PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

To serve travelers from China who want to shop in-store and online, retailers thousands of miles away from Asia are accepting Alipay in brick-and-mortar stores and on the web. Alipay North America General Manager Yulei Wang said in the announcement, “This is a key strategic partnership for achieving awareness in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In a press release , the eCommerce giant said the new cities include Indianapolis, IN; Las Vegas, NV; San Antonio, TX; Ann Arbor, MI; Cleveland, OH; Milwaukee, WI; Boulder, CO; Raleigh, NC; Trenton, NJ; and more. said Nish Lathia, general manager of Amazon Home Services , in the press release. Amazon announced Monday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Amazon was particularly busy as it spent much of the week at CES in Las Vegas pushing the power of its expanding connected commerce ecosystem. It was one of a series of expansion announcements for Alexa out of CES in Las Vegas this week. The effort died quietly within a year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

The Las Vegas-headquartered company kicks off the road show in Austin, Tex., On its website, the company showcases millions of products from more than 1,000 clothing and shoe brands. The company says it also hopes to make new friends — customers — along the way. Zappos is owned by Amazon.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Although it got off to a slow start, the truck has become popular in Seattle and even took a trip to Las Vegas last month, leading many to believe Amazon might expand it to other U.S. As for London, Amazon is looking to hire marketing and business managers to launch a new project in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. Staples Will Sell You A Desk — Or Let You Share One.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

It is often hard to find and search for local retailers, exacerbated by the fact that cannabis businesses are oftentimes located in undesirable areas. For the retailer, there are real technological barriers: Most retailers have limited technology experience — even the more sophisticated operators — and many do not have even basic websites.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

PYMNTS readers already know that CES — scheduled to take place in Las Vegas from Jan. But with the spread of the digital economy, technology developments and other factors, robotics are advancing fast, and it all kinds of payments and retail environments. 11 — is big, important, exciting, impactful and forward-thinking.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

So stands one of the main views offered in a new PYMNTS podcast interview between Karen Webster and Tom Cregan, CEO and managing director at Emerchants Limited ( EML Payments ) , an Australian-based payment services firm that has set upon a path of global expansion, with its focus on the U.S. That Would Be Our Business Model Going Forward’.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Our teams just returned from back-to-back weeks at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando and Money 20/20 in Las Vegas. Almost every bank and brand we spoke with will increase their investment in these two areas for 2023. Once the intent is discovered, banks and brands then deliver a micro-targeted promotion or process.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

And for good reason, Karen Webster noted in a recent commentary – a minority of users managed to turn Facebook into a home and hub for some of the vilest content on the internet. The firm also announced another major retail play: It will be opening pop-up shops within select Macy’s locations across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

And last week’s events managed to qualify it for “thrill-a-minute” status between the lofty and ambitious projects started, stopped and debated that made the headlines. The move puts Amazon in more direct competition with QVC and its parent brand, Qurate Retail Group, which in addition to QVC owns HSN, Zulily and five other brands.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Which brands will blow it? Those were the main topics in a new PYMNTS interview, featuring Karen Webster and Zac Cohen, general manager at Trulioo , a global identity verification service. The new view of the Wire Act reportedly follows a long lobbying effort by Las Vegas casino owner Sheldon Adelson. Which team will win?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2016

Prior to the announcement — which was made at Magento’s Imagine 2016 conference in Las Vegas — Mark Lavelle, CEO of Magento Commerce , spoke with MPD CEO Karen Webster about its new PaaS (Platform as a Service) model and its intended place in the evolution of cloud computing. and runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) — as unique.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The players are many — but in the last year and a half, Walmart, Amazon and Kroger have managed to pull ahead in the earliest rounds of the race in terms of the breadth and depth of their enhanced offerings for consumers. For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

According to recent reports in Skift , for example, some Las Vegas destinations, particularly on the strip, customers will often end up paying daily resort fees that are higher than the base price for the room itself. But can those brands really afford to do that?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

No one likes Goliath,” Foran said, speaking at a UBS Global Consumer and Retail Conference. And Goliath got bigger this week, with major moves in healthcare (and minor moves in pet care) – though there was also the rare step back in its retail efforts. And it’s always fun being David. Everyone loves David.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

You know when you hear the CEO of Gap say that he’d be “delusional” (his word) not to consider Amazon as a channel to peddle this stuff that retail has turned a big corner, at least some merchants are thinking of Amazon as more of a lifeline than a death knell. Walmart delivered retail’s only good news this week.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas certainly helped given a boost to the rate of announcements. Digital is transforming global retail, and it will transform McDonald ’s,” said CEO Chris Kempczinski. “At The brand is reportedly worried about attracting activist investors.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2019

This week was one of the latter, as Walmart hosted its investor meeting in Arkansas and Amazon decided this week’s menu of technological innovations in retail would be an all-you-can-eat buffet. The announcement was made by CEO of Worldwide Consumer Jeff Wilke on Wednesday (June 5) at the company’s “re:MARS” conference in Las Vegas.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Smarter Store: How AI is Powering the Future of Retail. We dive into the AI startups and use cases making the biggest impact in retail, looking at investments, patents, and the store of the future. How AI is influencing brands. D2C brands shun physical retail. Retail & Virtual Merchandising.

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Gonzobanker

APRIL 27, 2015

ROI projections—done at the start of a funded project—should be used to gauge a project’s success and to provide management with goals and targets to determine if a project is on track, or if a completed project met it targets. We’d love to connect with fellow GonzoBankers there.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

The Honest Company’s branding and promotional materials claimed that the firm’s goods were free of synthetic chemicals. Select Investors: MasterCard, Wellington Management. Demonstrating sales is a necessity for retail startups, especially those operating in the intensely competitive food vertical.

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