PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Consumers shopping in droves via eCommerce channels is hardly a piece of breaking news — for the better part of a decade, that has been obvious to anyone watching the retail space. They are, Fiserv Senior Vice President of Retail Solutions John Nicola told Karen Webster in a recent conversation — and in great numbers.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

The extra costs were definitely a bit of a shock," 26-year-old Londoner Ellie Huddleston told the BBC upon discovering that she owed about $100 in additional tax and duties on a $275 jacket. I had no idea at all I was going to be charged any more for deliveries after Brexit. and Europe are mulling the unthinkable to avoid the ridiculous.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Retail is getting more visual, and that stands to be the case for locally-focused merchants as they compete for attention and consumer dollars with the likes of Amazon and Walmart. Indeed, augmented reality is among the tools that local retailers look ready to adopt for further use. Contextualizing Commerce.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

It looks like we can finally have a serious conversation about the impending collapse of physical retail in the U.S. All it took was a 160-year old retailer and a $34 billion kick in the stomach to the retail sector to get everyone’s attention. retailer, Sears, which found itself standing at Chapter 7’s front door.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

But these restaurants are not innovating all that fast — even with all sorts of new technologies hitting the market. But customer adoption isn’t behind the slow adoption of QSR innovations — in fact, 62 percent of consumers said the availability of digital innovations would make them more likely to visit QSRs in the future.

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JUNE 18, 2019

Pet retail is having a moment, with innovation and other efforts helping merchants better reach owners of dogs, cats and other household animals. Pawscout, as it turns out, just launched its $20 pet tags in Walmart — and is selling the product via other retailers, Chavez told PYMNTS. physical retail landscape.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

While the shift to the online space is often seen as the great game-changer in retail, Loren Padelford, vice president and general manager of Shopify Plus , said that the change is actually to something more fundamental. A lot of traditional merchants and retailers are struggling with that change. How do you sell on Snap or Insta?”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

Earlier this month, Saks Fifth Avenue President Marc Metrick told CNBC that the luxury retailer didn’t need fancy artificial intelligence (AI) to help it succeed in the industry, despite the tectonic shift thrusting every other retailer into reliance on such technologies. Some luxury retailers are starting to offer such experiences.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

The world of retail might not be quite getting back to normal, but people are starting to pick up some pieces of their old day-to-day lives again. And in the ongoing race between Amazon and Walmart for the consumer’s whole paycheck , there’s been some definite movement in numbers that PYMNTS tracks. That’s a big leap forward.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

While a very real glass ceiling might be under assault in the political field, online-only brands that eschewed traditional methods of starting up are seeing themselves approach a limiting barrier of their own kind. Rather than be held back, though, more than a few brands are proving strong enough to break through.

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MAY 30, 2016

If brick-and-mortar merchants can claim anything sacred from the total encroachment of online retail on its turf, it’s the highest echelon of uber-luxurious commerce. The first pieces of evidence come from recent earnings reports from two of the biggest tentpoles in the dollar retail category: Dollar General and Dollar Tree.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Convenience is key in the retail sector, especially in eCommerce, where merchants with frustrating or complicated online shopping processes can easily lose customers. Avoiding such an exodus means retailers must be flexible when developing the tools consumers use to make purchases. BNPL is not a new payment method.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Leaders from both the core virtual consult world like Teladoc and Amwell as well as RPM leaders like Vivify and cross-platform digital enablers like Microsoft, Amazon and Google will be looking to re-state and broaden the industry definition and understanding for a newly engaged audience. It’s a Brand New World. all at once.

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MARCH 14, 2017

One of the better definitions of this was found in an early 2016 Medium posting where social and digital architect expert Chris Messina defined conversational commerce. voice) to interact with people, brands, or services and bots that heretofore have had no real place in the bidirectional, asynchronous messaging context.”.

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MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The retailer combines the in-store and app experience to enhance the customer buying process. Banks often do not have the customers, data, or pricing competitiveness to match big online retailers, and they seldom win on brand favourability.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2018

160,000: Number of global brands using Appear Here to find commercial real estate. 100 percent: Share of top-performing, innovating FIs that plan out definite priorities for three years into the future, with a focus on three or four specific areas. . $176 billion: Estimated value of the global, industrial IoT market by 2022.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Walmart’s Flipkart, and Amazon, have not broken competitive rules in India through their respective efforts to promote certain brands or select certain merchants to sell across their platforms.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Omnicommerce usually refers to where and how retailers sell their products, not necessarily who they choose to sell them with. At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. Staples Will Sell You A Desk — Or Let You Share One.

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AUGUST 16, 2018

There was (and, in some sectors, still is) a tendency on the part of retailers to believe it is better to let a prime retail location go vacant, rather than risk lowering the value of the property with a series of short-term leases. A New, Enhanced Experience Via Additions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Almost half, 45 percent, have shifted digital to shop for retail products, and one in five to shop for groceries and order food from restaurants.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2018

Adobe has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Magento Commerce for $1.68 Magento brings digital commerce enablement and order orchestration to the Adobe Experience Cloud for both physical and digital goods across a range of industries, from consumer-packaged goods (CPG) to retail and manufacturing.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

From credit card companies to retailers and consumers, there are many key stakeholders in the commerce process, both on and offline. Without proper payment processes in place, it’s likely that the entire retail ecosystem would either grind to a halt or favor one side over another. Is true streamlining possible?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

With no merger in their futures and plenty of uncertainty, each definitively separate retailer looks to be embarking on new chapters, and Office Depot is making sure it has the staff on hand for a busy future. The office supply brand is looking to fill roughly 8,000 positions — 33 percent, or 2,000 more than 2015’s numbers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Domino’s was one of the first chains to innovate the space, developing an online tracker that reported order statuses to customers in real time and offered artificial intelligence (AI)-driven voice ordering. What else can we do as a brand — that we have not done in the past — because of this added bandwidth?”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2018

Amazon’s entry into a new market is rarely considered good news in the world of retail. But 7-Eleven — arguably the latest big brand facing the “Amazon Effect” — is not quite suffering from the normal terror of confrontation that accompanies a direct clash with Amazon. Blue Apron was already having difficulty keeping investors calm.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

eCommerce was teeny at $160 billion in sales, and physical retail hadn’t yet felt the impact of the retail apocalypse that would start to punch it in the gut later that year. Paytm was a brand-new prepaid mobile card in India. Facebook was two years away from realizing it really needed a mobile app.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2020

That is the very definition of a “black swan.” Many innovators, whether in the personal care or beverage sectors, sell their niche products via DTC options, allowing them to reach broader markets and cut out the middleman. However, the transition from retail to DTC should be strategic. Currently, nearly half of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

The four-year-old startup, which just raised $10 million in Series A funding, develops non-meat equivalents of pork rinds, bacon seasoning and other piggy products for the direct-to-consumer (D2C) and retail markets. You definitely wouldn’t want to eat food that I prepared,” he joked. We’re trying to innovate with everything we do.”.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

The QR code has had its place in retail, advertising and payments, but one Israeli tech company feels it’s time to take this low-tech solution high-tech. Instead, there are plenty of other use cases in which a QR code replacement could begin to drive benefits for retailers and advertisers alike. Customer Experience.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Secrecy is a funny thing for brands. It keeps consumers interested, because a consumer that is always guessing about the next product release is, by necessity, always thinking about the brand. Stringfellow was promoted to the permanent position of VP of internal innovation and operations. It is a delicate balance, of course.

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JULY 25, 2016

The company also opened its first brick-and-mortar location, called Mill Street Merchants , in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, both as a way to expand its brand presence and to offer the solution of an affordable grocery store in a town not serviced by very many options. Mill Street Merchants opened in early July after John Gabriel Sr.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

“The meal kit market is crowded, but it’s also growing rapidly, so there’s room for a lot of types of brands,” McDevitt told PYMNTS. The acquisition is a sign that others are seeing the rising trend in consumer demand for healthy products, which validates our brand position and gives us confidence for continued growth in our sector.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

The firm’s solution to the cupcake problem was hybridized desserts — saffron mousse rice pudding, kunafa cheesecake, and the company’s signature dessert, the cupookie (which, despite its appearance is definitely, “ not a cupcake ” even though it is definitely the shape of a cupcake and involves icing and cake.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

“Throw out everything you’ve ever learned about what makes a consumer loyal to a brand.” – Loyalties New One Percenters. And it isn’t being driven by mega brands with mega advertising budgets — but instead by “long tail brands that enough shoppers like enough to make and keep as their “go-to.”.

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JUNE 6, 2018

According to Freytag Project Director Sophie Brown , the experience isn’t just about novelty, although the discovery and fun aspects are definitely part of it. They are increasingly demanding transparency, traceability and authenticity from the brands they support with their dollars. Supporting Small and Micro Businesses.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

These days, the firm mostly specializes in wholesale efforts and working with brands and retailers to develop private-label glass offerings. I would say we definitely go over that hump, and we’re growing.”. But while the methods have changed, the products have remained consistent over time.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Not surprising, considering underwear weren’t really at the top of the list for what most men considered important products to upgrade or focus on — for years, men have pretty much just continued to wear the same styles and brands they always have. But the industry is changing, and men are now taking more ownership of their undergarments.

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