PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

As the nation faces gradual reopenings in all 50 states over the next few weeks, U.S. Wedbush Analyst Michael Pachter speculated that the release could represent Amazon dipping its toe into the gaming industry before carving out a larger niche, much as it has done with books and movies.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Magazines have been testing the waters of brick-and-mortar retail by opening temporary stores in major cities, and New York Magazine is no exception. They will include home goods and skin care products, among others, from brands such as home goods company East Fork and luxury bedding company Parachute. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News….

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We’ve listened to our community and their requests for different payment options – more and more retailers are offering this as an option. Beautycounter has retail stores in New York City and Denver, eCommerce capabilities and approximately 45,000 sales consultants across North America.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2016

And while one could perhaps quibble with the exact phrasing there — misery probably, more accurately, likes company but would, on the whole, only love not being miserable anymore — the recent run of numbers in retail certainly brings the old adage to mind. Now is the change-or-die point in retail. Did you start online? .”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

In his book “One Nation Under Dog: America’s Love Affair With Our Dogs,” Michael Schaffer wrote that “America’s house pets have worked their way into a new place in the hearts, homes and wallets of their owners.” Owners of pets are also willing to pay to offer their pets the best lives possible.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2019

All that’s left now, more or less, is the rush of returns that will all but overwhelm some retailers. However, after almost 50 years, it began to fade in the 1980s, disrupted by the emergence of store-branded credit cards. Big Brands. So, what kinds of products will people be getting this year? Top Sellers. That’s not all.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. Staples Will Sell You A Desk — Or Let You Share One.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The headlines as of late – the ones focused on the impacts of the tariffs and trade wars between the two nations – have seemingly focused on the U.S. As the National Bureau of Statistics estimated, the Purchasing Manager’s Index slipped to 49.5, consumers as much as $1,000, at least as estimated by JPMorgan. off from 49.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The company says it’s the first national bridal retailer to make this move, and the program’s unique design will earn points for the retailer among its brides as well as its business partners. Because as of Tuesday (Dec. It’s called the Diamond Loyalty Program by David’s.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2019

And that’s what she essentially ended up helping to create — an online resource for discovering, researching and booking campgrounds with over 300,000 media assets. Consumers can book a stay directly from The Dyrt mobile app, iOS and Android, or on TheDyrt.com website. The Booking Experience.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2018

After selling books in Brazil for five years, Amazon finally launched an electronics and household appliances marketplace there a year ago. In addition, Amazon is also said to be heavily recruiting Grupo Boticário and Natura Cosmeticos — two rising brands in Brazilian beauty — to sell via its Brazil platform. China and Japan.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Toy company Zuru told CNBC that 20-25 million TikTok video views featuring its “5 Surprise Mini Brands” drove an increase in sales. TikTok had been under fire , along with WeChat, after Trump moved to ban the Chinese apps citing national security concerns. More than half of users check in with the app daily.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2016

With the focus on making cross-border commerce as fluid and intuitive for consumers as it can be for the retailers themselves, it can be more than a little jarring to be reminded that actual borders exist underneath it all. Like the retail economy that rests on it, potential geopolitical instability is a global problem.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs), fast casual eateries and fast-food drive-thrus keep dominating headlines throughout the pandemic as a nation is understandably obsessed with staying fed on lockdown and after, when breathing the open air still feels oddly risky. This week Keller unveiled his post-pandemic plan.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2018

National Selfie Day has passed into the history books once again. The founding hero of National Selfie Day — not that he receives his full recognition among the selfie masses — is a U.S. Retailers are also relying more on selfies — or at least experimenting with the form. Brands are turning narcissism into cold hard cash.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

Grupo Boticário and Natura Cosmeticos — two rising brands in Brazilian beauty — are both being heavily recruited by Amazon to sell via its Brazil platform, according to recently sourced reports in Reuters. The only nations that see more beauty sales are the U.S., China and Japan.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

You’re a retailer, beset by the twin problems of brick-and-mortar and fickle U.S. Picture 625 million wallets, ready to open for the right retail experience. Many of these retailers, he said, did not perform as well as might have been expected on Black Friday or even Cyber Monday. consumer spending. as well.”. “If

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The tax may be a case for the government to boost its own coffers on eCommerce, anticipated to be worth as much as $200 billion annually by 2026, as estimated by the India Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF) late last year. That is up from roughly $50 billion at present, with an estimated 175 million individuals shopping online in 2020.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

Nonessential retail is highly dependent – in some cases, completely dependent – on eCommerce during the COVID-19 crisis. Knowing that Nike and Amazon were in the process of breaking their sales agreement, we tried a third item: a copy of Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital and Ideology.” Therein lies a serious problem.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

But we knew we wanted to build a nationally known mass retailer.”. Furniture, unlike clothes, food and books, is not considered an ideal product for online sale. Probably a wise decision, since all of those brands have dramatically upped the level of the home game in the last 18 months. ” Emory told The Globe.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

He came from a nation of some 1.4 But no matter what comes next for him the history books will give him his due for the 20 years he led Alibaba, and how he built it into an increasingly global payments and commerce powerhouse ecosystem. Now he is stepping down. Chinese Growth. Global Payments.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

BMO on Taking a Digital-First Approach to Retail Banking. eCommerce promises to bring more subscription services as well as retail into our daily lives. These offerings, however, are often not enough to encourage customers away from booking aggregators. 29), has Penn National Gaming Inc.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It’s a cliché, at this point, to say digital has found its way into long-standing retail and service sectors, sometimes transforming industries so much that the old ways of doing things are more likely to be found in history books than daily consumer life. They want to be able to search by product and brand. More Partnerships.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

For those who somehow missed the book, the movies and the brief but intense mania that surrounded the series a few years ago, “The Hunger Games” trilogy is a much more fun read, which the words “post-apocalyptic” and “dystopian” might infer. ” (Ten-year-old spoilers to follow…).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2017

Fortune and others predict that, just as Amazon forced publishers and authors to change how books were made and cut costs, the industry giant could force packaged goods providers to do the same. Second, Amazon gets Whole Foods’ 365 private label brand.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2017

Any holiday that involves a basket full of chocolate, an opportunity to buy a new spring wardrobe and admire adorable bunnies is all right in our book. Though bad weather is a famous retail excuse for poor performance, Easter’s moving nature on the calendar often means that when it falls makes a big difference in how much people spend.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 31, 2023

The average community bank may have 30% to 50% on mobile, while the national banks are closer to 80%. In addition to home and work traffic, retail destinations are also popular. If there is a Walmart near a branch, chances are a material amount of a bank’s traffic comes from or goes to that retailer.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2017

While none of the runners were successful, the marketing and product innovation centered around the event was one for the record books. A Breaking2 documentary is slated for release this summer in collaboration with National Geographic, and the Nike Zoom Vaporfly Elite will go on sale sometime this year. million views on Facebook.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2016

Amazon is now moving to combine the passion for shopping the web and the passion for shopping one of their nearer national neighbors by quietly launching a Chinese language version of its Japanese site and offering reduced shipping rates to mainland China. Also well established is the Chinese consumer’s love of shopping online.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. So, what does this all have to do with retail? Here’s a question: Does the U.S. Here’s an answer. We have both.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Customers are paying for features, not necessarily brand names, particularly in the developing world. If a $400 phone is doing the same tasks as a $1,000 phone, only very brand-conscious customers are paying $600 for a better logo.”. based Google seem content to take a play out of their book.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

A little more than a year ago, PYMNTS started tracking the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck between the two retail behemoths that have been expanding their respective ecosystems in the process: Amazon and Walmart. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S., percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S., population.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Chatbots will be giving Santa some help this holiday season for a few boys and girls on the digital nice list, but they are unlikely to give retailers the needle-moving sales boost they’re looking for,” said Jake Bennett, CTO at POP. retailers have to choose a message platform for their shopping bot among a wide range of options.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

There’s nothing more Gonzo than a CEO who simply bleeds the soul of front-line relationship managers, and Brager could write a bestselling book on this topic. Look for her just-released book Suits and Skirts.). Goes to Allison Netzer and Liz High for their provocative tome, Think Like a Brand, Not a Bank.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2016

The Rumble In The Big Retail Jungle. Last week, the biggest retailer in the world by revenue, Walmart, made an announcement that made it clear that it’s really not that interested in ceding the title of world’s biggest retailer to a younger, and nimble challenger named Amazon. A Retailer On The Ropes?

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2016

A little over 40 years ago, the Pet Rock was a national phenomenon. Dahl’s guess was that with some clever branding, cute packaging and a clever enough pitch, the Pet Rock would soon be a national sensation. Our favorite out-of-the-box application for Pokémon GO in recent weeks actually goes to law enforcement, not retail.

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