PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2019

Kiosks are increasingly becoming part of the retail landscape. As reported in the latest Unattended Retail Tracker , done in partnership between PYMNTS and WorldNet Payments, unattended retail is gaining traction worldwide, on the heels of growth in consumer demand and as employers look to increase their operating profits.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2016

While the eCommerce giant has managed to narrow this window to one or two days, an unlikely brand is saying that it should take no longer than an hour. ” While Luedorf and American Apparel might be hitting the express delivery point hard, it only applies to a subset of 50 products the retailer is dubbing as “basics.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

In retail, and especially for personal beauty brands trying to navigate brick-and-mortar and online subscription spaces, this is doubly true. Calvin McDonald, CEO of Sephora Americas, talked the Innovation Lab up as Sephora’s crucible of retail disruption. “These female founders from the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

But the brand could only guarantee that it would fill orders through the site until June. “We The San Francisco-based startup lets brides and bridesmaids shop together online, mimicking the traditional offline bridal-party-shopping outing. Crew decided to close its wedding-dress business, Gap Inc.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2018

And IKEA is making other moves in international markets: To reach more consumers and foster more eco-friendly operations, for example, the brand is testing out renting its furniture offerings in Japan, Curbed reported in January. “India is an opportunity to make the next 75 years of IKEA.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials. Razer, which was founded in 2005, has 18 offices around the globe and headquarters in both Singapore and San Francisco. It is a leading brand for gamers in Europe, China and the United States.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

” Retailers have come to recognize the incredible marketing opportunity presented by the multi-weekend music festival in Southern California. Todd Smith, president and CMO at Sonic, told MarketWatch that this campaign comes from the company’s long experience with the millennial demographic. Is it though?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This doesn’t mean that North American customers aren’t pining for mobile ordering options — especially the millennial market. Given the high demand, convenience and additional customer engagement mobile ordering provides, offering the option tends to build brand loyalty. About 80 percent of restaurant owners in the U.S. While the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

One PYMNTS reader living in San Francisco noted that between the various meal delivery startup services in her area, she and her spouse could literally sign up for free trials for a year and never once pay to make their own meals. Searches on Yelp and Instagram both show younger people are talking a lot about it.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. This year in the US, JP Morgan launched mobile banking app Finn and Goldman Sachs’ retail banking arm Marcus crossed 1.5M Incumbents Play Catch-Up.

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

Like millions of others, I enjoy having a cup of coffee at various retail coffee establishments. Coffee chains continuously evolve their branding, in-store design and the way they deliver their offerings to not just keep “the coffee experience” fresh, but also to appeal to the next generation of consumers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

Take the clothing and accessories brand TOMS , for instance. On the back of this social commerce model, the company now sees about $500 million in annual sales and has become one of the most recognizable names, particularly to millennial consumers in the footwear industry.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

CPG corporates like PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, and Campbell, for example, have invested in and acquired a number of brands focused on healthy snacking , while personal care incumbents like P&G and Unilever have backed natural and organic beauty brands. Meet Maya, our hypothetical wellness-focused millennial consumer.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

It’s not as if a person making the request for a tissue, pain reliever or bandage was specifically asking for a Kleenex, Bayer Aspirin or Band-Aid brand item. But, over many decades, these three brand names achieved such dominance in their categories that they became the most natural way for people to refer to all products in that category.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” Automatic food: Cafe X (San Francisco). The weeknight bar: School Night (San Francisco).

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Popular media coverage of millennials often fixates on the industries the generation is allegedly killing and their supposed fiscal irresponsibility. Some industries benefiting from millennials’ increased spending power, such as travel, reflect well-worn Gen Y tropes like the general preference for “experiences” over things.

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CB Insights

JULY 20, 2017

San Francisco-based Yes To , which sells skin and hair products based on fruits and vegetables, raised a $56M Series B in June from Viking Global Investors. Colorescience , a chemical-free skin care brand, ranked third with a $15M investment. Within branded cosmetics, startups focused on skincare have attracted the most deals.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Meanwhile, nearly 5 million retail workers are at a medium risk of automation within 10 years. With the emergence of industry-specific AI, the effects of automation — initially felt in manufacturing — are seeping into retail sales, restaurants, e-commerce, marketing, and even software development. Retail salesperson (4.6M).

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

The event will take place October 6 & 7 at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco ( check out our event brochure ). This means retailers need to be prepared to accept EMV transactions. For a personal touch, all presenters will be available at tables outside the auditorium to answer your detailed questions.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Silver Fusion Retail Outlet: Where Snowbirds Shop”. Integrated with major retailer API’s like Amazon, eBay, Best Buy and several other aspirational brands. Most PFM solutions come from a bank-oriented side; this seems to be taking the model from both the retailer and the banking side. What do people aspire to purchase?”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. That just makes the point much stronger. Consider this.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While this deal was announced late last year, the heavy lifting was done in 2016 as BBCN Bancorp and Wilshire Bancorp came together under a new brand to create the largest Korean American bank. Handy Handout – Tinker Federal Credit Union branded jumper cables given to board members at its strategic planning retreat. The take-away?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

While this deal was announced late last year, the heavy lifting was done in 2016 as BBCN Bancorp and Wilshire Bancorp came together under a new brand to create the largest Korean American bank. Handy Handout – Tinker Federal Credit Union branded jumper cables given to board members at its strategic planning retreat. The take-away?

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Alfa-Bank offers a wide range of products and operates in all sectors of the financial market, including corporate and retail lending. It is currently deployed at 20+ retail banks with over 500m transactions a year. Hedgeable is the first private banking platform for millennials.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2016

Politics and retail usually mix like oil and water. Hipmunk admitted that because its user base skews young and millennial, these numbers might draw something of a more dramatic picture than actually exists, but an average annual decline of nearly two out of every three bookings is a clear enough signal that something is going on.

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