PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Youth-oriented shoe and apparel brand Vans has found the intersection of both, as seen in its most recent store opening this past week in Los Angeles. The brand is well-known for using its community of skateboarders for design ideas and marketing. The brand has also partnered with Goodwill and Chrysalis to access underserved employees.

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MARCH 29, 2019

Amid a rise of influencer-sponsored items on social media, LetsBab enables consumers to shop, recommend and earn money through its new peer recommendation app. The app, which users can download in the United States and the United Kingdom, has 85 brands in the U.K. and 90 brands in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2017

Generation Z are the next up-and-coming group of shoppers who retailers are turning to for the future of retail. Get ready, retailers. The buying power of Gen Z comes out to $44 billion, according to an IBM and National Retail Federation study. They appreciate the hands-on experience of shopping in a store.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Nike is suing 589 websites, the owners of 676 social media accounts and more than 100 unidentified companies and individuals for allegedly selling counterfeit versions of its Nike and Converse shoes online. Nike wrote in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. Taking a Hard Line Against Alleged Counterfeits .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

An inherent truth of the retail industry — that consumers, at the end of the day, wield the ultimate power in determining what products and companies succeed — can even be applied to entire business models.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

From eCommerce warehouses like Amazon to social media sales, it’s no secret that constant connectivity has changed many consumers’ shopping habits. But while more people opt for mobile and online channels than ever, traditional brick-and-mortar retail hasn’t vanished. Evolving from Pup to Shark. from 1 percent to 20 percent.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

Now that Walmart is officially enjoined in a bid for TikTok with the Redmond, Washington-based software giant, the jury is not out on whether the deal can actually happen, the jury is out on whether Walmart can make TikTok fit into its digital retailing needs. The United States represents 5 percent of TikTok’s global audience.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Facebook has announced that it is opening its first small business pop-up concept in nine Macy’s locations across the United States. The move will bring 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

The Limited, a women’s apparel chain based in the United States, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, having shuttered all 250 stores nationwide. 17) filing marks the latest casualty in the brick-and-mortar pantheon to file for bankruptcy protection, having come up short in the battle against online retailers, said Reuters.

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JUNE 19, 2020

Amazon and Italian luxury brand Maison Valentino filed a lawsuit against a retailer Thursday (June 18), alleging the company sold counterfeit goods as the trade in the so-called “gray market” continues to draw attention. HBR called for luxury-goods brands to refocus on controlling their supply chains to fight the problem.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

According to the reigning data experts on the subject – The Knot – a little under 70 percent of the people who are going to get married in the United States this year will be getting married between April and October. In a big way.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

The company already has scale, having integrated with 15,000 financial institutions in Canada and the United States and recently made forays into Ireland and Spain. Holiday (and Post-Holiday) Shopping: Throughout the month of December helped push retail sales up more than 5.8 Retail sales were up 3.6 percent year on year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

The Kitewheel study looked at data from over 1 billion real-time, cross-sector brand and customer interactions, captured via Kitewheel’s Customer Journey Hub. As VB highlighted, while brands are investing more heavily in omnichannel campaigns, they have not steered away from email. But what about social media , you might be asking?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

According to the PYMNTS/USA Technology Unattended Retail tracker, there will be 3.6 People who [had] never had caviar in their life [before] ended up buying it from the machine, filming it and sharing it on social media.”. I thought, well, if any fine jewelry brand could do this legitimately, it would be us.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2017

This stems from emerging markets like China, Russia and the United Arab Emirates starting to move into the luxury purchasing arena, with 70 percent of consumers increasing their spending. Within these emerging markets, we’ve seen retailers make large bets on luxury.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Beyond its website, the company’s products are in brick-and-mortar retailers such as Whole Foods and Gelson’s Market, among others. For promotion, the company is very active on social media and also has events. Beyond ReGrained, other brands are reusing different ingredients and turning them into new products. The Market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Macy’s had not disclosed specific sales or revenues numbers out of Tmall Global, but clearly, the experience has been positive as Macy’s is touting the approximately 300,000 consumers that have taken advantage of the social media-like features of Tmall Global to follow Macy’s so they can learn about new products and other information.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

Home shopping used to mean something quite different in the United States than it does today. As the prominent global video-commerce retailer, and North America’s third-largest mobile and eCommerce retailer, the combined company will be well-positioned to help shape the next generation of retailing.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Netflix also said it would not add advertising to its platform to boost revenue, despite seeing continued weakness in the United States market. Coca-Cola hopes the move will increase brand awareness and enhance customer loyalty. The service provides fans with swag, surprises and three sample beverages for $10 a month.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Increasingly, companies like Oculus, which has been owned and operated by social media company Facebook since 2014, are already using it to enhance everything from the way enterprises train their employees to the way customers treat entertainment. VR as a Tool for the Retail Experience. VR as an Enterprise Tool.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2017

It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms. What would Sinatra say?

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JANUARY 31, 2020

BMO on Taking a Digital-First Approach to Retail Banking. eCommerce promises to bring more subscription services as well as retail into our daily lives. It’s not just food, cosmetics or streaming media that will drive this. The social media platform released its fourth-quarter earnings and full-year 2019 financials on Jan.

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JUNE 15, 2017

As a result, fraud management in retailing may not be as well-informed as it could be when it comes to detecting and preventing fraud, while at the same time promoting an optimal customer experience. What works in preventing payments fraud at a large airline or telco system may not be germane for an electronics retailer.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

What follows is a quick look at the current privacy landscape, and what that means for retailers and other companies that are competing for larger shares of the digital market — including potential business opportunities. Overall, 69 percent of consumers favor GDPR-like regulations in the United States. Except, maybe not.

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JULY 28, 2018

And while bargain retailers charge vanishingly small amounts for their goods, all of those little sales add up to some pretty amazingly large figures for bargain-hunting consumers. “We Part of it is a savvy social media-based distribution model through WeChat. We can’t remember [the] last time we left without spending $100!”

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2019

Tesla has its share of problems , but it nonetheless came out of 2018 as America’s bestselling luxury car – and with celebrities lining up to sing its praises on social media, it would be hard to argue that it has failed to establish itself as a mainstream brand. Now if it could just get all of those backorders filled.

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DECEMBER 24, 2019

21, the last Saturday shopping day before Christmas 2019, has been confirmed as the single biggest retail sales day in U.S. According to retail research firm Customer Growth Partners, consumers on Super Saturday spent a total of $34.4 More customers are shopping online, as well, as retailers offer improved web platforms. (58

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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. As consumer demand rises, businesses are buying into the trend.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

By offering QR-based digital payments, smaller retailers can achieve these goals and create greater customer stickiness with little to no investment beyond the phone they already have,” said Jorn Lambert, EVP, Digital Channels and Regions, Mastercard. Best Taking a Stand — DICK’S, Bank of America, Kroger, BlackRock, Delta, United (etc).

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JANUARY 28, 2020

European luxury brands are asking EU regulators to be harder on online tech giants like Amazon and Alibaba regarding fakes and privacy, Reuters reported on Tuesday (Jan. Premium retail brands in Europe are economic revenue drivers, adding yearly revenue of roughly €800 billion ($887.5 Amazon collects and decides,” Kaufmann said.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Interestingly, as the brand evolved, according to O’Neill, the real driver of what is offered on their site — and their few physical stores — are the flavors making the social media waves. While the success of the rosé-infused gummy bears was impressive and explosive, it was not a one-time experience for the brand.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

From creating checkout-free retail stores to eliminating concert tickets, here are 16 industries that are starting to transform with facial recognition technology. But even in the United States, interest in the tech is surging, according to the CB Insights patent analysis tool. Social Media/Entertainment.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Social media is a terrific breeding ground for travel envy — there is no faster way to find yourself wishing you were in a more exotic, warmer and more pleasant climate than to view someone else’s social media images of already being there. Net result: tourism to Wanaka increased 14 percent.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Affinity programs with local retailers. Social media & PR champion. can’t provide a flow of inbound leads to the agents; this is where established FI brands can leverage their standing in the community (within RESPA guidelines, naturally). Relationships with major local employers (eg.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Co-founder James Bello initially worked at the headquarters of a major retail chain, and then moved to Boston to serve in their innovation group. Combining that knowledge with Bello’s retail experience, they were able to get the product to market after completing the recipes and packaging. .

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Ridesharing services aren’t just a way for passengers to get from Point A to Point B: They can also enable retailers and brands to provide in-car shopping experiences. In the second macro trend, Moulton noted that Cargo has received extensive attention and adoption across the United States.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

The easiest possible summary is that in a post-apocalyptic future, the United States has become the Kingdom of Panem, which consists of a rich, technologically vibrant capital city ringed by 12 impoverished agrarian or industrial districts that are exploited for their resources by wealthy residents of the capitol. District 2: Walmart.

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