PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

As retailers contend with the continuing COVID-19 crisis and the inevitable resettling of the business, one of the most popular pieces of advice has been to reformat existing stores. Here’s the basic business model: Schildt selects a location and alerts local beverage, food and wellness brands about the installation’s launch.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

banks accounted for 81 of the 500 most valuable and strongest bank brands around the world on Brand Finance’s Banking 500 2019 list, released this week. Led by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world’s most valuable banking brand (at $79.8

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Keeping consumers invested and engaged is an eternal challenge for retailers. Merchants must constantly reevaluate their customer-targeting efforts to suit the latest commerce developments, and many are pivoting from brick-and-mortar advertising to focus their outreach online or via social media channels.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Change came from various areas for retail in 2019. Retail merchandising was, at best, a hit-or-miss system in its heyday, Nextail CEO and Co-Founder Joaquin Villalba told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Analytics, too, was another hot spot for retail change in 2019 and will continue to be for the 2020s.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

And retail and commerce-related payments are certainly a big part of that trend. It’s not just the direct selling of products to consumers that matters when it comes to cross-border retail. Several retail and retail-related trends are at play with this funding announcement. Importance of Logistics and Payments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

Yotpo’s outlook is so bullish – from both its CEO’s perspective and from the venture capital perspective – because the company is creating a compressed marketing stack for eCommerce, whether it’s for Patagonia or for an up-and-coming DTC sneaker brand like Brooklyn, New York-based GREATS.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

And the idea is to take advantage of the ongoing rise of mobile commerce and social media to create, in essence, digital communities centered around pets — and not just ones that spark to life when little Fido goes missing, or plots an escape from a dog park or a particular section of the beach in the summer. Social Media Aspect.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Instead, Canada Goose went for experiential retail, a strategy that has become more important as consumers want to do things when they buy things. In this case, over 8,000 consumers traveled through “The Journey,” an experiential retail concept in Toronto during the December 2019 holiday shopping season. Then there’s Spavia.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In today’s top retail news, Spiceology aims to shake up the D2C realm, and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face decisions of how — or whether — to compete with Amazon’s October Prime Day event. The 7-year-old D2C hybrid brand has just received $4.7 13 and 14 in this year of unpredictable and unprecedented retail happenings.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Luxury retail is being revised — and in some cases, reinvented — and those trends are worth attention as the 2019 holiday shopping season approaches. Not only that, but the luxury online consignment retailer opened a brick-and-mortar store on New York City’s famed Madison Avenue. Indeed, in its recent U.S. Barneys Woes.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Social media site Pinterest has announced a new feature that will allow users to make purchases from a selected number of online shops as it continues to expand and grow, according to a report from CNBC. The feature, called the Pinterest Shop , has hundreds of what the company is calling “Product Pins.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

As recently as a few years ago, experts were predicting the era of social media platforms was over, and that new entrants were far less likely to make a dent on the market than be bought out by the established names in the game. In that effort, in fact, it is hardly alone as social media platforms go. percent from 4.5

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

According to the NPD Group , COVID-19 brought the year’s good start to a halt, with March athletic shoe sales down about 40 percent compared to 2019 and taking a 50 percent hit in April. Despite its 37 -state footprint, Werder noted that Fleet Feet thinks of itself as both a national brand and a community retailer.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Those are the types of retailers that Bulletin, a retail tech firm looking to disrupt brick-and-mortar retail, wants to work with – because they are the brands that are most interested in offering the types of highly curated physical experiences that Branston’s company specializes in building.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

The offering brings together the functions of an online shopping website that Verishop rolled out in 2019 with a digital app that works similar to TikTok and Pinterest, Bloomberg reported. The pandemic, for its part, has closed a number of malls and physical retail locations. And then focus on the fun part.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2019

The fashionistas posting on Facebook have the attention of Kohl’s , which is looking to create a curated clothing line based on the brands people are wearing most, the Motley Fool reported Sunday (Aug. Kohl’s is teaming up with the social media giant to uncover emerging brands that millennial shoppers consider cool.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

On Tuesday (June 23) Instagram announced it was opening social shopping to more businesses including its own influencer community. On Wednesday it followed that with the biggest cosmetics retailer, Sephora. Sephora says it has put 80 of its brands onto Instagram checkout. billion in 2019. which reached $19.42

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Three years after launching, the startup hit the half-million customer mark in August 2019. Sezzle’s payments platform expedites quick, safe and simple payments among consumers and retailers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The intellectual property (IP) of Century 21 Department Stores is up for sale, including the company’s domain name, trademarks, social media assets, shopper data and more, according to an announcement from Hilco Streambank , which focuses on the sale of IP assets. Century 21 stores announced on Sept.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

Robinhood was at the heart of a recent increase in day trading, with retail investors stuck in their residences because of pandemic restrictions. The firm has created its brand on the premise and draw of complimentary trading. At the conclusion of 2019, Robinhood said it had 10 million users. The app was up in under an hour.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Now that Walmart is officially enjoined in a bid for TikTok with the Redmond, Washington-based software giant, the jury is not out on whether the deal can actually happen, the jury is out on whether Walmart can make TikTok fit into its digital retailing needs. in February 2019. App Annie reports it saw 375 percent growth in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

“We continue to see a healthy economic backdrop for our business,” CEO Brian Cornell said, noting that Target is “well-positioned to deliver strong financial performance in 2019 and beyond.”. Big Q1 rollouts for Target included intimates and sleepwear brands Auden, Stars Above and Colsie, all of which were well-received.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The move should increase sales for brands and eCommerce platforms, experts say, but it could also become a threat for online retailers, and especially fashion sites. Analysts say that 80 percent of India’s online fashion market – valued at $4 billion – is controlled by Flipkart-Myntra and Amazon India.

Customer Experience 146

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Some have become so popular that they even have fan pages on social media platforms. However, there is one shopping channel in which BNPL may be able to help retailers and additional providers generate much more revenue: mobile. Some providers are ensuring that their solutions are prominently displayed on retailers’ sites.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Retailers are starting to tap into the camera,” said Ted Mann, CEO of visual search technology provider Slyce. They expect the retailers to be able to support it.”. StyleSnap’s recommendations draw on a number of factors, including brand, price range and customer reviews. And it really has been wildly successful for that.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Three years after launching, the startup hit the half-million customer mark in August 2019. Sezzle’s payments platform expedites quick, safe and simple payments among consumers and retailers. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Minneapolis, Sezzle’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments platform is in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Russia-based diamond producer ALROSA is partnering with technology firm Everledger and Tencent’s social platform WeChat to sell diamonds to Chinese retailers using a blockchain platform, ALROSA announced in a press release on Tuesday (Dec. The Mini Program will help set brands apart in China’s luxury market. “We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The world’s biggest social media platforms are cracking down like never before. billion transactions found that between July and September 2019, about 20 percent of accounts opened were the result of massive bot attacks , not humans. One analysis of more than 1.3 Then there’s the mobile advertising situation. billion of that.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Toys will be featured at the front of the shop, while the back will be an “experiential” area where visitors can take photos to share on social media. In fact, Rachel Shechtman, STORY’s founder, is an advisor on the BuzzFeed retail project. Toys R Us had over 700 locations in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

Amazon and Italian luxury brand Maison Valentino filed a lawsuit against a retailer Thursday (June 18), alleging the company sold counterfeit goods as the trade in the so-called “gray market” continues to draw attention. HBR called for luxury-goods brands to refocus on controlling their supply chains to fight the problem.

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. But what exactly are those opportunities, and how can retail banks deliver when it matters most? This obviously has major consequences for an institution’s reputation and a direct impact on brand loyalty” (The Financial Brand).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Global Blue handled 64 million transactions for 29 million international shoppers in the fiscal year ending March 2019. Holiday (and Post-Holiday) Shopping: Throughout the month of December helped push retail sales up more than 5.8 Retail sales were up 3.6 percent for the entirety of 2019. Retail sales were up 3.6

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

But the real story is a complete and radical repositioning of one of the world’s leading brands toward Digital 3.0. Nike reported a loss of $790 million during the period ended May 31, compared with net income of $989 million for the same quarter in 2019. And the causes of the spike were measured on social media.

Branding 131

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Outlook India recently reported that SMBs in the country are seeking a government initiative to require government departments and large firms to disclose details behind all invoices that are 45 days past due, with community social media platform LocalCircles leading the charge in an effort to improve local SMBs’ cash flow.

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Payments social media Report Analysis 237

PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2020

in 2019’s third quarter. million individuals currently hold streaming, education and training, digital media or consumer retail product subscriptions, 27.4 billion in 2019’s fourth quarter. At the time, CEO Jeff Bezos proudly proclaimed that “more people joined Prime [in 2019’s fourth quarter] than ever before.” (The

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

In fact, 2020 opened with retail reports decrying the great toy sales slump , citing the 4 percent fall-off in toy sales, the rather tepid holiday sales season reported between 2018 and 2019 and the fact that toy sales came up short during last year’s holiday season. under the age of 14.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2019

So-called “buy buttons” have captured the imaginations of online retailers and social media platforms over the years, but they have had far more success being used on eCommerce sites. percent by Q2 2019. Buy buttons are often branded. percent in Q2 2019, an average of 11.2 percent in Q1 2018 to 73.1

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