PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

In a way, watching the emergence of legal retail marijuana in North America is like watching someone grow up. Not really a toddler or baby — even black-market sale of recreational and medicinal pot took on many traits of legitimate retail — but more like a once gawky teenager growing into a graceful, confident person. and Canada.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are changing the way they manage their workforces in the age of Amazon: Walmart , for instance, is testing multiple versions of a new team structure called the “Great Workplace” in some of its locations. billion for its stores in comparison to $1.63 billion in the year prior. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

It appears that more and more consumers are getting better connected with loyalty programs by linking their cards to them. “Card-linking has a network effect, and it is accelerating,” stated Silvio Tavares, CardLinx president and CEO, in a press release.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The retailer is inviting specialty and national brands alike to offer items online, CNBC reported. By comparison, the hurdles to become a third-party seller are lower on Amazon and Walmart; on those sites, sellers ask for approval to sell through an application.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

It was the wild card category for back-to-school, and it will be the wild card category for the holidays. percent of all consumer retail spend. The MacBook Air, by comparison, sells for $999 on Amazon as well as in the Apple Store. consumer’s whole paycheck. Census research team. That accounts for 2.3

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

percent of retail spend. By way of comparison, Amazon’s total sales for its highest spend category – electronics and appliances – were $71.6 By the way, Walmart , the standard comparison for Amazon results, couldn’t hang on the clothes rack, either. First, the data from the PYMNTS Whole Paycheck tracker. In 2016, it logged $20.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

Apexx, a FinTech startup, is reportedly launching in London, aiming to create a transparent marketplace in which merchants can browse and plug into competing services for a network of acquirers and payment brands.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

Among the more interesting storylines of this era of digital commerce and payments is the maturation of vending machines — sorry, “unattended retail.” Retailers are paying more attention to vending machines, a trend that is all but certain to continue into the 2020s. Vending Machine Trends.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

The company integrated GO-PAY into the GO-JEK app, which lets customers store money on their mobile phones, much like a digital debit card. billion – of funds were lost to card fraud in 2018, up from $1.4 Smartphones contributed one trillion dollars to overall retail sales in the United States during 2018. billion in 2017.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The companies noted on Thursday that Stewardship Technology’s brand will continue to be used in its respective marketplaces, and will be integrated into Paya’s technology suite. The deal with Stewardship, he said, “really gives us capabilities in those arenas that we can take out across all of the segments that we are in.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. According to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. Online Resale. Social Media.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. According to issuer Goldman Sachs , they have opened up about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple Card. Of that $10 billion, Apple Card?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“ Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year ad campaign launched by American Express in 1987 to persuade consumers that it was worth it to pay an annual fee for one of its charge card products. As the slogan implied, being an American Express card member was the only way to unlock those benefits.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Cash back programs are nothing new for financial institutions (FIs), but the banking industry may be well-served to take a few cues from the masters of rewards: retailers. Despite incentives, a new study found debit cards appear to be more popular than credit cards, especially among younger customers. Think like a retailer.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

By comparison, Sela said 60 percent of the big pizza chains’ business is digital, leaving room for small pizzerias to grow their digital order base. The payments system is flexible, allowing customers to pay by cash or credit card. In comparison to other food delivery platforms, Slice is not a discovery play.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Nearly 60 percent of players in the industry say innovation is critical to their survival, according to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index. By comparison, the quick-service chain opened 137 new restaurants last year. Frank Krasovec, chairman of Domino’s master China franchisee Dash Brands Ltd.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Another year, another chance for mobile wallet players to convince consumers to give up their plastic cards and utilize the phone as a payments form factor. In comparison to a market like China’s, it’s glacial. Literally every business and brand in China is plugged into this ecosystem.”. It hasn’t been easy.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2016

And the latest of those modifications was announced yesterday (March 31): Walmart is getting into card-based, discount-centered rewards. Most headlines on the story referenced Walmart’s rival, Costco, and its card-based rewards program as what Walmart’s latest loyalty play is most directly competing with.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2018

By comparison, other services usually put all parts of the meal in one container. We’re selling the pods individually in these retail stores,” Cooper said. In addition to fully cooked meals, each box comes with activity sheets, collectible reward coins and trivia cards. The Kid Food Market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

How are gas apps from both gas stations and comparison services tapping into this demographic, along with the overall market? In a June interview with PYMNTS, GasBuddy CEO Sarah McCrary explained that customers rarely shop by brand. Find out through this roundup of top gas station apps: Almost four in 10 consumers – or 38.7

Mobile 140

Mobile Payments Google Millennials 140

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

By comparison, there are more than 150 McDonald’s. While those limitations, according to a company representative, are non-negotiable and unlikely to change now or in the foreseeable future, the brand does not see itself as one stuck in the past or afraid of embracing change. There are only two Chick-fil-A’s in Oregon.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

3), the numbers put up by the players on the field will pale in comparison to the dollars that advertisers, sports enthusiasts, snack food aficionados and brands will put up, just so they can be part of America’s largest television viewing event. The two brands first started working together in 2015. Snack Time. per person.

Boston 150

Boston Retail Branding Payments 150

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Even with the growth of contactless and digital payments in Western and Eastern Europe, cash continues to cut itself a lion’s share of the payments pie — at least, when it comes to retail transactions. In comparison, Sweden has the least with just 32 ATMs available per 100,000 people. percent in Eastern Europe and 0.3 In the U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

While 10,000 seems like a major milestone — and it is in some ways — the statistic still pales in comparison to the number of apps that major smartphone operating systems boast. That night, the “name that tune”-style game was given the Alexa treatment, adding voice functionality to the user experience.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

The comScore data is derived from its 1 million consumer panel’s eCommerce purchases at 15 retail domains. Those firms, selected by comScore, range from luxury retailers, to electronics manufacturers, to specialty retailers, to discount sites. Card-on-file was the most common “other” in this category. percent of the time.

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San Jose Mobile Retail Survey 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The system works by scanning a consumer’s handprint at distance (it is not a contact scan that requires the customer to lay their hand on a device) and using a combination of computer vision and depth geometry to identify them and connect to their card on file. By comparison, paying with a card takes 4 seconds.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Small menswear brands, even some that are considered to be medium or large, might face a challenge when it comes to marketing: How do they get in front of consumers? The idea is that brands don’t have to worry about competition or incentives to drive people to purchase their products. The Brand Experience.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 26, 2021

Meanwhile, the average deal size has decreased steadily in the past few years, and the firm is cutting checks to many first-time investments as it aims to diversify its portfolio and build out a wide-sweeping ecosystem of disruptive tech brands. Retail & consumer. These designations are not exhaustive or mutually exclusive.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

Amazon is rolling out its annual Prime Day event, and other merchants are taking note: Retailers from eBay to Target are rolling out their own promotions as they compete with Amazon for customers. As a result of Prime Day’s popularity, retailers are stepping up to the plate to offer shoppers deals on their own sites. Price Guarantees.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2017

In this case, though, that upgrade comes to a security protocol designed to strengthen security around online credit card transactions, but which has seen little change since its inception 17 years ago. , 3D-Secure 2.0 is also taking something in need of an upgrade and making it better.

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NCR

APRIL 19, 2016

Whether you’re a restaurateur or a retailer, having access to capital can help you take your business to the next level. Avoid applying for new credit, such as opening new credit cards, right before you apply for a small business loan. Check out a comparison site like NerdWallet.com to find the best card for you.

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Gonzobanker

JUNE 16, 2022

In 2020, Aspiration initiated two new programs: Plant Your Change , which plants a tree for every purchase by rounding up to the nearest dollar, and Planet Protection , which makes Aspiration customers’ driving carbon neutral by calculating off their debit card gas purchases. It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison. African Americans.

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Fintech Apple Cards Data 148

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

They sold stamps and redemption books to retailers, who would distribute them to their customers. Sperry and Hutchison Co would then accept stamps from the retailer’s customers at redemption centers in exchange for items in their catalogs ranging from bicycles to furniture. Retail Rewards.

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PYMNTS

JULY 20, 2017

And while to American audiences who are perhaps just beginning to warm to the idea of using Apple Pay or PayPal in a physical store, more interesting is that a short three years ago cash was very much still king among Chinese consumers, as card use has always been a somewhat limited phenomenon. Remarkable Dedication.

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Apple Mobile Cards New York 137

PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2019

If the company receives a parcel back minus a particular style the company delivered to the customer, it automatically charges her for that item at a discounted price that August says is up to 80 percent off of retail. By comparison, August says a lot of her competitors have more conservative and staple pieces.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

online grocery sales since 2017, the largest share of any single retailer and double its closest competitor. When linked to the Amazon Chase card, the cash-back makes the experience even more of a win, in addition to serving as a natural pull toward card/brand share shift. District 2: Walmart.

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Branding Florida Retail Online 101

PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

FinTech firms will travel the world and describe what they are up to using brand-new terms that are different or exciting. People might draw comparisons in response — wait a second, isn’t this kind of like? — A company could have a switch between two different card processors.

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