PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are teaming with logistics firms to test drones for delivery — and making progress on their experimental flights. Another delivery of a medical prescription arrived at a nearby retirement community for a second customer. UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward Inc. UPS subsidiary UPS Flight Forward Inc.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Pet retail is having a moment, with innovation and other efforts helping merchants better reach owners of dogs, cats and other household animals. Pawscout, as it turns out, just launched its $20 pet tags in Walmart — and is selling the product via other retailers, Chavez told PYMNTS. physical retail landscape. Pet Medicine.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Restaurant management platform Toast unveiled a $400 million Series F funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital, Tiger Global Management and TPG. Also participating were TCV, Durable Capital Partners LP, G Squared, Light Street Capital, Alta Park Capital, funds and accounts advised by T.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The New York- and Paris-based company has been a favorite of several high-end brands, and bills itself as a “social selling solution (B2B) enabling brands to activate their network of social sellers with a turnkey business to inspire on social media, sell online and connect with consumers anytime, anywhere.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Retailers are testing drone delivery to grow their omnichannel offerings and provide “store to door” on-demand service to their customers. This is the kind of omnichannel partnership and offering that can redefine convenience for our customers and communities – delivering items to homes in minutes, not hours or days.”.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In two days, you can hear from Chase, US Bank, Capital One, BMO, M&T, PNC, Citizens, Truist, Huntington, and more, a feat that can only be done at a conference of this caliber. Many banks expressed frustration over keeping small business banking housed within the retail bank channel. However, this was the most common structure.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

They are a closely bonded community of cosmetics fanatics, and Ipsy isn’t just where they go to buy their makeup — it’s also where they go to learn how to use it. In October, Pham announced that her company, Divinium Labs, would be acquiring EM cosmetics — an online brand heretofore owned by Ipsy. In 2015, Ipsy had 1.5

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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South State Correspondent

AUGUST 8, 2022

Insight #1 – Deposit & Margin Management: Deposit runoff has started and will make it to community banks by October. For 2Q, larger community banks lost about 0.3% For retail accounts, for the first time since the pre-pandemic era, spending growth has outstripped income growth. Insights Based on 2Q Bank Earnings.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

Hundreds of retailers – both direct-to-consumer (DTC) and traditional – have lent their expertise and capital to helping the world recover from the devastation of the COVID-19 virus. At organic skincare company Nuria , that sense of community is built into its DNA. The first is to make skincare products with healthy ingredients.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Macy’s is partnering with the female-led millennial venture capital fund SoGal Ventures to launch an in-store initiative focused on women-owned businesses, Macy’s said in a press release on Thursday (Dec. The retailer is opening SoGifted shops in its flagship Manhattan store and six other locations. Lauderdale.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

But direct-to-consumer (DTC) retail is undergoing some significant changes, which could help strengthen DTC activities for years to come. Personalization is among the trends gaining fuel in the DTC world, reflecting larger changes in the retail world. Don’t call it a makeover, not yet. The company has raised $5.6

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2019

Although the three strong brands have been consolidated under one entity, they will continue to operate independently within their distinctive markets,” said Sureswipe MD Paul Kent, according to IT Web. “We However, all three entities will operate separately. We believe each provides a distinctive client solution.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Capital One Halts BNPL Transactions On Its Credit Cards. Capital One Financial Corp is putting a stop to buy now, pay later (BNPL) transactions on its credit cards, calling the dealings “ risky ,” for both consumers and banks. Synctera Brings 'FinTech As A Service' To Community Banks. million in consumer losses.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2016

On the whole, it hasn’t been a good few months for retail mergers. However, there seems to be more luck with retail mergers north of the border. Pet Valu and Pet Supermarket announced on Monday (July 11) that the two brands had officially merged to create Pet Retail Brands (PRB).

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2020

The retail news is full of companies that have made brilliant and sometimes dramatic pivots to catch up with the shift to Digital 3.0. It contributes three cents for every pound purchased into the Carbon, Climate and Coffee initiative, which supports coffee farming communities. But sometimes the pre-pandemic plans work out just fine.

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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. One example comes from Walmart.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2018

Kroger is doubling down on its human capital coming soon — the massive grocery chain has announced it will be hiring some 11,000 employees across its various supermarket brands. That position roster only includes permanent employees — workers brought in as part of a capital improvement project are not counted as part of this tally.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

The company previously raised $111 million in venture funding from Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Square Peg Capital, Qumra Capital and others. Smartphones contributed one trillion dollars to overall retail sales in the United States during 2018.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

Short-term retail rental startup Appear Here , a company whose marketplace was built to serve the growing ‘pop-up’ trend in retail, just recently raised some $12 million in a Series B venture funding round. All told, the company has raised $21.4 million to date in three rounds of funding according to Crunchbase.

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MARCH 11, 2020

billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. The analyst community balked at longer-term questions about the company’s liquidity even though 2019 was the company’s sixth straight year of triple-digit revenue growth with over 177,000 cars delivered and just shy of $4 billion in revenue. In 2019, we increased GPU by $750.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The crisis is hardly over, but post-pandemic reality is setting in for Main Street retail. She believes lockdown orders created a loophole that allowed large chains that offer essential retail to continue selling non-essential goods like toys and electronics. billion in liquidity guarantees by the Federal Reserve.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

Nowhere is the pain being felt more acutely than in China, where the coronavirus first took root and spread, where businesses and supply chains went dark, and where hundreds of millions of consumers, as well as businesses and their workers, stayed in their homes — into, and then through, the Lunar New Year, a key season for retail.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Thriving or just surviving in the omnichannel age means offering comprehensive in-store and online features that both engage customers and connect them with brands. That’s how we built a lot of our services, and really our brand, online.”. After all, brick-and-mortar sales still drive overall retail sales. out of 100.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Its last announcement for fundraising was in 2018 from the venture capital arm of Line. In separate Asia eCommerce news, all-in-one eCommerce and technology firm Commerce.Asia has purchased a 30 percent stake in business platform BizApp, which aids brand as well as businesses in managing their order fulfillment and daily operations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

Videos of the challenge are being pulled from YouTube for violating community guidelines by encouraging viewers to participate in potentially harmful activities. But that didn’t stop these brands from riding the coattails of the viral trend — and it seems to be working out for them. Not so entertaining after all. Eat This, Not That.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2018

-based Farfetch is acquiring CuriosityChina to help the retailer sell products through Tencent ’s WeChat , Bloomberg reported. With the arrangement, shops on the retailer’s platform will have the ability to make stores on WeChat. PaySense, a digital credit platform, plans to use the funding to bolster its tech and data analytics team.

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The offering is a full on banking, payments, and capital programming environment that connects to Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Citi. The value proposition is an embedded “monthly payments” button inside of a retail mobile experience. There have always been credit options attached to retailers?—?think Peloton is a brand, right?

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Lex Sokolin

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The offering is a full on banking, payments, and capital programming environment that connects to Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Citi. The value proposition is an embedded “monthly payments” button inside of a retail mobile experience. There have always been credit options attached to retailers?—?think Peloton is a brand, right?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

Bite is far from alone in its quest to capitalize on the demand for kiosks. million, according to the PYMNTS Kiosk & Retail Report. For example, Urban Remedy has 30 branded refrigerated kiosks in Whole Foods stores across California. Overall, the kiosk market is booming and is projected to reach $1 billion by 2021.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

Admittedly, Pokémon GO and its soon-to-be retail affiliates don’t have a cut-and-dry way to monetize all this pedestrian energy, but that’s no reason to stop exploring ways how. Especially if non-mobile brands, like Amazon , want to get their cut of the action, too.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

Mycoskie is no longer CEO — after selling much of his share in the firm to Bain Capital in 2014, he has since moved to the official role of Chief Shoe Giver and has focused his attention on what’s next for TOMS Shoes. TOMS’ social message — and commitment to donating as much as it sells — has put a spotlight on the brand.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. How will we shop in 2020?

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

Small Business Administration (SBA) will recognize and honor the critical and life altering contributions of America’s moms and pops, manufacturing enterprises, Main Street retailers and entrepreneurs during National Small Business Week. These risk takers will help make our lives more productive, safer, healthier and benefit society overall.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

According to YouTube, the company started rolling out improved notifications in Video Manager in an effort to make it fairer and clarify confusion in the creator community around its longstanding advertiser-friendly guidelines. Aéropostale And The Retail Miracle. Those guidelines have reportedly not changed.

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APRIL 7, 2017

We are also expanding into retail partnerships as a “last mile” service. By promoting and offering in-store access to the Truxx service, retailers drive sales by conveniently solving a problem for customers for no additional cost. TruxxRetail is for pickups at a partner retail location. TruxxMe is driver-only.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

And how did community banks and credit unions respond to the COVID craziness? Our clients showed banking at its best – obsessed with customer well-being, good corporate citizenship, and strong community focus. Jill is continually demonstrating just how loud a $300 million community bank can roar! Bravo Brett and team!

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