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JANUARY 5, 2018

The retail apocalypse is fake news if you ask Mark Cummins, co-founder of Irish startup Pointy. Brick-and-mortar retail is changing, no doubt, but Cummins noted that it still makes up around 91 percent of all retail spend, while eCommerce claims just 9 percent of consumer dollars. Ireland, the U.K. and — since December — Canada.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Mall of the Emirates retailers are set to accept WeChat Pay in the U.A.E. , Mall of the Emirates retailers are set to accept WeChat Pay to appeal to tourists from China, The National reported. Coverage includes Deposit Solutions ’ rollout of business-to-consumer (B2C) open banking channel Savedo in Switzerland.

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APRIL 5, 2016

No harm, no foul, more or less ; and those who stood to be most affected by the security vulnerabilities — the online retailers — hardly had to lift a finger to be protected against them. But the fact is that things don’t always sort themselves out, effectively, in the retail security game.

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AUGUST 9, 2016

A new study by The NPD Group found that anything related to health and wellness ­­— like wearable technology , basketball gear, sweats and active bottoms (AKA exercise pants), running products, outdoor sports and toys, running gear, portable beverageware — were among the fastest-growing retail categories between Dec. 2014 and Dec.

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JULY 6, 2016

All that slowly came back as James went on to appear in four NBA Finals in Miami, winning two of them, before shocking the world by announcing in 2014 that he was returning to Cleveland to help that city win its first professional sports championship in over 50 years just last month. That said, minimal backlash to the KD brand.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Overstock , the online retailer and blockchain company, announced Thursday (Jan. We are proud to partner with forward-thinking governments and officials like Ohio and Treasurer Mandel to help usher in an era of trust through technology for our nation’s essential financial systems.”. company to pay state taxes in bitcoin.

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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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JUNE 14, 2016

Retailers are struggling to keep tabs on shoplifters who are increasingly becoming their top source of loss, averaging $377 per incidence, up $60 from the year before. billion loss across the United States, according to NRF’s 2016 National Retail Security survey. billion increase in losses from 2014. to $1,233.77.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Tesco Lotus now has approximately 2,000 store locations in operation in the nation. The company’s recent moves mirror those of its counterparts Casino Guichard-Perrachon and Carrefour SA, which have also left operations in nations like Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Boqii had a Series A fundraising round that finished in June 2013, followed by a series B round in 2014. In his book “One Nation Under Dog: America’s Love Affair With Our Dogs,” Michael Schaffer wrote that “America’s house pets have worked their way into a new place in the hearts, homes and wallets of their owners.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Thanks to early boosts from Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, the holiday season is poised to be a merrier one for retailers, as Americans are upping their online and in-store spending, according to news from The Wall Street Journal on Thursday (Dec. Compared to November 2016 numbers, retail sales for November 2017 increased 5.8

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

After the British Retail Consortium (BRC) indicated the weakest growth in eCommerce and high street spending since the survey began in the mid-90s, merchants have called for the government to secure a deal for Brexit with the European Union. 2015, the worst performance the sector had notched since September of 2014. 27, after a 1.1

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In connection with the investment, the two firms will form a strategic partnership “where Coatue will leverage its data science expertise to support Afterpay in its development of retail data analytics and future data-driven products.” Afterpay reports that it now has more than 6 million users and close to 40,000 retail merchants.

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APRIL 7, 2017

By the end of the year, analysts expect digital retail sales in Vietnam to make up 1.2 percent of the total retail market share. But for the nation of over 90 million, many of whom are underbanked, cash is still king even as eCommerce rates climb. The growth is part of the broader digital boom across Southeast Asia.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Customers visiting OXXO’s 14,000 locations can receive their funds by completing their payout information independently via one of three options — calling a national hotline in advance or using dedicated in-store phones and digital devices. percent increase versus 2014. billion was received in Mexico in 2015, an 8.7

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JUNE 19, 2016

And according the the Atlanta-based building supplies retailer, that flaw is putting both customers and retailers at risk. It’s the latest large retailer to raise the security concerns, with a lawsuit filed this week in U.S. Home Depot’s 2014 data breach at stores in the U.S. Because in the U.S. 05 more, on average.

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APRIL 16, 2019

Walmart is making its move on subscription apparel with a retail partnership with KIDBOX — a subscription firm for children’s clothes. Each box will contain four to five items of clothing for $48, about half the suggested retail price, according to Walmart.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Driving sales this year has been good weather, which has kept foot traffic up (a challenge in 2014), though parents are increasingly looking only for value, especially millennial parents. All in, back-to-school sales rose 2 percent in July, compared with 1 percent growth in 2015 and 2014 and a 0.2

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JUNE 1, 2017

Called Trojan.Bachosens , the malicious software was predominantly used by nation-state actors, which confused researchers working on the case. The auto-tech company reported the issue back in 2009, while Symantec recently identified the malware in 2014.

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APRIL 22, 2016

Going forward, Walmart’s board with have 12 members as opposed to 15, in an attempt to more closely resemble other retail boards nationally. Also stepping down are Aida Alvarez, Roger Corbett and Mike Duke (Walmart’s CEO from 2009-2014). million in 2014. million in the year ending Jan. 31, up from $19.4

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

digital loyalty service for SME retailers and eateries, is raising £500,000 in funding to support ongoing growth and establishing operations in the U.S. There will be a strong focus on deploying Loyalzoo across more retail POS platforms and growing partnerships, reseller engagements and merchant user base. “We Loyalzoo, a U.K.

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JULY 15, 2016

The consumer goods market — generally one of the faster-moving in the nation — grew by 5.4 percent in 2014, as opposed to the 11.8 Hit particularly hard in the Chinese slowdown have been luxury retailers, who had been enjoying somewhat of a boom in the Chinese market. Which is not to say all the news is bad.

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DECEMBER 13, 2018

The two companies have been heavily intertwined since 2014, when Instacart was only two years old. Also in November, Instacart announced a national expansion of its Instacart Pickup service, which lets customers order online and pick up the groceries at retailers. “We Instacart made the announcement on Dec. billion valuation.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

The results show the fastest quarterly growth since the last three months of 2014, Business Insider reported. Jenkins noted that the overall growth was boosted by Christmas-related activities and a national sales drive. This was twice as much as the average rates measured in Q2 and Q3. percent,” Kevin Jenkins, U.K. While the U.K.’s

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JULY 25, 2017

In recent studies, as noted by EKN Research and Radial, developed nations are seeing an increase in card not present (CNP) fraud, which now accounts for as much as 70 percent of all card fraud and is growing at double-digit percentage rates in some nations. . BI Intelligence reported news that retailers declined $8.6

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JULY 21, 2020

Radius Bank reaches a national customer base through its digital channels and powers banking services for fintechs like Brex and NorthOne. As far back as 2013-2014, in that time frame, we did a couple […].

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Chief among those efforts, of course, has been the (continuing) news that China is set to launch a nationalized digital version of the yuan. That means that 69 percent of the world’s population now has a bank account or something similar, up from 62 percent in 2014 and 51 percent in 2011.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Chief among those efforts, of course, has been the (continuing) news that China is set to launch a nationalized digital version of the yuan. That means that 69 percent of the world’s population now has a bank account or something similar, up from 62 percent in 2014 and 51 percent in 2011.

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APRIL 21, 2017

CVS looks to revamp its image and up wellness game in an effort to position itself as a health retailer. 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.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

There are many, many retailers and brands trying to outfit the world, and standing out in the crowd is difficult. And while those numbers aren’t likely to keep Amazon or H&M up at night, for a small Cuban eCommerce startup operating out of nation where internet access is patchy and from which the company can’t ship goods directly to U.S.

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JUNE 21, 2019

In the latest edition of the PYMNTS weekender, coverage includes the latest about PayPal and Google’s views about bank charters, a deep, analytical dive into Facebook’s new payments idea, a look at the new rise of pet retail and other stories you might have missed or simply want to review. Why Pets Are Pulling Retail Innovation’s Leash.

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APRIL 5, 2016

Amid sliding stock prices, the retail conglomerate has also been fighting an expensive legal battle over wages employees in Pennsylvania have maintained for years they are rightfully due. The last calendar year has not be kind to Walmart. On Monday (April 4), Walmart received at least some measure of expensive closure on the latter front.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

23) by Fortune compiled the latest data on shopping habits for Black Friday and found that, while National Retail Federation numbers signal that more shoppers will enter stores this year than last, online visits will surpass that of in-store visits. Reports Wednesday (Nov.

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JANUARY 26, 2017

As for MoneyGram, that firm is in partnership with about 350,000 locations across 200 nations via banks and retail outlets to allow for individual remittances within countries and across borders. The money flow has become increasingly digital in nature, across mobile apps.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

million last month to purchase the retail condo housing Murray’s flagship store, affiliated classrooms, as well as its catering and event operations. Murray’s Cheese and Kroger have been partners for nearly a decade, with the national grocer selling the cheese shop’s products in its supermarkets. percent of U.S.

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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. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2 Share of U.S.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Two Russian nationals have been handed prison sentences for their roles in hacking corporates and financial institutions (FIs) in the U.S., The publication said the two individuals, Vladimir Drinkman and Dmitriy Smilianets, were involved in a computer hacking scheme that impacted 17 retailers in the U.S., Bloomberg reported this week.

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