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JANUARY 21, 2020

Don’t look now, but virtual reality and augmented reality are starting to make bigger gains in the retail world. These are still early days but trends are coming together — and expectations are rising, thanks not only the evolution of AR and VR technology, but the coming deployments of 5G mobile network ecosystems. Larger Trends.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual reality could have more retailers reach more consumers in the coming few years — in large part by upping the consumer experience. billion for retail and marketing in the year 2022, with revenues from VR initiatives expected to increase by 3,000 percent over the next four years. and Europe by 2022.

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

This year, retailers from Kroger to Whole Foods Market brought new offerings ranging from cashierless checkout to personal shopping services to their stores. In August, Amazon and Whole Foods Market announced the rollout of a curbside pickup service for groceries in Virginia Beach and Sacramento. Personal Shopping Services.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Before consumers started to trade brick-and-mortar shopping experiences for eCommerce websites, retailers could bring customers through their doors with window displays. In addition, this technology can help train employees with virtual experiences. And consumers can use this technology to help shop for furniture.

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JULY 9, 2019

Automated retail might conjure up images of robot cashiers, but beyond a few convenience stores in Japan and Korea, that sci-fi development hasn’t yet become reality for the wider world. The latest Automated Retail Tracker explores these trends and new developments in the unattended retail space.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

And that dominance came during a slowdown in the Chinese smartphone market, as well as some games being frozen on the market. All in, Chinese consumers were behind 40 percent of the $101 billion in app-related purchases in 2018 — including paid downloads, in-app purchases and in-app subscriptions.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Smartphone shipments for Samsung increased in the second quarter of 2019, the company said in its latest earnings report , thanks to retail sales of its mid-level models. Samsung’s earnings provide a glimpse into the intersection of retail and mobile. Samsung plans to increase its market share in the technology to 20 percent by 2020.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2019

Online retail has had a tremendous impact on logistics, further evidence of which emerged on Monday (June 3). and other retailers to fulfill orders from online shoppers.” As PYMNTS has covered , it’s a good time in America to have a retail space ready to rent out, as eCommerce merchants are on the hunt and signing large contracts.

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AUGUST 2, 2018

Retail is undergoing a reinvention with the rise of eCommerce, and merchants are trying new approaches to their brick-and-mortar stores. Overall, retailers such as Nordstrom are changing their models as an increasing amount of retail spend is now being completed away from physical retail stores. Retail spending saw a 1.6

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 11, 2019

By all accounts, the non-qualified mortgage (non-QM) market is booming. In 2018 alone, $11.38 Despite this sudden rise in popularity, many mortgage professionals still have concerns about non-QMs, fearing increased risk after the mortgage market finally […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. The move, however, was publicized in the fall.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

The technology in question “can be used for facial analysis or sentiment analysis, which identifies different expressions and predicts emotions from images of people’s faces. There was no direct, immediate indication that the technology — and this new advance — would have retail or payment implications anytime soon.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2018

Retailers and retail landlords are reporting strong first-quarter earnings results, beating analysts’ expectations in many cases. and abroad, companies such as McDonald’s are off to a positive start in 2018. billion, according to news from Retail Dive. Buoyed by strong consumer spending and its resilience in the U.S.

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OCTOBER 18, 2017

The data-driven “Restock Kroger” initiative will largely take the place of new growth in the coming year, according to Supermarket News , with improvements to customer service and assortment winning out over expansion in 2018. However, the category resets have so far touched only 6 percent of the grocer’s 2,778 retail stores.

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JULY 30, 2018

Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions, the global retail electronic point of sale (EPOS) technology company, announced on Monday (July 30) that it has grown its worldwide self-checkout (SCO) market share by 46 percent, according to research and consulting company RBR.

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JUNE 4, 2018

With retail uses as a top driver, International Data Corporation (IDC) projects that worldwide spending on virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) will reach $27 billion in 2018. The estimate marks a 92 percent increase over 2017 spending on the technology, Retail Dive reported.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The ascent of eCommerce and the digital tools that support it have made it easier — in both theory and practice — for retailers to not only see how consumers browse and what they buy (to analyze the entire path to purchase), but to get to know them in the same ways as those old-time general store operators who served small towns.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

It’s going to be a very vocal year when it comes to retail. About 31 percent of consumers now own voice-activated devices, up from 27 percent in 2018 and 14 percent in 2017. About 31 percent of consumers now own voice-activated devices, up from 27 percent in 2018 and 14 percent in 2017. For instance, SoundHound Inc. ,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

We have deep dives on cloud technology, business-to-business (B2B) payments and Visa’s deal to acquire YellowPepper. The purchase builds on a strategic partnership and investment made in 2018, where Visa invested in the firm back then. Ant Group took its listing to the Shanghai Star Market and the Hong Kong Stock exchange.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

The holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of the year for the retail industry. Brick-and-mortar merchants and online retailers alike often rely on end-of-year sales to generate up to 40 percent of their annual revenues and start the new year on a positive note. A notable $730 billion in U.S. A notable $730 billion in U.S.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

A battle between two big pet stores pits an omnichannel focus against a push to make physical stores more robust — and all of it is happening in the shadow of Amazon, and as subscription eCommerce comes into play in this retail sector. billion acquisition of Chewy, the leading online retailer of pet food and products.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

During the holiday shopping season, countless consumers will use digital payments and commerce technology to buy gifts from distant companies — some overseas, some just in neighboring time zones — and have them shipped seamlessly to their destinations. The new Retail Innovation Readiness Index from PYMNTS, powered by AEVI, found that 65.4

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JUNE 6, 2019

Look to China, and look some more — that’s one of the main messages in mid-2019 for luxury retailers, at least for ones not based in the U.S. Luxury retail is a hot space in China. Shoppers in China also like to use apps, and Alibaba and JD.com are on the cutting edge with their technology. Back in the U.S.,

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Close the door and buckle up – retail automotive sales are getting an upgrade. The online marketplace company aims to eventually use AI technology on descriptions, so that a user could give basic details and the AI would flesh out the rest. Retail spending growth began to slow as we entered the fourth quarter,” he said.

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MARCH 1, 2019

looks to improve the channel mix of its eponymous brand and shutter specialty stores, the retailer beat analysts’ earnings estimates but fell short on top-line revenues for the fourth quarter of 2018. The retailer reported revenues of $4.62 The company’s Athleta brand notched another year in market gains. As Gap Inc.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Parker went on to note that the goal of Amazon’s Pharmacy platform is to inject transparency into the market so that any patient can easily understand their options. The news also sent immediate ripples through the entire pharmacy ecosystem, particularly in the stock market. pharmacy market has been anticipated ever since.

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Abrigo

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The Federal Trade Commission’s latest round of warning letters to companies selling products containing cannabidiol (CBD) is a reminder to financial institutions to tread carefully as they look into the possibility of providing banking services to cannabis-related retailers and other cannabis-related businesses (CRBs).

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

The holiday season is the time for nostalgia and tradition, and that is the case here at PYMNTS, where even amid our coverage of the newest retail trends, we sometimes get the warm-and-fuzzies. It led us to wonder, going into the heart of the fourth quarter and then into 2020, about the status of that old standby, the retail catalog.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2019

Walmart is the latest example of the power of pets in retail — a power that is having significant influence among various merchants competing for the loyalty and dollars of pet owners. As well, if done well, pet retail can serve to increase foot traffic into bricks-and-mortar stores at a time when it is dearly needed.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

USA Technologies (USAT), which provides payment technology for cashless and mobile transactions in the self-serve retail market, has reported quarterly revenue of $34.3 The company is building its network on the projection that consumers are seeking fresh retail experiences. Herbert said in a news release.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The job market for digital banking is thriving. JPMorgan plans to hire thousands of people for its technology and digital departments, in addition to an entry-level program to train and nurture young technologists. Autumn is upon us, trees are changing colors, and executives are changing jobs.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

million international subscribers in 2018 and now boasts 137 million global users, according to the PYMNTS Connected Commerce Playbook. From 7-Eleven to H&M , retailers are adopting digital payments and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to bring more convenient experiences to their customers.

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AUGUST 20, 2019

When it comes to the holiday shopping season — an increasing area of focus for retail as the year starts to wind down — it’s not so much about the trends we will see, perhaps, as the trend we will hear. That’s because voice-assisted retail promises to play an even bigger part in shopping and purchasing this year than it did last year.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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MARCH 23, 2018

Gwynnie Bee , a subscription service offering women’s clothing for rent, is launching a new technology platform that allows traditional retailers to offer their own subscription clothing rental business. With CaaStle, retailers send Gwynnie Bee their inventory, and the platform takes care of everything else.

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MARCH 19, 2018

“Intelligent automation allows business and technology to function together for a common goal instead of against working against one another.”. – Saket Sinha, IBM Vice President & Partner, Banking & Financial Markets. The need for this type of technology is steadily becoming apparent and a necessity.

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JULY 5, 2020

The Indonesian eCommerce retailer backed by SoftBank Group Corp. ’s In 2018, SoftBank ’s Vision Fund and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the Chinese multinational technology company specializing in eCommerce, retail, Internet, and technology, led a $1.1 In 2018, SoftBank ’s Vision Fund and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.,

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