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 NRF released its annual list of Hot 100 Retailers on Aug. domestic sales with sales of at least $300 million based on figures compiled by Kantar Retail.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

Amazon is replacing some of its retail veterans with software that predicts what shoppers want and how much merchants should charge for it. The shift to automating retail team jobs started several years ago with an initiative called “hands off the wheel.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2019

Recent days have brought new evidence of the importance of robust loyalty and rewards problems in retail, an areas of ongoing innovation, and a way for merchants of all types to stand apart in a fiercely competitive industry. Retail Card Programs. The move adds to Trax’s stable of retail tech.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

These are the top stories in retail for Tuesday (Nov. Founded in 2014, SA Company has evolved with the pandemic and is on its way to getting a capital investment and operational expertise from one of its venture capital and marketing partners, TZP Group. Wayfair, Home Furnishings Sector Looks Past COVID Winter.

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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. percent in 2014.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Retail technology is undergoing big changes in the restaurant world, and that includes the drive-thru. The acquisition aims to help McDonald’s improve order-taking operations in its drive-thru facilities by implementing voice-recognition technology to help customers navigate increasingly complex quick-service restaurant (QSR) menus.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

To help merchants and other service providers convert more consumers at the point of sale, LendingPoint has unveiled LendingPoint Merchant Solutions, a platform that will provide fully integrated one-stop retail financing, the company said in an announcement. The move comes after the company acquired LoanHero in Dec.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The former CFO of Zalando SE, one of Europe’s most successful eCommerce retailers, Kemper was instrumental in leading the company’s IPO in 2014 on the Frankfurt stock exchange. Dropbox leader Adrienne Gormley will become the chief operating officer. The company operates in 25 countries and employs more than 1,500 people.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

From some guy’s garage in San Francisco, a group of math nerds has grown into one of the world’s finest-tuned machine learning operations. PYMNTS: Can you show me some data or proof points on how the company has helped retailers? PYMNTS: Looking back since founding, what has been the proudest moment for the organization?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

Brookstone , a specialty retailer known for massage chairs and gadgets, used to be a must-see mall retailer. malls, Brookstone is now the latest major brick-and-mortar retailer to announce that it has filed for bankruptcy protection. Both have operations online under new owners, reported The Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

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. Department and apparel stores are closing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

continue to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations — same day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said — as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. Costco Wholesale Corp. The store is located in the Shanghai area.

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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. As a result of the series of retail fails, the default rate of high-risk U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

continues to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations – same-day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said – as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. Costco Wholesale Corp. Not only is there the ongoing U.S.-China

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2018

The goal for all retailers is, of course, to deliver an excellent experience, both online and in stores, and to find ways for those disparate experiences to mesh seamlessly with one another. The Swedish furniture retailer seems to be making the opposite transition. IKEA is slowing the growth pace it has sustained in the U.S.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 6, 2015

Next week I will be moderating a panel discussion at American Banker´s Retail Banking Conference in Austin about the competitive pressures of community institutions. The figures below outline the decline of banks in the US, going from 11,462 at the end of 1992 to 5,809 in 2014. prepaid services, P2P lending, etc.).

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2016

For years, retailers have lamented the fact that mobile traffic so rarely translates in equal numbers to in-store traffic. Retailers spend millions — and would gladly spend millions more — if there was some sure-fire way to turn consumers’ phones into magnets that pull toward their stores.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

The business of retail apps is booming. billion in 2014, an increase of 68.7 And 303 of the world’s top 500 retailers now have an app. In 2015 alone, 50 those retailers generated $29.46 But what separates a good retail app from a bad one? And why are some retailers making more money off mobile apps than others?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

“No other platform features the PICKUP Good Guys, a curated network of vetted independent contractors delivering big and heavy goods, enabling PICKUP to provide retailers greater value across their assortment than any other solution on the market today,” she said. Postmates was launched in 2011 and is based in Silicon Valley.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Beyond the Cyber Monday deals from big-box retailers offering deep discounts on TVs, Xboxes and other big-ticket items, there are the smaller retailers trying to have skin in the game. Big retailers are more able to take in those discounts by enticing customers to buy more or other items. So, what do these smaller retailers do?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

Western retailers are just now starting to see daylight at the end of a long winter of discounting discontent, and many standbys like Macy’s and JCPenney haven’t come out unscathed. 2015 report by Statistics Korea, via eMarketer , found a striking disparity in growth between physical and online retail in South Korea last year.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

Retailers are finding success in the complex, highly regulated wine industry , and are looking to top off loyalty as coronavirus orders flow. 2014: The year that DRINKS , which was Wine Insiders’ chief competitor, acquired the company. 1982: The year Wine Insiders started its direct marketing and door-to-door sales operations.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

and aided the company by bolstering operations as well as selling businesses, The Wall Street Journal reported. was a target of Land & Buildings Investment Management LLC, an activist investor that wanted the firm to optimize its real estate value by converting its retail space into hotels, offices and other boutiques. percent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

The typical American household spends $65,960 per year, the largest share of which goes toward retail spending — 30.8 percent of total consumer retail sales as of 2019 and nearly half (49.4 eCommerce retail sales. In 2014, Amazon’s U.S. gross retail sales were $86 billion. In 2014 Walmart controlled roughly 9.1

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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

Usually being the operative word here. When Cook and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met to cap the trip off, it seemed a forgone conclusion that Apple would get what it was looking for: an exemption from a regulation requiring foreign-owned retailers to source at least a third of their manufacturing from local Indian sources.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2020

In an effort to reduce the fashion industry’s environmental impact, Swedish fashion giant H&M launched a B2B service called Treadler that will let rivals access its global supply chain, the world’s second-biggest fashion retailer announced on Wednesday (March 4). A good third of consumers in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

In response to potential competition from Amazon, French retailer Carrefour will invest in eCommerce, seek a partnership with Tencent and put a plan in place to trim its workforce, Reuters reported Tuesday (Jan. billion USD) in eCommerce by 2022 — six times Carrefour’s current investment in its web operations. billion euros ($3.4

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Bankelele

JANUARY 31, 2015

The 2014 annual general meeting (AGM) of Unga Ltd. shareholders took place at KICC in Nairobi on December 2 2014. Unga got shareholder approval to buy 52% of Ennsvalley Bakery which retails its products through high-end outlets e.g. Nakumatt. 335M) and additional cash from internal operations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Although regulation could make it hard for some crypto firms to continue operations, Murray said it’s not the BSA’s job to accommodate everyone. The testimony also suggested that transparency of retail and other consumer payments improve. The FIN testimony also recommended that legislation gets passed that bans anonymous companies.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Tesco Lotus now has approximately 2,000 store locations in operation in the nation. The British group has 74 locations in Malaysia, where it has operated since 2006. The stake’s disposal is said to let Tesco continue simplifying and homing in on core operations.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

percent from 2014-2019. Amazon’s plan for one-day Prime delivery is further burdening logistics providers and retailers. Urban developers confront “competition with other uses such as retail, multi-family apartments, offices and mixed-use developments that generate higher taxes and higher rents,” Walaszek added. percent from 11.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

As more and more retail commerce is done online, the battle to get goods to doorsteps with haste is becoming ever more heated. Bank of America estimated that Amazon has poured roughly $39 billion into delivery services and technologies since 2014, according to Digital Commerce 360.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

That arguably describes the recent acquisition of Seattle-based Blueprint Registry , an online universal gift registry, by David’s Bridal , the privately held wedding retail chain that traces its roots back to the first years after World War II. The retailer has a $520 million term loan due in Oct. When in doubt, bet on digital.

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PYMNTS

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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CB Insights

MARCH 7, 2018

Traditional brick-and-mortar retailers are struggling to compete against Amazon and e-commerce brands. In the past few years, retail bankruptcies have hit everyone from A&P to Toys “R” US. But amidst this overall decline in the brick-and-mortar store, one type of retailer is thriving. First Name.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Gap Brand announced that its CEO Jeff Kirwan was leaving the company, just as the retailer gets ready to reveal its fourth-quarter results. While I am pleased with our progress in brand health and product quality, we have not achieved the operational excellence and accelerated profit growth that we know is possible at Gap brand,” Gap Inc.’s

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