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OCTOBER 16, 2020

In today’s top news, Americans are struggling as savings accounts run dry, and several states are preparing their own antitrust probe into Google. State AGs To Press Own Case Against Google. Several states are moving forward with their own antitrust probe into Google and could decide to join the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) case.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

The calendar might have just turned to October and the leaves on the trees haven’t even started to turn yet, but retailers are already looking ahead to the holiday shopping season. 4), the National Retail Federation said it expects holiday sales to increase 3.6 Google Home will retail for $129 and will be available in stores on Nov.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Voice commerce may grab more headlines due to the presence of Google, Apple and Amazon, but conversational commerce – its younger cousin – is finding its own way as the information superhighway to a purchase. “We The voice activation may come back with one brand or a few, as well as suggested websites or stores.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

To speed up shopping trips for its customers, 7-Eleven now takes Google Pay and Apple Pay at most of its U.S. Consumers prefer shopping at retailers that offer digital payment capabilities,” said 7-Eleven CDO and CIO Gurmeet Singh, according to the outlet. By some estimates, about a quarter of the U.S.

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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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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

One of this year’s favorites so far, according to reports in The New York Times, has been fake retail and product apps popping up in the Apple App Store of late. We’re seeing a barrage of fake apps,” said Chris Mason, chief executive of Branding Brand. It’s important that brands monitor how their name is being used.”.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

When it comes to finding information, consumers “Google” it. Though the eCommerce giant has yet to turn its name into a verb, that’s how customers are treating it, with 55 percent turning to Amazon — not Google — as their first shopping search resource. However, Google’s not letting those shoppers go easily.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

17) that it will enable tokenization services on all cards by 2020, as part of its Digital Commerce Solutions, a suite of offerings geared toward making online transactions speedier and more secure. Mastercard will work with Adyen, Digital River, Stripe, Square, Worldpay and its own eponymous gateway services to bring tokens to retailers.

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

With the busy holiday season upon us, we are proud to offer a truly multi-channel payment solution that has proven to bring new customers and increased sales to our retail partners,” Afterpay Global Chief Revenue Officer Melissa Davis said in the announcement. CEO Nick Molnar said in a past PYMNTS panel. And there's a huge opportunity.

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JANUARY 23, 2019

This marks a change for Target — a retailer that had, up to this point, enabled mobile pay only for its own mobile wallet app and the Target-branded REDcard linked to it. That is consistent with what we have seen around the world when it comes to contactless card adoption,” Sanford said.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Chevron updated its branded mobile applications to offer consumers access to Venmo to pay for fuel and car washes at the pump from their mobile devices,” said Bill Miner, Chevron’s general manager of Americas Marketing Sales & Services. The rewards were announced for the payment company’s Mastercard debit card at certain retailers.

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JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. Rewards can help lure customers to a brand and keep them there. credit cards, 1.3 debit cards and 1.3 store affinity cards. credit cards, 1.3 debit cards and 1.3 store affinity cards.

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AUGUST 4, 2020

With Burberry launching a social experience at its brick-and-mortar Shenzhen store and social platforms like Facebook pushing their commerce capabilities, new startups are popping up and established brands are catching up to capture this newest area of the digital shift. Brands and Mastercard. 4) with Tuli. On Tuesday (Aug. ”

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NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Retail technology is undergoing big changes in the restaurant world, and that includes the drive-thru. Some brands like McDonald’s are turning to voice recognition technology to keep orders moving. The latest development in retail camera use comes from the drive-thru lanes of the fast-food industry, according to the Financial Times.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The workers are coming from around the globe, yet Lee says the stiffest competition is from firms in the tech realm, including Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Google. The bank’s tech needs range from new products such as the Apple Card to its growing dependency on cloud infrastructure. Apple Card?

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JULY 27, 2020

“Given the seismic shift to digital, the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing retail to achieve innovation in three to six months that would otherwise have taken three to five years. Startup brands are taking advantage, and established players are catching up. Payments Drive Digital Experiences for Brands (and Consumers). is investing.

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AUGUST 7, 2018

“How about waking up in the morning and asking Google Home or Amazon Alexa, or your mobile phone if you’re on the go, ‘Hey Google, hey Amazon, what are my deals for the day?’” Successful retailers, for example, can provide discounts for consumers to come into the store at a certain time of day. A New Generation.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Merchants may be able to deliver the best experiences to their customers through their own apps, but not all customers want to take up hundreds of megabytes on their phones — unless they really love the brand. To stay on trend, retailers and merchants can turn to existing apps like Facebook Messenger or Apple’s iMessage to drive sales.

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JUNE 25, 2020

Vast numbers of consumers are happy to ask Alexa, Siri or the Google Assistant to play a song, find a recipe or dim the lights in their smart homes. In a world where physical retail was, by and large, shut down for three months, our consumer surveys have since found that many U.S.

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JUNE 6, 2019

For some time now, retailers have been using it and radio frequency identification (RIFD) behind the scenes for stock and quality control, as well as to provide product information to customers with smartphones. don’t rely on swiping or chip card readers. cards use chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN methods. However, the U.S.

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JUNE 13, 2018

Google has a new shopping tool, a U.K. retailer has suffered a cyber breach and there is news about restaurant deliveries. Amazon Replacing Retail Vets With Software. New Google Shopping Brick-And-Mortar Tools Feature Inventory Lists. UK Retailer Dixons Carphone Hit With Cyber Breach. Fortunately, 5.8

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow, it is building a home-based ecosystem for retail and payments, and you can bet that robots and AI will be a bigger part of those efforts in the 2020s. The eCommerce retailer is looking to roll out the new Echo product by 2020, per unnamed sources, Bloomberg reported. Google Moves.

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MAY 29, 2020

Self-service retail tools have gained momentum over the last week, as SMBs look to make the digital shift a consistent part of their business. Criteo’s self-service Retail Media Platform will enable the placement of brand-sponsored advertising within retailers’ eCommerce sites and apps.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

During this time, retailers and tech companies are bringing integrated shopping experiences into the sites and apps where consumers spend the most time. Retailers, then, can make the sale in the moment — with the help of contextual commerce. One billion devices are now supported by Google Assistant. Nearly 60 percent of U.S.

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APRIL 17, 2020

The IAB said effects are being felt across ad-supported websites, “as well as companies that provide technical infrastructure to support selling ads” such as network services, brand safety and attribution services. The wild card here is the amount of small businesses that feed the revenue of ad words and social platforms.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Rather than entering new payment information – including address and card details – users can easily enter Amazon account login info. “We’re delighted to offer Amazon Pay to our customers, as it is one of the most secure ways to pay for flights, as the user doesn’t have to re-enter their card details,” he said.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

It is also, according to reports, a favored new method by thieves, who will access someone else’s credit card information, use it to create a Fortnite account and then buy V-bucks, the game’s currency. Capital One ’s further reprots domestic card loans increased 8 percent or $5.8 Credit card loans increased 5 percent to $116.4

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DECEMBER 7, 2020

7) as the Ikea brand continues to shift itself to digital, according to published reports. Of course, it’s not surprising that a retailer looking to focus on digital is exiting print. Do catalogs work for every brand? It’s been a seven-decade-long run, but Ikea is formally saying goodbye to its printed catalog.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Riders with NFC-enabled mobile phones will be able to download the EASY Card, and for those without NFC-enabled phones, the app will provide a display-generated ticket and one with a bar code.

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MARCH 5, 2018

Procter & Gamble made headlines last week when its Chief Brand Officer, Marc Pritchard, confirmed that the world’s largest advertiser cut $200 million of digital advertising spend in the last nine months of 2017. Think Google Search/Chrome, not Google’s YouTube. That year, P&G’s ad spend totaled $7.1 He didn’t have to.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

Mobile checkout is getting a boost from one of the largest retailers, further evidence of the technology’s continuous move deeper into the consumer mainstream. The new frictionless shopping experience is integrated into the 7Rewards loyalty program in the convenience retailer’s mobile app. Other Mobile Pushes.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

With Apple Pay, the actual card numbers are not stored on the device or Apple servers. million users and Google Pay is forecast to have 12.1 In related news, Goldman Sachs doled out about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the new Apple-branded credit card. . million users. .

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JUNE 16, 2019

The legal retail cannabis industry keeps on growing, and further evidence of that reportedly comes from LeafLink. The platform empowers licensed cannabis retailers to order from legal brands, which number in the quadruple digits, across 20 territories in the U.S. and Canada.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The rates refer to the rates that United States-based merchants pay to accept Visa cards. Stripe Powers Digital, In-Store Payments For Lightspeed Retail, Restaurant Customers. Why Consumers Are Firing Traditional Retailers. Consumers are firing physical retailers from the jobs they held years and decades before.

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MAY 21, 2018

Today’s stories include a look at Saks and its plans for beauty, a Sears and Citi credit card deal, a data breach involving mother and children, the latest move for Amazon’s Alexa and building pressure to investigate technology giants. When most brands say they want to bring something to a whole new level, they are speaking metaphorically.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

JD.com and the biggest retailer in Thailand, Central Group, have launched a financial services app called Dolfin to help connect with local banks and increase the companies’ online presence, according to a report by Reuters. The app will be able to handle credit card payments as well as the government e-payment system, PromptPay.

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JUNE 7, 2016

Whether they’re dedicated marketplaces or just random utility apps, the push seems to be on from retailers to transition whatever mobile-based services their consumers are currently using to walled-off apps. If mobile is the commerce platform of the future, then apps have been anointed as its chosen champions.

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