PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The company confirmed that the new locations will bring the brand’s total retail store count to 30 locations throughout the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

We emerge from Chapter 11 as a stronger, more innovative retailer, brand partner and employer.”. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. They see an opportunity to grow and support the retailer in issues of sustainability, van Raemdonck said. The plan was approved by the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

New digital innovations, however, provide the promise of offering valuable customer data to merchants. These are just some of the ways that merchants are using digital innovations to better serve their customers with the help of kiosk and unattended retail technology: . Nuro Co-founder Dave Ferguson said in an announcement.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Those experts are Paul Diegelman, executive vice president at Fiserv , and Nabil Kabbani, CEO at CieloPay , a Texas-based firm serving as a SaaS mobile payment and loyalty platform used by brands to facilitate digital disbursement payments and influence customer behavior and retention. And for many, speed is an essential factor.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

MOOYAH , a Texas-based hamburger chain with more than 100 locations in North America and the Middle East, took a severe financial hit from the pandemic. The chain saw its sales decline by 40 percent in March and April, said Natalie Anderson Liu , MOOYAH’s vice president of brand.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Sainsbury’s , in one case, unveiled a new c-store format in London called On The Go to deliver “big innovation in small spaces for local shoppers” and used data to create the Mansion House store to meet the needs of busy city workers. billion by 2024 from £18.5 billion last year per IGD. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Williams started The Sock Spot website and started to reach out to brands. Now, he has more than a dozen brands with access to many different types of socks. The Sock Spot is part of a larger trend of digital innovators tapping into automated retail. The push toward self-service is huge as well,” Williams said.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

7-Eleven , in one case, is experimenting with a cashierless store concept at its corporate headquarters in Texas. Our team is dedicated to continuing 7-Eleven’s legacy of innovation with industry-leading digital solutions. The company works with around 100 brands in total. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

Eight additional states, Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Vermont and the District of Columbia, are slated to be added in June. brand, is accepting online EBT payment at select locations. ShopRite, a Wakefern Food Corp.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Though big-box retailer Target has been known for expansion and digital innovation of late, Tuesday (Nov. states, including Florida, Illinois, Michigan and Texas. The introduction of several exclusive Target brands, such as children’s clothing line Cat & Jack, are also boosting growth. percent of sales, up 2.8

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

“We’re on a mission to transform real estate by creating a seamless experience through Zillow Offers — no more open houses or worrying about when your home will sell,” Zillow Brand President Jeremy Wacksman said in the release. Upcoming locations include Austin, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, and more.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Convenience stores (C-stores), overall, are in an innovation rut. It’s almost as if pay at the pump has become a pit stop for innovating and using IT to their advantage. It’s almost as if pay at the pump has become a pit stop for innovating and using IT to their advantage. When It Comes To C-Store Innovation, Size Matters.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2019

And this week was a meaty one for news: Mastercard and Visa made acquisitions, the Facebook payment proposition was dissected, new findings about payments and retail innovation emerged, and the pet retail segment gained a major new source of fuel. Faster, faster, faster – that’s the motto driving so much of payments innovation today.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

The incredible story of innovation now going on in self-service and UR is thoroughly documented in the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS. We also read about experiments by convenience store titan 7-Eleven, which has rolled out a string of cashierless locations near its Texas home base. Amazon Go’ Cashless.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

“Home Chef is proud to continue our evolution toward becoming more than a meal kit delivery brand,” said Pat Vihtelic , Home Chef’s founder and CEO. “With continued innovation and personalization, we are providing customers with more ways to enjoy fresh, delicious meals that align with their individual tastes.”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

Paytm was a brand-new prepaid mobile card in India. Mobile devices, fast cellular networks, the cloud, data and new tech – along with investors with capital and incumbents with an appetite for innovation – gave innovators the tools, ideas and capital to disrupt the then-analog sacred cows. Chip cards didn’t exist in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2020

Financing is also part of the new wave of innovation in this area. The company has teamed up with Regions Bank to provide the possibility of virtual loans to consumers in Texas, the South and the Midwest. Customers can also make arrangements for pickup or delivery right away — even the next day.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Jeff Binder, CEO of Layer3, was quoted by The Washington Post as saying, “We’re the first cable company in … 10 years to come that’s brand new. Consumers haven’t had a young innovative company to provide [pay TV] services to them since the mid-1990s, when Dish and DirectTV came on the scene.”. and has since rolled out to Chicago.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2018

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. said there’s a difference in how each brand is trying to reach its audience. Moreover, Joseph DePinto, CEO of 7-Eleven, Inc. The Cash Customer.

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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

JUNE 8, 2017

The 30-year-old QSR brand has plans for aggressive growth in 2017 , and Tripodes will spearhead the effort. Saladworks also plans to plant corporate stores in key markets in Atlanta, Georgia and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas over the next six to 12 months. The company currently has about 70 franchisees.

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Most banks will target around 6% of revenues next year for their marketing budget, and banks with strong brands and marketing programs target above 7%. All involved in any marketing effort should understand if it is about branding, sales funnel acquisition, funnel movement, conversion, or retention.

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William Mills

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Customer experience, automation, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), ease of use, flexibility – all of these were part of the discussions at this year’s SourceMedia’s Small Business Banking Conference in Austin, Texas. They want tools that help them grow their business and remove the tedious activities that prevent that.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

In Longview, Texas this week, more than 100 people lined up for the opening of Ross Dress for Less. “A According to data from market research firm IRI, consumers are buying more private label brands, making more trips to dollar stores and fewer trips to convenience stores. He noted that there is a “pent-up demand” from shoppers.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

The latest pop-up developments concern the Hollister apparel brand , which is owned by Abercrombie & Fitch. He added that Amazon is always innovating and that at his company, “We’re big fans of the brand.”. All are expected to be open for about 12 months, according to the company. Pop-Up Costs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

airline would suddenly announce that it is launching a brand new wine delivery service, given the many other pandemic-related challenges that it is currently facing. At first blush, you might wonder why the largest U.S. But in American Airlines’ own words, the answer is rather simple: “Wine Not?”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

McDonald’s recently made a deal with DoorDash this month to deliver food from locations in Texas. That said, mobile order-ahead apps — as can be the case generally when comes to many types of retail innovations — have lower adoption among smaller QSRs. Previously, the company had an exclusive delivery arrangement with Uber.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Malibu Poke , a higher-end QSR establishment with Texas locations in Austin and Dallas has also rolled out these capabilities at its self-serve kiosks. Facial recognition technology has helped distinguish Malibu Poke from other brands, but the restaurant does not consider it a replacement for human work. Get the loyalty card.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2016

Samsung announced Thursday (March 3) that it had finalized a deal with amusement park brand Six Flags to outfit several of its roller coasters with Gear VR headsets for a next-generation theme park experience. But Samsung and Six Flags have a project they think will be too unique to pass up — even for those roller coaster-phobes out there.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

We look forward to providing our customers with another way to shop one of their favorite home brands.”. NorthPark Center (Dallas, Texas); Park Meadows (Lone Tree, Colo.); The products from Anthropologie, which is a division of Urban Outfitters , will offer classic pieces, seasonal designs and exclusive artist collaborations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

Small but mighty, German discount grocer Lidl — a brand known for not only its low prices, but also its innovative store layouts and private labels, including clothing — has already gobbled up 3 percent of local market share since the chain came to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in June 2017. jobs in the next year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Buying a cheap secondhand car may seem like a smart compromise between having no wheels and buying a fancy, brand-new vehicle. The company just tripled the size of its Flower Mound, Texas, headquarters and added new employees to its development and executive teams. Eldon doesn’t think innovation is slowing down, either.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

Without a doubt, 2017 has been a difficult year for department store brands. Neiman Marcus has struggled in recent years as shopping habits and preferences among consumers has shifted – and the Texas-based luxury retailer has found it difficult to navigate the shift. Macy’s, Sears, and J.C. So Are The Talks Real .

Fort Worth 100

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

Look no further than TGI Fridays’ experimental store redesign for a new location in Corpus Christi, Texas, that opened on Monday (March 7). So, is it more surprising that TGI Fridays may have missed out on this important detail or that a brand as seemingly old-fashioned as Cracker Barrel didn’t?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

The Neighborhood Goods store slated to open this fall in Plano, Texas, for example, will have a bar and restaurant in the center of its space. In general, he said, many brands find the Dallas-Fort Worth area to be among their top cities, and markets such as Plano are less costly to open in than those larger cities.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The world is increasingly full of tech hubs pouring out new ideas, Khoja noted: Bangalore, Silicon Valley, Berlin, London, Dublin, Buenos Aires and Austin, Texas to name but a few. The Frictionless Flow .

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