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JULY 27, 2016

Retailers might want to rejoice! Because consumer spending is expected to be higher than anticipated in 2016, with sales growing at a rate of 3.4 percent, the National Retail Federation said on Tuesday (July 26). Economic indicators are showing positive trends for retail,” NRF President and CEO Matthew Shay said in a statement.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Harris Poll and CIT Group, a provider of commercial lending and leasing services, recently released the results of a survey they conducted on how middle-market retailers felt about their sector’s financial health. This was followed by social media presence and digital marketing, with 57 percent and 50 percent, respectively.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In order to test out the market in certain areas, a growing number of retailers in Manhattan are opting for short-term leases before making a long-term commitment to a location. The retailer, which started online seven years ago, opened up a holiday pop-up store in 2016. That’s how we run our website.”.

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JANUARY 16, 2018

One might just call this the age of unattended retail. Increasingly, retailers and other merchants are looking to give customers a more convenient and efficient experience by offering products and services via unattended kiosks. market growing from $533.37 million in 2016. million in 2013 to $716.97

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MARCH 2, 2020

Retailers may be focused on the wrong metrics. That’s one of the conclusions from a poll of top marketers from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. According to Moorman, marketers look at traditional accounting metrics, such as sales or profits. Banking and retail put the most emphasis on return on investment (ROI).

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Things we’re reading today include … Exclusive: SWIFT confirms new cyber thefts, hacking tactics Fed gives banks five years to comply with Volcker Rule limits City watchdog to review mortgage market competition $1,570,000,000,000: how much the world spent on arms this year Barclays exits retail banking in Europe after selling off last (..)

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

According to DynamicAction’s Retail Index: Holiday 2016 , retailers have increasing their promotions and offers by 52 percent this holiday season. By analyzing more than $8 billion in consumer transactions globally, the index found that more retailers are turning to deals, discounts and rewards than in previous years.

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MARCH 14, 2017

A new report by Global Market Insights reveals that the market size for mobile POS terminals will gain significant growth in the coming years, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 19 percent from 2016 to 2023. According to a press release , the POS Terminal Industry is expected to be valued at $103.52

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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. My company is in loyalty, or behavior incentivization.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 26, 2018

launched its Marcus digital bank in late 2016, the conventional wisdom was the investment bank wanted to expand into retail banking. EXCLUSIVE— When Goldman Sachs & Co. But, apparently, that’s not the whole story. Marcus, it seems, is an asset pricing play, Goldman’s CEO implied yesterday.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Dutch retailer Ahold Delhaize — owner of grocery behemoths Giant and Stop & Shop — has acquired a majority stake in supermarket delivery startup FreshDirect amid an online shopping surge propelled by COVID-19. “We FreshDirect gets a parent with real buying power and the means to further expand in East Coast markets.”.

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Chris Skinner

DECEMBER 4, 2016

A summary of the main blogs of the week … What do retail customers want? I blogged the other day about too many banks and that there’s not a big enough market for forty of them here in Britain. It made me think about what do customers really want?

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

Although Alibaba and JD.com usually lead China’s eCommerce market, the four-year-old Pinduoduo is “popular with China’s lower-tier city residents.” Pinduoduo, in turn, gets the opportunity to build a relationship with overseas retailers and branch out with more product categories. . percent of the country’s market last year. .

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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. January — Wet Seal.

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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.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Afterpay has announced its in-store buy now, pay later (BNPL) service is being offered by major retailers at locations across the country. Shoppers can use Afterpay to buy items in select retail stores using their Afterpay card, a virtual, contactless card stored in their digital wallet,” the firm said in a Tuesday (Oct.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The first were the Pepsis, Heinzes and Krafts that either didn’t like their retail distribution or saw a pandemic-driven opportunity to get new products in new configurations to the consumer. When those markets sparked a fan base and reorders, the company was born. Its eCommerce business has jumped 35 percent each year since 2016.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

6) that it has acquired StopLift Checkout Vision Systems, an intelligent computer vision system, to combat theft in the retail business. This acquisition will help NCR accelerate growth in our market-leading self-checkout and store transformation solutions,” President and Chief Executive Officer Michael D. “In

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JUNE 5, 2019

It’s not enough to just be a retailer these days, it seems. The retail chain reportedly has been in discussions with Triad Retail Media , the retail advertiser owned by WPP PLC, to acquire it. WPP had purchased Triad for about $300 million in 2016 from Rockbridge Growth Equity, the private equity firm.

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

96 percent: Share of retail banks that plan to develop services focused on real-time payments by 2020. sales the athleisure market generated as of 2016. Data: $525M: Approximate valuation of cloud company kitchen Rebel Foods Pvt. 46B: Approximate amount of U.S. 50 percent: Share of Swiss consumers who currently bank online.

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MARCH 29, 2020

Call it the retail gap that eCommerce can only partly fill. the lowest showing since October 2016, according to CNBC. That gain, of course, reflects calm before the storm, so to speak, before the unemployment filings, the mass closures, the stimulus efforts and stock market roller coasters. The latest reading came in at 89.1,

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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. And six in 10 shoppers said it factored into their decision of where to transact, Retail Dive reported.

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JULY 5, 2019

It’s not enough to just be a retailer these days, it seems. The retail chain reportedly has been in discussions with Triad Retail Media , the retail advertiser owned by WPP PLC, to acquire it. WPP had purchased Triad for about $300 million in 2016 from Rockbridge Growth Equity, the private equity firm.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

That’s why marketers will be leveraging mobile in their holiday shopping strategies this year, with new and creative strategies that focus more on omnichannel solutions and less on generic mobile coupons. Overall, retailers are expecting an even brighter holiday season this year. The BDO survey shows that CMOs are predicting a 4.7

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JULY 21, 2017

No longer are retailers working with marketers to figure out a way to mass market products and services. With the advent of connected devices in the palm of almost every consumer’s hand, the retail ecosystem has certainly seen a shift. Omnichannel offerings expected from consumers is only increasing.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2017

It’s well known that Amazon has dominated the eCommerce market for years, but a new report shows just how much: Slice Intelligence found that Amazon accounted for 43 percent of all online sales in 2016. According to the report, one company having market share of 40 percent or more was until now unheard of in the retail industry.

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JUNE 10, 2019

Oracle has announced new enhancements for its Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service , which will enable retailers to monitor the integrity of their materials and end products. For example, in 2016, a multi-state listeria outbreak in the U.S. affected a number of well-known supermarket chains. .

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Global apparel and accessories retailer Gap reported net sales for both the month of January and Q4 were up across brands year on year as the company showed signs of recovery over the previous year’s declines. We remain focused on actions that will strengthen our brands and recapture market share.”. in a press release.

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JULY 30, 2019

One of the biggest retail stories as we head into 2020 is how India is a battlefield of digital commerce, along with a hotbed of retail innovation. The company was founded in 2016. The eCommerce retailer is said to be working with Catamaran and has started hiring workers for the operation per unnamed sources, Reuters reported.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Retailers that are unable to call on substantial financial reserves are struggling in the current environment. Mobile shopping is growing and a key focus of retailers going into the holiday season. Mobile shopping is growing and a key focus of retailers going into the holiday season. to less than $0.29. Sears Holdings Corp.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

economy powered by consumer spending, vacant retail rental space is forecasted to decline in the next several years, while rental prices are forecasted to rise, according to Cushman & Wakefield ’s recently released U.S. The bifurcation in retail property performance based upon class will only accelerate,” according to the forecast.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Those promise to stand as two main traits of the 2018 holiday shopping season , and retailers that gain an edge and increase revenue during the all-important fourth quarter will likely have exploited such tactics during this period, at least according to new data that strives to paint a detailed picture of U.S. percent, reaching $124.1

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APRIL 6, 2017

with an estimated market cap over $430 billion. To put this in perspective, retail giant Walmart is currently trading at $71.65, with a market cap of over $217 billion. In other words, Amazon’s market value is almost double that of Walmart’s. Likewise, back in 2016, Walmart acquired Amazon competitor Jet.com for $3.3

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

In a sign of the times in consumer lending, Auto Finance News today announced the launch of Auto Finance Innovation 2016, a new industry forum to explore the fintech revolution and how it is reshaping automotive lending and leasing.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The European Union is examining the creation of a single data market that would reportedly challenge tech firms such as Google and Facebook, as Reuters reported. The creation of a “single European data space, a genuine single market for data” would include new rules governing cross-border use and data interoperability, among other tenets.

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MAY 22, 2017

A new study has found that retail global expansion has lost some steam, and while the United States remains the most active, Europe is now the preferred spot for expanding retailers, according to Chain Store Age. The results found that retailers’ expansion into new markets increased by 2 percent in 2016, down from 3.1

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MARCH 16, 2018

Ever since 2013, when Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said the eCommerce giant was working on a 30-minute drone delivery program called Prime Air, people have been saying that delivery is the big retail use case for drone technology. Domino’s furthered the point by delivering a pizza by drone in 2016. Patent and Trademark Office. agriculture.

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