PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Waste is becoming ever more of a vice, especially among younger consumers, and now regulators. By 2023, manufacturers and retailers will have to donate, reuse or recycle the goods” under a program that the French prime minister called the first of its kind from any national government. Amazon’s Role. Liquidation Trends.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Worldwide legal cannabis products represented a $55 billion market in 2018, and most analysts estimate that it will have nearly tripled to reach $147 billion by 2025. the domestic market for legal cannabis in 2018 was $9.1 From there, the regulation of CBD gets a little more complicated. Here in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Regulation might be in the future. But social media is also driving retail innovation, and those trends are going to help shape commerce in the all-important fourth quarter and beyond into the 2020s. One recent example of the intersection of social media and retail comes from Facebook-owned Instagram.

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Perficient

JANUARY 7, 2021

I recently interviewed Gary Johnson, a delivery director at Perficient who has worked with various automotive brands. From retail to consumer goods, online and mobile sales are up significantly. The government has regulations for greenhouse gas emissions, and companies have carbon-neutral goals.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Retailers in the physical world are at a real disadvantage when it comes to knowing the customers in their stores, and what they do once they get there. The list goes on, but suffice it to say, the jokes about digital retailers knowing more about customers than they know about themselves didn’t appear in the culture out of nowhere.

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NCR

APRIL 6, 2018

The new regulations came into effect on January 13th 2018. Is it possible that some banks could become ‘wholesalers’, looking after the core regulated banking functions, while others take on the role of ‘retailer’? New distinctions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

These laws were meant to make online sellers face sales tax requirements similar to those for retailers with on-the-ground locations, putting both types of businesses on equal footing. Retailers in high-tax states have largely not been able to build themselves up or expand online beyond their local markets to the same extent, Rogers said. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

One might assume the hardest part of building a product to disrupt the traditional sunscreen industry would be actually formulating a new brand of sunscreen. The eventual product that went to market — Supergoop — grew from Thaggard’s early names for the product samples she was always looking at: goop.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

From 7-Eleven to H&M , retailers are adopting digital payments and artificial intelligence (AI) technology to bring more convenient experiences to their customers. And retailers with brick-and-mortar locations in North America are starting to accept Chinese mobile payment systems.

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The direct-to-consumer (DTC) trend attracted another big name this week, as Corona beer’s parent company, Constellation Brands , acquired media agency owner Gary Vaynerchuk’s Empathy Wines. The acquisition comes as states have widely varying regulations regarding on-premise dining and drinking. But the pandemic is changing that.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

The case against them, and the decision it rendered, deviated sharply from the traditional Sherman Act cases that accused companies of using their market power to raise prices to the detriment of the consumer. In 1946, the year the verdict was reached, A&P was the country’s largest retailer and, obviously, its largest grocery chain.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 15, 2017

For example, it shows that the UK retail banking market place has become a dull playground thanks to mergers and acquisitions over the past half century: As a result, the six large banking groups held an 89% market share of the current account market. Anyways, there is some key metric data in the report.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2021

Wall Street is readying itself for yet another week of chaos on the markets involving the pumping-up of stocks like GameStop and AMC , Reuters writes, with it now likely to spread to other stocks. Despite that, market exposure to stocks is still at close to record highs, a study by Goldman Sachs warned.

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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

MARCH 28, 2017

percent annual consumption rate increase over the last six years, India’s liquor market size has become the third largest in the world. Out of India’s overall retail $35 billion market on a yearly basis, the fact that liquor sales has reached $22 billion is astounding. With a steady increase of 8.9

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

To form a direct-to-consumer (DTC) online commerce strategy, Kidd & Company, LLC and T-street Capital, LLC have joined forces by creating a holding company focused on buying companies called Brand Holdings, LLC. In that role, he spearheaded the shift to a DTC online brand from a catalog company.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

They looked at the marketplace and saw an opening for a new kind of spiked seltzer, this one with tequila instead of the malt liquor used in most seltzer brands. The product and marketing plan were locked early in the year. The original business model for Onda was to launch at retail. Technically, “onda” means wave.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

With the exception of color additives, ingredients used in cosmetic products are outside the jurisdiction of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation, which means there is no official list of “safe” or “unsafe” ingredients officially in circulation. The data, notably, is still out, according to Wanner and Nathan.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The American Dream megamall in New Jersey is preparing to open a round of retail stores after nearly two decades in waiting. Some of the brands set to open include Aritzia, Zara, Sephora, H&M, Uniqlo, Primark, Ulta Beauty and Old Navy. And many retailers that might have planned to come to the mall have gone bankrupt.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

. “Donald’s background and extensive work with leading brands across cultures and countries will build on a strong foundation and strengthen our ongoing activities.”. The news comes after Mastercard announced in December that the new executive vice president of market development for its new payment platforms team would be Liz Oakes.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It looks like the deal to merge Sainsbury’s with Walmart-owned Asda could be in fatal trouble — after a ruling by the Competition and Markets Authority on a deal that would have created the U.K.’s The CMA has provisionally found extensive competition concerns as part of its in-depth investigation,” the regulator said in a statement.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. The conference was well attended, with broad representation from all institution sizes and markets. Presentations focused on targeted marketing for “moneyhawks” , new P2P models (e.g. One spoke of the need to market correctly.

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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. Read more in the Report.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In the rare instance that a new market emerges, using the blueprints that other industries have created in supply chain management, logistics, procurement and other areas may seem like the easy path to take. Take, for example, markets like the food and beverage, pharmaceutical and medical supplies space.

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CB Insights

APRIL 11, 2019

A host of new players — from big-box retailers to drugstores — are looking to wellness to boost their bottom line. Here are 3 major opportunities that brands and retailers need to be thinking about in order to capitalize on the booming wellness economy. Wellness goes mass market. Everyone is trying to tap into the $4.2T

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We’ve listened to our community and their requests for different payment options – more and more retailers are offering this as an option. Beautycounter has retail stores in New York City and Denver, eCommerce capabilities and approximately 45,000 sales consultants across North America. “As

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Sports brands are thus looking to a host of new technologies, like contactless payments, and even virtual reality technology, to accommodate a new generation of mobile users. Revenue for the online sports betting market is predicted to reach $150 billion, making it likely that even more states will follow suit with regulations of their own.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

Consumers love the delayed payment options and so do retailers, but the BNPL players themselves are loving their business model, too. The IOU apps are reporting that average order value is typically higher, and checkout conversions surge 30 percent for retailers using BNPL. It’s a bona fide phenomenon.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

The retailers it chooses to work with (currently numbered at around 100) are vetted by the company before being added to the roster. In addition to parent company Target, that current roster includes H-E-B, Meijer, Petco, CVS, Costco and, most recently, natural foods market Fresh Thyme. From the company’s end, it’s curated.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

From credit card companies to retailers and consumers, there are many key stakeholders in the commerce process, both on and offline. Without proper payment processes in place, it’s likely that the entire retail ecosystem would either grind to a halt or favor one side over another. Is true streamlining possible?

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Perficient

JULY 15, 2020

Various Enterprise clients across different verticals like Healthcare, High tech, Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, and Supply Chain etc. Functional – their journey entails shoring up data to the C Suite who can make better decisions towards product adoption, improved sales, forecasting, outreach, better marketing campaign.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The application suite for smaller FIs includes a catalog of regulator-accepted AML scenarios, tools for custom scenario design and analysis, a 360-degree view of customers and events, regulatory reporting templates and more. Last June, Oracle advanced its Retail Brand Compliance Management Cloud Service with the latest innovations.

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Cisco

MAY 29, 2019

In retail banking, it’s clear customer experience matters, and the stakes have never been higher. But, when it really comes down to it, how can banks, saddled with regulations and security challenges, compete with the experiences offered by customer-obsessed tech powerhouses and agile fintechs? And those abandonment rates?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The costs of using some cards is going on the incline, as news is breaking that the nation’s two largest card networks, Visa and Mastercard, are preparing to up the fees charged to merchants to accept network-branded cards. The change will go into effect in early April, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The company explained that its platform is optimized for geo-specific transactions, providing a tool for cannabis supply chain vendors that conforms to regulations in each state. Think of CanIDeal as the Amazon of the cannabis industry, but with much larger B2B, not B2C, transactions.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Walmart has announced it is acquiring Cornershop , a leading online marketplace for on-demand delivery from supermarkets, pharmacies and specialty food retailers in Mexico and Chile. “We This is an opportunity to leverage both of our brands, as well as Walmart’s strong supply chain and store network.

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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. cyber, infrastructure, and regulation. Small Idea – Policy and Regulations are Lagging But Are Going in Banking’s Favor. This regulation looks more onerous for everyone but seems to be in most banks’ domain and skill sets.

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