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JANUARY 20, 2020

“In this case, it provided a really great opportunity to work closely with their whole team, and to learn about the impact of influence-based businesses on retail.”. An endorsement from the Kardashian media empire is a big deal for any up-and-coming brand. However, for a brand like Afterpay, which launched in the U.S.

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JULY 5, 2019

Retailers are bolstering their supply chains in China as they seek to enhance their service and offer customers fresh products. The post also pointed out that the retailer invested over RMB 700 million – which is approximately $100 million – to create the South China Fresh Food Distribution Center. Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While beauty conglomerates like L’Oréal are making acquisitions to become more tech-enabled, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) are pursuing the high margins in beauty through partnerships, consumer insights, e-commerce, and more. Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Looking ahead.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

In the new year, it seems very fashionable for retailers to re-think global growth. General Mills is investing in kale to sprout growth , Mattel tapped a Google executive for its new CEO and handbag companies like Fendi are leaning on a pompom add-on to spur sales.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) that it is launching a new destination for electronics products to feature Certified Refurbished products, not from its sellers but from brands like De'Longhi, Dirt Devil, Hoover, Makita, Philips and Razer, which will sell exclusively on the eBay platform. The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2020

Price reductions from consumers’ favorite brands would solve their issues, but retailers cannot drop prices as low as some might like. This atmosphere of financial flexibility is crucial to retailers looking to compete in today’s shopping environment, no matter how customers are transacting. BNPL Budgets and Customer Comfort.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

The storied department store is a bit more than a brand at this point. At 159 years old, it officially counts as a retail institution — one that hasn’t spent much of the last few years looking too healthy. In retail as in sailing, the bigger the boat, the harder it is to change direction. The explanations given for why vary.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If there was any stigma left about used clothing it may have been erased last week as Nordstrom put its high-end brand on what it calls “re-commerce.”. percent of StockX sales had a retail multiple of 1x to 2x , meaning that resale prices were between zero and 100 percent over retail. We like the handle. It says some 57.5

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Celent Banking

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. A regional bank poll of millennials found that not one could name a community institution in their area. This requires additional spending.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Pundits identify bellwether states to predict election outcomes.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

From automakers to retailers and online platforms, companies around the world are tapping into connected commerce technology in automobiles and mobile devices. Taco Bell Chief Global Brand Officer Marisa Thalberg said in the announcement, “The Bell stands to be the biggest expression of the Taco Bell lifestyle to date.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

The department store retailer bolstered its omnichannel efforts while opening a distribution center for its off-priced business that taps into cloud computing technology; however, it struggled with inventory during the quarter. It also opens the doors to partnerships with local and niche brands as well as major players.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But there was no clear branding on any of them unless you were in on the reference. On the one hand, they’re using a relatively low-cost, unattended distribution method combined with even lower-cost word-of-mouth marketing, and the other hand, it’s one that’s associated with short-term, exclusive retail. And just what are Spectacles?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Outdoor and hiking brand Merrell thinks it can solve the problem. It recently launched an application via Alexa Skill and Google Assistant Action powered by conversational experience platform Voicify. Anybody who’s ever hiked has been there. Bad trail maps. No trail maps. Redundant hikes or walks. L’Oréal Speaks Up In APAC.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Almost half – 43 percent of high-income millennials – said they would be more likely to visit a gas station if its app offered them convenience, loyalty and savings, according to the PYMNTS Paying At The Pump report. In a June interview with PYMNTS, GasBuddy CEO Sarah McCrary explained that customers rarely shop by brand.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

Much thought is given to millennials and even Generation Z — consumers who were born during fixed periods of time, and who are having an increasing impact on payments and commerce. But let’s not forget the role of the teenager in digital retail, financial services and transactions. Retail and Teenagers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The lucrative “ bridge millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high-earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent reporting ownership of a voice-activated device and 55 percent of those owners using them to make a purchase. Amazon’s Extensive Offerings.

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2019

And, while some brands were so-called “clean” enough for the family, the products lacked the flavor or texture they liked. Kohn said that he felt like Asian flavors were on trend after research, especially with millennial crowds and those in the demographic looking for out-of-the-box flavor profiles. The Meat Snack Market.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

You will observe grocery, as a retail category, is very fragmented. billion fine onto Google, claiming that their product carousel ads created an unfair advantage to small guy retailers who didn’t have the money to advertise. I’ll point out that those retailers did, apparently, have the money to hire lawyers. Take Google.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

When Amazon, the largest retailer by market cap, says that it had its best day ever , it’s hard not to call that a sizzle – and then some. We understand that sometimes brands do things in an effort to get a little boost so that people notice. Pokémon GO: Pet Rock or Opportunity To Rock Retail? Amazon Sellers . As prove by.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

It’s been an educational experience so far, Collins noted, both in terms of the data coming in and what Kitchen has learned from other brands it has met, even from its pre-opening days. The challenge is really noticeable in restaurants for the less diversified brands,” Collins remarked. Building A Better Experience.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Forbes reports that Discogs owes its success to the vinyl resurgence and, though some millennials may not want to admit it, to big corporate retailers as well. Business owners in other retail categories can learn from this. It’s not millennials, but older generations that want everything to be fast, the report claimed.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Online luxury marketplace 1stdibs stands as an example of that kind of content, along with providing — as do some other companies — a demonstration of the appeal of both digital and physical forms of content to tie consumers to a brand or ecosystem. But catalogs can work, as 1stdibs and other retailers have learned.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

Amazon and its ever-expanding marketplace of goods presents a problem that looms large in retail: try to beat ’em or try to join them. It’s not impossible to compete, but Amazon’s most notable and intractable competitors are super-sized themselves: Walmart, Google, Target, Apple, etc.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

What if we were to tell you that retail shopping isn’t dead? The caveat may have to be that we’d be talking about Amazon, with a new bookstore on the way in its storied (pun intended) march to its own physical, branded store footprint. Bricks and Mortar , Alive? That there may be a spark of life in the bricks and mortar model?

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2018

Millennials love to share. They are proportionally comfortable using gig economy services that provide these things, with about a third of millennials working some sort of gig position themselves. Match.com is one of the only brands of its era that still exists. Match.com is one of the only brands of its era that still exists.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers in the U.S. AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Google … and Ad-Supported Search . The category that Google innovated 20 years ago – ad-supported search – now appears to be one of its scariest things. Consumers don’t Google for takeout anymore – they go straight to Grubhub. Apple … and the iPhone Customer. And it’s now driving commerce.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

On its eCommerce website, the company accepts credit cards, PayPal and Google Pay at checkout. Beyond its website, the company’s products are in brick-and-mortar retailers such as Whole Foods and Gelson’s Market, among others. Beyond ReGrained, other brands are reusing different ingredients and turning them into new products.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Thirteen years later, in 2016, American consumers now spend 46 minutes a day shopping, with women dedicating about 35 percent more of their day to retail pursuits than their male counterparts. That includes the two mobile giants who started this massive wave rolling to shore: Google with Android and Apple with its iOS-based mobile devices.

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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. It’s not driven by the trend setting millennials and Generation Z shoppers or by the affluent — it seems to be age, generation and income-independent and geography-independent.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Retailers looking to engage tech-savvy millennials and Gen Z consumers are quickly doubling down on their efforts to offer more visual content and enhance the discoverability of their products and services. Instead, they can use this software to simply share an image with the retailer.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

In its ongoing efforts to break the Facebook-Google duopoly when it comes to digital advertising, reports emerged this week that Amazon will be selling video ad spots on its mobile app. Google is expected to lose share and drop to 37.2 And yes, it has been a very busy week. Big Play of The Week: Video Ads Are Coming To Mobile.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Trials with Bluetooth beacons in stores demonstrated what any consumer probably could have told retailers for free: People don’t want to be bombarded with notifications and deals. Rebecca Minkoff as a brand is about confident young women going out and living life on their own terms, getting the most out of their world, said Hobsbawm.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

Retail frequently adapts well to the new technologies or tools consumers might be using to shop, but repricing goods to accommodate customers who are wary of overspending is often out of its reach. This is prompting retailers outside the luxury space to explore buy now, pay later (BNPL) options. Brands in Australia, the U.K.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

That fundamental difference in what counts as a best-case scenario has caused millennials to turn away from revolving credit products, Afterpay Co-founder and CEO Anthony Eisen told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. That means the platform refers a substantial amount of business to the retailers with which it works.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. percent of all retail sales to 6.4 Yet, over the last four years, Amazon has gone from 2.2

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