PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

Google Cloud is rolling out Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, a new suite of services that will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help eCommerce firms deliver personalized consumer experiences during a shopping journey’s initial phase. "As Vision API Product Search.

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Omnichannel fulfillment methods such as curbside, buy-online, pick-up in-store (BOPIS), and ship-from-store have become extremely familiar to retailers, especially due to the climate of the COVID-19 pandemic. By doing so, retailers can successfully tell if their specific strategy is proving to be effective.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Wells Fargo customers nationwide are experiencing technical difficulty accessing the San Francisco-based bank’s online and mobile banking services.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Businesses and financial institutions (FIs) are constantly examining ways to make their customers’ accounts more secure, especially as more consumers go online to make purchases and transact during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A convenient, yet secure solution could be just a few taps away, however.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

The UK’s top retailers are facing tough competition online from U.S.-based s top 10 retail companies as ranked by unique visitors to their desktop brand sites. apparel retailer Next and grocery chain operator J Sainsbury (Sainsbury’s) from the top 10 list. The additions displaced U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Paytronix Systems and Oracle are rolling out a new initiative that will enable restaurants and retailers that use Oracle’s cloud-based point of sales system to offer online ordering and contactless delivery. Newton, Massachusetts-based Paytronix on Tuesday (Oct.

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Perficient

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has already impacted several facets of digital commerce, and many businesses will have to make certain adjustments as holiday spend continues to move online. Move Retail Stores Online. Most consumers are staying at home, meaning fewer are heading into stores and more are shopping online.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Brick-and-mortar commerce has rebounded in recent months, but consumers are still heading online for many of their purchases, maintaining trends set in the early months of the pandemic. trillion opportunity for eCommerce retailers. trillion opportunity for eCommerce retailers. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The workers can then use these cards to make retail payments in-stores and online, as well as collect cash at the ATM. How Mobile Apps Are Easing Retail Payments In India. Businesses looking to launch operations in India and reach local consumers must understand the payments needs and preferences at play.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual reality could have more retailers reach more consumers in the coming few years — in large part by upping the consumer experience. Location-based virtual reality (VR) startup The Void is partnering with mall operator Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) to open 25 new entertainment outposts in the U.S. and Europe by 2022.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

Don’t count out older consumers when it comes to mobile commerce – that’s one trend going forward into the 2020s that is important as the population continues to age. That said, there seems little question that younger consumers will continue to drive most changes in mobile, including its often complex place in the retail and shopping chain.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

In the age of digital payments, mobile point of sale systems (POS) are making inroads with the promise of time-saving conveniences for merchants. Retailers are becoming more interested in omnichannel offerings: The PYMNTS mPOS Tracker found that 67 percent of those surveyed listed it as a priority for this year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The 2020 holiday shopping season is picking up, and consumers are heading online or to reopened brick-and-mortar stores to shop and pay for gifts. They are using everything from cash to mobile wallets to complete these transactions, requiring retailers to race to accommodate a wide variety of payment methods.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

From 7-Eleven to H&M , retailers are adopting digital payments and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to bring more convenient experiences to their customers. And retailers with brick-and-mortar locations in North America are starting to accept Chinese mobile payment systems.

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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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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? According to a new report from PwC titled “Retail Banking 2025 and Beyond” (see sidebar), the retail banking industry is undergoing tremendous change—but, of course, community bankers already know that.

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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. He noted that millennials have “grown up with the online world on their smartphones.” Some Exceptions to Automation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. Video game manufacturers operated a different model of sorts: Create great games to get consumers to buy the hardware, then keep cranking out great games that would keep consumers on board and upgrading those devices.

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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. Stores As Social Centers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Retail apocalypse? Whatever you want to call the decline of brick-and-mortar retail – and it’s getting worse, according to a few recent reports – it’s not good. Among the latest dim figures about brick and mortar (or, if you prefer, the latest bright news for eCommerce operators)? Online Rising. Mere culling of the herd?

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

consumers more frugal, but other individuals are still turning to retail therapy to cope with stresses. Shopping on mobile devices has increased 7.7 Online gambling or gaming is one possible outlet, and the sector may even make it through the pandemic with less financial damage than other industries. Online Gambling Changes .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Blackbird customers will have access to an online pre-pay option for ordering items for delivery or curbside pickup. AeroPay CEO and Founder Daniel Muller said in the release that the partnership came about because both companies “want to give cannabis businesses the ability to operate in the same manner as any other business would.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retail can get a bad rap these days, as its considered old-fashioned and on the decline. But recent developments show that innovation in commerce does indeed happen in this area of retail. That’s why [the] brick-and-mortar retailer isn’t going anywhere. You cannot replace that experience (online).”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Consumers shopping in droves via eCommerce channels is hardly a piece of breaking news — for the better part of a decade, that has been obvious to anyone watching the retail space. They are, Fiserv Senior Vice President of Retail Solutions John Nicola told Karen Webster in a recent conversation — and in great numbers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Mobile devices, apps and voice assistants – by allowing consumers to order ahead and pay, pay via QR codes anywhere in the store and use auto-pay when leaving the store – will make checking out 100 percent digital, even when consumers choose to visit a physical store to make a purchase. percent of all retail sales, including auto, in 2039.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Coffee retailers are tapping into digital technology that helps them grow their reach beyond their stores, especially in China, where competition has been brewing between Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee and Starbucks. For its part, Luckin has 4,507 self-operated stores as of the close of last year. states and 24 countries.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Don’t look now, but virtual reality and augmented reality are starting to make bigger gains in the retail world. These are still early days but trends are coming together — and expectations are rising, thanks not only the evolution of AR and VR technology, but the coming deployments of 5G mobile network ecosystems. Larger Trends.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

And that seems likely to create new opportunities for certain types of online merchants. By 2023, manufacturers and retailers will have to donate, reuse or recycle the goods” under a program that the French prime minister called the first of its kind from any national government. Amazon’s Role. Liquidation Trends.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2020

The FNE said it was originally worried that Uber’s purchase of the app would stifle online delivery competition and launched an investigation, Reuters reported. The agency ultimately decided the acquisition would not affect competition. The FNE said in the statement that its investigation began on Dec.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

SoftBank mobile phone owners can now pay for everything from movies to membership fees on Amazon.com with help from mobile commerce firm Bango , according to an announcement. Japan, in turn, is market primed for mobile payments, with mobile phone subscriptions, at 177 million, far outnumbering the country’s population of 130 million.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The pizza chain has transformed itself from a spot for late-night food requests from dorm-room residents — to a leader in mobile and digital technologies, and a blazer of its own path in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) world. First, a few broad points — data that helps define the context in which Domino’s is operating and innovating.

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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

JULY 15, 2019

The experience is said to combine the café environment of the coffee chain with the Starbucks Delivers and Mobile Order & Pay services. This new retail format and design approach provides us with a platform to offer customers a fast and convenient retail experience to suit their on-the-go lifestyle.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Consumers are unlikely to return to stores and business districts in the near future, nor can businesses simply rely on longstanding relationships with suppliers and retailers to keep production lines moving and shelves stocked. trillion by 2023 and make up 17 percent of all B2B sales. About The Playbook.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2020

New Report: Helping Retail Treasurers Navigate The Digital D2C Shift (“How To” Playbook). Not only have retail sales shifted online, but more consumers are buying more of what they want directly from the brand. Report: Helping Retailers Solve The Payments Piece Of The eCommerce Puzzle (Anatomy Of A Consumer Payment Playbook).

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2019

The banking regulator in Hong Kong has issued an additional four online-only banking licenses to Ping An, Alibaba, mobile phone maker Xiaomi and a joint venture (JV) consisting of Tencent, ICBC and Hillhouse Capital. Reuters is reporting that this totals eight total licenses handed out by the government.

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