PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2020

the wear-to-work retailer for women, warned it may file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the nationwide chain has been crippled by the COVID-19 crisis, CNBC reported. The company operates more than 385 retail and outlet locations in 33 states, according to its website. The parent company of New York & Co. ,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years. Private brands, of course, are hardly new, and their use in retail predates the birth of eCommerce. Consumers can buy furniture anywhere. Private Label Pivot.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

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. From Walgreens to HP , retailers and technology providers are embracing the world of mobile payments through the help of point-of-sale technology.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Ratelt operates as a real-time customer experience management platform, according to reports. The company’s platform connects retailers and suppliers across groceries and supply chains, among other sectors. The company has expanded from Australia to southeast Asia and clients include Lego, Metro, Pandora and others.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Retail sales have seen very modest year-over-year gains since June, but many brick-and-mortar operations continue to suffer amid the pandemic. PJ SOLOMON , the New York global investment financial services company, and the National Retail Federation (NRF), the world’s largest retail trade association, announced on Thursday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

24) — you could be on your way to owning a pallet’s worth of mostly overstocked items , products that included a mystery collection of grocery and drugstore items, a “truckload” of apparel and accessories, the total of which retail for $620,611. For at least $8,913 — that was the high bid as of Thursday afternoon (Jan. Investor Attention.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

According to Will Byrne, CEO of Worldnet Payments , the kiosks and smart shelves that are gaining traction across any number of commerce and retail settings may even shift the employment picture a bit. The Changing Retail Footprint. As unattended retail notches an increasing footprint, said Byrne, other use cases will also emerge.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2016

This holiday season, consumers are boosting their expectations when it comes to their eCommerce retail. Cloud-based operations solution provider Voxware released consumer survey data that points to the increased standards consumers are holding online retailers to during the 2016 holiday shopping season.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

Dozens of retailers, from Dick’s Sporting Goods to Walmart , have added contactless shopping services, and it’s caught on. The number of orders placed online and picked up at stores surged 208 percent between April 1 and April 20 compared to a year ago, according to Adobe Analytics, CNBC reported. Last week, Texas Gov.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

Cineworld operates 787 theaters in 10 countries. Richards said safety would be assured for patrons because they are operating at 20 percent of capacity, the number of people coming through could be controlled by staggering screening times and requiring online ticketing before arrival.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Not only is it a big time for retail but, in a sense, a kind of dress rehearsal for the upcoming all all-important holiday shopping season. Retail back-to-school spending for families will hit an average of $696.70 last year, according to the National Retail Federation , a trade group. this year, up from $684.79 Amazon Effort.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Though many retailers have assumed millennials are behind the trend toward highly digitized, online-focused shopping experiences, baby boomers might be the real culprits. In a survey of 750 U.S. A recent RetailMeNot survey found 45 percent of Americans start their holiday shopping on Nov.

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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. Organized Crime’s Physical Retail Expansion . Brown rejected suggestions that it could be a current or past employee, telling local news affiliates, “It was a pro.”.

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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

APRIL 14, 2020

With a surge of consumer demand amid the COVID-19 lockdown, Next reached its daily self-imposed limit for eCommerce activity soon after reopening its online business on Tuesday (April 13). clothing retailer’s website had re-launched its site for selected products like small home items and childrenswear, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Dramatic shifts are underway in the retail sector as it adjusts to consumers’ increasingly digital preferences. Merchants are optimizing their eCommerce operations, but this is posing challenges for some, including luxury merchants. This is partly due to the growing participation of luxury retailers that have signed onto the platform.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2017

Retailers trying to bridge the growing gap between the shopping trends of Baby Boomers, Generation Z and every demographic in between may think they have the different generations figured out, but in some cases, operating on assumptions can lead to missed sales. Almost 41 percent of millennials shop online at least once a week, and 62.2

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

Webrooming, before the pandemic, was a full-on retailing trend. But as the pandemic-driven digital shift gains traction, retailers have to be wondering if consumers will use websites to comparison shop for brick-and-mortar retail (webrooming) or whether they’ll go back to shopping retail to order online (showrooming).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Here’s a rule of thumb in brick and mortar retail: Out of stock, out of a sale. In retail, robots are making inroads bit by bit. It was retail that percolated to the top,” he said. Call it real-time capture of a retailer’s “state of shelf.”. One way to take stock of what’s in stock? Get ready for the rise of the robots.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

Seattle-based Amazon is ramping up its operations in India’s growing market by launching Amazon Food, which will deliver prepared meals. Competitors include online food delivery platform Zomato and Swiggy , which raised $43 million from investors last month in a bid to expand into new businesses. PYMNTS surveyed 2,047 U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Edition done in collaboration with Cybersource , based on surveys of nearly 2,200 U.S. merchants, finds that this a moment of truth for physical retailers as they seek to keep their seat at the commerce table. If there’s rude awakening for brick-and mortar-operators, it’s this: digitize or perish. consumers and 500 U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

One recent report that surveyed consumers from the U.K., Promotion abuse scams occur when individuals take undue advantage of rewards, sales or other promotions offered by merchants, which can prove especially costly to businesses operating within leaner margins during the pandemic. is projected to reach $794.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

As the digital revolution continues to transform the way shoppers pay for things amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Mastercard announced a free online tool to help entrepreneurs future-proof their companies. A Mastercard survey revealed 76 percent of small businesses in North America said the pandemic prompted them to become more digital.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

According to the survey, three-quarters of them (75 percent) report being positive about the future. For instance, Visa’s survey found that 78 percent have adapted how they pay. Some 49 percent say they shop online when they can, while 48 percent are favoring contactless payments and 46 percent say they’ve cut down on cash use.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Take, for example, Italy, where Amazon has been operating since 2010 with what The New York Times describes as rather “muted success” since selling its first children’s book in the nation nearly a decade ago. The degree to which consumers intend to continue shopping online seems to depend on the types of products and services they purchase.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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Retail Online Customer Experience Trends 123

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

The Permission Marketplace operates like other major eCommerce platforms, connecting users with products from major retailers. The model can be expanded into recruiting, surveys, dating, gaming, email marketing and community building. The eCommerce platform currently has more than 300,000 active ASK wallets while in beta.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

When it comes to a retailer protecting its assets — digital and otherwise — the intrinsic assumption might be that the focus ought to look outward. But the reality is that the greatest security threat facing retail companies, according to a number of recent surveys, often comes from within. In a story posted yesterday (Feb.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

That consumers have relocated their lives online in response to the pandemic is an easily visible fact when you look at earnings reports that successful retailers are releasing. We had some periods in the quarter when we saw as much as 300 percent growth rates with the [online-grocery] pickup business.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

While it is the only option for many retailers, eCommerce is running into its own limitations under the pressure of the COVID-19 crisis. The most concerning news about those limitations comes as retailers get a handle on how and why eCommerce orders have spiked since stores started closing at the end of February.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

In essence, BigCommerce has made the case, through the decision to forge ahead with its IPO, that it prefers to go it alone, so to speak, in its chosen field, helping enterprises (specifically SMBs) get up to speed in eCommerce and set up online stores. million, while the operating loss shrank to $7.5 percent seen in March.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

With the retail industry sliding into Mother’s Day in just a week, the return issue is bound to raise its head. Some stats around the issue show just how substantial it is for retailers. And if a retailer charges too much (or charges at all) 57 percent of millennials will bail on future business. Now add a pandemic.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

Due to a confluence of events over the past few months, Deliv will unfortunately be winding down our operations over the next 90 days,” she wrote. The survey also revealed 39 percent of consumers shop for retail goods online more often than they did on March 6, the first day of the study, and that continues to climb — up 10.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

And with online commerce profit margins shrinking, does push finally need to come to shove? Those are the questions being raised by the National Retail Federation’s newest study , which looked at the impact that government regulations are having on everyday and high-level operations.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a type of point-of-sale installment loan that partners with retailers to allow consumers to pay for their purchases in multiple equal payments. When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout.

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