PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The move will bring 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Market @ Macy’s helps both emerging and established brands reach new audiences by showcasing them in a physical space inside Macy’s. “The

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

Amazon has a brand-new product that will deliver packages right to consumers’ doors. We developed Amazon Scout at our research and development lab in Seattle, ensuring the devices can safely and efficiently navigate around pets, pedestrians and anything else in their path,” the company said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

The Walmart warehouse club brand has been piloting curbside pickup at 16 clubs. The brand has about 15,000 U.S. The brand will be placing further emphasis on to-go, pickup, and delivery orders. “As locations, around 60 percent of which are company-operated.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Speaking to Bloomberg at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Washington, Johnson noted that though the U.S. will always be a key market for the coffee giant, the global expansion of the latte and macchiato is in the chain’s future. China is our second-largest and fastest-growing market,” he said. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2019

Kroger is seeking to bring new customer experiences to market faster, drive personalization with insights and help store associates become more productive. The Grocery Market. billion private-brand products in 2016. billion private-brand products in 2016. The experiment is also said to include other technologies.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Parker continued, “We’re now focused on creating an environment that highlights our heritage and allows consumers to deeply connect with the brand as they prepare for their own exploration, wherever it may be.”. Beyond The North Face, other outdoor apparel retailers are innovating with their brick-and-mortar stores.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

From rue21 to Walmart, retailers in the clothing and accessories market are enabling ways to make shopping a little easier. Customers on Walmart.com can access styles from brands like C&C California, Butter Super Soft, Puma and BCBG. Walmart U.S. It’s high density … lots of people on the go. We can’t wait to show our first U.K.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2020

Will future generations perhaps end up associating the Atari brand with hotels? More locations are planned for Las Vegas, Denver, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco and San Jose, though no additional timetables were announced. And that’s how Atari, whatever the brand might mean to consumers in 2020, hopes to make its mark.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

Amazon has been hiring house cleaners in Seattle as direct employees in an effort to boost its home services marketplace. The new housecleaning service, Amazon Home Assistants, offers cleaning services in Seattle, with prices determined by the size of the home and the number of visits.

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Bobsguide

JULY 7, 2022

Financial institutions and retail brands gain a new embedded finance platform to help consumers access regulated loans at point-of-sale, powered by Banking as a Service. Finastra is a global provider of financial software applications and marketplaces, and launched the leading open platform for innovation, FusionFabric.cloud, in 2017.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

The change was a resounding success, according to The Seattle Times. Today, according Vacant’s website, pop-up stores can be used for companies to launch a new product, test a consumer market or generate brand awareness. The plus for the malls and the retail brands is the “easy accessibility” of the space.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

These are some of the reasons that consumers are visiting brick-and-mortar grocers – from Wegmans Food Markets to Kroger – and how these grocers (as well as technology providers) are rolling out innovations and features to serve in-store customers. Roughly three in 10 – or 27.1 About one in 10 – or 9.9

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless. UR Making Me Laugh.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Taco Bell is living más as it pulls ahead of Burger King as the fourth-largest quick-service restaurant (QSR) brand with new delivery options and, yes, nacho fries. percent in 2017, Taco Bell has been drawing in customers with new food items, a Live Más marketing campaign and new nacho fries for $1. But McDonald ’s Corp. Subway’s $10.8

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BankInovation

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Google’s growing portfolio of bank partnerships is signaling a trend among legacy institutions that co-branded Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) might be the easiest way to maintain market share in a world gone increasingly digital.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Consumers don’t have to be Amazon Prime members (or Seattle-area residents living near the first Amazon Go markets) to have a checkout-free grocery experience. Imagr itself reportedly aims to achieve significant penetration in markets across Australia, the U.K., Europe and America by 2022. 22 report by Recode.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Grubhub has capped fees in Seattle and San Francisco, but they remain in effect in the rest of the U.S., And it’s a movement catching on with brands and entrepreneurs of all kids, trying variations on the model. including New York City, which has been hard hit by the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

The world’s most famous and recognizable jewelry brand Tiffany reported holiday sales down 5 percent — a reality the company chalked up to “restrained consumer spending tied to challenging and uncertain global economic conditions.” And it seems 2015 was just that kind of year for the ladies and their sparkliest companions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

Bubble gum sales have declined by more than 40 percent over the last decade, and the market for chewing gum in general rests at $3 billion – a decline of more than 8 percent in the same time frame. Amazon has a cashier-less grocery store, Amazon Go, in beta testing near its Seattle headquarters. No waiting in line.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2017

That’s likely why, after putting brick-and-mortar bookstores like Borders out of business, it’s now building its own version of the exact same thing, and why it’s running so many pilots and experiments in the grocery space, like the Amazon Go convenience store in Seattle. customers should expect from Amazon’s Whole Foods Market?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2018

After Green’s innovative merchandising concept, stores opened with various names — “bantams,” “dairy stores” and “vest-pocket grocery stores,” for example — but Green established a brand that has stood the test of time. Enter Amazon Go, a brick-and-mortar convenience store the eCommerce retailer opened last week in Seattle.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 3, 2017

Starting in 2017 former Microsoft executive Jeremy Korst will be the man driving the message at tax compliance innovator and FinDEVr alum , Avalara. The Seattle-based company announced this week that Korst will join Avalara as its new chief marketing officer and executive vice president.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Amazon Go, Amazon’s new grocery store format in Seattle, opened last week. But to say that Amazon Go is about innovating checkout is like saying the iPhone innovated the telephone call. Sure, Amazon Go innovates checkout, but if you’re a retailer, that isn’t why you’re curling up in the fetal position right now.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

But the right level of connection could enable brands and retailers to forge a unique personal connection with each customer and tailor the shopping experience to suit their preferences. 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

AUGUST 10, 2018

Nordstrom , the Seattle-based fashion retailer, has aggressively pursued changes in both its in-store presentation to customers and its drive to improve its omnichannel approach with changes to its digital operations. The company also launched a new co-branded Visa rewards card with Alliance Data.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2016

The latest and perhaps biggest domino in home improvement retail to fall to Amazon’s have-it-your-way style of concierge services is Lowe’s and its subsidiary furniture and lighting specialty brand, ATG Stores. But it’s been interesting because it’s actually galvanized everyone.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

The $14 million of funding Rinse recently secured will not be going into the company’s tech as much as into building out its team as it looks to launch in new markets. Houston, Dallas, Austin, Seattle, Miami, San Diego, Denver and New York are up next. We view ourselves serving the entire country.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2016

Today, in McLean, Virginia, guests of the local Hilton can have their questions answered 24/7, 365 days a year by what is likely the world’s first robot concierge, Connie (named for Conrad Hilton, the patriarch of the Hilton brand), which is powered by IBM’s Watson AI. recently enshrined as their state minimum wage rate.

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CB Insights

JUNE 4, 2019

Even luxury brands are contributing to this problem. In this report, we examine how fashion brands are leveraging technology to make clothing production and consumption more sustainable, from the use of plant-based textiles and bacteria-based dyes to leveraging a blockchain-based supply chain to increase transparency.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. This capability is as disruptive as it is innovative. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.”.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

TD has been a player that maintained its acquired market share so we are hoping this one doesn’t get messed up like other Canadian banks that have struggled in the Southwest. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. She was a trailblazer and an early innovator in analytics.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2016

Summer used to be a slower time of the year, but in this fast-paced world called payments and commerce innovation, there’s no rest for the weary, at least not for those who don’t want to be irrelevant a few years from now. I believe that’s unprecedented.”. Ahh the magic of “groupthink.” Happy Summer.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

New restaurant concepts are redefining how we think about food, pushing established brands to reinvent themselves, spurring entrepreneurs to be creative with visual platforms like Instagram and recipes like pea-based protein, and paving a new way forward for the idea of casual dining itself. Americans dine out more than ever before.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 18, 2019

But the event also displays true tech innovation and portends what’s to come in categories like AI, the Internet of Things, and beyond. There was even an Alexa-enabled laptop (pictured right) with a sticker mimicking the famous “Intel Inside” marketing. The State of Artificial Intelligence. The IoT matures.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 24, 2018

The Seattle-based giant also opened its cashier-less Amazon Go store to the public in January 2018, after reported delays. In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in Seattle as an online retailer of books; in 1998, Jack Ma founded Alibaba in Hangzhou, China as an online platform to connect merchants and buyers. Notably, Amazon paid $13.7B

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

The payments world got a pretty good look into the power of software to enable payments innovation this week. Just two days ago, we also saw how Google plans to use its software platforms to enable a variety of payments innovations across all of the channels consumers might like to use it, including the mobile browser. Imagine that.

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