PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2020

consumers did at least some shopping online as of April 11 — a figure that had risen to 35.7 Consumers are also changing how they pay for their purchases, with a recent study finding that debit card spend was up 11.7 Debit cards are also being used to more quickly pay workers who need fast compensation now more than ever.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Digital fraud is a long-running problem for merchants, retailers, banks and businesses of all types. One report found that there was a 54 percent increase in gift card and loyalty fraud in May compared to the previous month, making promotion fraud prevention a top priority for merchants. Developments From The World Of Digital Fraud.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2020

What makes the story stand out among the reams of local retail crime reporting is that the crime was actually committed. Botched crimes in local retail are common. It would be easier, more lucrative and carry no risk of jail time to download the Uber app and drive for a weekend. Organized Crime’s Physical Retail Expansion .

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

Recent days have brought new evidence of the importance of robust loyalty and rewards problems in retail, an areas of ongoing innovation, and a way for merchants of all types to stand apart in a fiercely competitive industry. Retail Card Programs. The move adds to Trax’s stable of retail tech. Value of Location.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Data from more than 26 million credit and debit cards was stolen from BriansClub, an underground marketplace for stolen credit card information, KrebsOnSecurity reported Tuesday (Oct. The hacked records were lifted from online portals as well as brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years. million cards.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) are now working to extend services into customers’ homes, for example, and consumers are making fewer credit card payments amid uncertainty over what their employment statuses and budgets might be when the bills come due. The Paytm cards can be used both in-store and online.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Mastercard is collaborating with four eCommerce retailers — WHSmith.co.uk, Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery — to offer the Pay by Bank app to online shoppers, Mastercard announced in a press release on Friday (Oct. PbBa is designed to work with the security of a consumer’s own bank.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

The specification is available for free public download from the EMVCo website. Another way to put it is that the new EMV specification promises to enable many more seamless retail transactions. Visa, in fact, has said the average online transaction involves 23 information fields.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

That’s one of the conclusions drawn from a new report on customer loyalty from Merkle, and it holds some clues for retailers looking to improve the recency and frequency of customer visits and purchases. “To What keeps a consumer loyal isn’t a loyalty program or even a store-branded card offering goodies or rewards.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Experts predicted that up to $190 billion would be spent online this year, a 35.8 The prevalence of online commerce opens new doors for digital fraud, however, both from career fraudsters and opportunistic customers. Phishing scams were on the rise all year, while a survey of online shoppers found that 40.3

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

With that need in mind, she started Return Runners to help pick up returns from consumers and bring them back to brick-and-mortar (or online) retailers. To request this service from her company, consumers download an iOS or Android app or place an order directly through the company’s website. The Retailer Side of the Equation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Retailers are tapping into voice technology to help consumers order their favorite products such as restaurant takeout as they expand their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies. Diners download the Amazon Alexa app, enable the Chipotle skill, link profiles, and then reorder Chipotle meals. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This shift in buying behavior is likely here to stay, too, leading more customers to use card-based payments to complete their purchases when shopping online. This is the focus of Understanding Frictions In Credit Card Transactions: How Transaction Disputes And Declines Impact Merchants’ Reputations, a PYMNTS and PAAY collaboration.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2018

Another had an offer with a promo code to get $10 off my first online order, which would be delivered free to my front door in two hours or less once I linked my Prime account to Whole Foods. But beautiful produce, nibbles and cool playlists aside, over the course of those 17 years I’ve shopped at Whole Foods, I never downloaded their app.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2018

s Fa ster Payments Support Everyday Retail? retailers are looking for cheaper, faster alternatives to card-based payments, and some financial players think the Faster Payments rail could be key. For the full story, download the Tracker. Can The U.K.’s A number of U.K. Faster Payments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Both payment providers and retailers must come up with new ways to engineer the loyalty of shoppers, with multiple options and ways to interact with brands. In the latest Buy Now, Pay Later Tracker , PYMNTS examines how BNPL solutions are growing and expanding in retail worldwide, for both in-store and online shopping.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

With the holiday shopping season in the rear view, retailers across the globe are tallying up their wins and losses. 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.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) are therefore expected to offer more contactless cards this year and some are also unveiling services intended to help consumers easily add cards to their digital wallets. consumers to shift as much as $100 billion in annual spending from credit to debit cards. Around the Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

IBM has purchased Expertus Technologies, which is based in Canada, according to an announcement, in an effort to strengthen its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in addition to its online payment strategies. Gojek’s apps have reportedly received hundreds of millions of downloads as of June 2020.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

Online fraud is no small problem for merchants, but a significant number of retailers do not spend enough time on the dual goals of streamlining the consumer data experience while weeding out possible fraudulent transactions. But differing consumer expectations around the issue of security present a challenge for retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

This payment rail’s use is going strong in the United States, with debit card penetration reaching 78 percent in 2018. Consumers also show continued interest in debit even as they adopt newer payment instruments, and a 2019 report found that 61 percent of mobile wallet users linked debit cards. Card fraud is an ever-present threat.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Expect A Holiday Of Online And Socially Distanced Shopping . It appears that as more consumers grow accustomed to shopping and ordering food online, the more likely they are to maintain their online behavior,” the recent “ How We Shop” study by PYMNTS and PayPal found. “It PYMNTS research has shown that more than half of U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

As retailers determine the best ways to reach retail customers during the coronavirus pandemic, ICICI Bank launched its banking services on Monday (March 30) on WhatsApp. . Non-ICICI Bank retail customers can access the benefits of ICICIStack by opening instant savings accounts online.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

The business of helping people look and feel their best is bigger than ever, and consumers young and old are now heading online to get their fitness fix. NutraClick is one such player delivering on changing consumer expectations, both online and in retail stores. Building up Strength Online and in the Physical World.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Debit cardholders often choose this payment method because it is more secure than carrying cash — which cannot be recovered if lost — and may safeguard them against spending more than they have, which is not the case with credit cards. Rising generations show a keen interest in debit cards, according to a new report.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

Just about a decade ago, the checkout process at a retail shop was pretty simple — customers would wait in line to give their purchases to the cashier, who stood at a fixed point in the store, and then pay using cash or a credit card. To download the May edition of the Payments as a Service Tracker™, click the button below.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

GameStop Chief Merchandising Officer Chris Homeister said in the announcement that the retailer is “pleased to partner with QuadPay to offer a new flexible payment option that will enable customers to affordably purchase the products they want from us this holiday season.”. The company’s app has been downloaded more than 2.3

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

After downloading an app on the App Store or Google Play, consumers can enter a promo code or ask for one in exchange for sharing how they found the app. Consumers can pay with a credit or debit card, PayPal, Venmo or Apple Pay, so they can make a purchase without opening their wallets while on the bus or walking, Sacks said.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Some were more visual – a marketing magazine online – but none were interactive. Jim Maxey, who ran Event Horizons, employed ten people simply to scan photographs, format them, and put them online for download. Wired, Bloomberg and IMDB launched websites in 1993, and more followed.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2019

Consumers download an app to start their shopping experience, which Hertel said was built to make it “super fun, easy and simple to buy glasses” for families. Shoppers can then check out using a credit card, debit card, Apple Pay or health savings account (HSA) / flexible spending account (FSA) at launch. Solving Glasses.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

economy functioning over the last nine months and armed the 110 million consumers who’ve shifted digital for buying retail products, groceries and restaurant food over the last nine months. Card-Not-Present And Card-Not- Needed Solutions. Google’s SMB Tools . Walmart And Others Boost BOPIS, Curbside Pickup And Home Delivery .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

German-based discount-supermarket giant ALDI announced a great leap forward into the world of digital sales this week with word that it will be piloting a new “click-and-collect” online grocery ordering program at a single U.K. Amazon this week introduced the latest piece of in-store retail tech: the human hand.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

A world without checkout lines and a farewell to the fat wallet were just some of the tantalizing outcomes foreseen as mPOS devices started to make their way into retail stores years ago. Alas, consumers and merchants are still awaiting the realization of the envisioned blissful, wait-free retail utopia that was envisioned a while back.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. According to Dasilva, the past decade-plus has brought three major payments revolutions, each of which shook the retail industry. The challenge for the last year has just been educating our customer base.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Those who travel to some of the wealthier parts of the world, however, will discover the well-to-do have much more expensive unattended retail tastes. shoppers got their own taste of unattended luxury retail when vending machines dispensing caviar were installed in several Los Angeles-area malls. A few years ago, U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The biggest investor in Dallas-based GameStop has reportedly set his sights on a lofty goal — having the video-game retailer take on the Goliath of eCommerce, Amazon , in an epic battle. In 2017, PetSmart bought the online pet store for nearly $3.4 In 2011, Cohen started Chewy.com and went on to serve as CEO. million times.

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