PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

In partnership with Boulder-based company Nite Ize , a maker of specialty lights and phone mounts under the Steelie brand, Amazon has filed suit in a Seattle federal court, accusing a group of counterfeiters of selling fraudulent Nite Ize products. Big Play of the Week: SNAP Comes To All Online Grocery Pickup.

United States 100

United States Retail Online Branding 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Traditional retail locations, ranging from fashion and home furnishings to hardware and department stores, have been forced to make significant changes in the face of heightened competition from eCommerce giants like Amazon and omnichannel powerhouses, like Walmart and its online unit, Jet.com.

Digital Strategies 104

Digital Strategies Retail Strategy Los Angeles 104

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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Millennials Retail Online Report 246

PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

As Amazon continues to keep its Prime Day cards close, its decision to launch the event in India has come under scrutiny. That Amazon is holding its 48-hour sale despite the pandemic underscores the intense competition in the country’s online retail sector,” says Bloomberg. Is India’s Prime Day a Test Case? .

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Video Retail Seattle United States 181

Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 23, 2022

So here we go again with the upcoming launch of Zion Bancorp’s Zifi brand. They are currently creating a waitlist and experimenting with search engine advertising (that’s where I saw it first, ad based on my Google search for “best small business banks” from a Seattle IP address). Debit card. Invoicing tools.

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Seattle United States Tools Branding 15

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. Shift Number One | The Shift To Buying Online. We’ve been watching online sales now grow — even double — year over year, for many years now, but it’s still tiny, overall. Who in the world ever thought that there’d come a day when groceries would be bought online ?

Payments 100

Payments Online Mobile Retail 100

Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

This week, digital poster child Square jumped into the plastic gift card market. Unlike many of its new endeavors, old-school cards were met with a decided lack of enthusiasm in the tech press (and my Twitter feed). Many recalled the company''s failed efforts with virtual gift cards (which I liked then, and still do).

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Cards Seattle ATM Branding 24

CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The company’s assets were acquired by Q Holdings in 2015, and the firm quietly relaunched the Quirky brand in 2017. Second, the thesis that one or two brands would quickly go on to own on-demand food turned out to be either wrong or too early. Julep started out as a single nail salon in Seattle. Declared Bankruptcy: 2018.

Apple 78

Apple Branding Google Company 78

CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Unmanned retail can: Set up points of sale in new places: As shopping malls struggle and brick-and-mortar foot traffic declines, brands don’t want to wait for shoppers to come to stores. using their online account to check out in store), cashless retailers hope to merge shoppers’ online and offline identities.

Retail 71

Retail Technology San Francisco Mobile 71

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.

Industry 101

Industry Technology Online Video 101

CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

Facial recognition, for example, could capture what a shopper is looking at, and enable retailers to later serve up related promotions to the shopper via email or online ads. Facial recognition, along with AR, is also making brands data rich — especially beauty brands.

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Industry Examples Security Technology 78

Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 1, 2016

My favorite website of all time was from the ill-fated dot-com “fintech” card issuer, NextCard. In an era where most traditional brands dumped everything they could think of on the homepage, NextCard made due with just 50 words of copy, an almost “Google-like” experience (and this was before Google).

Seattle 12

Seattle Google Washington Maine 12