PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

With the system, online purchases can be tied to purchases with those in the store. Glossier Founder and Chief Executive Emily Weiss told the New York Times in an article about the store , “We’re not focused on selling you stuff … We don’t have people working on commission. And online retail sales may hit $123.73

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

billion financing infusion from a group of lenders led by JPMorgan Chase, toy and game retailer Toys R Us is announcing new steps in its post-bankruptcy restructuring. In recent retail news, Chain Store Age reported Monday (Oct. The new customer touchpoint will “get merchandise into shoppers’ hands faster,” according to the article.

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PYMNTS

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

JUNE 18, 2020

This week’s 17 percent bounce for retail sales was a welcome bit of good news. If the new converts to eCommerce are aggressive about growing their businesses, it could lead to growth in online media and more choices for the Amazon-obsessed consumer. But there’s also a lesson here for retailers that want to embrace it.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

24) — you could be on your way to owning a pallet’s worth of mostly overstocked items , products that included a mystery collection of grocery and drugstore items, a “truckload” of apparel and accessories, the total of which retail for $620,611. For at least $8,913 — that was the high bid as of Thursday afternoon (Jan. Investor Attention.

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MARCH 4, 2020

That’s one of the conclusions drawn from a new report on customer loyalty from Merkle, and it holds some clues for retailers looking to improve the recency and frequency of customer visits and purchases. “To The connected consumer wants to feel more connected.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2017

Retailers trying to bridge the growing gap between the shopping trends of Baby Boomers, Generation Z and every demographic in between may think they have the different generations figured out, but in some cases, operating on assumptions can lead to missed sales. Almost 41 percent of millennials shop online at least once a week, and 62.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2018

It’s a tale of two kinds of brick-and-mortar retailers amid the rise of eCommerce: Some traditional department store chains like JCPenney and Macy’s are shuttering stores, as some retailers with other business models are more than surviving. TJX, the owner of off-priced retailers like T.J.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Basketball is one of the most popular sports – if not the most popular sport – in China, but there’s a little less NBA available today for online shoppers in that country, according to reports. These moves come amid a push by China to encourage more cross-border commerce and retail. The move comes after the general manager of that U.S.

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Perficient

JANUARY 24, 2023

In this online article, we defined embedded banking, rather narrowly, as when a non-financial firm offers a branded checking account to hold funds and make payments. Firms such as eBay and Lyft, and many other online firms, have pursued this strategy and successfully expanded their core business.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Walmart is placing a bigger emphasis on online sales, with the company’s executives saying they are cutting more costs to free cash for new eCommerce initiatives and store improvements. In fact, Walmart is targeting online sales in hopes of seeing an approximately 40 percent increase next year in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

An initial explosion of online orders left Amazon overwhelmed, forcing the company to temporarily reprioritize its operation toward mostly delivering key household items. The pandemic has been a boost to online gaming, as consumers are both buying more games and subscribing to services more often to play together.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

These are amazing times to be a consumer who suffers from retail embarrassment. No, we aren’t talking about drugs or stolen goods or other illegal products or purchases that anyone with enough determination can procure online. How to sell such items on an online marketplace? Insights into Retail Embarrassment.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Last week, Sears CEO Edward Lampert got personal as he went into detail about the retailer’s continuing woes and the challenges it (and many other “old-line” retailers like it) face in a rapidly changing industry. According to a new projection from National Retail Federation, retail sales are estimated to grow just 3.1

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Abrigo

JANUARY 6, 2020

Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and compliance officers at financial institutions in 2019 remained focused on staying on top of all of the regulatory changes occurring in the space, and it showed in the articles on Abrigo’s blog that were the most popular. Can Financial Institutions Bank CBD Retailers? Here's a recap to roll up the facts.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2016

” That’s the lesson former JCPenney CEO and Apple executive Ron Johnson conveyed to The New York Times about his time at the struggling retail giant (Penney, not Apple) in a recent article focused on his newest venture, Enjoy, which may just end up being his most successful to date. Great things take time.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2016

How many retail moguls made Forbes ’ The World’s Billionaires List this year? Of the 1,810 billionaires named to the list, 345 of them earned their fortunes (or at least part of them) in retail. If he were to oust Gates, as the Forbes article points out, he would be the first retailer to claim the number one position.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

Is reading an article on a phone a better experience than reading it on a larger screen or (gasp) in print? But, while more consumers are heading to mobile retail channels, the personal experience and ability to touch and preview items in-person offered by physical stores still holds allure for roughly 70 percent of shoppers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

That competition has also extended to high-end furniture market, which is starting to show some new activity with Crate & Barrell, CB2, West Elm and now a direct-to-consumer (D2C) Canadian brand called Article gaining momentum. Article has now lifted off from its Vancouver base and has taken its unique business model to the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The filing will allow the retailer to continue operating while it attempts to reorganize the business and return to profitability. It will continue operations in Mexico and Latin America, the article said. The company is struggling with online competition and changing clothing trends, like sustainable fashion and secondhand clothing.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Online luxury marketplace 1stdibs stands as an example of that kind of content, along with providing — as do some other companies — a demonstration of the appeal of both digital and physical forms of content to tie consumers to a brand or ecosystem. But catalogs can work, as 1stdibs and other retailers have learned.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. Shortly after that meeting, the article says they were told by Facebook that talks would proceed no further. You will observe grocery, as a retail category, is very fragmented. This one is particularly amusing. They are down near the bottom at 1.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Katherine Cullen, director of industry and consumer insights at the National Retail Federation , reportedly told the publication: “People very much seem to have heeded warnings to avoid crowded shopping and have understood that most of these deals are also available online.". forecast to bring in $12.7 forecast to bring in $12.7

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

Over the past decade, foot traffic in retail outlets has seen a decline. With the growing trend of consumers buying more of their products online, this shouldn’t come as a surprise. Colliers’ national director of research, James Breeze, commented in a Wall Street Journal article on the future of warehouse market development.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

In 1946, the year the verdict was reached, A&P was the country’s largest retailer and, obviously, its largest grocery chain. Its sales were twice that of any other retailer. one-eighth of all coffee and more butter and cigarettes than any other retailer. A&P’s profits were also lower than other retailers at that time: 1.3

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It can service these industries both online and offline through its Business Solutions Division (BSD), which offers products and custom procurement services, along with services from its own CompuCom technology division. The company’s Retail Division operates about 1,300 stores, but lost 54 stores in the last fiscal year.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

No exact date has been given, but Business Insider reported that Amazon told one retailer to expect the event to be held around Oct. The Seattle-based online behemoth already twice rescheduled the event from a previously planned July date. A definitive date will be announced as we get closer to the event.”

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Perficient

JANUARY 16, 2023

It was a 1970s version of a retailer offering a financial product – credit, to enable sales and, if mom didn’t pay the charge in full at the end of the month, increase profits on the transaction via charging interest. Embedded Finance and Blockchain .

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Accenture

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Even with headlines of uncertainty in the retail sector and late economic cycle concerns, banks continue to invest in this market, albeit in different ways than they have done before. Source: Accenture analysis of data from issuer press releases, industry articles and quarterly SEC filings.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

High-yield checking and savings are now being offered by online wealth advisor Betterment as a way to attract new customers. . If you look at where the big banks and brokerages make most of their money, it’s in their retail savings accounts.”. Profits from the new offerings will come from debit card interchange fees, the article said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

The coming ascendence of augmented reality and virtual reality have long been article fodder for tech enthusiasts, gamers and retail watchers alike. The problem is that these applications work more naturally in some places than in others – and retail presents the clearest possible example of why. By The Numbers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

Consumers have come to expect personalization in their shopping experiences, whether using online marketplaces such as Amazon and Etsy or mobile apps such as Gilt or Poshmark. Online content subscription purchasing experiences are far different from that ideal in practice, however.

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Perficient

MARCH 3, 2023

In our last article, Starting Down the Road to Supply Chain Visibility , we discussed Perficient’s recommendations regarding processes to provide supply chain visibility.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2016

According to a recent article in Fortune , software maker Handshake has raised $14 million in a new round of funding led by Sozo Ventures. The company, oft referred to as the “Salesforce of Wholesale,” aims to bring business-to-business commerce into the digital age with software that enables wholesale businesses to sell online.

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OCTOBER 26, 2017

Online mattress firm Casper appears to be the latest startup taking the brick-and-mortar plunge and launching 15 pop-up shop locations nationwide, according to reports from retail news source Chain Store Age. The first stop on the retail tour was Ponce City Market in Atlanta, Georgia, the Wednesday (Oct. 25) article said.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

According to Seattle Times news reports, the holiday shipping program — effectively an expansion on the services USPS offers almost exclusively for online retailer Amazon — will be available in 20 major cities for customers who make purchases at select retailers before a certain cutoff time. 26 and include Christmas Day.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Retail email offers aren’t as effective as they should be, according to a Monday (Nov. 27) article published by the Wall Street Journal , and personalization is key to turning that around. The ugly truth is that most retailers haven’t done the unsexy work of understanding how to use the data.”. Adobe Systems Inc.

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