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AUGUST 21, 2020

When Walmart announced Q2 earnings earlier this week, the nation’s largest retailer announced twin blowout performances in both its eCommerce and same-store sales. The companies are testing the service in four California and Oklahoma markets, with an eye toward a national launch in 2021. Same-store sales rose 9.3 percent of its $27.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Across the industry, from carmakers and road regulators to bike share programs, companies are looking to unattended retail tech to improve efficiency and unlock new revenue opportunities. Worldwide happenings in Unattended Retail. Government agencies regulating the roads want to get their hands on unattended retail technology as well.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

That includes, as Roadie CEO Marc Gorlin said, a Delta ticket agent in the California Bay Area who, through Roadie’s digital technology, delivers misplaced bags to travelers who happen to be located along the route that the agent uses to drive home after shifts. “He The general experience can apply to retail goods, including groceries.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In today’s top retail news, Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Plus, there are two weeks up to Christmas, and the retail industry finds itself in uncharted territory. The deal involves 243 brick-and-mortar locations, the Cost Plus digital business, two distribution facilities and a California office. Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Retail sales have seen very modest year-over-year gains since June, but many brick-and-mortar operations continue to suffer amid the pandemic. PJ SOLOMON , the New York global investment financial services company, and the National Retail Federation (NRF), the world’s largest retail trade association, announced on Thursday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2017

One might imagine that mall operators nationwide take a rather jaundiced view of the internet, since online shopping has more or less killed the mall. But perhaps that is the old conventional wisdom — the emerging idea is that online retailers are giving back some of what they’ve taken away these days. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. The move is one of several Tilly’s has been pursuing recently to draw additional foot traffic in an era when, like many youth-focused retailers, it is seeing its sales constantly shifting online. Larger Trends. More Money.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

18) that it has secured a distributor license from California, bringing it one step closer to bringing its first electric SUV, Byton M-Byte, to the United States. We clearly notice this momentum in the current discussions with retail and after-sales partners,” Dr. Daniel Kirchert, BYTON CEO and founder said last month in a press release.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2020

What makes the story stand out among the reams of local retail crime reporting is that the crime was actually committed. Botched crimes in local retail are common. In California, a local caricature artist had a client sit down, commission a caricature, rob him of $500 and then run off. These criminal gangs are sophisticated.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. There are also digital price tags for every item, and Prime members can pay the discounted online price for their selections at the store. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

But we want to take a few minutes to talk about pop-up shops, and how those temporary but often lucrative retail efforts are shaping commerce — and being shaped by payments — and what could be coming next. Even so, the company has certainly not given up on physical retail. Riding Retail Trends. Pop-Up Costs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2020

Online grocery sales rose to a record $6.6 Rather than donning masks and following social distancing rules, shoppers have turned to grocery delivery services as 43 million customers shopped online in May, up from 39.5 million in March, a nearly 9 percent hike, the survey revealed.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are joining forces with online reCommerce companies to bring pre-owned merchandise into their stores, adding to their sustainability efforts. 14, according to the report, and in California at the start of November. Beyond Madewell, other retailers have collaborated with thredUP.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Fast-casual restaurant groups are teaming with online food delivery firms to offer on-demand ordering to consumers through digital platforms. Postmates provides on-demand delivery choices from over 500,000 restaurants, convenience stores and grocery stores, in addition to traditional retailers. restaurants.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Unfortunately, Apple didn’t announce a lot of details other than the name and that it will be available in the fall with online and offline viewing,” according to one on-scene round-up of the Apple event. “It As PYMNTS has regularly documented, subscription eCommerce is among the hottest areas of digital retail. Online Gaming.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

Online brands are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints: Online handbag marketplace Rebag , for instance, is opening a new store in Miami’s Design District with more stores said to come. We are thrilled to expand Rebag’s retail footprint to the Miami community. Operating hours span from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

“POWDR chose to partner with Square because they help elevate the guest experience from enabling fast, secure, contactless payments to integrated online-ordering solutions,” Justin Sibley , co-president of POWDR, said in the release. Ski resorts are like small cities, with restaurants, retail shops, ticketing and hospitality.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

How cumbersome and annoying do you find the return process for items that you ordered online? The growth of online commerce continues at a rapid pace. The online shopping experience gets better every day. All online returns today are some version of ‘put in mail.’ shopping malls. One area has lagged behind — returns.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. The company also opened a permanent store in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California last year. to pick up online purchases via curbside services.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2019

Following the state’s new law allowing autonomous vehicles, Palo Alto, California-based Gatik was approved by the Arkansas Highway Commissioner to launch a commercial service with Walmart, Walmart said in a press release. . with California autonomous car startup company Udelv. said in a news release. . said in a news release. . “We

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JULY 28, 2019

Following the state’s new law allowing autonomous vehicles, Palo Alto, California-based Gatik was approved by the Arkansas Highway Commissioner to launch a commercial service with Walmart, Walmart said in a press release. . with California autonomous car startup company Udelv. said in a news release. . said in a news release. . “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

We're proud of the product mix and shopping experience we provide in our stores and online. In what seems to be a response to the passage of Proposition 22 in California two months ago, Albertson, the country’s second-largest grocery store chain, has announced it will eliminate its unionized delivery drivers in California.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

In a time period dominated by retail sales declines, the hardest hit has been the automotive industry. While March retail sales dropped 8 percent overall, new cars dropped as much as 36.9 Online auto sales are the only game in town. A small percentage of car purchases were made online last year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

Online brands continue their march into the offline world as Shopify and Warby Parker announce plans to open brick-and-mortar locations in the coming months. For Shopify, a Canadian eCommerce platform that helps artisans and other small merchants do business online, this will mark its first foray from the virtual world into the real one.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

Then, companies working to develop the technological means for cars to drive themselves have levied more than a few criticisms against proposed regulation changes in the state of California. sales operations. Apple, for one, is hoping that California will work to toughen some of its current self-driving road test policies.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2020

Walmart is selling two of its online brands in a continuing goal to concentrate on its website. 27) that the Arkansas-based retail giant is scrapping Shoes.com and Bare Necessities, the intimate apparel brand. operation in Culver City, California. operation in Culver City, California. “We

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

When the pandemic first took hold of the retail industry in March and April, the phrase “it’s hard to forecast during a pandemic” was heard in most every executive interview or earnings call. Now that the holiday sales season is imminent, the operative phrase is … well … “let’s try to forecast during a pandemic.”.

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MAY 7, 2020

As Target eyes boosting its same-day delivery services, the company is negotiating to purchase portions of California startup Deliv Inc., Due to a confluence of events over the past few months, Deliv will unfortunately be winding down our operations over the next 90 days,” she wrote. CNBC reported. Macy’s Inc., Mercato Inc.,

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Those who travel to some of the wealthier parts of the world, however, will discover the well-to-do have much more expensive unattended retail tastes. shoppers got their own taste of unattended luxury retail when vending machines dispensing caviar were installed in several Los Angeles-area malls. A few years ago, U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The eCommerce operator reportedly is leasing some 500,000 square feet of space in a three-story warehouse in Amazon’s hometown of Seattle, according to The Wall Street Journal. That might not sound like such a big deal, but it really is – at least when it comes to Amazon and retail fulfillment in the U.S. eBay Program.

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JULY 14, 2020

employees and shoppers who expected to see the California-based technology giant reopen its stores this summer got some bad news. In a video conference call with its workforce last weekend, Deirdre O’Brien, Apple’s senior vice president of retail and people, encouraged employees to serve customers from home, Bloomberg News reported. . “If

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

Retailers are cutting back on their brick-and-mortar footprints as consumers opt to shop online and away from malls, and Sears has been hit particularly hard. And Sears plans “to evaluate our network of stores, which is a critical component to our integrated retail transformation and will make further adjustments as needed.”.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

Retailer Kohl’s will boost both its brick-and-mortar and eCommerce capabilities this year by adding four small-format, brick-and-mortar locations to its roster of stores and a fifth eCommerce fulfillment center. The Plainfield facility will join existing eCommerce locations in California, Maryland, Ohio and Texas.

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MAY 3, 2021

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation announced last week that it has entered into a consent order with Lambda, Inc., Lambda offers California students the option to defer tuition through income-based retail installment contracts. Non-California students may enter into income share agreements.

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JANUARY 13, 2019

Walmart , the world’s biggest retailer, is gearing up to bring on 2,000 technology professionals during 2019 to support its operations in stores and online. Bloomberg , citing comments Walmart CTO Jeremy King made in a Bloomberg TV interview, said the hiring would increase the retailer’s IT staff by more than one fourth.

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