PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Small Business Saturday initially debuted in 2010 in response to the Great Recession and has since evolved into a global event meant to highlight smaller merchants. The majority of those businesses included restaurants, with retail close behind.

social media 201

social media Study Survey Retail 201

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.

Retail 123

Retail Online Customer Experience Trends 123

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. There’s increasingly less middle ground between getting omnichannel right or fading into oblivion.

Retail 100

Retail Apple Fraud Online 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted.

Innovation 131

Innovation Payments Apple Mobile 131

PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2016

Few harbingers of the future have managed to unsettle so many in retail as the advent of automation. To a pundit, it spawns examples of doomsday-esque predictions about the end of labor as we know it – but a new study could turn all that on its head.

Retail 100

Retail Study Resources Examples 100

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. In fact, we’re seeing it happen in a variety of retail, banking and broader commerce pilots and prototypes today. And, they haven’t seen enough of a reward to commit to continuing. Here’s why.

Innovation 109

Innovation Payments Google Training 109

PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2017

Before bareMinerals was a household name in cosmetics – its parent, Bare Escentuals , was a smallish bath and body retailer with an unusual product that had a small problem. Japan’s largest cosmetics company in 2010 , and Blodgett has moved on from the position of CEO.

Retail 100

Retail Branding Video Leadership 100

Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

Innovation 15

Innovation Fintech Online Mobile 15

PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

We operate the only truly global luxury digital marketplace at scale, seamlessly connecting brands, retailers and consumers. We are redefining how fashion is bought and sold through technology, data and innovation.”. Later in the filing, the company stated, “We are a technology company at our core.”. Within that, how much is online?

Online 101

Online Retail Branding Data 101

PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

customers can use to leverage funds stored in their crypto wallets for in-person retail payments. Merchants accepting debit payments before 2010 were stuck routing the transactions over whichever networks were associated with their customers’ cards. Trading platform CoinDeal recently announced a forthcoming debit card that U.S.

Cards 165

Cards Security cryptocurrency Payments 165

Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In 2010, when Patrick Collison founded Stripe Inc. with his younger brother John, he thought the world was headed toward ever-increasing globalization, economic stability and international commerce. Now, based on the events of the last couple years, no one holds “so Panglossian a view,” said the 30-year-old chief executive officer.

Operations 170

Operations Google Capital Online 170

PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

Mastercard’s European businesses cater to more than 950 million people via business partnerships with retailers, financial institutions (FIs) and other companies. He added that he is eager to build on the company’s ideology to “drive new technology and innovation” and to be the “partner of choice.” .

Operations 141

Operations Regulation Regional Retail 141

PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

If Nordstrom is looking to strengthen its eCommerce capabilities, the retailer certainly looked to the right place in a recent hire. In announcing Srinivasan’s hiring, shares CSA, Nordstrom highlighted its new CTO’s experience developing “highly innovative customer-focused outcomes” and cloud expertise.

User Experience 100

User Experience Retail Software Technology 100

Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Digital media usage has nearly tripled since 2010, with the prevalence of smartphones responsible for more than 90% of this growth. The face of banking and financial education has changed how we market in the course of a few short years. Smartphones have become the device of choice for well over half of digital media […].

Millennials 170

Millennials Marketing Trends Mobile 170

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Banks will be able to offer the new solutions directly to their own customers or use Raisin’s platform to reach all potential retail consumers. Headquartered in Spain, Choice FS was founded in 2010 as a software solution to help banks and credit unions (CUs) customize deposit accounts. platform,” said Raisin U.S. CEO Paul Knodel.

Fintech 131

Fintech US Software Retail 131

PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

Mark brings significant retail leadership experience to Gap Inc., We know what Banana Republic is capable of, and Mark’s ability to drive transformation and innovation will help revitalize the brand and position it to achieve its long-term potential.”. “We along with deep knowledge of the company and our customer,” said Peck. “We

Leadership 101

Leadership Customer Experience Branding America 101

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The anecdotal evidence is there, dotting the landscape across fashion firms, tech firms and retailers. Wells Fargo has warned that big-box retailers in the U.S. — Those companies have been asked to turn over documents to the FTC related to acquisitions spanning 2010 to 2019.

Apple 130

Apple Retail Report Fraud 130

PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2018

Birchbox was once valued at around $500 million and has taken in around $90 million in investor funding since 2010, when it was founded. Birchbox has been on the market since last summer, and reports indicated the company had been in talks with a wide range of retailers, including Walmart, to see if a match could be made.

Innovation 100

Innovation Strategy Retail Capital 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

In addition, the retailer is expanding its brick-and-mortar portfolio and is aiming to have approximately 100 stores in the U.S. Warby Parker currently has 64 stores in markets the retailer carefully chose. We think the presentation by retail experts of ‘either [online] or [offline]’ is a false choice,” Blumenthal told CNBC. “It

Delaware 102

Delaware New York Retail Online 102

PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Here are the numbers: $1 billion | Expected value of the overall kiosk market by 2021, according to PYMNTS’ most recent Kiosk and Retail Report , a USA Technologies collaboration. The report studies trends in the unattended retail category, especially kiosks’ rise across many industries. million | Number of U.S.

Data 101

Data Fintech Study Capital 101

PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

Innovators with better tech will appear and — literally overnight — snatch your customers out of your calcified incumbent arms and build scale, they say. Especially if any of those innovations touched the physical world. These innovations would usher in digital’s 2.0 shift, starting in about 2009 and 2010. Digital’s 2.0

Innovation 214

Innovation Mobile Capital Operations 214

PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Not bad for a firm that in 2010 controlled only 1 percent of the market. Instead of offering consumers the cheapest possible version of what was already out there, Shark and Ninja products would focus on innovation — and attracting consumers with new and improved versions of products designed to assist them in their everyday life.

Marketing 129

Marketing Branding Massachusetts United States 129

FICO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Our eight judges are business leaders, analysts, media and innovators in their own right, drawn from nearly every continent. She is a top advisor to Fortune 500 companies on responsible artificial intelligence strategy and data innovation practices and serves on several boards advising startups, universities, and other non-profits.

Meeting 52

Meeting Analytics Management Strategy 52

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Brothers Patrick and John Collison founded Stripe in 2010 in an attempt to gain share in online payments, a then-nascent market with seemingly boundless growth opportunity. As a result of its product innovation efforts, Stripe has seen explosive growth in product adoption and valuation. A decade of online payments innovation.

Online 98

Online Company Retail Payments 98

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then.

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2016

Don joined Kount as the Director of Marketing in October 2010 and became Vice President of Marketing in December 2012. Karen Webster is one of the world’s leading experts on payments, commerce and retail innovation and a strategic advisor to CEOs and Boards of multinational players in those sectors. VP of Marketing at Kount.

Innovation 101

Innovation Tools Marketing Study 101

PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

Most recently, the online retail giant announced plans to open a new Research & Development (R&D) center in the U.K. Since 2010, Amazon reports investing some $8.3 “By the end of this year, we will have more than 1,500 innovation-related roles here in Britain,” Doug Gurr, U.K. billion in its U.K. operations.

Video 109

Video Technology Operations Retail 109

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The line was offered exclusively online until 2010 when J.Crew opened a bridal boutique on Madison Avenue in New York City. J.Crew spokeswoman Margo Fooshee told Bloomberg in an email that the retailer will change their focus to “what women like to wear to someone else’s wedding, versus what they would wear to their own.”.

New York 159

New York New York City Retail Online 159

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

26 ,with products from the eCommerce operator averaging nearly 14 percent lower than competing retailers including Walmart and Target, according to an analysis from Profitero. months in the period of 2008 to 2010 to only 3.7 More Pricing Changes. For instance, Informed.co months in the period from 2014 to 2017.”

Software 157

Software Retail Analysis Online 157

PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

Robots, including those working in retail, “shipped to North American companies in record numbers last year,” according to a new report from the Robotic Industries Association. Overall, the automotive industry accounted for only 53 percent of total robot shipments in North America in 2018, its lowest percentage share since 2010.”.

Industry 123

Industry Retail America Software 123

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

One of the most important innovations in history is the pendulum clock, which was invented in 1636 by Christiaan Huygens , a Dutch scientist and founder of the field of mathematical physics. Enabling people to use their scarce time more efficiently has been at the core of many disruptive innovations throughout history.

Innovation 209

Innovation Study Mobile Online 209

PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2016

With so much data available, is your organization harnessing it in the most efficient way in order to truly reap all the benefits of big data including driving innovation and improving the customer experience? Mike joined Enova’s analytics team in 2010 with 10 years of experience in quantitative analytics. Mike Failor.

Customer Experience 104

Customer Experience Chicago Analytics Big Data 104

NCR

JANUARY 9, 2017

percent since 2010, peaking at 7.2 Growth and innovation. The post Growth, innovation and challenges in UAE banking appeared first on Banking.com. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has enjoyed consistent economic growth for the past six years. Annual increases in gross domestic product have averaged 4.4 percent in 2012.

Innovation 40

Innovation ATM Industry Trends 40

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Understanding the consumer is key for retailers, and leveraging Big Data can mean big returns on marketing investments. It’s no small task, by any stretch of the imagination, for retailers to make sense of consumer behavior. That ROI has been attracting attention from major retailers, other B2C entities and investors.

Retail 103

Retail Analytics Data Big Data 103

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Analysts at the time called this product “an historic opportunity” to bolster the merchant’s “corroding bottom lines,” and innovators rushed to build new applications to help them seize it. Just like 2010, with the launch of ISIS, aka Softcard , and its merchant-friendly mobile payments scheme. And what was the product?

Branding 184

Branding Cards Payments New Jersey 184

CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

The impending “death of retail” has been projected for decades. But, in an increasingly digital world, brick-and-mortar retail shops are embracing new ways to disrupt the system and get an edge on customer attention. One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Get the 54-page retail report.

Innovation 77

Innovation Retail Branding Technology 77

PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

So much starts with coffee – mornings, political ads, artistic movements, advances in QSR retail – and that dictum could hold true with robots, at least the next generation of robots that promise to be powered by 5G technology. That’s the hype, in any case, but early signs are going a long way toward supporting such ideas. Robots and Coffee.

America 173

America United States Technology Industry 173