus Is The Wild Card. Can The New England Patriots Brand Survive Losing Tom Brady?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

According to Engagement Labs’ “Leaders in Social Influence” report, rankings of the top teenage retail brands have shown that teen engagement is occurring more so in face-to-face conversations than in online engagements. Teens also want a more personalized experience where brands take a more proactive approach in each interaction.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

What we do know, however, is that efficiency-driving innovation will have its place, come whatever market environment,” Joshua Kempf, cofounder and CEO of online B2B industrial products distributor Gaveteiro.com.br , explained in his TechCrunch piece.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

According to Engagement Labs’ “Leaders in Social Influence” report, rankings of the top teenage retail brands have shown that teen engagement is occurring more so in face-to-face conversations than in online engagements. Teens also want a more personalized experience where brands take a more proactive approach in each interaction.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Which meant that when Sakkijha was looking to launch her own fine jewelry brand online four years ago, she decided to focus on a central innovation that she felt shouldn’t be all that radical of a concept: designing, marketing and selling jewelry to the woman who will actually be wearing it.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Each of the company’s bars uses its upcycled SuperGrain+ flour as the main ingredient. For promotion, the company is very active on social media and also has events. Beyond ReGrained, other brands are reusing different ingredients and turning them into new products. per the company’s website.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

The company maintains a collection of a few thousand timepieces from more than 30 brands, and members can experiment with different styles without having to make a long-term commitment to a particular watch. As a result, consumers aren’t stuck with watches they no longer want to own. The Perfect Fit.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

RunLocker offers a main item in its box, which is the most valuable product. RunLocker works with a range of companies, from large national brands to startup-type firms that are making unique products, such as maple syrup gels in Canada. RunLocker accepts major credit cards, and its payments are based on Stripe.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2017

News this past week that Wendy’s had engaged in some back and forth with Hardee’s, in which the former was widely perceived to roast the latter, begs the question, what is social media for, when the social is full of snark and the media belongs to an entity, a place, trying to craft and assume a persona?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

QVC President and CEO Mike George said when the deal was announced,“By creating the leader in discovery-based shopping, we will enhance the customer experience, accelerate innovation, leverage our resources and talents to further strengthen our brands, and redeploy savings for innovation and growth.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2020

All of this steak talk is likely building up an appetite, but before going in search of a socially distanced steak dinner (they’re out there), we’d stake our reputation on one of the most memorable social media blitzes of the COVID era. It centered, like this story, on steak. Or Steak-Umm , to be precise.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

In a recent interview with PYMNTS, Lord said the beauty industry has seen an influx of digital customers and brands alike, pushing even legacy players to offer mobile and online features that recreate the beauty counter experience.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

The critical question, then, is not whether retailers can comply with these rules, but how they will do so while remaining competitive, Nicholas Ahrens, vice president of innovation at U.S. Merchants must make sure their customers’ experiences match those belonging to international retailers as well as local brands, he continued.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Several companies have introduced new innovations that are changing everyday items into connected devices. Even Coca-Cola is introducing more connectivity to its products by introducing a selfie bottle that snaps a photo and shares it to social media. About The Tracker.

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JULY 26, 2016

Whatley noted that the payment solution has enabled many charities to accept credit cards, including the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, which uses DipJar in both a retail setting to collect money for themselves and to collect money at events, and the Salvation Army, which uses branded DipJars for various campaigns. About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

According to Brad Fauss, president and CEO of the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association, the recently released regulations on prepaid cards from the Consumer Finance Protection Board could be another instance of good intentions gone wrong. Could this be a case of good intentions gone awry? Time will tell.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

That most of our elected officials don’t have any clue how Facebook, much less the platform business models that have powered so much innovation across industry segments for thousands of years, work. On those content-filled pages were advertisements hoping to catch the consumer’s eye, build a brand and influence a purchase.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The day after Halloween marks the 60-day sprint to the end of the year – a year in which the pace of innovation has accelerated materially. The shifts associated with that innovation are beginning to take root, and those impacts are beginning to be felt. In fact, according to our recent study, they come in dead last.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

And so a sheepherding innovation – and new vocabulary word – was born. Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. They had an idea to hang bells around the necks of castrated male sheep, called wethers , and turn them into the de-facto leaders of the flock.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage this holiday season. From supply chain and inventory improvements to new payment options, these brands are going all in on digital. Coca-Cola — Development and Innovation Lab.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2019

And classic films aren’t the only place where a flop can presage a hit: In fact, many of today’s favorite consumer innovations come care of a failed first iteration that was widely derided before it was praised. For example…. The Tablet. The Miss . Microsoft’s Tablet PC. Now if it could just get all of those backorders filled.

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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.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2022

As a small bank, our main competitors in the labor market are huge banks and institutions, and it’s hard for us to compete against that. And when customer satisfaction serves as a chief indicator of performance, peer-to-peer sharing and social media emerge as natural public relations vehicles. Colleen Morrison.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

That is how the world first met the iPhone a little over ten years ago in January 2007, when Steve Jobs took to the stage to announce Apple’s latest and greatest innovation. Freed from the shackles of paying for film (and with countless opportunities to display our lives on mobile social media platforms), people worldwide will take 1.2

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Facebook, for example, disclosed that an unprecedented data breach in September 2018 exposed the social media accounts of up to 90M users — including login credentials — effectively compromising access to any site that lets users log in with their Facebook account. But the company is not alone. The Controversies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

With the rapid proliferation of shoppable social media channels – as well as the explosion of wearables, smart speakers and other connected devices, along with advances in voice-activated AI – for a growing cohort of consumers, contextual is just how they do commerce. Of those, he noted, awareness is the most straightforward.

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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.

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