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OCTOBER 2, 2017

“Retail isn’t dead; it needs a revival.”. With a list of bankruptcies growing ever longer, suburbs hosting the carcasses of scores of dead and dying shopping malls and foot traffic on an ever-falling curve, it’s not hard to draw the conclusion that retail — or, at least, the brick-and-mortar version of it — is dead.

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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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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

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

We have deep dives on digital payments, online ordering and memberships. Digital payment options at the brick-and-mortar point of sale (POS) are now a must for a number of shoppers, with 60 percent noting that they would be more willing to transact in shops if merchants let them pay via digital payment technologies.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Retail innovation comes from various places – and for the new decade, that includes quick-service restaurants (QSRs), the site of massive technological change. Self-service kiosks have been gaining popularity, and cutting-edge technology like biometrics is starting to be integrated. Contactless Payments.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Last week, Constellation Brands purchased Empathy Wines , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) eCommerce business that sells wines from California vineyards. It reportedly purchased this digital upstart — one with a reported (and very small) $3.9

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

billion to acquire Zoox , the Foster City, California self-driving technology company, the Financial Times (FT) reported. . The source said Amazon would collaborate with Zoox to create a ride-hailing fleet, taking on Waymo Co, the California-based self-driving industry leader backed by Alphabet, Google’s parent company.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Grocery retailer Winn-Dixie opened a second location of its next-gen, upscale store concept in Tampa, Florida, in the beginning of November. Sanders will be leaving to become CEO of an unnamed technology company. Overall, online retail in the U.S. Online grocery sales are expected to more than double in the U.S.

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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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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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JULY 5, 2020

billion for Whole Foods , the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol Hill district, The Seattle Times reported. Three years after it paid $13.4 And it’s not stopping there. billion, up 7.7

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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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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. 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

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Using the Route App, users can visually track and protect online orders as well as resolve issues. Route+ offers retailers an end-to-end post-purchase experience. . The startup has offices in Silicon Slopes, Utah and Santa Monica, California and was co-founded in 2014 by Evan Walker, who serves as the company’s chief executive officer.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

One of the unintended consequences in the rise of eCommerce is a related rise in cyberfraud attacks on online shoppers. Since its founding, Shape Security’s clients — which count among them two of the world’s top airlines, both the world’s largest banking and hotel chains, one of the top 10 retailers in the world and “one of the largest U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2017

When mPOS solutions started to roll out in retail locations about a decade ago, many predicted a futuristic utopia devoid of long lines and bulging wallets. Even retailers equipped with mPOS terminals opt not to accept mobile payment, and consumer adoption continues to lag. . But these days, that fantasy is still far from reality.

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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

MAY 7, 2020

As Target eyes boosting its same-day delivery services, the company is negotiating to purchase portions of California startup Deliv Inc., Deliv is in the process of completing a deal to sell technology assets to Target and Deliv’s CEO along with a subset of the team will be moving over to Target. CNBC reported. Macy’s Inc.,

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JUNE 29, 2020

Wealthfront , the online investment service firm, has added checking features to its app. The Palo Alto, California startup said the no-fee account is the company’s latest move to build a next-generation banking service that is branchless, automated and optimizes every dollar.

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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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Most online merchants rely solely on SSL/TLS to encrypt the data being sent from their websites. Further, online sellers have been tackling chargeback fraud, which could account for about 86 percent of all chargebacks. Each $1 of fraud costs retailers $3.13. . Getting the European Union on the path to 3D Secure 2.0

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JUNE 11, 2020

It has been 11 weeks since California became the first U.S. percent of consumers who are opting to stay indoors, though, preferring to work and shop online for fear of risking contagion. percent of consumers who are opting to stay indoors, though, preferring to work and shop online for fear of risking contagion. percent of U.S.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

Robinhood , a financial services company, has acquired Say Technologies , a shareholder communication platform, for $140M. Say Technologies: California-based Say is a technological platform that gives shareholders access to their full ownership stake. WHO ARE THE PARTIES TO THE DEAL?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2020

With roughly 17 million active users each month and 30,000 diverse online retailers, Honey has delivered some $1 billion in savings to shoppers in the past year. PayPal shares that vision, and together we can build powerful commerce capabilities that create real value for both consumers and retailers around the world.”.

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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

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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JULY 20, 2018

In addition, Chef’d announced in May that it had partnered with Byte Foods to bring its meal kits into 100 of Byte’s unattended retail locations in California. And, in a more traditional brick-and-retail sense, Chef’d also announced in May that it has entered into distribution deals with several grocers.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

Pre-owned online shopping firm Fashionphile has raised $38.5 Over the past 20 years, we've developed the largest luxury inventory in the industry, created cutting-edge reCommerce technology, and have led the way in authentication excellence,” Fashionphile CEO Ben Hemminger said in the announcement. and other countries.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

In an interview with PYMNTS, Rohit Arora, chief executive officer of Biz2Credit, stated that the digital platform and online lending applications are conducive to a mobile-centric interaction between Oriental Bank and smaller businesses.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

employees and shoppers who expected to see the California-based technology giant reopen its stores this summer got some bad news. Apple has been forced to rethink its retail operations as COVID-19 cases continue to increase across the U.S. We may need to be working remotely for some period of time.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

In the digital age of shopping for clothes and accessories, modern-day consumers don’t want retailers to entertain them: Instead, they want these merchants to bring them an easy experience, offering seamless shopping in store and online. The technology has been made famous by Amazon through its checkout-free Amazon Go stores.

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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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MAY 30, 2018

In a blog post , PayPal said Jetlore’s platform is used by some of the leading retailers around the globe. Jetlore is based in San Mateo, California and was founded back in 2011 by PhD students from Stanford University’s computer science program. All three will join PayPal. billion in cash.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Retail continues to migrate toward eCommerce, but warehouse space is not designed to keep up with the increasing pace of online orders. Construction of new warehouses is occurring in areas such as California, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Atlanta. The average age of a warehouse in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Sometimes innovation in the commerce and payments space is a matter of a new technology or a new process. 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. That’s the story involving Amazon (and, it seems, The Home Depot as well).

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