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MARCH 3, 2020

Most Parisian shows were streamed online, including Chanel, which outfitted models with logo-clad velvet surgical masks. “I JFWO is working to bring collections online and will essentially stage a new online event with the cooperation of various media outlets. However, Imajo said the effect will be tempered by online exposure.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs. Until March of 2020.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

This Year was brought to you by the number 2020 and the letters W, T and F” – Big Bird (more or less). Sit back and enjoy our take on the best and worst of banking in 2020 as you celebrate the holidays. Most Oft-Heard Statements of 2020. Kudos to blazing new trails that many institutions are taking on in 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Consumers have shopped online, via mobile devices and at brick-and-mortar stores in various capacities for years, but the pandemic is dramatically expanding the connections between these channels. billion online in Q2 2020. times more consumer conversions for brands such as Estée Lauder, for example.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

During the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, our team noticed that consumer searches for direct-shipped gifts increased. By quickly analyzing the competitive marketplace and reacting to shifts in consumer behavior in real-time, the team grew Lake Champlain Chocolates’ online presence and business.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. Payments Innovation.

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DECEMBER 8, 2020

The surge in automotive online purchasing traffic sparked by the pandemic has led to increased demand for eCommerce. Our new financing will allow us to further distinguish our offerings and customer experience as an industry innovator," said Modal CEO and Founder Aaron Krane. 8) of a $15 million Series A financing.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Bloomberg reports that it offers a bevy of innovative options intended to entice customers into spending more time shopping. Tencent plans to open the store in the first half of 2020 in Shenzhen in China’s so-called technology hub. LVMH has amassed a sizable luxury brand portfolio in various retail sectors, from perfume to fashion.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Online sportsbooks have been beneficiaries of that dictum ever since COVID-19 eradicated most live sports, leaving millions of fans and a great many bettors potentially mired in boredom. That’s caused the sector to balloon in 2020’s first half, and that growth is showing plenty of momentum. A ‘League’ Of Their Own .

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

To bring its fashions to new markets, Zara plans to roll out a global online platform. Orders will be fulfilled from Zara’s Spanish online platform and orders will be in euros. The full online catalog will be operational by 2020. The new markets include many areas of Africa, such as Cameroon, Tanzania and Senegal.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

In the company's second social commerce report, “2020: The Year of Social Shopping," Poshmark said it drew insights from over 8,000 shoppers in the U.S. It found that the desire for such social shopping has fueled brand discovery and eCommerce transactions. and Canada and also from Poshmark's 60 million members.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2020

In October 1829, Sam Patch jumped down the 175-foot Horseshoe Falls (the largest of the three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls), but Taylor was the innovator who came up with the idea of adding a barrel to the trip. Taylor was not the first person to attempt a plunge over the famous falls. Usually we run out fairly quickly.”.

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DECEMBER 31, 2020

Take a look (and have a listen) at our 10 favorite podcasts from 2020. As much as a click from the Kardashians helped spread the brand awareness and jump-start his company, Molnar said, as a spending trend among young consumers set the stage for BNPL's success. Is 2020 Healthcare’s Year To #KillTheCheck? According to J.P.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Not just any decade, but one that has seen unprecedented levels of innovation touch nearly every industry segment and almost every corner of the world. Only then, he said, can one get clarity about how those dots can guide innovators about the future. 2020 Trendline One: Rapid Acceleration Of Cash To Digital Payments.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

We all know — and keep hearing almost ad nauseam — all about how the rise of online shopping is changing the very face of the retail industry and consumer habits. Online Shoppers Are Reshaping The Retail Experience,” attempts to forecast just exactly what retail might look like come 2020.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2021

The year 2020 meant big changes for retailers that had primarily defined themselves by physical interaction as brick-and-mortar merchants were forced to adapt to an eCommerce-focused world as their best option for holding on to their now homebound customer base. The year 2020 saw the overall index score rise by 2.2

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Amazon’s relationships with big brands on their platform is looking quite a bit less healthy than it once was, while Walmart has seen grocery services lose some ground in terms of consumer appreciation, according to a recently released ranking. Big News of the Week: Another Big Brand Break-Up. online spend.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

Big-box retail is getting a refresh for 2020, at least in some parts. The company instead encourages its shoppers to actually come into its stores, saying that its sales growth is robust enough without an order online, pick up in-store option. “As Other innovations are taking place, including at Walmart. Take Costco.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The latest Payments and the Platform Economy study examines how marketplaces are responding to the counterfeit threat as well as how they are continuing to innovate the customer experience. Online Resale. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

But like almost everything else that’s happened since COVID-19 lockdowns began in March, Labor Day 2020 will be something of an oddity even by its own unusual standards. The event is proving popular enough that the online registration to party with Wood has actually filled up. That seems doubtful.

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OCTOBER 16, 2020

What was once a small but meaningful constituency — online shoppers — suddenly seem to be holding all the cards. How consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands and subscription-based businesses respond to this important trend will be make-or-break for many. There are over 1 million brands currently on the platform.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Zara’s parent company, Inditex SA , said it would continue its plan to expand online as it reported positive first-half results. Chairman and CEO Pablo Isla added that the company’s recent announcement that it will sell products from all of its brands on the web won’t have a significant impact on costs. “We

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AUGUST 17, 2020

Using those models, the trailing 12-month, non-adjusted, online retail sales numbers show an increase of 31.4 Marketplaces and brands now make it easy now to auto-refill everything from paper towels to pet food, skin crèmes to salty snacks, bottled water to baby wipes. CPG Goes Online — And To Auto-Refill.

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DECEMBER 24, 2020

PYMNTS research on consumer shopping habits showed that 24 percent of all consumers say they have taken at least one of their routine shopping activities online and do not plan to revert to shopping in stores for this activity, even after the pandemic is over. More consumers are going online to shop and pay as the pandemic progresses.

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JULY 27, 2020

“Given the seismic shift to digital, the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing retail to achieve innovation in three to six months that would otherwise have taken three to five years. The pandemic has brought uncertainty to many businesses, but at the same time, it has sparked innovation,” said Ro Bhatia , chief operating officer at sticky.io.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

To-go service is getting more important, and online ordering still needs to be made simpler. As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR industry is undergoing historic innovation and disruption — and the latest financials from one of the largest and most successful QSR operators show where the trends are headed for late 2019 and the 2020s.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Blackhawk Network Head of Commerce Brett Narlinger said in the announcement that the company has witnessed surges in 2020 in eCommerce and shoppers harnessing buy online, pick up curbside options but there has not been a method to have gift cards included in that experience.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

One of the keys to that future and some clues to mall innovation and potential renaissance (comeback might be too strong a word) comes from an overlooked project by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in late 2019. Customers demand efficiency in their transactions and value having options,” according to the firm’s 2020 Retail CFO Outlook Survey.

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MAY 20, 2020

The upgrade and innovation centered around its flagship Tmall Genie smart speaker will use proprietary technologies that combine AI and the Internet of Things (IoT). The Tmall Genie smart speakers were introduced by Alibaba three years ago and link to more than 270 million devices from 1,100 brands in China, according to Ku.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Brands , moves that serve as a good reflection of overall trends in the quick service restaurant (QSR) space. 7), provided details about where those online and mobile efforts are headed in 2019 for those well-known restaurants. Having 70 percent of its restaurants offering delivery by 2020, said CFO David Gibbs on that same call.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The move means that the company will end its JV that has been in place since 2013 with Yoox Net-A-Porter, which as the newswire stated helps third-party brands develop sites. By 2020, Kering will bring full control of its luxury brands online through its own internal activities, which include building tech teams, said Reuters.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Business roadmaps predating 2020 aren’t much use these days, however, as COVID has altered the terrain. 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. At least in 2020, we know where people are shopping.

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JUNE 19, 2020

While questions linger over the 2020 sports season, that hasn’t stopped DraftKings from upping its previously announced initial public offering (IPO) to 40 million shares of stock. . The Boston-based online sports gambling company announced Friday (June 19) it will sell 16 million shares of its stock.

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MAY 19, 2020

Reduced store visits and larger order quantities have led to supply shortages that have increased consumers’ willingness to try new brands and new categories,” said Charlie Gage, director of business intelligence at Inmar Intelligence. According to eMarketer, more than six in 10 U.S. adults will be digital coupon users this year.

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