PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Luxury style and quality brands, offered at a more middle-class price point and sold directly to consumers, is increasingly crowded terrain in apparel retail. Or, perhaps more accurately, through tactics that are so traditional they are surprising to see in a modern retail context. We’re listening.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The David’s Bridal application was built by Vertebrae , a tech company that specializes in bringing real-world applications to retailing. Vince Cacace , CEO of Vertebrae, told PYMNTS that AR in 3D has become a high-demand technology for all kinds of products and retailers. “We How does it work in my space? What are the details?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands are putting a new spin on athleisure wear , inspired by the CBD-based wellness trend. And, in digital banking, banks are innovating with their strategies for fraud protection and anti-money laundering (AML). sales the athleisure market generated as of 2016. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Here is the response from Florin Arghirescu, SVP of business relationships and innovation at Synchrony Financial ….

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

In fact, in Q1 2016, Chapter 11 filings from commercial companies actually fell 5 percent across the board. Absolutely no need to panic, then — unless the topic is retail bankruptcies , which increased year over year by 24 percent. Such is the double-edged sword of a retail industry swept up in innovation. As of Feb.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

PYMNTS consulted 21 payments executives from across the industry to share their insights on the biggest takeaways from 2016 as part of the “Payments 2016, The Year Of…” eBook. Payments 2016: The Year Of An Incredible Shift In Retailer And Consumer Expectations. The two go hand in hand from a payments perspective.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

So-called Generation Z is also driving much of the innovation when it comes to retail. To reach consumers on the hunt for offerings that are “clean and natural,” the retail chain rolled out its Everspring household brand. As well, the brick-and-mortar retail shopping experience is still important to Gen Z.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 15, 2019

But over the last 12 months, warnings that first signaled in 2016 have been flashing brighter. CEO scandals, pulled IPOs and sinking stock prices, have taken the luster off previously high-flying brands. For most of the past decade, the fintech sector seemed to have nothing but blue skies ahead.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

BBVA has a lot more going on than Simple, cool as that acquisition was. 2015, CEO Francisco Gonzalez said, “Some bankers and analysts think that Google, Facebook, Amazon or the like will not fully enter a highly regulated, low-margin business such as banking. I disagree. What is more, Read More.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless. And Amazon and 7-Eleven aren’t alone.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As of 2016, the industry generated around $46 billion in U.S. That is slightly more than the market cap of Walmart , the largest retailer on Earth by sales. In seeking an answer, the independent DTC athleisure brand Acabada Activewear recently looked to another retail trend: CBD-based wellness. and $360 billion worldwide.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

According to the new PYMNTS Order To Eat Tracker , the volume of mobile app orders rocketed 130 percent from 2016 to 2018, and the overall mobile order market value is set to reach $38 billion by 2020. And digital innovators are devising new ways to deliver food to consumers.

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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.” Brands need to have strategies.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The deal comes after a number of years of formidable expansion and innovation for the vision company that AEA Investors bought in 2016, according to the announcement. Innovation is at the heart of the strategy and differentiation as a trailblazing direct-to-consumer brand, according to the announcement.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

It can be argued that some of the toughest buyers to keep in mind when planning out retail strategies are teenagers. While one day a teen may be into shopping strictly online, another day may see an offline preferred experience or a mixture of both, and retailers must be at the ready to transform engagement efforts at any given time.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

As customers do more shopping from home, brands are more and more often announcing brick-and-mortar closures. Despite the unstable political climate and the changing face of retail, Starbucks continues to do well. Starbucks opened 2,100 stores worldwide in 2016. GeekWire reported Starbuck’s earnings at $5.7

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

It can be argued that some of the toughest buyers to keep in mind when planning out retail strategies are teenagers. While one day a teen may be into shopping strictly online, another day may see an offline preferred experience or a mixture of both, and retailers must be at the ready to transform engagement efforts at any given time.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

billion deal went through, shareholders and the public are learning more about what will come of the 30 brands and more than 5,700 properties. Since the merger, Marriott has spent more than $237 million on related costs, in just the third quarter of 2016. After the $13.3 Experts had speculated a consolidation of the Ritz-Carlton, St.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

To keep up with the pace of innovation as competitors move toward mobile ordering, delivery and payments innovations, Restaurant Brands International (RBI), which owns Burger King and other brands, hired CFO Josh Kobza as its new czar leader in January. But not all QSR chains are so focused.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

The second time is the charm — that holds true for Neiman Marcus, and the hot retail trend the chain is tapping into (again). Retailers are increasingly turning their sights to resale commerce. The latest evidence for that came this earlier this week from the high-end retail chain. Resale Factors. It also said 44 million U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

When it comes to online orders, retailers selling groceries — or even takeout food — face a constant balancing act: How can they quickly deliver orders at a reasonable price? The move comes as Kroger — like many retailers — is making a push into digital with its Restock Kroger initiative and seeking to expand its coverage area.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

There isn’t a lot of room to really innovate the Thanksgiving turkey. In 2016 the firm first rose to national consciousness on Prime Day, when the world met the $70 Instant Pot and hundreds of thousands of people bought one. “I So is this innovation worth investigation? Or is there? The Instant Pot Solution. Dinner On Demand.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens. Distribution. But, I digress.

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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.”. The reach is considerable, touching 335,000 stock keeping units (SKUs) across 3,200 brands.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Fanatics , a company that sells Team USA merchandise, has taken a novel approach to Olympic retail this year with a physical store in a major U.S. The store marks a milestone for Team USA: It’s their first in-person retail store outside the Olympic Training Center in Colorado. Retail Gold.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

Especially as online retail has become an essential part of even strictly brick-and-mortar brands, how well a retailer’s web page performs can have a major impact on sales. Unfortunately, for non-retail brands, they’re getting lapped by online retailers’ faster load times.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2016

Instagram followers and engagement has skyrocketed among brands and celebrities over the past year, according to a study by ARK Investment Management , illustrating that the photo-sharing social platform “seems to be cementing its position as the ideal platform for premium brand advertising.”. “In

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retailers have sought to reduce their retail footprint in hard times, and Mattress Firm, Inc. The brand could close between 600 to 1,000 of its 3,000 locations this year, according to some predictions – and is reportedly considering bankruptcy, people familiar with the matter have told Reuters. is no exception.

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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.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

For example, Rooster was 2017, Monkey was 2016, Goat was 2015, Horse was 2014, etc. If we were to take an informal poll, we suspect most retailers would also like it if it were always the Year of the Dog, especially if that meant shoppers would become a bit more doglike in the loyalty department. A Commerce Environment Full of Cats.

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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.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

One of the better definitions of this was found in an early 2016 Medium posting where social and digital architect expert Chris Messina defined conversational commerce. voice) to interact with people, brands, or services and bots that heretofore have had no real place in the bidirectional, asynchronous messaging context.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Following its initial public offering (IPO), luxury fashion retailer Farfetch announced that it — along with a shareholder — sold 44.2 The company was founded by Portuguese fashion entrepreneur José Neves in 2008 with the goal of creating an online marketplace for luxury boutiques and brands. “We million shares at a price of $20 each.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

based retailer Farfetch has announced it is ready to go public. There is no word on how much the retailer — which connects nearly 900 boutiques and luxury brands to 2 million affluent and luxury-enthused consumers — plans to raise, but it placed a $100 million marker in the filing. After nearly a decade in business, U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

Like the Chefling app, these devices sometimes interface with voice-activated assistants, such as Amazon’s Alexa, and have the potential to save consumers from encountering expiring food and to inform brands on which products consumers are bringing home from the grocery store.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2018

As Spanish fast-fashion retailer Zara renovates its flagship store in a London mall, it has come up with an innovative solution to sell to customers: opening a digitally enhanced pop-up store in the same building, industry news source Chain Store Age reported. Penney and Staples, among others — Inditex has taken steps to beat the odds.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2016

And it’s consumer-centric policies like this that have given rise to a stark divide in the burgeoning mobile commerce space: Should retailers force customers to register accounts and log in for purchases and the personalization that comes with it? Nothing is that simple in retail, though, and that’s doubly so for mobile.

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