PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Black Friday shoppers stayed home, delivering a feared blow to brick-and-mortar retailers on what usually is one of their biggest days of the year, the Financial Times (FT) reported. On the plus side for some merchants, Adobe reported that digital sales on Black Friday hit $9 billion — an increase of 22 percent from Black Friday 2019.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Despite the fact that many retailers are creating their own versions of Black Friday, the traditional one that happens the day after Thanksgiving will still occur as a retail event. One other staple of the traditional Black Friday will also be absent — deep discounts. Edited said the average weekly U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

provided $5 million in grants to support Black-owned businesses in the U.S. recovering from the economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic, the company announced Friday (Sept. PayPal Holdings Inc.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Coinciding with Black History Month, Google is extending the Black-owned attribute to its Shopping tab, building on the initiatives launched across Search and Maps over the summer. The attribute, which enables people to seamlessly identify and shop from Black-owned businesses, will be visible to shoppers sometime “in the coming months.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

To support Black-owned businesses and their communities, Facebook has introduced its #BuyBlack Friday event in the United States. Black-owned businesses have been hit especially hard by the pandemic, closing at twice the rate of other small businesses,” Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg said in the post.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It offers savings on products from small businesses and top brands for Prime members. That’s more than it pocketed for the previous Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. Jeff Wilke, CEO of Amazon's worldwide consumer business, told the WSJ Prime Day will be an opportunity for members to get their holiday shopping done early.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2020

November sales were bolstered by a busy Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with monthly sales records set in all regions worldwide. merchants from the Afterpay Shop Directory on Black Friday alone. led the way with the highest monthly sales ever. More than 35 million leads were generated to global retailers and over 1.2

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Amazon is suspending advertising related to pre-Black Friday campaigns in France after coming under fire from at least one government official who said it was unfair for the online giant to flex its digital retail muscle just as a new pandemic shutdown forces small shops and restaurants to close, Reuters reported.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A new survey of Black Friday shoppers from PYMNTS showed the Seattle retailing giant dominated its rivals in the traditional post-Thanksgiving holiday season kickoff. When PYMNTS last measured Amazon’s take of the total eCommerce business it found that it touched just north of 50 percent for Q1 2020 in eCommerce market share (51.2

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

consumers increased their online shopping nearly 17 percent before Black Friday, according to new data from Adobe Analytics published this week. Black Friday is expected to see $5.9 Online shopping spend topped $31.9 That day was Monday, Nov. Adobe Analytics predicts U.S. online shoppers spent $3.3 billion spent by U.S.

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The Paypers

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

(The Paypers) A study on customer behaviour by Ingenico Group and YouGov has uncovered the fact that small businesses are taking on the big brands this Black Friday.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Zadeh indicated that Cyber Monday and Black Friday came out ahead of Pier 1’s expectations when it came to performance. Black Friday was definitely stronger than Cyber Monday, but that's to be expected given that so many people were shopping online rather than queuing up at malls and stores," he said.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

Although most consumers did their Black Friday shopping online this year, new research shows young shoppers were most likely to head into physical stores, suggesting their fear of COVID-19 was dwarfed by their desire to get out of the house and shop. Other traditional retailers making the in-store list included Kohl’s (23.2

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DECEMBER 2, 2020

For Black Friday, a day where department stores should be playing a dominant role with their anchor tenancies and advertising power, the big box merchant chains carried the day. percent of Black Friday shoppers, followed by Target (42.3 percent of Black Friday shoppers, followed by Target (42.3 Too many U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

But seen in the context of Amazon’s previously announced plans to hold Black Friday sales every Friday beginning Oct. It has waited long enough to see shipment times improve on non-essential items across most regions, but not so long that it’ll compete with its own early Black Friday 2020 deals.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The unofficial official start of the 2020 holiday shopping season was Prime Day in early October, bumping out Black Friday in late November. But while the pandemic may be the obvious and easy answer to the Black Friday digital shift, it’s not the whole explanation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

1) that its Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend results generated sales of $5.1 billion reported for Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend in 2019, a record that was broken by the end of the day Saturday. billion in worldwide sales from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, an increase of over 60 percent compared to 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Evidence reveals that these habits picked up steam during the 2020 holiday shopping season, with PYMNTS research finding that 4 percent of Americans used buy now, pay later (BNPL) methods for their Black Friday purchases. The trend toward BNPL solutions is particularly notable among certain consumers groups.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

Italian postal service Poste Italiane is introducing a new payments technology in an effort to attract more domestic small businesses, according to a report by Reuters. Marco Siracusano, the head of digital payment company PostePay, shared the news on Friday (Jan.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

But shoppers aren’t the only ones who are busy: It’s also a busy time of year for fraudsters , who hope to capitalize on busy systems and perhaps inexperienced workers. Data: 100 million: The amount stolen recently from nine public firms in recent business email compromise schemes.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Led by Amazon, Walmart and Target, the retail industry managed to turn the holiday spending season into one long Black Friday. as interviewed in Harvard Business Review. “I Black Friday is not the doorbuster it used to be, but it will need to be respected as a consumer spend event. percent in 2019.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday sales officially kickoff the holiday spending bonanza, and this year did not disappoint. billion | Estimated consumer spending between Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales. Here are the numbers: $7.9

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OCTOBER 20, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has already impacted several facets of digital commerce, and many businesses will have to make certain adjustments as holiday spend continues to move online. Here are some tips that will prepare your business for the digital holiday commerce season. Having the Most Updated Infrastructure. Becoming Mobile-Friendly.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

percent of Black Friday online shoppers used flexible buy now, pay later (BNPL) credit offers to pay for their purchases. According to the research, the most likely BNPL shopper on Black Friday was a 40- to 55-year-old college-educated urbanite current on bills but still living paycheck to paycheck.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Though the COVID-19 vaccine is officially open for business today in the U.K., 3.7% : Share of Black Friday consumers who made buy now, pay later purchases. consumers worldwide are readying themselves for what they believe will be a long wait for things to return to something like pre-pandemic normal.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

Wilke added that Amazon developed its own coronavirus testing protocol “so we could help protect employees and deliver products to customers” and financially backed small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). billion in global sales Black Friday through Cyber Monday — a 60 percent surge over last year. Amazon merchants posted $4.8

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

billion in global sales from Black Friday up to Cyber Monday. billion in worldwide sales from Black Friday up to Cyber Monday, a 60 percent rise over last year’s sales for the same timeframe. In today’s top payments news around the world, total revenues for China-based Meituan increased in Q3 by 28.8

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

There are a lot of questions about whether some sellers will be able to take advantage of Prime Day — it being so close to the traditional Black Friday/Cyber Monday — without depleting their stock,” he noted. Tsang said that while Black Friday sales and other post-Thanksgiving shopping surges have historically been U.S.-centric

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Investors have spent over $1 billion this year on buying up successful small businesses to try and create new digital conglomerates, according to the Financial Times. With the lucrative finances, investors see an opportunity to treat Amazon like "the new mall," rolling up businesses and scaling them up, FT writes.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The release says Pay in 3 will help businesses boost checkout conversion, revenue and customer loyalty. retailers and businesses through these challenging times by helping them adapt to changing consumer behaviors around how they shop and pay – especially in the lead up to Black Friday and Christmas,” he said, according to the release.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

In today’s top payments news, millennials — as well as bridge millennials — were big Black Friday spenders this year. 29 won’t include rigid profit goals but instead will focus on growth strategy and transparency throughout its business sectors. NEW DATA: Millennials Were Black Friday’s Big Spenders In 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

JPMorgan: Year-End Deal-Making Surge Will Keep Bankers Busy. The year-end acceleration of mergers and acquisitions worldwide will keep bankers busy until the close of 2020, with deals emerging in most regions and industries, Bloomberg reported. DATA: Millennials, Gen X Liked BNPL for Black Friday Clothing Purchases.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Other merchants told Bloomberg similar stories, saying that problems began over the weekend and that they fear issues will continue through the busy days of Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday. Hart said that about 70 percent of his inventory is being delayed by as much as a week.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2020

As a reminder, Q2 is typically our largest volume quarter for the retail business. business and we’re making some additional changes this week,” Walmart spokeswoman Jami Lamontagne told Talk Business & Politics on Thursday (July 30). Black Friday Details Still in the Dark.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

billion from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, and DoorDash could see a valuation of $28 billion from its IPO. billion in global sales from Black Friday through Cyber Monday, a 60 percent increase over 2019 sales for the same period. In today’s top news, sellers on Amazon made more than $4.8

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

No exact date has been given, but Business Insider reported that Amazon told one retailer to expect the event to be held around Oct. The new change to October is “final,” a separate Amazon email states, according to Business Insider. According to its website, Amazon has not yet officially set a date for this year’s Prime Day.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

To provide these elevated customer experiences, businesses should consider the opportunity to implement Augmented Reality (AR) into the commerce experience. It seems that businesses and customers truly are at a new inflection point with this technology and opportunities are available for brands.

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