PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

This week we saw scientists march, the French go to the polls and a $400 high-tech juicer turned out to be an innovation on par with something that everyone already has: their hands. The long-suffering team at American Express has a new headache to handle — losing the love of those millennial customers. Ready to jump in? these days.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In the long list of startup finalists competing at South by Southwest 2017 hides a brand new personal finance management app. Hip Money – a new app by Hip Pocket – adapts the millennial habit of “swiping” to help them save and pay down debt through a mobile app. Nebraska-based software Read More.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Next is a digital bank, completely disassociated from the Bradesco brand. They use the Bradesco infrastructure, but they operate in parallel. Revamping the company’s internal structure is one of the first steps Bradesco took to achieve the goal of creating experiences that meet expectations of millennials. Protection (Security).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Competition for customers — especially millennials — from larger banks and FIs has long required credit unions to keep pace with their more innovative counterparts. This often means providing digital solutions and convenient banking options despite smaller technology and innovation budgets, however.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

In 2015, the tech media was gaga over Snap and its ability to corral the so-called most valuable eyeballs in media: the millennial. Media companies, in the meantime, shoveled tens of millions into Snap in the hopes of selling to a generation whose brand loyalty is about as fleeting as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s affection for each of her nine husbands.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

million times and led to a 60 percent increase in the brand’s followers on Snapchat. “We wanted to be really engaging and enable them to participate in our brand. The final video was seen 6.7 It’s a great storytelling platform,” Galipeau told Fortune.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Wainwright noted that the first step in automating its inbound operations involved pricing. Wainwright noted that the company expects to see steady increases in the share of items that have automated copy and retouching, which will support improvements in inbound operations unit cost and increase the scalability of its operations.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

To provide a one-stop-shop for nursery design and inspiration, buybuy BABY rolled out Design Squad in conjunction with sister brand and digital interior design firm Decorist. We know that today’s millennial parents want their children’s rooms to reflect their unique style more than ever.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2020

All of that helps prepare the ground for innovation. “In Sure, other DTC operators turn to such tactics as pop-up shops or wholesale relationships with brick-and-mortar operators, but as Dossa explained, his company’s customized products and core value are not well-suited to physical retail. “We P ersonalization and Instagram.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Some operations like Chipotle are even rolling out store designs that feature pick-up windows to let order-ahead diners collect their items without having to enter the restaurant. based QSRs draw millennials consumers, with half of this age group reporting that they place more deliveries now than they did two years ago.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The voice commerce category continues to find ways to be innovative. The interface needs no trigger word and operates without personally identifying the user’s voice or face. The solution is adaptable to all web-based apps used at kiosks and plans in the future to accommodate iOS and Android operating systems. “We No trail maps.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In the 1930s, in the era of the Great Depression, when consumers had little extra cash, retailers nationwide came up with an innovation to make it easier for people to shop without having to pony up cash right away. but after almost 50 years, it began to fade out in the 80s, disrupted by the emergence of store-branded credit cards.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

21), the latest commerce operator to be on the verge of extinction in this age of digital and mobile. though they also operate under such brands as Motherhood Maternity and Pea in the Pod stores. Customers on Walmart.com can access styles from brands like C&C California, Butter Super Soft, Puma and BCBG.

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers? Customer growth.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

20) found that small businesses are overlooking technologies that their customers want or that may improve their operations, including chatbots and artificial intelligence (AI). The Internet of Things is another area of technological innovation in which small firms are skeptical of its value. While nearly two-thirds of U.S. ”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2017

In a press release , the companies said the combined business will operate under the GSTV brand and deliver 3.3 The companies pointed to third-party research that has shown that campaigns on the GSTV platform deliver ROI for global brands.

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NCR

JULY 12, 2016

Millennial customers are quickly becoming key to the growth strategy of financial institutions, particularly in hyper-competitive markets where customer churn remains high. While millennials tend to judge a bank on the basis of its digital capabilities, they still also expect a human connection to advise them.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Amid this market, chains such as Thorntons and 7-Eleven are innovating to meet the needs of modern-day consumers, as companies including GasBuddy and P97, among others, are seeking to make gas station trips more convenient through improved loyalty and reward programs and connected car payments, among other offerings. Almost half – or 49.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

But, as the just-released PYMNTS “ Commerce Connected Playbook: Retail Innovation Edition ” indicates, the interesting thing to watch is not that digitization is happening, but how it is happening. What Every Brand Needs For An Omnichannel Experience.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2019

small hotel rooms are the rule, not the exception, and even here in the states the idea has been floating around since 1989 when the Microtel brand began first offering its half-sized, half-priced hotel rooms in Rochester, New York. In that sense it might be hard to pick them out as innovative as first glance.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Payments is in a state of constant change, with decision points shifting as fast as each innovation, disruption and tweak in consumer behavior. Another factor in all of this is the rise of FinTechs, often backed by favorable regulatory headwinds designed to promote more innovation in payments, including the sharing of data with legacy FIs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

“It is the juxtaposition of social networking and entertainment and sports all combined,” said Glen Calvert , chief operating officer of Fnatic , a London-based eSports outfit that hires professional gamers, runs tournaments and sells branded gaming apparel and gear. It's not just a video game. CMO’s Jaw Hits The Floor.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2016

One would expect that a event called the Retail Innovation Conference (RIC) would be a veritable brainstorm of big ideas as to how to improve the woeful retail space in the U.S.: But, in reality, retail is a logistics game, an operations game, a supply chain game, but it’s not a shopper game, really.”. Retail operations are important.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

One of the biggest questions that promises to play out in the larger world of restaurants — whether quick-service operations or others — is who will ultimately own their customers, and whether those businesses can get them back once they are lost to third-party delivery services and aggregators. But nothing ever really lasts.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Restaurants need to meet guests where they are – and remain on-brand throughout the experience. Notably, medium-sized chains lead the pack in more innovative – if less common – order pickup methods, such as delivery and curbside pickup,” notes the Restaurant Readiness Index. percent of large operations.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

Moving deeper into the quarter, inventory became a mounting problem due to a combination of factors, including a miss on key women’s sportswear private brands, a slow sell-through of warm-weather apparel and accelerated decline in the international tourism business. He noted that the second quarter got off to a slow start.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

The youngest of the bridge millennials – those 30- to 40-year-olds who today represent the first generation of connected consumers with spending power – will be having their mid-life crises at the age of 50. Amazon, of course, owns Whole Foods and operates its own branded book stores and convenience stores. The year is 2039.

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Insights on Business

APRIL 28, 2017

At the same time, regulators in many countries also have relaxed regulations to encourage innovation in the banking industry. Some of the most important elements mentioned by analysts and professionals can be divided into four models: Digital bank brands: Many established, full-service banks find it difficult to appeal to millennials.

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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. The two-sided marketplace operates in 200 locations across the U.S. Match.com is one of the only brands of its era that still exists.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

Blue Apron has long enjoyed the distinction of being among the early innovators in the meal kit category. With millennials working multiple gigs, very few have enough time left to make a proper meal — if they aren’t eating out at a local restaurant. Truly Innovating. Walmart Clears the Field. Casualty of Competition.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The latest Payments and the Platform Economy study examines how marketplaces are responding to the counterfeit threat as well as how they are continuing to innovate the customer experience. According to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. In the U.S. trillion and $1.5

Online 101

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Tick down the list of offerings spanning decades (the Mac, the iPhone, the iPod, iTunes, the iOS operating system/ecosystem), and one can find that the ways we communicate, listen, stream and, indeed, interact with technology have all shifted.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2019

Miller clarified that she has no problem with predicting the future for commercial purposes – she herself has been known to write horoscope-influenced gift guides for brands like Tory Burch – but she takes the work seriously and actually tries to focus her expertise into those commercial works, something she does not feel Amazon has done.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2019

These are particularly popular among Gen Zers, the up-and-coming generation that is starting to nudge millennials out of the headlines. As a brand, they understand that this isn’t casual for many gamers – this is a big deal, and they’re stepping up in a big way to give students even more reasons to compete.”.

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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. The company has recently seen positive momentum and improved operating performance, and delivery is projected to accelerate future growth. But McDonald ’s Corp.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2018

When Toys R Us first announced its bankruptcy a little under six months ago, it was with an almost upbeat tone: The move would allow the firm to refashion both its capital and operating structures and hit a reset on the business. Boomers vs. Millennials vs. Scammers . It even managed to garner a $3.1 Winner: The Retail Death Spiral.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

The facility, which has been in operation since March, serves more than 100 Walmart locations in Guangxi and Guangdong. In addition to its data and distribution efforts, Walmart is also innovating with the help of blockchain. JD has over 2,400 locations that offer brands such as Nike, Puma and Adidas. and other markets.

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