PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

Developing a cohesive environment where both customers feel a sense of community and the website brand matches that can be a challenge. Women’s outdoor and athletic apparel retailer Title Nine is looking to make those changes by adding Kibo’s eCommerce solution to its system.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Don’t look now, but retailers and commerce are getting more visual with reality. the company that owns popular social media video platform Snapchat, to provide 5G content for users, including enhanced augmented reality (AR) experiences. Recently, Verizon announced that it’s partnering with Snap Inc.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2020

Sensory branding is having a moment. These are some admittedly “out there” examples of sensory branding, which is popular lately for several reasons. Supplementing the “sight” of marketing and branding with a taste or a sound creates an entirely new set of tools to attract consumers. And sensory branding isn’t limited to sound.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Customer experience platform Narvar is partnering with real estate investment trust Simon to facilitate easier retail returns, according to a press release. Despite our deep roots in eCommerce, we've always believed in the persistent power of physical retail," Amit Sharma , founder and CEO of Narvar, said in the release.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Other companies who were late to creating digital customer experiences suffered as people stayed away from traditional stores and shopped online. But even the best companies struggled to keep customer satisfaction levels high during 2020. The largest online retailer – Amazon – had a 7% decline in satisfaction.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

As eCommerce revenue has risen, so has the need for consumers to return their purchases, sometimes surprising retailers that might not have seen the order scale they’ve seen for April and May. The company combines expertise in eCommerce, supply chain management and customer service to amplify the all-important customer experience.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Some retailers are just excellent about telling stories about themselves and about the products that they're selling,” Taylor told PYMNTS. If brands want to get online, and you want to have something that looks bespoke, that’s typically going to mean paying a developer or paying an agency quite a bit of money.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

She said the biggest and best-in-class brands had been on that path long before the pandemic. But the pandemic-inspired shift to digital commerce has raised consumer expectations for seamless simplicity in multichannel journeys and pressured retailers slower to enter the world of omnichannel to work double-time to catch up. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

Designer Brands Inc. The company operates almost 1,000 retail stores under names like DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse and The Shoe Company. ” Designer Brands said it has successfully opened roughly 90 percent of its overall store base, and it foresees having almost all of its North American locations open by the conclusion of June.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2018

More than a store or a brand, The Sharper Image was the traditional mecca of the husbands, fathers and boyfriends along for mall trips they didn’t really want to be on, offering consolation in the form of a session in the vibro-massaging leather recliner and the opportunity to touch a plasma globe.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Direct-to-consumer wedding brands are opening stores in real life — and personalizing the customer experience within them through digital technology. At the same time, the brand seeks to create personalization through every one of its touchpoints. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As 2020 unfolds, the retail business has been dramatically altered. But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. So, what constitutes experiential marketing for retailers? Wine and cheese for the shoppers?

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. Study after study confirms the importance of providing personalized, integrated experiences for satisfaction and retention of financial services customers. Opportunity #1: When opening a new account.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

Retail reopening events continued to draw light foot traffic on Monday, as Florida joined Texas in allowing non-essential stores to reopen. percent of consumers shop for retail goods online more often than they did on March 6, the first day of our study, and that continues to climb — up 10.5 percent from 35.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

Furstenberg said the partnership is a unique one and will help the company connect with its customers in a real way. Connecting is really important, especially if you want to be a brand that stands out to consumers today,” she said. Store associates will be able to easily share product information and provide timely recommendations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But the challenge for retailers now is deciding what to do next, Amazon Pay Chief Marketing Officer Kelly Wenzel told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. Wenzel told Webster that what retailers need to think about is those things that actually aren’t going to change in an environment where it feels like everything is changing.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Today (June 17) Visa is announcing that their sensory branding suite is in over two dozen countries care of a dozen new partnerships. Visa’s sensory branding suite of products includes a sound, animation and haptic cues for consumers and merchants when a Visa transaction is completed.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Iconic brick-and-mortar retailers are sometimes reinvented, and return to the world of retail with smaller-format concepts. The parent of the Toys R Us brand, Tru Kids , plans to bring stores under the legendary name to the United States for the 2019 holiday season. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

It's no secret that restaurants have been hurting since the pandemic caused a seismic, almost-overnight shift in their customer engagement strategies. The QSR began as a hot dog stand in New York City’s Madison Square Park in 2001 and has since grown to become a global brand, with more than 250 locations around the world. .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2020

New developments are focusing on supply chain, government activity and infrastructure to improve the customer experience as post-pandemic retail finds its legs. Retailers that sign up for the new program will receive discounts of up to 40 percent on FedEx Ground and 50 percent on FedEx Express services.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Canadian global point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce firm Lightspeed is teaming up with Silicon Valley payments platform Stripe to advance in-store and online payments for retailers and restaurants in the U.S. Restaurants and retailers will be able to process in-store payments and personalize readers with their own branding. .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

These moves seem logical for consumers who have been barred from visiting brick-and- mortar retailers or who are wary of contact with cashiers or payment terminals due to the potential for viral transmission, but they are also likely to have a dramatic impact on the future of digital and in-store commerce. The rise of omnichannel .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

With an expansion of a retail partnership between The Kroger Co. Also, Walgreens’ branded beauty and health products will be sold in 17 Kroger grocery stores, Supermarket News reported. Also, Walgreens’ branded beauty and health products will be sold in 17 Kroger grocery stores, Supermarket News reported.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

Brian Billingsley, CEO North America at Klarna , joined Karen Webster to discuss those partnerships and the benefits that it believes its more streamlined financing options can bring to the consumer purchasing experience. The Revolving Difference.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Brands reported that worldwide system sales excluding foreign currency translation increased 10 percent, with Taco Bell at 13 percent, KFC at 11 percent and Pizza Hut at 7 percent. Brands Chief Executive Officer David Gibbs reported that KFC U.S.

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Payments Source

JANUARY 6, 2021

With people shopping online more than ever before, and a new group of consumers joining the online retail space, it’s become increasingly important for brands to connect their sales channels and embrace e-commerce, says Hatch founder and CEO Joris Kroese.

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. Study after study confirms the importance of providing personalized, integrated experiences for satisfaction and retention of financial services customers. Opportunity #1: When opening a new account.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Retailers are dutifully speaking with their payment service providers (PSPs) and industry partners to adhere to these shifts, but they must also keep their customers’ experiences in mind. retailer trade group, Retail Industry Leaders Association ( RILA ), told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

Over the last few years, chatbots have taken the retail space by storm, helping to automate several key aspects of customer service. With 100,000 branded chatbots and growing on Facebook Messenger alone, it doesn’t appear that chatbots have any intention of going away any time soon. Are they helping or hindering?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2017

And in the retail world, apparently, that holds as well. Apparently, while it may seem like a no-brainer, consumers are both happy and loyal when brands deliver on what they feel they were promised from a retailer. Retailers need to deliver what they promised consumers. Bottom line?

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 11, 2019

As consumer-facing brands roll out augmented reality and virtual reality tools to improve the customer experience, financial services companies are just beginning to test their capabilities -- with mixed results.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Customer experience initiatives are typically the most numerous. The standards of customer engagement are constantly changing, and banks are experimenting with new ways to drive increased satisfaction, higher revenue, and greater loyalty. Brands are similar and products/ services are frequently cross-sold.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2020

Retail is not the same as it was at the beginning of 2020 — in fact, it isn’t the same as it was a mere month-and-a-half ago, given the quick and sweeping changes that COVID-19 has brought in its wake. Amid economic uncertainty, certain retailers are adapting and innovating in ways we haven’t seen before,” Molnar told Webster. “In

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Kroger and Walgreens are expanding their partnership to create a new group purchasing organization (GPO) called the Retail Procurement Alliance, which will pool resources to cut costs and advance innovation, the companies said in a press release on Wednesday (Dec.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I’ll be participating in an excellent panel, “ Balancing Fraud Prevention & the Customer Experience ,” at the first virtual edition of CBA LIVE , the must-attend annual event for the retail banking industry. Ben Mendelsohn, Senior Vice President, Director of Retail Product Management, Fifth Third Bankcorp.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 26, 2019

N26 is building out its perks ecosystem, adding partnerships with new brands at a rapid clip. This month, the company partnered with scooter rental company Lime and online travel platform Booking.com to offer added rewards to customers who transact using their N26 debit cards.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). This QR code can lead to a more expensive transaction and a less seamless experience compared to NFC.”.

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