PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

After some years of fighting any and all attempts on taxation, digital merchants seem to have made their peace with paying taxes and are starting to fall into line around the Online Sales Simplification Act of 2016. The letter of support requests Congress to “bring certainty and rationality” to the online tax situation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Two famous North American-based quick-service restaurant (QSR) brands are preparing to duke it out in China for chicken-meal supremacy, the most recent sign of how Western brands are trying to increase their footholds in that massive country. The news comes as more Western brands – including those based in the U.S. –

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Waste is becoming ever more of a vice, especially among younger consumers, and now regulators. And that seems likely to create new opportunities for certain types of online merchants. Amazon apparently played a part, indirectly at least, in turning public opinion against such retail waste. Amazon’s Role. Liquidation Trends.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Washington Privacy Act (WPA) and other new privacy and online transaction standards are changing how businesses interact with consumers’ data in the U.S. retailer trade group, Retail Industry Leaders Association ( RILA ), told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In a world where, as the Census says, 90 percent of retail sales still happen in the physical store, cards rule. As longtime readers of my columns know well, the 90 percent of retail sales promulgated by the Census is just an average across all categories of retail spend. percent of all retail sales, including auto, in 2039.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2017

On Friday (March 17), Google announced plans to increase the amount of control companies have over their online ads, specifically though that appear on YouTube. clients will no longer be advertising with Google, which includes major brands such as Domino’s Pizza Inc. The decision comes after some of Google’s top U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. More Consolidation Coming.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

That behavior can sometimes lead to challenges for the retailers and services that want to engineer customer loyalty and drive sales. Retailers must also make sure they’re properly verifying the payment and personal information of these new customers, without adding friction to the buying experience. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

In such scenarios, the convenience offered by eCommerce sites falls short while on-the-ground retail wins the day. Additionally, the online conveniences offered by digitally native brands may not translate as well to storefront expansions. We can put our brands where consumers need them most,” Smith said. “We

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

The money will go toward both Drizly and Lantern , an independent company focused on cannabis delivery from online sources. The two groups are trying to be “the preeminent platform provider for online sales of regulated consumer products,” the release says. Like other types of retail, buying alcohol has shifted online.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

With blackjack and roulette on mobile phones, the growing market for online sports wagering in New Jersey has introduced gamblers to virtual casino games. Online casinos’ monthly revenue more than doubled in the 15 months following the rollout of sports betting in June of last year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

Which brands will blow it? For payments and commerce , there’s another uncertainty that hangs in the air: Will legal online sports betting keep going forward, despite a recent decision by the U.S. First, a review and update about the online sports gambling situation in the U.S. More about that in just a bit, though.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Caesars Entertainment announced that it has reached an agreement to offer DraftKings , the leading sports-tech entertainment brand in the country, providing market access for its online gaming products. In New Jersey and Mississippi, DraftKings Sportsbook mobile and retail allows players to bet for major U.S. and Australia. .”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Caught somewhere in the middle is a category that has had a tough run this lost summer of 2020: bridal retailers. A minimony , as the name suggests, is hardly as lucrative as its bigger cousin, matrimony – and that difference has taken a bite out of bridal retail. Smaller retailers are focused on safety as well as agility.

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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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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

In news that might please frat boys, fans of European beer and owners of man caves, Heineken has started online sales of its home tap machines and the two-liter kegs that work with it. But this is not Heineken’s first foray into online beer sales. Online alcohol sales in the United States reached $1.7

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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. Small tobacco retailers can therefore struggle to build visibility among consumers when entering new markets.

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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 problem, it turned out, was that in 2007 when this project was first lifting off the ground, regulations in most states made this model basically illegal.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Online delivery services might levy taxes on food charges, or on the combined total of the amount charged for the food, fees and delivery charges — resulting in significantly different taxes collected. There are lots of ways that an online marketplace or aggregator can be classified as being physically present, noted Peterson.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

The latest issue involves eSports – one of the rising trends in digital commerce , and one of the ways through which some mall and brick-and-mortar operators hope to revive those retail properties. The issue isn’t really about brand-new taxes, but is about enforcing existing tax laws and applying them to eSports. billion in 2022.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

One cannot have the good without the bad, and that holds especially true, it seems, with online product reviews — a vital, useful part of eCommerce that is reviled by consumers, marketplace sellers and merchants alike. Talk to any online shopper, merchant or marketplace third-party seller. It comes from the U.S. FTC Penalty.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. Overall, 69 percent of consumers favor GDPR-like regulations in the United States. Except, maybe not. First, a few caveats. Privacy Changes. In fact, just 9 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Online clothing retailer, ModCloth, has been stepping up its efforts recently to lobby for passage of H.R. 4445, a bill that would allow the Federal Trade Commission to develop regulations and guidelines over the use of Photoshop and other image-altering programs in advertising.

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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

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

JULY 5, 2019

Amazon in some ways was the victim of a race run so well that regulators are taking a second look, competitors are loudly complaining and even the courts are taking a tougher line on its business practices. And Amazon’s competitors in retail are working hard to make sure that the regulators take a close enough look.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The test, noted the report, is being conducted under the Advance brand name. Stripe has been rolling out other new products, earlier this month launching Stripe Terminal , which will enable online businesses and platforms to accept in-person payments with Stripe. Stripe has started to alert customers about the service and issue loans.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2020

Goyal said the ongoing CCI probe questions why an online marketplace should lose money. . Anybody who tries to use the eCommerce marketplace model to get into the multi-brand retail space surreptitiously will have to be questioned, will have to be investigated,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

News came Monday (June 15) that Walmart has joined with eCommerce company Shopify in a bid to boost its online marketplace presence. For Walmart, adding Shopify sellers to its online operations helps give a bit of scale, and third-party sales do not carry the same costs as seen in other marketplace models.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2020

Pre-pandemic, the company projected that online grocery delivery would hit around $20 billion around 2025. She pointed to other data to support that growth, including last year’s estimate of 13 percent of all shoppers trying online grocery. The key is flexibility between Shipt and the retailer. What else are they ordering?

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

They feel the threat of Amazon and other retail giants moving into their space, and they want to fight back. The problem is: While there’s a lot healthcare can learn from retail, it’s also true that much about retail doesn’t work in healthcare. They’re highly regulated. She books an appointment online.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. You will observe grocery, as a retail category, is very fragmented. The regulators in Europe piled a $2.7 I’ll point out that those retailers did, apparently, have the money to hire lawyers. This one is particularly amusing.

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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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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

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The European Court of Justice, the court of last resort in the EU, has ruled that luxury good makers may ban the sale of their products on eCommerce platforms like Amazon to maintain the exclusivity of their brands.

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