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AUGUST 24, 2020

Brooklyn, New York-based technology accessories eCommerce company Casely established charitable giving as part of its core mission when it was founded in 2017 with the launch of its Every Case Counts initiative, which donates 5 percent of proceeds to a designated charity organization each month.

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I presented on this topic, along with my colleague Scott Albahary – Chief Strategist for Financial Services here at Perficient and Jim Marous – Co-Publisher of The Financial Brand , to approximately 500 financial services industry folks. You can view the webinar on-demand by going to The Financial Brand site at this location.

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MAY 16, 2016

In payments, brand matters, more so now than it ever did, and for SMBs adopting mobile commerce initiatives, speed matters too – speed to market and speed to accepting payments in any manner customers desire. Clerico told Webster that the pricing is set at 2.75 percent per transaction plus a $0.30

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Innovations in 3D and augmented reality (AR) eCommerce are leveling the playing field and bringing conversion-centered visual technology to any online retailer. Our new platform is designed to help brands and creators realize that goal, and bring their products to life in minutes rather than weeks.”.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Levi reported that company online shopping revenue growth of 52 percent partly mitigated the drop. The brand teamed with TikTok influencers to make unique denim with Future Finish 3-D denim customization technology via the Haus Miami activation. reported on Wednesday (Oct.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Which brands will blow it? For payments and commerce , there’s another uncertainty that hangs in the air: Will legal online sports betting keep going forward, despite a recent decision by the U.S. First, a review and update about the online sports gambling situation in the U.S. More about that in just a bit, though.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

What was once a small but meaningful constituency — online shoppers — suddenly seem to be holding all the cards. How consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands and subscription-based businesses respond to this important trend will be make-or-break for many. The very air abounds in examples these days, few better than Shopify.

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MARCH 1, 2019

The need to address verification challenges is growing around the world, as customers rely more on online services for ordering food and drink, leading to fierce competition among delivery services. Take the Uber -branded delivery service, Uber Eats , which recently expanded its services in Canada. Around the Digital Onboarding World.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

13-14, online merchants in America and beyond are preparing for the earliest, most aggressive selling season ever. With more and more commerce going online, he said, it will also be increasingly important for sellers to process a higher number of returns and chargebacks and to quickly settle customer disputes.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Even in an age when shoppers can order groceries online and have them delivered straight to their doors, the vast majority of consumers are still shopping the traditional way – hopping in their cars and heading to their local brick-and-mortar grocery store to shop the aisles or pick up an online order. Roughly three in 10 – or 27.1

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AUGUST 20, 2018

The plaintiffs in the case weren’t the families living on Main Street, U.S.A., What might sound like a fun, quaint shopping experience — bopping up and down Main Street between the cheese shop, the butcher, the fishmonger and the dry goods purveyor, picking up food to stock the pantry — was friction wrapped around a very pricey experience.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online. Better Fit.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

The 2013 holiday season then began to show signs of the shift to online and digital, and away from brick-and-mortar retail. But those same shoppers didn’t shift their spend to those stores online. A far less desirable option for consumers is to pick up items ordered online in the store. The gap between the department store’s 3.3

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MAY 2, 2018

Still, the earnings announcement comes as mall operators are trying to reboot in an era when the department store is no longer the anchor tenant of choice at many locations and brands like Macy’s and JCPenney continue to shutter brick-and-mortar stores. We see tremendous potential for online ordering in the U.S. The Road Ahead.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

American Express rolled out co-branded cards with Amazon for British SMBs. Their new British card program was created as part of a current relationship between the two firms that encompasses a co-branded program in the United States and an international card acceptance relationship. American Express, Amazon Rollout Card For UK SMBs.

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JUNE 22, 2020

million in funding, the startup is on track to bring a unique blend of artificial intelligence (AI) and anti-theft technology to market. The company’s second product addresses the main concern with cashierless technology, which is shrinkage. The goal of the platform is to provide three main things,” Golan told PYMNTS.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Not to mention, as of 2020, women control two-thirds of consumer spending, hold 40% of total global wealth, account for 40% of entrepreneurial activity worldwide, and are the main breadwinners in 49% of U.S. As part of the initiative, Goldman Sachs developed a free online business education program available to women globally.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Online personal shopping service Lookiero revealed it has closed a $19 million funding round led by London-based MMC Ventures, as reported on Friday (Sept. The funding will be used to expand in Lookiero’s main markets of Spain, France and the U.K. The customer then decides which items to keep or return.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Brick-and-mortar is instead rapidly changing to accommodate the needs of consumers who have come to expect the same speed and convenience from purchasing through online and mobile environments. In-store experiences must be carefully calibrated to satisfy consumers who are more than familiar with online and mobile browsing.

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

.” Interestingly, while challenger banks and FinTech firms vow to provide small businesses with the technology they demand, banks remain the leaders in the SMB banking space, researchers said. According to Unisys, trust is the main reason why a small business owner sticks with a provider, more so than innovation and digital services.

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JUNE 26, 2019

In the digital age of shopping for clothes and accessories, modern-day consumers don’t want retailers to entertain them: Instead, they want these merchants to bring them an easy experience, offering seamless shopping in store and online. The technology has been made famous by Amazon through its checkout-free Amazon Go stores.

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JULY 6, 2020

Last week, Constellation Brands purchased Empathy Wines , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) eCommerce business that sells wines from California vineyards. Brands see this digital shift in their numbers, even as stores have reopened and physical sales have started to increase. The Path Forward.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Sports brands are thus looking to a host of new technologies, like contactless payments, and even virtual reality technology, to accommodate a new generation of mobile users. Consumers are set to spend $23 billion buying mobile tickets for sports and gaming events by 2023. Putting Connected Tech in the End Zone.

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Café X Technologies. Cafe X is a robotic cafe in San Francisco that serves premium coffee using mobile ordering and automation technology. It’s the first cafe of its kind from Cafe X Technologies, which is focused on increasing productivity in the service industry through automation. Total Disclosed Funding: $5.1M.

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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. According to a report from Bloomberg , the luxury brand’s CEO, Michael Burke, “gave a rosy view of its China business, easing concerns about the effects of a trade war with the U.S. Online Push.

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APRIL 29, 2020

That doesn’t bode well for the necessary investments in infrastructure and customer experience upgrades to compete with Amazon and other established brands that are laser-focused on eCommerce as their main (and sometimes only) point of sales. Among the companies making accommodations for SMBs is FedEx.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

That’s what led him to Goodworld, an online platform that removes the friction from digital donations, making them possible (and secure) by using hashtags. Those issues were the main topics during a recent discussion between Gossart and Karen Webster for the latest edition of the PYMNTS Matchmakers podcast series. Payments Facilitator.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

The digital-first shift means there are more options for smaller, direct-to-consumer brands, to find first-time customers from around the country or even the world. Here’s how some really creative D2C brands are using new tech to do that. But Sticky.io 13-14 Amazon Prime Day. Capitalizing On Direct To Consumer.

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JULY 10, 2020

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and others in the food service space are rapidly adjusting their operations during the pandemic, with many implementing new technologies online and in-store to ensure customers can seamlessly and safely place orders. Mobile Order-Ahead Developments Around The World.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

And what’s out these days is luxury brands’ sales growth. Experts at Bain say this is “the new normal,” citing certain main focus points as to the way spending is changing. But the brands are still trying to gain those spenders’ loyalty, namely through technology. percent of all website traffic, led by Facebook at 3.4

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JANUARY 2, 2020

CES is one of the year’s biggest and most important global events for those interested not only in consumer technology, but associated trends in payments and commerce. The devices and processes displayed at the show sometimes work their way in the consumer mainstream. 10, and what to expect in the months and years after.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Rather than a static map or a directory listing aisle numbers where products are located, the technology is actually precise enough to show the shopper’s location within the store on a dynamic map. Its purpose is to help shoppers find their way to the products they’re looking for.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

In a new PYMNTS interview, Karen Webster and Rich Stuppy, chief customer experience officer at Kount , talked about all the recent digital and mobile strides that QSRs have been making — and why they are still behind the curve when it comes to protecting their technology, customers and brand reputations from online criminals.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Elara Technologies, which owns Housing.com, PropTiger and Makaan, has acquired FastFox.com at a valuation of almost Rs 100 crore ($14,447,317), according to reports. into the so-called online-to-offline rental ecosystem, with a market size upwards of Rs 20,000 crore ($2,889,400,000).

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MAY 23, 2019

has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. Innovation labs and technology and business incubators are nothing new, of course, but the rise of eCommerce, omnichannel retail, digital payments and other such efforts has provided fresh fuel and motivation to that trend. In other words, PepsiCo Inc.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

While the holiday retail rush meant big gains for some retailers, it also came with an influx of fraud, both in-store and online, as fraudsters took advantage of a high-pace, high-volume period of transactions. In fact, over 5 percent of online retail revenue is now lost to fraud. By 2020, it’s estimated that U.S. Last year, the U.S.

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AUGUST 17, 2017

With each passing decade, the buying patterns of teens undoubtedly and unequivocally see a shift alongside the advances in technology. It turns out that retailers geared toward this younger demographic are having a tough time engaging them online. As it appears to be, catering to teen shoppers is a rough task for most retailers.

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