PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Quick-service restaurants (QSRs) have heard the call for innovative digital ordering capabilities, with several major brands stepping up their investments in this area. The company has partnered with autonomous technology firm Nuro with plans to put driverless delivery vehicles to work in Houston, Texas, by the end of 2019.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2017

The San Francisco–based firm trades on its ability to help its brand partners “navigate the future of emerging technologies and the digital experience” and then help those brands “design and develop interactive branded experiences for the new digital world.” Mobile beer ordering, specifically.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

Brick-and-mortar merchants are far from being free from the problems that plague their particular brand of retail, but even they have to look at online retail rising rents for warehouse space with a little bit of mirth. According to a new report from CBRE, things are about to get even worse. percent — the lowest such figure since 2001.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

According to that report, the company “works directly with ride-hailing drivers to mount ad displays on top of their cars. It launched out of beta in December 2018, and in the intervening months, it’s garnered support from brands like Brex, Segment, Caviar, Zumper, and others.”. Fewer in Q4 2018 reported saving for life events (22.9

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

The brand could close between 600 to 1,000 of its 3,000 locations this year, according to some predictions – and is reportedly considering bankruptcy, people familiar with the matter have told Reuters. And, as a brand, Mattress Firm itself has faced some challenges: In 2017, former supplier Tempur Sealy International Inc.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Its fourth-quarter earnings report, released at the end of February, showed a revenue jump of 88 percent from 2019 to $1.1 This year we expect another year of market-leading growth. Our cohort growth was broad based with many markets crossing key milestones.”. New Markets. It is only part of a stepped-up marketing effort.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Of course, taking a break is a relative term when it comes to the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck — Walmart, according to most reports , is running barn-burner deals that rival Black Friday savings. As of today, Amazon’s virtual assistant is now capable of controlling above 85,000 smart home products from more than 9,500 brands.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

The quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain reported revenues of $811.6 For same-store sales, the QSR reported growth of 3 percent compared to Wall Street estimates of 4.8 According to reports that surfaced in June, Domino’s and Nuro were teaming up to use a custom vehicle dubbed R2 later in the year. million and $2.02

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2018

The offering will debut in Houston, Louisville, Nashville and Kroger’s hometown of Cincinnati, Chain Store Age reported. In terms of geography, the pilot market will be announced soon and the service is expected to launch in the fall.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

According to a report in Reuters , Kroger is changing the way it stocks merchandise in the stores, which it blamed for the decline in foot traffic. The program, dubbed Restock, was launched earlier this year in an effort to adjust product choices, rearrange store layouts and highlight private-label brands. Kroger , the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

“We don’t truly know how big it could be, but, again, the location is fairly significant,” Peter Zeytoonjian, USOC managing director of marketing and consumer products, told SportsBusiness Daily when the store opened in December. Last year, it closed a $1 billion venture capital round , according to news reports from Reuters.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The new Jet has an urban-focused curation pattern, according to reports, with an increased focus on grocery, home, fashion, beauty and electronics. For food, they want to see the brands and the products and confirm they will be fresh and quality. Kroger released its Q2 earnings this week, and the market did not love what it saw.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

As it stands, mobile ordering is available at the chain’s Denver, Boston and Houston locations — and more markets are said to be in the works for this year. The retailer reported net income for the fourth quarter of $102.6 Alternatively, customers can have their food sent straight to their seats in some of the theatres.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

According to a report by Morgan Stanley, Amazon is already delivering roughly half of all its own packages, and that it will soon surpass FedEx and UPS in terms of volume. Amazon enjoyed record sales during the Cyber Monday shopping blowout, but according to the report, bad weather and over-saturation left Amazon’s on-time rating at only 93.7

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Celebrity brand endorsement is nothing new. The first recorded case of it dates back to the 1760s when Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, producers of pottery and chinaware, marketed their wares with endorsements from Britain’s royal family, hoping to show off the company’s inherent value and the high quality of their products.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Afterpay reported $160 million in BNPL sales during Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2019, with five U.S. cities (LA, Chicago, Brooklyn, Houston, Philadelphia) seeing the greatest action. Top retailers using BNPL include DSW, Urban Outfitters and Ulta Beauty , and popular brands included ColourPop and Ray-Ban, among others.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

According to reports at the time, the two companies had broken ground on what has been dubbed America’s second “customer fulfillment center” (CFC), located in Florida. In April, Amazon and Whole Foods Market announced that delivery of Whole Foods items through Prime Now had been brought to nine more cities. The share of U.S.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

According to forecasts , the emerging global market for business services using drones is valued at over $127B. In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, AT&T and Verizon launched drones in Houston, Texas to inspect their towers — a process which would have been too dangerous and time-consuming to do manually. Telecommunications.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Trackers and Reports. Subscription Payments Meet Emerging Markets (GoCardless Global Recurring Payments Tracker). is putting more of its hopes into digital and mobile channels to grow revenue as well as its brand profile and make up for declining wholesale sales. Top Stories. Uber Losses Trigger $228M Write-Off At PayPal.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

Investor optimism in spite of the news perhaps indicates faith in the cost-cutting measures Whole Foods has pursued, along with boosting its less-expensive 365 brand. based brands, and less dramatic than Whole Foods’ rise. The National Association of Convenience recently reported that non-gasoline sales at U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

Six years and an expanding inventory of cars and price points later, Uber’s platform has a market cap of $70 billion, more than 1 million drivers across 400 cities worldwide who’ve delivered a 1 billion rides – and the first instance of what we now call “invisible” payments in the offline world. It’s not hard to see why. And monetize.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Retailers are leveraging technology, such as artificial intelligence and augmented reality, to enhance operational visibility and personalize their customer service, a new necessity in fast-changing and demanding consumer market. “We’re in a test-and-learn phase as we consider what other investment routes we should explore.

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CB Insights

APRIL 13, 2022

The metaverse could represent a $1T market by the end of the decade, according to CB Insights’ Industry Analyst Consensus. Download our full report to find out the top trends poised to reshape industries in 2022. This market map is not intended to be exhaustive of the space. electrification of everything. lab-to-table.

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