PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. I wrote a piece in 2014, right around this time, that made the strong case for the decline of physical retail. It’s not surprising.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

Supermarket chains dominated a list of hottest retailers in 2015, according to information released by the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) STORES magazine. The trend is reflective of “grocers moving away from a one-size-fits-all approach and adopting new practices that focus more on their brands and shoppers,” according to NRF.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Mastercard is collaborating with four eCommerce retailers — WHSmith.co.uk, Funky Pigeon, Cult Pens and The Card Gallery — to offer the Pay by Bank app to online shoppers, Mastercard announced in a press release on Friday (Oct. as well as maintain the company’s critical national infrastructures. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2018

In 2014, Amazon ’s Whole Foods became Instacart’s first national partner. For grocers, Amazon’s ventures into online groceries bring big competition, but delivery platforms such as Instacart can help grocers compete with the threat of eCommerce and delivery.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. By 2022, the projected value of the online delivery market is projected to reach $55 billion.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2017

The national drugstore chain recently announced plans to reboot more of its physical stores to promote new lines of health and wellness products to do its new(ish) corporate name, CVS Health, proud. The brand also made note of new digital developments for CVS Pay and CVS Curbside, its online order, in-store pickup program.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. consumers since March. [1]. Take PayPal, for example. 23-25, 2020.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

There’s little doubt that the [spirits] industry will feel the impact of the largest online retailer expanding into grocery,” Coors wrote in a blog post following the news announcement of the Amazon/Whole Foods merger. operations from 2010 to 2014, joined Drizly’s board of directors earlier this week. Or an anything.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

The idea of allowing SNAP recipients to purchase their groceries digitally has been on the horizon for some time — in 2014 the Farm Bill essentially instructed the USDA to design a pilot program. Brands featured include Butter Super Soft, C&C California, Puma and BCBG, and boxes carry a price of $48 apiece.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

It wasn’t until the late 70s and early 80s that the phrase actually went national, and retailers of all sizes embraced the Friday after Thanksgiving as the natural locus for the most enthusiastic — and deal-seeking — of all holiday shopping. It’s Moving Online. Last year, it got close — online sales notched $95.5

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It was 3 percent in 2014, and is 2.8 As of 2014, Amazon’s total share of consumer spending was less than 1 percent, but is 2.3 In related grocery delivery news, Amazon Fresh, the company’s online grocery delivery program that pre-existed Whole Foods, dropped its $14.99 percent as of 2019 data.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

That garage is now a private museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

These contactless transactions decrease fraud, which is a critical service with ATM skimmer fraud up 500 percent since 2014. After all, a customer standing at an ATM is something of a captive audience, said Galvin, and the opportunity is even greater if customers are just visiting the ATM from other banks.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

We primarily sell products through our Mi.com online platform but also through partner sites, such as Amazon, Flipkart and Snapdeal. VS: Xiaomi started business in India back in 2014. The first is the assortment of the product options that are available online, and the second is the number of platforms. contact-form-7].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

According to data revealed inside the brand new PYMNTS.com Global Cash Index™ Poland Analysis , cash is still remarkably popular in the Eastern European country, despite its economic volatility in recent years. In fact, some might even say that euros are royalty in the Eastern European nation. “In In Poland, cash is still on top.

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Accenture

MAY 22, 2019

Today, we are seeing a slowdown in commercial deposit growth broadly with flat or negative growth in pockets as deposits shift to the national banks. percent between 2014 and 2016. For example, Stripe offers online payment processing for e-commerce businesses of all sizes through a suite of payment APIs.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

John Beale , longtime CIO of City National Bank. For more than 20 years, John has helped City National grow its niched commercial and private banking businesses with strategic technologies. It feels like soon we will be ordering our burger online in the drive-through and having it “delivered” at the window. Nicely done!

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NCR

OCTOBER 28, 2016

That was an early appearance for this topic on a national stage, and it hasn’t let up since. In fact, student debt for undergraduates in the class of 2014 reached an average of $28,950 , up 2% from the previous year, and the number is undoubtedly higher for the majority of students in fields such as law and medicine.

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NCR

OCTOBER 7, 2016

That was an early appearance for this topic on a national stage, and it hasn’t let up since. In fact, student debt for undergraduates in the class of 2014 reached an average of $28,950 , up 2% from the previous year, and the number is undoubtedly higher for the majority of students in fields such as law and medicine.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2016

No matter how solid the product, if consumers don’t know a brand is there, they aren’t going to patronize it. It is almost the universal desire of brands and and retailers to be visible to the mind’s eye of consumers and to be a household name. In 2014, Pharmapacks brought in $31.5 The Magic Of “The Buy Box”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. Today, we are seeing other form factors emerging, beyond just the credit card, including the watch, the bracelet, the payment ring and the car one day,” Chris Curtin, chief of brand and innovation marketing officer at Visa, told RCR Wireless News.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Last year, we caved to the marketing pressures of modern business and put out a “ hot five ” technology blog post for 2014. From Retail malware: PCI-DSS is part of the problem, says retail security specialist Slava Gomzin – 07 Aug 2014 – Computing Feature ]. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ – ]. Why the quotes?

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

Amazon applied for a similar patent for passive monitoring in 2014, which was later granted in 2017. Facial recognition, for example, could capture what a shopper is looking at, and enable retailers to later serve up related promotions to the shopper via email or online ads. In China, users scan a QR code while entering JD stores.

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Tech and Finance

JULY 13, 2016

The largest national banks have pulled ahead in mobile, according a recent Forrester report — the 2016 U.S. Jim Marous, co-publisher of The Financial Brand, said the J.D. A 2014 Gallup survey showed that regional and small banks did a better job making customers feel they are on their side. Or at least they should be.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The companies below were selected based on the recency and size of their disclosed funding and their Mosaic score, CB Insights’ National Science Foundation-backed algorithm that uses financial and non-financial signals to predict private company health. Select Investors : Brand Foundry Ventures, Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Sterling VC.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Within the next week or so, CVS ’s planned acquisition of Aetna is expected to close, pairing the nation’s largest pharmacy chain and the nation’s fifth-largest health insurer under a single banner. Merlos called out CVS’s 2014 $2.1

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Around the middle of the twentieth century, there was what The Atlantic called a “Cambrian explosion” of brands. Tide, Crest, Band-Aid, Lipton, and other branded packaged goods — and the conglomerates that manufactured them — reigned. Store brands from retailers were seen as down-budget choices. Table of Contents.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

” For example, the rise of “athleisure” brands like Lululemon and Athleta has been attributed to millennials’ search for clothing options that let them easily transition from the yoga studio to the office. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

In tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), The Coda was awarded a rating of 5 stars out of 5 for its side-impact and rollover tests. We were promised a future of jetpacks and flying cars — and it’s 2014. The death knell for Coda Automotive, however, may have been its safety issues. Founded: 2009.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

The company came out of stealth mode with a splashy Fortune cover story in 2014, revealing to the public that it had raised more than $400M, at a valuation of over $9B. Three months later, Amazon contributed to a $50M funding round earmarked for promoting the Pets.com brand. The rise and fall of Pets.com. Takeaways & lessons.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

After a high of 614,024 SMB openings in 2014, the Census reported that only 452,835 firms were started in the U.S. While it was easy to chalk things up then to the financial crisis and the consumer spending hangover that resulted, we dug deeper and discovered the enormous shifts in buying online from physical stores that had been underway.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

There is a possibly apocryphal story of Amazon’s early days (around 2001) where Founder Jeff Bezos was invited to Bentonville, Arkansas to discuss the possibility of Walmart purchasing his still young – and, at this point, struggling – online bookstore. Customers will also be able to use the service online at Walmart.com. respectively.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

E-commerce sales growth is pulling ahead of total retail sales ( 17% vs. 6% for year-over-year in Q4’17), and Amazon is controlling upwards of 40% of online sales in the US, according to the US Department of Commerce and Slice Intelligence, respectively. ” — Alistair Davidson, CFO, Ikea. Its membership fee revenue grew 12.6%

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

When Singles Day launched nearly a decade ago, the then-fledgling eCommerce brand Alibaba didn’t really think they were changing the face of commerce in its nation. Mobile was something almost no one in China had ever heard of, and online shopping wasn’t much more than a blip on the radar just yet.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Customer journey: Using chat to get people from online to brick-and-mortar. Chris Messina, inventor of the Twitter hashtag and product designer for Google and Uber, wrote, “[Y]ou and I will be talking to brands and companies over Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, and elsewhere before year’s end, and will find it normal.”.

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