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

APRIL 13, 2018

It was a record-breaking first quarter for retailers in the U.S. According to a report issued by Moody’s earlier this week, the retail sector managed to notch a record number of defaults during Q1 2013, with nine retailers defaulting on their debt. corporate borrowers has increased to 3.9 percent, compared with 3.4

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In an email to merchants, the company said the reason is a change in retail strategy, and the site will merge with SpeedLvn, which retails products sold at Lotte’s physical stores. The move is indicative of the trend toward “new retail,” which is the blending of eCommerce and traditional retail.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

billion illegally since 2013 by calling XRP a commodity when in reality it was more like a security, according to a press release. The government alleged in the complaint that Ripple Labs and some executive raised $1.3

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2016

As to whether the 12- to 22-year-old demographic remains the retail chain’s target consumer group today is somewhat murky. Hot Topic has been in business for over a quarter century’s time — currently operating 685 stores in the U.S., Still “outsider-y,” as it were, but welcoming to a wider range of outsiders.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

True Religion was acquired for $824 million in 2013 by London-based capital investment firm TowerBrook Investment Partners, and ended up filing for bankruptcy in 2017. Due to the pandemic forcing stores to close, around a million employees of various brands and retailers have been furloughed.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

is wearing a size 14 or 16 — 35 percent to 60 percent of women depending on whose figures you like — but most mainstream retailers do not carry clothes above a size 14. A fact that people like Tim Gunn and Brian Beitler, chief marketing officer of Lane Bryant , says is true on paper, but overlooks the reality of plus-size women’s fashion.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Just because a retailer was created for the internet doesn’t mean it has to stay on the internet. Digitally-native retailers, such as thredUP , are turning to brick-and-mortar stores to reach consumers, too. thredUP, though, works a little differently from traditional retailers. by the end of 2018, CNBC reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Retail stores are rarely built by accident, particularly in the real world, if for no other reason than retail is sort of an intentional thing. But Recology CleanScapes — an operating company under Recology — is different from most of what is out there in retail. What does one buy at a Recology CleanScapes store?

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2018

The Verge reported that Best Buy Mobile stores were only contributing around 1 percent of overall revenue, while gobbling up more in operational costs than their full-sized counterparts. Since being acquired by Amazon, Whole Foods has opened several Market 365 locations to sell its private-label goods. So, what went wrong for Best Buy?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2019

The labor union Verdi, in an effort to force Amazon to recognize collective bargaining agreements that apply to other retail employees, is calling on employees to demand better working conditions. . Germany is Amazon’s second-largest market after the U.S. . Amazon entered Germany in 2015.

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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. deposits market, and that they have gotten positive feedback that “affirms how ripe the savings space is for just this type of personalization.”. platform,” said Raisin U.S. CEO Paul Knodel.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. 21), the latest commerce operator to be on the verge of extinction in this age of digital and mobile. though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. “As billion in 2013, representing a 2.10

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Kering is gearing up to offer its own luxury eCommerce sites within the next two years, ending existing joint-venture efforts and bringing such operations in house, reported Reuters. Now, those retailers taking full eCommerce ops in house have, in turn, full access to sensitive data tied to clients.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Digital delivery service goPuff will acquire BevMo , a specialty beverage retailer based on the U.S. Philadelphia-based goPuff, which bills itself as a kind of catch-all service for helping customers with various everyday shopping needs, is hoping to use the announcement to enter into the California market, the blog post stated.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As reported by CNBC , the suit hinges on the contention that the crypto — the third largest as measured in terms of market value before a double-digit percentage slide in its value to 34 cents — is a security, not a currency, and thus is regulated by the SEC. “We billion to fund Ripple’s operations and enrich Larsen and Garlinghouse.”

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BankUnderground

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Eight decades later, the debate still rages on: should retail and investment banking be separated, as Glass-Steagall required? The regulation requires large UK banking groups to separate their core retail banking services from their investment banking activities, in order to protect UK retail banking from shocks originating elsewhere.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

Grocery chain Fairway is in bankruptcy negotiations with Village Super Market Inc. Village Super Market Inc., Fairway “has been engaged in a strategic process and expects to soon announce a value-maximizing transaction that will provide for the ongoing operations of stores,” the company said in its statement.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The eyeglass retailer 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,” Warby Parker CEO Neil Blumenthal told CNBC. “It

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

Online retail is known for moving fast, and sometimes, the execs pulling all the levers behind the scenes move even faster. Walmart confirmed on Thursday (April 7) that Brian Monahan, formerly the head of marketing for the retailer’s U.S. online operations, had vacated his post effective April 1.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Struggling retailer Cabela’s is expecting bids this week for purchase. Cabela’s investor Elliott Management last year disclosed an 11 percent stake in Sidney, Nebraska-based Cabela’s and is reportedly urging a sale to pull value out of the hard-hit by recent trends retail operation. Stock price picked up 2.9

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2018

CNBC said The Steinberg Group , which operates under the name dOMAIN, and a production management company in New York City agreed to submit altered invoices and bills to hide the scam. The fraud happened from 2008 until he was fired in 2013, noted the report. He also worked with two QVC vendors to aid in ripping off the company.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

At the same time, the company has a strong driver and ordering operation in place, which should keep growth intact. to $0.25), which will help offset the cost of technology investments that have been tied to initiatives such as the voice-activated features with Alexa, which were unveiled in mid-2017, and Easy Orders, which debuted in 2013.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Amid brick-and-mortar retail struggles and stock price volatility, a go-private offer has emerged for Hudson’s Bay Co., billion Canadian dollars, exiting the German market while staying in the Netherlands (with an eye on revamping operations there). which owns Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

Thankfully, today’s parking kiosks have moved beyond coin-operated solutions to accept dollar bills, credit and debit cards, mobile wallet and mobile app payments. In 2013, the U.S. The brand-new Kiosk & Retail Report: Parking Edition examines how the parking kiosk market has changed in more than 80 years.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

Retailers have plenty of reasons to put on a happy face when things might not necessarily be going so well on the black-and-white financial side of things. Whether its to reassure shareholders or project an image to consumers, never admitting defeat is a go-to strategy of many a retailer – and it seems so too with H&M.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In a recent column featured in Forbes , the thinking goes that online retail has managed to disrupt the lives of many a brick-and-mortar retailer. There’s another existential threat here, as online retailers must grapple with other online retailers. Is Overstock an overvalued stock?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2017

When PYMNTS first encountered PayRange CEO Paresh Patel at Innovation Project 2013 , he was leading a tiny startup with a big goal: to bring vending into the digital age. Step Right up to the Unattended Cashless Retail Future. “Who wants to shop at vending machines?”. That’s not true for other parts of the world.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac. Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

Modern vending machines have come a long way since the first coin-operated machines were introduced in the 1880s. Between now and 2021, the American interactive kiosks market is projected to grow by an annual rate of 7.2 Between 2013 and 2016, the food and beverage segment of the kiosk market’s revenue increased by 8.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

The two main eCommerce players are Copia (which has faster delivery) and Jumia (which has more market share. Tim Steel, its CEO, points to Africa’s 750 million mid- and low-income consumers- who spend $680 billion a year – as its main target market. Both have been helped by the increase in logistics companies across the continent.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2018

Alternative lender Tienda Pago is bringing attention to Latin America’s small business (SMB) finance market with new funding announced. Reports in ImpactAlpha on Monday (April 9) said Peru-based Tienda Pago, which operates in Peru and Mexico, secured $7.5 Latin America is a promising market for trade finance expansion.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

A new study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows that trading in pirated and counterfeit goods has risen significantly, according to a report in the Financial Times. The value of fake and counterfeit products went from $461 billion in 2013 to $509 billion in 2016. percent in 2013.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

Since Amazon made on-demand delivery the feature of choice for any retailer capable of delivering it, plenty of merchants who had no business doing so had no choice but to stomach the costs and ship like they’ve never shipped before.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

At the same time, former retail rivals and now-partners Grubhub and Yelp are agreeing to a five-year alliance that includes the integration of Grubhub ordering into Yelp’s listings. Grubhub absorbed 27 of OrderUp’s markets, including Baltimore itself, reported The Baltimore Business Journal. A Threat to the Empire.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

and around the world, it seems the Japanese market is dropping from a place of prominence. Walmart has been operating in Japan for the last 16 years — a time described as “tumultuous” by the Financial Times ( FT ). The Japanese market for mass merchandisers fell 6 percent in retail value to ¥6.7

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