PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Amazon announced this week that it will expand its online purchasing for SNAP (more commonly known as food stamps) pilot with the USDA into the Pacific Northwest following its rollout in New York last spring. Eventually, according to the agency, the goal is to make online grocery and option for all SNAP users.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Startups in the eCommerce space have long enabled their customers to experience their products in real life (“IRL”) through temporary retail shops, and now, digitally-focused brands belonging to major retailers are taking a similar approach. The four-room house, which is a mere 238 square feet, was built for the brand by Modern Tiny Living.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

In a recent trend, eCommerce mattress brands have been moving into the world of brick-and-mortar retail by opening their own stores and pop-up shops to help let customers test-drive their products in real life. Then, in 2018, Pop-In@Nordstrom partnered with Casper to bring pop-up stores to select Nordstrom locations and online.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Dutch global grocery conglomerate Ahold Delhaize — the firm behind grocery behemoths Giant and Stop & Shop — has acquired a majority stake in supermarket delivery startup FreshDirect in an attempt to up the level of its digital grocery offerings amid the online shopping surge created by COVID-19. “We Farmstead Picks Up $7.9M

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2019

The world’s most valuable brand is set to publish its second quarter earnings report on Thursday (July 25), which is expected to provide insight into how Amazon’s newest acquisitions are boosting the company’s revenue. and a cashierless Amazon Go store to New York City.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

While not exactly an empire yet, the online retailer launched its 13th store in New York City last month and it features the ability to use cash, answering a complaint that’s been lodged at unattended retail generally. This is the wave of the future, if new CBRE research is to be believed. New Developments.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

The Bank of America at 52nd Street and Park Avenue in New York City, in one case, ran out of $100 bills for a time due to large withdrawal attempts. Main Street USA Was Healthy In February, But Coronavirus Is The Wild Card. Can The New England Patriots Brand Survive Losing Tom Brady?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

But as a new webinar from PYMNTS showed, retail success is not exactly some mysterious process; it simply requires close attention to changing consumer trends and new technologies, including those centered around payments. Shift Intensity. Trust Issues.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The loans themselves would reportedly be co-branded. In 2019, Goldman partners with Apple on the launch of the Apple Card , which the bank’s executives have stated was the “most successful credit card launch ever.” The move is on-trend for both firms. The Expanding Range of Amazon Offerings .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

But, for consumers with more cash on hand or cards with higher spending limits, more luxurious items, including caviar and cars, can also be purchased through specialized vending machines. Take online vehicle marketplace Carvana, which recently installed its first car vending machine in Florida.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Diners, as it stands, spend more via online channels or mobile than when buying in person, which makes delivery rewarding for restaurants and moves them to encourage ordering through those channels. The brand also rolled out a new platform for online ordering that is said to have come out ahead of expectations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Shifts and transitions were a theme in this week’s payments and commerce news, too. Venmo launched a debit card powered by Shift Financial, Equifax tried to shift some blame for its horrific breach and Nordstrom decided to transition to a store design without inventory. What the store won’t feature?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

These new models are attempting to adapt to changes in consumer behavior. At the same time, online food delivery increased nearly 15 percent between 2018 and 2019. A new study also found that 34 percent of consumers used delivery more than they did a year ago. and Canada, allying itself with other brands and services.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

From Kleinfeld to Zola, the latest openings suggest that wedding retailers are testing out new brick-and-mortar concepts with the beginning of the new year. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News…. Lord & Taylor has left its landmark New York City store on Fifth Avenue as it seeks to focus on its online presence.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

In early 2017 the USDA pushed out a pilot program that allowed SNAP enrollees to buy groceries online with their card in seven states and with seven grocery partners: Amazon, FreshDirect, Safeway, Dash’s Market, Hy-Vee, ShopRite and Hart’s Local Grocers. This last round of piloting is set to take another two years.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

A manual published in the late 1800s for New York City school teachers may not seem like a likely source of favored conventional wisdom. version of bots look like — and how will they help Messenger achieve that rather lofty goal of facilitating more meaningful and useful conversations between brands and consumers?

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are opening experiential concepts by working with other brands as they look to engage consumers with experiences instead of products. The concept has a presence in 36 Macy’s locations ranging from Union Square in San Francisco to Herald Square in New York City. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

For all the differences between traditional banks and new online lenders, there is one business challenge that unites both groups: acquiring new customers. While online lenders experiment with offline marketing tactics, banks are aggressively ramping up their online marketing efforts, with total digital ad spend by U.S.

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FICO

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

For all the differences between traditional banks and new online lenders, there is one business challenge that unites both groups: acquiring new customers. While online lenders experiment with offline marketing tactics, banks are aggressively ramping up their online marketing efforts, with total digital ad spend by U.S.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

” The company operates six permanent and two temporary locations in the New York City area, as well as one at Disney’s BoardWalk Inn in Orlando, Florida. Follain — Gaelic for “healthy, wholesome, and sound” — features a curated portfolio of skincare, hair care, and cosmetics products from over 40 US brands.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

According to the report, consumers “tend to gravitate toward merchants that allow them to seamlessly move across channels — to shop online and pick up in-store, for instance.”. Buy online and pick up in store, however, is not the only feature that merchants are introducing to serve the needs of modern shoppers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Ma noted in an interview that the firm’s most important innovation is that its underlying technology platform easily integrates online assortments from new brands. Currently, Zola’s registry has about 60,000 products on offer from 600 brands. Their intention is to remain a digitally centered brand.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Headquartered in New York City. Customers enter their information and financials on a co-branded platform. After LiftForward approves the request, the customer e-signs online documents, and Microsoft ships the devices along with a membership card, software, warranty, and accessories. Metrics: 10 employees.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The new shops will feature 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores, and will be housed in The Market @ Macy’s. The Market @ Macy’s helps both emerging and established brands reach new audiences by showcasing them in a physical space inside Macy’s.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The launch of the new mobile wallet will be paired with a Kroger Rewards debit card due out this spring, which will reportedly offer double rewards for customers when used concurrently with Kroger’s new mobile wallet. Apple’s Bid to Save the News (Over the Protests of Many News Outlets).

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

Retailers are looking to labs and accelerators to provide new ideas, partnerships, and collaborations on some of the most pressing challenges in the industry. From supply chain and inventory improvements to new payment options, these brands are going all in on digital. The Home Depot — The Home Depot Innovation Center.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

WrkRiot’s short-lived house of cards falls down. Pixelon: Online video vaporware. The Honest Company’s branding and promotional materials claimed that the firm’s goods were free of synthetic chemicals. Founded by Renaud Laplanche in 2006, LendingClub quickly became one of the largest online lenders in the US.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

But despite the popularity of its sock puppet mascot, the online pet supplies retailer went out of business just 9 months after its Super Bowl ad, doomed by an untenable business model and the bursting of the dot-com bubble. Three months later, Amazon contributed to a $50M funding round earmarked for promoting the Pets.com brand.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 26, 2016

HQ: New York City. Online bookkeeping service. HQ: New York City. Prepaid debit card. Tags: Enterprise (B2B2C), payments, loyalty, debit/credit cards, rewards, blockchain, crypto-currency. Fintech deals by size from 30 April to 6 May 2016: VTS. Latest round: $55 million Series C.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery. 3D printing.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Despite this, the rise of e-commerce is blurring the lines between physical and online retail and some traditional retailers have already fallen victim to the retail apocalypse. Startup NewStore ($116.8M) offers retailers a platform where they can synchronize orders across all sales, delivery, and return channels; online and offline.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

That trend is only increasing — and those who may not use mobile bank apps use online channels and even self-service options at ATMs to do those same things. Facebook’s ask seems driven less by the need for consumer convenience and more by the need to deliver on the promise that Messenger could use chatbots to drive a new revenue stream.

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CB Insights

MAY 15, 2019

Key people: Chris Curtin, Chief Brand & Innovation Marketing Officer; Shiv Singh, Senior Vice President of Innovation & Strategic Partnerships. Notable projects: Card Free Access is a program developed out of the lab that allows Wells Fargo Banking customers to access ATMs through a variety of methods without their cards.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

An explosion of new direct-to-consumer companies is transforming how people shop. In the process, these brands, spanning everything from detergent to sneakers, are radically changing consumer preferences and expectations. Casper’s media-company strategy for redefining the mattress brand.

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