PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2021

The paper cited positive data from a large swath of UK tour operators. Bus operator National Express reported a 185 percent increase in bookings for spring and summer trips compared with bookings made during the same period in 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Creativity and making better use of consumer data are among the early but big ideas to emerge from the ongoing NRF convention taking place in New York City, an annual event commonly called “Retail’s Big Show.”. Shifting Retail Roles. It’s not only the right thing to do, but the smart thing to do,’ she said.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

It could be argued that for the retail industry to pull off a 3 percent uptick for holiday sales this year was an astonishing feat. But even still, as Mastercard got out first with its spending data, that widely reported 3 percent uptick is a bit below what could have been lofty expectations. percent unemployment rate. percent in 2019.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Rakuten , a Japanese tech company specializing in digital eCommerce solutions for retailers, is introducing a new subsidiary to bolster physical stores. Tentatively called Rakuten DX, the new unit will launch schemes for digital transformation at retailers’ physical shops, Rakuten said in a statement on Monday (Nov.

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Retail Tools Online Meeting 217

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In digital-first banking, the evidence of the great digital shift is not only visible anecdotally – it is seen in the data as well. And in retail, companies in the organic mattress space are running on a tri-brid business model that covers direct to consumer (D2C), third-party retail distribution and owned retail locations.

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Retail Innovation Data Cards 141

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Holiday sales rose this year compared to last but failed to meet many analysts’ expectations and were especially disappointing for brick-and-mortar operators, according to a variety of data sources. 1 - 24, which the data provider described as the traditional holiday shopping period. percent from Nov. 11 and ending Dec.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For retailers, it is a time of reexamination. Digital-first or digital-native retailers made it so. Retail’s own performance reflected that shift. The conversations in retail boardrooms and war rooms in November of 2021 will center on how to direct some of that pent-up demand their way. and Brazil.

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Retail Online Branding Data 295

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In today’s top retail news, FedEx Corp. 28) that it closed its acquisition of ShopRunner, which will operate as a part of a new group inside of FedEx Services named FedEx Dataworks. 28) that it closed its acquisition of ShopRunner, which will operate as a part of a new group inside of FedEx Services named FedEx Dataworks.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In retail, Walmart has officially joined Microsoft in a bid for TikTok, as it bets on youth as well as ad revenue. And Reliance Industries has purchased Future Group ’s retail shops as well as the Big Bazaar supermarket company, as it fires a shot against Amazon in a battle for India. All this, Today in Data.

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Retail Payments Data Groups 136

PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

Death, taxes and data breaches – those are perhaps the only sure things in life, and new evidence is emerging that hackers are finding increasing profit in targeting online retailers. The news comes amid yet another online retail cyberattack, this one targeting Japan’s Fast Retailing, the company that owns the Uniqlo retail chain.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions unveiled its ELERA unified commerce platform that will let merchants operate without the bounds of traditional retail IT infrastructures, according to a Wednesday (Jan. ELERA is currently used by the high-volume retail grocery and general merchandise verticals.

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Retail Big Data Analysis Community 170

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. They and others have succeeded because they entered the market independent of traditional retail, and because their business model fit the needs of the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Retail and hospitality technology firm NCR Corporation is looking to acquire ATM operator Cardtronics for $39 per share, or about $1.7 percent stake, according to Refinitiv data, per Reuters. 11) press release. . “The 11) press release. . Cardtronics’ biggest backer — Hudson Executive — owns a 19.44

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Retail Federation ’s annual convention may have come and gone but the sentiments, strategies and lessons learned from facing nearly a year of pandemic-led changes by some of the world’s largest merchants are going nowhere fast — especially when it comes to their embrace of increased digitalization. We’re not a data company.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

And in retail, digital innovation is mitigating COVID-19 impacts for dining establishments, while Walmart and Amazon are competing for holiday spending. All this, Today in Data. Data: 700K: Approximate number of Alexa developers, per several estimates. retailers from May 1 to May 14.

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Operations Retail Online Data 130

PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

All this, Today in Data. Data: $651M: Farfetch’s digital platform gross merchandise value in Q2 (an all-time high). 265.8M: Dillard’s operating expenses for the 13 weeks ending Aug. 90%: Share of its retail square footage that Dillard’s owns. 560: Number of Dillard’s stores, which are located mainly in the Southeast.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

For retailers, it’s better to be hot in 2020 than top. The National Retail Federation (NRF) said on its blog this week that the Hot 100 Retailers, while vulnerable to mergers and acquisitions, as a group is more stable than the Top 100 Retailers ranking, as stores are impacted by the unpredictability of COVID-19.

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Retail Groups Washington National 144

PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Retailers made all sorts of quick pivots to their eCommerce sites as the pandemic unfolded, but in-store legacy technology proved to be an obstacle for many of them. The company said that while retailers often come up with innovations , “bringing these ideas to in-store trials, iterating them quickly and rolling them out at scale takes years.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 23, 2019

Operant Founder and CEO Allan Fisch said at a meetup yesterday at Bank Innovation’s headquarters in New York that a consortium would allow the FIs to contribute anonymized data on the performance of their third-party […]. Toronto-based fintech Operant.AI

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Operations New York Fintech Data 170

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

As we know, mostly anonymous corporations have been collecting consumer data online for years, usually without explicit permission, selling it or using it for ad retargeting and personalization. Then, there are the huge data breaches that just keep happening, increasingly to companies with high levels of consumer trust.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Data is one thing — a valuable commodity that makes information the oil of the digital age. However, keeping track of data in a way that enables secure storage, efficient access and analysis, compliance with regulations and — ultimately — its profitable use is quite another topic. Data Context. Tokens Vs. Encryption.

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Retail Data Compliance Security 129

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

With PSD2 in full swing in the European Union (EU), any merchant dealing with the payment data of EU citizens must upgrade their payment protocols to stay compliant. The Tracker also looks into how PSD2 could potentially serve as guidance for other countries that may be reevaluating their own rules on data privacy and payments.

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Operations Regulation Data Trends 195

PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

Mall owners are reporting a slight uptick in retail rent payments as the coronavirus crisis enters its fourth month. Two new earnings reports show that more than half of retailers are paying their rent, with a few exceptions. All this, Today in Data. Data: .

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Retail America Data Operations 130

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2018

With retailers struggling to get compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard , qualified security assessors are going to be in more demand and can offer tokenization as one way of achieving compliance. That’s according to TokenEx , which recently hosted a webinar to help retailers better understand tokenization.

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Retail Report Compliance Security 194

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Key Data Points: Consumers are performing 12 percent more activities at home in 2020 than they did in 2019 and making purchases during 12 percent of those activities, on average. percent made voice-assisted purchases while shopping for groceries or retail goods in the last 24 hours. Key Data Points: It takes only 78.5

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Data Innovation Payments Millennials 277

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Foxtrot , a small company out of Chicago, is reinventing convenience store retail and taking it uptown. The retailer features gifts as well as standard convenience store necessities, and shoppers can also order products through its app or eCommerce site to be delivered within an hour. All this, Today in Data.

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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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Retail Data Fraud Cards 146

PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Through an Alibaba Group Holding Ltd program that offers years of shopping history for consumers, Bestore Co Ltd intends to connect technology for facial recognition with the online retailer’s account data. Now, it has begun to tap into other offerings from the eCommerce retailer for marketing.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

retail and food services sales rebounded in May from April amid the pandemic, but they were still under levels seen in May of 2019, according to the latest U.S. Retail trade sales increased by an estimated 16.8 Nonstore retailers surged by an estimated 30.8 percent from March 2020, as home furnishings retail sales had fallen 58.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Now there are signals that a physical retail rebound is forming up. presidential election in the rearview mirror and 2021 right around the corner, a new shift is underway: the slow but certain move back to shopping inside retail stores — an experience that people still crave for the experiential joy it brings. With the U.S.

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Retail Millennials Online Tools 261

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Despite the fact that many retailers are creating their own versions of Black Friday, the traditional one that happens the day after Thanksgiving will still occur as a retail event. That’s the take from Edited , a retail tracking platform that advises brands on pricing and merchandising strategies.

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Strategy Retail Branding Data 151

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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Accenture

MAY 14, 2019

In the first of a four-part series, our team of guest bloggers will share how getting to simplified, future-ready bank operations may be more easily imagined. . However, banks are unable to support this if they do not modernize their operations. 1 So, how do banks get to simplified, future-ready bank operations?

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Operations System America Strategy 157

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The hot new thing in “Big Retail” is offering in-house advertising on your website to your vendors – because why get paid only once on a purchase if you can get paid twice? In short, retailers get paid to place the ad, and then get paid again when the merchandise is sold. “We

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Retail Trends Branding Groups 216

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

For physical retail, the pandemic was simply the force that accelerated a decline that had started in 2014 — one that inertia had masked for all of the years up until now. This data came on the heels of a holiday shopping season that was strong, but weaker than retail analysts had expected. A Long Time Ago … In January 2020.

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Retail US Innovation Report 291

PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

Picture, instead, fleets of utilitarian machines, squat, careful and not at all threatening, rolling through retailers’ aisles, hospital wings and other avenues of everyday human life. told Karen Webster that retailers and other firms are going to need to consider “cleanliness as a brand value.”. Brain Corp.

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Retail Branding Software Technology 247

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

In an interview with PYMNTS, Tim Moran, senior vice president of product and marketing at Worldnet , told PYMNTS that the age of automated retail is dawning — but there is no one-size-fits-all approach. The tech savvy consumer, he told PYMNTS, expects choice and autonomy in a retail setting. Some Exceptions to Automation.

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