Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

Small Business Administration What creates two out of three net new American jobs; produces close to half of our nation’s goods and services (nonfarm private GDP); and can be found, coast to coast, in every small town, big city and rural enclave? Counseling: SBA provides free consultation and advice to help Main Street succeed.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2017

As a nation of awake-earliers, up-very-laters, last-minute-crammers and entrepreneurs who simply never sleep at all, in this country, we like our coffee. Now, granted, all of those brands sell items other than coffee, but a lot of those billions of dollars were made one cuppa joe — with some fancy add-ons, of course — at a time.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

The Commerce Department released July’s retail sales last week, showing an increase in seasonally adjusted retail spending – up 1.2 Analysts reported that physical retail sales, seasonally adjusted, were up 2.7 And what we also see is only one part of the retail sales story. percent growth in June.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

Digitally native retailers are opening stores to bring their virtual experiences into the real world, and Zola is one of the latest merchants to test out the brick-and-mortar waters. The wedding retailer opened a store in New York City’s Flatiron District that is billed as a “one-stop-shop for wedding planning.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

It’s what’s turned the retail word upside down as consumers with their mobile devices have decided they’d rather buy from their couch with their mobile phone than schlep to the mall. In other words, kick the door wide open to remote retail. Meeting the consumer where they are. That’s the mantra of innovators everywhere.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

“As a result, our eCommerce business is now approximately $1 billion in annualized retail sales, and we are well-positioned to capitalize on what is sure to be a dynamic future in this space,” Nooyi told investors. And the numbers in this regard don’t lie: Physical retail is growing at a rate of about 3.6

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

As far as made-up, non-holiday holidays go, you could probably do worse than National Burrito Day , which takes place on Thursday (April 4). For the fourth quarter of 2018 , Chipotle increased its foot traffic and benefited from higher product prices, and posted year-over-year same-store sales growth of 6.1 percent to nearly $1.23

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Customers visiting OXXO’s 14,000 locations can receive their funds by completing their payout information independently via one of three options — calling a national hotline in advance or using dedicated in-store phones and digital devices. The self-service feature allows faster and efficient funds collection at checkout.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

At the start of the 2010s, retail merchandising was, at base, a lot of guesswork. If things went well, and brands guessed right about consumer tastes, that was all well and good. Retail merchandising was, at best, a hit-or-miss system in its heyday, Nextail CEO and Co-founder Joaquin Villalba told PYMNTS in a recent conversation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

He said “the older generation that couldn't [use technology] or is not willing to shop in stores is also adopting digital” — one of the main reasons the adoption of eCommerce has accelerated so much this year. centric events, that’s no longer the case because global sellers and fierce competition have blurred national boundaries.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

But for all the glories of summer — long days, vacations and a built-in excuse to substitute ice cream for any actual meal — summer does have one asterisk for retailers in the U.S. So what fun in the sun can the nation’s retailers expect this year? However, across the U.S. Strange, but not necessarily bad.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2020

Yes, this summer it seems that every brand is fashion is looking to jump on the face masks bandwagon, with brands like Gap, Everland, Disney, Brooks Brothers, Rent the Runway, Madewell and some 49 others (according to USA Today’s count ) already offering their own in-house-created facial coverings. But in the last few weeks, the U.S.

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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. Some believe the rest of the nation should be following that example.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

All that’s left now, more or less, is the rush of returns that will all but overwhelm some retailers. However, after almost 50 years, it began to fade in the 1980s, disrupted by the emergence of store-branded credit cards. Big Brands. So, what kinds of products will people be getting this year? Top Sellers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

Diageo isn’t the only alcohol brand facing tough times in the pandemic. alcohol sales shot up 55 percent in late March, just as stay-at home orders were going into effect across the nation. He said small labels would also suffer as retailers picked larger brands to stock their shelves because those are easier to get.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2017

The holiday confetti has settled, quite a few gifts have gone back — on National Returns Day and this week — but reports show customers did indeed use their power , high confidence to shop and willingness to take risks and rack up some debt this holiday season.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

To help hockey players stay up to date on the latest sports equipment, eCommerce innovator the PenaltyBox offers subscription boxes comprised of a myriad of hockey essentials, from well-known brands to up-and-coming companies the PenaltyBox team tests themselves. For the future, the PenaltyBox is dabbling in the retail market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 27, 2017

When the going gets tough — say, because Amazon is about to take on the pharmacy industry with its vertical-slaying eCommerce retail machine — the tough get going. If approved, the acquisition would merge the largest pharmacy benefits manager and operator in the nation with one of the country’s longest-living health insurance firms.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

It was a long, windy and oftentimes bumpy road of bankruptcy that beleaguered teen retailer Aéropostale had to trod. But a consortium of retail property landlords, including Simon Property Group Inc., But a consortium of retail property landlords, including Simon Property Group Inc., General Growth Properties Inc.,

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Food trucks have been around since the 1970s, when taco trucks began making the rounds in New York City, but didn’t become a national sensation until 2008 when two events coincided in such a way as to make a long extant — but largely niche — subsegment of the restaurant game into a mass market phenomenon. economy was blowing up in a bad way.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2019

Global payment marketplace APEXX has brought its solution to Russia to enable payment processing with the national Mir system, according to reports. ” APEXX CEO Peter Keenan said, according to reports, “There is a huge appetite for international brands in Russia and eCommerce growth is higher there than across the rest of Europe.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

Creating secure, convenient experiences for sellers and buyers alike is critical to eCommerce marketplaces looking to serve the retail sectors’ new needs and to help platforms appeal to more users. Beauty retailer Sephora , meanwhile, is renewing emphasis on China by deploying a localized eCommerce presence.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

A large chunk of Google’s ad revenue comes from the sectors that were hardest-hit by the pandemic — travel, hospitality and retail — and some analysts seem concerned about the longer-term hit to that piece of Google’s business as those sectors struggle to rebound. billion daily searches that happen on Google’s platform.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

And even though loyalty tends to focus on those consumers who are already, well, loyal — to a brand or chain or specific QSR operator — businesses in this sector can’t ignore such programs because, as Robbins told Webster, there is always a competitor looking to steal away customers. The main driver of all that?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2018

National Selfie Day has passed into the history books once again. The founding hero of National Selfie Day — not that he receives his full recognition among the selfie masses — is a U.S. Retailers are also relying more on selfies — or at least experimenting with the form. Brands are turning narcissism into cold hard cash.

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Almost every bank and brand we spoke with will increase their investment in these two areas for 2023. During the two weeks, there were over a hundred significant cyberattacks by nation-states on national and regional banks that you could watch unfold in near real-time (bel0w) at Gartner and Money 20/20. Big Idea – Trends.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Russia lacks any clever sayings, but there is a widespread national belief that leap years are associated with bad weather in general – and an increased likelihood of being struck by lightning in particular. Other brands are building their pricing around leap day and the number 29. carryout order from Olive Garden.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2019

And, when asked what benefits that brands receive from having their products featured on the platform, Vallejo notes that getting people to try their products is “probably the best marketing channel out there.”. They are the type of people that a tennis brand — or not a tennis brand, in some cases, as with snacks — might want to reach.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Currently, the American department store chain’s main Chinese digital representation is a storefront on Tmall Global, a web shopping site for imported products operated by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Macy’s announced the planned move last week at an event in Shanghai. Macy’s launched on Tmall last November.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In the latest Digital Fraud Tracker , PYMNTS examines how fraudsters are capitalizing on stolen data, as well as how banks and retailers are responding to a world where many of the credentials they use for online verification have been compromised. Meanwhile, many of the affected brands are taking steps to win back consumers’ trust.

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William Mills

MARCH 30, 2017

This year’s Retail Banking conference took place at the Trump National Doral in Miami March 22-24. The first day was dedicated to credit unions with sessions about Best Practices for Credit Unions, Omni-Channel Banking – Is the Branch Dead or Is it the Future and How to Best use Branding.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

The discussion took place as Diaz looked back at the 15 months that have passed since Banxico launched Cobro Digital (CoDi), the national digital payments platform that uses QR codes and NFC to enable users to transact with mobile devices.

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MARCH 26, 2019

Bensen also trains its proprietary natural language processing technology based on the menu data restaurants give them, and works with those restaurants to develop a tone of experience, ensuring the system’s responses are coherent with the client’s brand image. The Voice AI Market.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Just a short time ago, the brand said it would never sign on with the aggregator platforms — because it didn’t have to. Independent restaurants, unlike their national chain counterparts, are paying that 30 percent commission — which, over the long term, isn’t sustainable to turn a profit.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

The deal, announced earlier this week, is not just a partnership between two companies with heft in the digital economy — Alibaba is among the main symbols of Chinese eCommerce, and Starbucks is a leader in mobile ordering and payments — but also represents the latest development for online food and beverage delivery. Starbucks and Alibaba.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

3), the numbers put up by the players on the field will pale in comparison to the dollars that advertisers, sports enthusiasts, snack food aficionados and brands will put up, just so they can be part of America’s largest television viewing event. The two brands first started working together in 2015. The Super Bowl’s Cashless Future.

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