PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Digital sports entertainment and gaming industry platform DraftKings — known for its top-rated daily fantasy sports and mobile sports betting apps — today announced an agreement with InComm Payments , a global leading payments technology company, to launch an industry-first retail gift card. . DraftKings reported on Friday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

American retailers are heading east: They’re opening the doors to brick-and-mortar stores in China, while listing on China’s dueling marketplaces — Tencent and JD.com. Walmart , for example, brought a small-format supermarket to the city of Shenzhen as the popularity of “small retail” grows in China. Ralph Lauren.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Fashion retailer rue21 (r21 Holdings, Inc.) The retailer modified its asset-based credit facility to bolster availability to $155 million due 2025 headed up by Bank of America, N.A. The modification comes with a rise to the FILO Loan via a collaborative effort between Tiger Finance and Bank of America. million members.

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MAY 14, 2020

As of the first of June, the nation’s largest mall — Minnesota’s Mall of America — is set to reopen its doors to the public, following Gov. Tim Walz clearing the state’s retail locations to open as of Monday of this week (May 11), provided they adhere to social distancing guidelines within their locations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The dreaded returns season has hit retail with a predictable but painful thud. In fact, forward-thinking retailers are looking at the return process as a chance to create a positive customer experience. In fact, forward-thinking retailers are looking at the return process as a chance to create a positive customer experience.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

The pandemic’s harsh impacts on retail continue to show themselves as brands report plummeting quarterly earnings and eye additional store closings. And one retail expert says what is taking place is more an interaction revolution than a post-pandemic eCommerce revolution. 1 to April 30 due to the pandemic. €1B

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

New eco-friendly shopping platform Hive Brands aims to be a Whole Foods of sustainable products. 390 : Minimum number of stores Charming Charlie had at its height in North America, the Middle East and the Philippines. All this, Today in Data. 2014 : The year that healthy pet food company Freshpet went public.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2020

The list of positive retail brand attributes goes on and on, but one new post-pandemic value has become more important than all the others: cleanliness. Fitting rooms have been strictly regulated or even shut down by some retailers. Red Roof isn’t far behind on the branding front with its program, RediClean.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Today (June 17) Visa is announcing that their sensory branding suite is in over two dozen countries care of a dozen new partnerships. Visa’s sensory branding suite of products includes a sound, animation and haptic cues for consumers and merchants when a Visa transaction is completed.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are expanding their efforts to provide customers with health and wellness services while taking steps to train their employees for healthcare roles. said in the announcement about the offering, “Walmart aims to be the market leader in providing retail workers a path to careers in growing fields like healthcare.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

As it does during the first week of every month of the pandemic, attention turns to retail leases. This week found that one of the crisis’ most troubled retailers — Nordstrom — will only pay half of its rent for the balance of 2020. Retail Properties of America, Inc. It, along with Authentic Brands Group owns SPARC Group.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Iain McNicoll , VP of Americas/SMB for payments platform Payoneer , recently told PYMNTS that eCommerce’s market share has risen to 27 percent from just 16 percent when the pandemic began. McNicoll said the quick gains aren’t surprising, as physical retail stores essentially closed down worldwide for months.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis and the digital shift that it accelerated are making five lessons clear that tradition brick-and-mortar retailers must heed if they want to survive, according to Karen Webster. Webster said the rise of direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales is adding an additional challenge to traditional retailers’ battle for relevance.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

The store is set to debut at the Mall of America in the spring, Chain Store Age reported. Leasing Manager Ashley Hofmann said, according to the outlet, “Good American has built a community and retail experience that empowers women and encourages body confidence – a powerful message and commitment that Mall of America resonates with.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

As retailers look for a way out of an unprecedented cash flow crunch, many are slashing prices online and offering free shipping. The move is good for consumers, but for the retailers involved discounting is a double-edged sword. It’s the age-old argument for retail. retailers is down 64 percent over 2019. In the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. The move is one of several that Tilly’s has been pursuing recently to draw additional foot traffic in an era when, like many youth-focused retailers, it is seeing its sales constantly shifting online.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

percent in North America and 7 percent internationally. The pizza chain noted that approximately 320 of its roughly 2,100 international franchised stores are closed for the time being, mainly in the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. Brands has adapted to the coronavirus with digital technology and contactless delivery.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

To provide men’s personal care items that feel like premium brands at accessible price points, eCommerce innovators are building product lines through the direct-to-consumer (DTC) model. Founder Matt Mullenax was inspired to start the brand after cutting his teeth in the DTC world as an early employee at Bonobos.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Case in point, Stockwell: a self-service retail venture that got off on a very wrong foot with customers by, among other things, choosing the wrong name. But the branding came across somewhat differently. The Washington Post branded Bodega the most hated startup in America.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

For most retailers, this virus thing is starting to hurt. Retailers are now in full-on battle mode,” said Jefferies Analyst Randal Konik , who foresees a 90 percent to 100 percent drop in mall traffic. For retailers, this is now about near-term survival.”. “For For retailers, this is now about near-term survival.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Good Housekeeping is opening up a pop-up shop in the Mall of America running from early October through the end of December, aka the holiday shopping season. Named GH Lab, the 2,800-square-foot shop will be a monument to experimental retail, designed to resemble a real home complete with dining and living room areas.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

Unicomer Group, Latin America’s equivalent of Best Buy, has teamed up with YellowPepper to develop a digital credit app that acts as a financial services center for underbanked and unbanked consumers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Barney’s has given way to Saks Fifth Avenue, directing shoppers to the latter’s sites in these last days of the year, one of the latest changes in luxury retail in 2019. The luxury retailer has stopped eCommerce transactions on its Barneys.com and Barneyswarehouse.com websites. Luxury Consolidation. billion or $135 a share in cash.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Now, as it suffered with a formidable performance by those companies, Under Armour cut its full-year North America revenue forecast, Reuters reported. Nike posted a 7 percent jump the quarter ended in May for North America revenue, while Under Armour sales dropped 3 percent. for many years.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

According to its Securities and Exchange Commission stock registration statement, as cited by CNBC , the online mattress retailer said it lost $73.4 Walmart and Amazon have incubated their own brands of mattresses that they sell via the web. Privately held Casper Sleep filed regulatory paperwork on Friday (Jan. million in 2017 and $92.1

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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

JANUARY 18, 2018

Within China, sales of brands from Gucci to Chanel, which have been sluggish for years, rose at the fastest pace in five years in 2016 and are positioned to consolidate those gains in 2018. 2017 saw a global recovery of the luxury retail market due to their affinity for high-end brands.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2019

Retailers are looking to do more in smaller spaces, a trend that seems ready to increase during the holiday shopping season and beyond. Among the latest examples of that comes from kids’ eyewear retailer Fitz Frames , which offers face measurements via its mobile app, and a subscription commerce plan for consumers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2017

Cash usage in the Americas is at an inflection point. And while that’s a sign of positive growth, proliferation of new payment products is chipping away at the growth, according to the brand new Global Cash Index™ Americas Analysis. Total cash use in the Americas is expected to grow by 2.56 trillion in 2015.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Digitally native brands are trying on a new brick-and-mortar model for size: Instead of opening the doors to cavernous stores, they are opting to create smaller-format locations. In turn, brands such as Indochino can benefit by not having to stock many items. Already, the company has about 30 showrooms across North America.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

To learn more about their customers and increase foot traffic, retailers are testing out new business ideas. In some cases, retailers are dedicating small spaces to brands inside their brick-and-mortar stores. The vast majority of retailers believe in trying new business approaches.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2017

The number of Mastercard cards increased 6 percent in the Americas in 2015, which compares to a 4 percent increase for Visa, but Visa still holds the spot as the largest card scheme in the region, reported RBR. Mastercard branded cards account for 40 percent of the total in Canada, helped by an agreement between Mastercard and Costco.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2016

Walmart isn’t exactly synonymous with humanitarian efforts, but in the age of socially conscious consumers and brand activism, it might just be good business to fight hunger with everything the multinational retailer has got. each — the average price of a meal in a local food bank — to Feeding America.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

To help Mall of America merchants engage with Chinese consumers, CITCON has teamed up with the shopping complex to offer stores a cross-border mobile payments system. has partnered with Alipay to bring the payment option into select brick-and-mortar stores across GUESS’ brands.

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