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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online Resale. Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

That was on top of news that Walmart’s increased profit-margin pressure was pushing an annual revenue estimate for 2018 that missed investor expectations. McMillon assured investors that 2018 should see an average eCommerce sales growth rate of 40 percent. This issue, among others, is on Walmart’s priority list for 2018.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

million – up 19 percent from the fourth quarter of 2018. Total fuel transactions increased 12 percent from the fourth quarter of 2018 to 156 million, while payment processing transactions increased 9 percent to 126.7 billion for the fourth quarter of 2018. million for the fourth quarter of 2018. billion from $8.2

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Consumers have long grown accustomed to online shopping, but familiarity does not necessarily result in increased purchase volumes. They may spend hours browsing retailers’ online or mobile websites, only to abandon the items placed in their carts — the digital equivalent to window shopping. BNPL Solutions and Breathing Room .

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MAY 23, 2019

Millennials, Bridge Millennials and the rapidly up-and-coming Gen Z consumers mostly prefer digital banking as their go-to when they interact. For credit unions alone [in] 2015 and 2018, credit union market share of personal lending went from 31 percent to 22 percent. That result, Chambers noted, is just an average.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) that it is launching a new destination for electronics products to feature Certified Refurbished products, not from its sellers but from brands like De'Longhi, Dirt Devil, Hoover, Makita, Philips and Razer, which will sell exclusively on the eBay platform. The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Lie before you buy: Casper, the online bed-in-a-box startup selling mattresses by mail order, will soon allow customers to try those beds before having one shipped to their home. These shops will be open in cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Chicago through spring 2018. That’s on top of the company’s 100-day money-back trial.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The no-interest, no-fee nature of these solutions intrigues consumers — especially the millennial and Generation Z demographics — searching for alternative payment methods that can grant them further flexibility and convenience while shopping. Around The Buy Now, Pay Later World. How BNPL Solutions Could Slow Cart Abandonment.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

Merchants from grocers to quick-service restaurants (QSRs) and gas stations rolled out new ways for consumers to transact from mobile ordering to scan-and-go checkout in 2018. But, brand name aside, Dunkin’, like Starbucks, guided customers toward mobile order-ahead technology this year. Apps At The Pump.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Here at PYMNTS our resident expert in thinking outside of the lines as laid out by conventional wisdom is Karen Webster — and summer 2018 has been a particularly good time for drawing long and unexpected lines way outside the box, and into a rapidly changing future. AKA thinking outside of the box.

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

PYMNTS researchers found that what we call “social shifters” moved online fast but are most likely to rush back to physical stores and outside activities. This means that the share of consumers making purchases who do so via voice assistant is up 42 percent since 2018 and up 10 percent since 2019.”.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Amid a double-digit increase in digital sales and a focus on omnichannel efforts, Kohl’s Corporation beat analysts’ top-line revenue and earnings estimates for the fourth-quarter of 2018. Rewards and Millennials. The department store retailer reported revenues of $6.8 billion and earnings per share of $2.24 billion and $2.18

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Sykes believes the attraction of online companies and uber-retailers it simple at one level. What brand doesn’t want to sit next to Beyonce or Kim at a fashion show? “I It’s also typically fairly fast moving, but for Klarna it gets us close to great brands. We want those great brands to adopt Klarna.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

The RealReal , the online luxury reseller, is reportedly mulling an initial public offering, reported Reuter s. Reuters reported the high-end luxury online retailer has issued a request for proposal to potential advisors and underwriters to take The RealReal public in 2019. FarFetch was able to raise $885 million, reported Reuters.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

consumer seems happy to test the waters — and none more so than the coveted bridge millennials. According to PYMNTS survey data, nearly three times as many bridge millennials are Amazon Prime members as Walmart+ members. But three in 10 bridge millennials already report having both, just a month in. Those are the 47 million U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. Unlike her competitor for the title of Generations X’s Martha Stewart, Gwyneth Paltrow, Teigen has built a brand around being accessibly aspirational.

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Millennials, on average, are less brand-loyal than their parents or older siblings. They tend to like quality, have a strong preference for shopping online and enjoy a good bargain – but when it comes to buying from a specific brand? Not so much. They are packaged to limit waste and labeled for maximum transparency.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Bridge millennials own slightly more devices than the average consumer in our study: six devices compared to the roughly five that most consumers own. This group of 60 million U.S.

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JUNE 10, 2019

According PYMNTS’ Subscription Commerce Tracker , Americans spent $2 billion per month on subscriptions in 2018. This appeals to two distinct audiences: seniors and millennials, who make up 32 percent and 30 percent of resale shoppers, respectively. Ann Taylor and New York and Company were early participants.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This is a popular strategy — DoorDash handled a full 35 percent of all meal deliveries in the United States in 2018, and Grubhub closely trailed on its heels, claiming 30 percent of orders. based QSRs draw millennials consumers, with half of this age group reporting that they place more deliveries now than they did two years ago.

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MAY 28, 2019

With abundant choices in many aspects of their lives, consumers expect a range of options when it comes to online shopping, ranging from picking out clothes to making travel plans. Half of global online transactions are expected to take place in Asia this year. billion – of funds were lost to card fraud in 2018, up from $1.4

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APRIL 25, 2019

Most estimates for 2018 are around $900 million. The term eSports can refer to a wide range of games in the competitive space, but in general the most popular ones are in the first-person shooter or multi-player online battle arena genres. Consumers are buying Tilly’s products online, as digital growth was up 22 percent in 2018.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The brand has dubbed the recycled-luxe aesthetic “rawthentic modernity.”. In the retail arena, sporting goods online and offline have been decimated over the past two years by the D2C efforts of the Nikes of the world, as well as deep discounts from Target, Walmart and Amazon. percent of the market in 2018, up from 14.3

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APRIL 19, 2018

The storied department store is a bit more than a brand at this point. Some have noted that Macy’s is a middle-market brand pitching to a middle class that no longer exists — or doesn’t exist in enough force to support its expansive business model. A lot has been written in recent years about everything that has gone wrong at Macy’s.

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APRIL 16, 2018

But the brand could only guarantee that it would fill orders through the site until June. “We We hope that Weddington Way will continue to serve you through our website indefinitely, but at this point we can only guarantee orders made through June 11, 2018,” the company wrote in a statement.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

consumers are predicted to spend more than $1 trillion during the 2019 holiday season, mostly through online and Cyber Monday deals. The goal is not to wholly replace credit but to find methods that connect with credit- or debt-shy consumers during the holidays, noted Nick Kaplan, president of fashion brand Fashion To Figure.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If there was any stigma left about used clothing it may have been erased last week as Nordstrom put its high-end brand on what it calls “re-commerce.”. The company says 56 million women bought secondhand items in 2018, up from 44 million a year earlier. We like the handle. Nordstrom is taking a multichannel approach.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2020

For its three years in operation, Brandless generated no shortage of buzz with its concept of “private label for less” and the idea that the best brand is no brand at all. Under his leadership, the plan for the brand was to pivot into higher-margin, bigger ticket products such as CBD oil and move Brandless onto store shelves.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Grubhub made news a couple weeks ago when it simultaneously delivered a very strong Q2 2018 earnings report and announced the acquisition of LevelUp. LevelUp is front and center on the Chase site as its partner for online ordering using Chase Pay and Chase Commerce Solutions (aka Chase Paymentech).

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Take the consumer segment known as Bridge Millennials — 29 million strong, they are between the ages of 30 and 40, and have grown up using connected devices and represent the first generation of connected consumers with spending power. Instagram users can also now shop in videos from the brands they follow. Window Shopping.

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MAY 25, 2018

Following the quarterly check-in with parent firm L Brands , which also owns Bath & Body Works and the youth-oriented PINK lingerie brand, the reviews have not been kind. L Brands slashed its earnings estimates by 8 percent. For fiscal 2018, L Brands now expects earnings per share to fall within a range of $2.70

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JANUARY 21, 2020

That company recently made its own play to have more of a digital and mobile role in the restaurant world, buying Preoday , a firm that focuses online ordering technology, increasingly important — even table stakes — to every operation from global fast-food chains to local fish-and-chip lunch counters.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

In an ecosystem in which success is defined by scale and time to market, it’s no longer good enough to have a great product, a well-known brand or a compelling technology. It’s why I wrote at the start of 2018 that the year’s power brokers will be those who can use their scale, reach and momentum to drive innovation forward.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The fourth quarter of 2018 was kind to Venmo and Zelle , the two big peer-to-peer (P2P) services that are battling for consumer loyalty and market supremacy — a fight that pits PayPal , the owner of Venmo, against the banks that operate Zelle. 31, 2018, with a year-end goal of 300 million.) P2P Numbers.

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APRIL 30, 2018

QVC President and CEO Mike George said when the deal was announced,“By creating the leader in discovery-based shopping, we will enhance the customer experience, accelerate innovation, leverage our resources and talents to further strengthen our brands, and redeploy savings for innovation and growth. Signs of Traction.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

Though millennial parents were hit with nostalgia, when it comes to the world of toy sales going forward, market watchers of all kinds have been asking themselves the same question for weeks: Now what? Geoffrey the Giraffe is, sadly, no more. Even in its declining days, Toys R Us represented some 12 percent of the U.S. Pop-Up Toy Stores.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

It was, by all accounts, a good year — pushed by a strengthening economy, a warming eCommerce market and and an emerging generation of millennial homeowners suddenly in need of do-it-yourself home improvement supplies. billion investment in improvements across the brand. A Stumbling Start to 2018.

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