PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

Pet retail is having a moment, with innovation and other efforts helping merchants better reach owners of dogs, cats and other household animals. Pawscout, as it turns out, just launched its $20 pet tags in Walmart — and is selling the product via other retailers, Chavez told PYMNTS. physical retail landscape. Pet Medicine.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Consumer confidence seems to have returned in a big way in May as retail sales soared to their highest level since November 2017, according to news from The Wall Street Journal. Excluding auto sales, which have a tendency to bounce up and down frequently month to month, retail spending was up.9 Retail sales are up 5.9

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MAY 29, 2020

Both Walmart and Amazon made some big add-ons and/or acquisitions this week as they attempt to widen their sphere of retail influence in a post-pandemic world. So the eCommerce giant certainly has both the scale and the capital required to push Zoox’s ambitious goals. The retailer had been negotiating with ThredUp for about a year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

To learn more about their customers and increase foot traffic, retailers are testing out new business ideas. In some cases, retailers are dedicating small spaces to brands inside their brick-and-mortar stores. The vast majority of retailers believe in trying new business approaches.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

Connecting with consumers has seen a significant change over the course of the past few decades. No longer are retailers working with marketers to figure out a way to mass market products and services. With the advent of connected devices in the palm of almost every consumer’s hand, the retail ecosystem has certainly seen a shift.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2018

retail sales continue to disappoint in early 2018, with an unexpected drop in February. On the upside, the “retail control group” used to measure GDP was up 0.1 Seven of 13 major retail categories showed declines. economist at RBC Capital Markets. By the numbers, according to news from Bloomberg , sales were down 0.1

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JULY 30, 2020

Now that its deal with Texas Capital has been called off, Independent Bank in McKinney plans to scale back or exit some commercial lines and will seek to duplicate its retail banking successes in Colorado.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Those two retail trends have recently collided in Southeast Asia, where Carro, an automotive marketplace and financing provider, reportedly has bought Jualo, an online marketplace for used goods from some 300 product categories. According to the report , the deal comes as Carro raised some $30 million in fresh capital. Retail Waste.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

As sad as the end of Toys R Us may be, the iconic toy store is far from the only retailer struggling these days — and it’s not the only one throwing in the towel this week. And, of course, grocery giants such as Amazon, Walmart and Kroger continue to put smaller players out of business. The CEO of L.O.L.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

True Food Kitchen , in one case, has created its menu around recipes that Dr. Andrew Weil inspired with anti-inflammatory ingredients and is mulling raising new private capital, Bloomberg reported. The electronics retailer has been using its brick-and-mortar locations to fill eCommerce deliveries as well as contend with Amazon.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Fanatics , a company that sells Team USA merchandise, has taken a novel approach to Olympic retail this year with a physical store in a major U.S. The store marks a milestone for Team USA: It’s their first in-person retail store outside the Olympic Training Center in Colorado. Retail Gold. The Economics.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

million from a venture capital firm to fund the business. Key metrics include customer acquisition cost, conversion, ROI and, of course, sales. He couldn’t help but realize how comfortable he was in the kneeling position. With that, the idea for a company was born. He had a prototype made, and in 2016 he was offered $3.6

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Sizzle of the Week: Retail’s 2018 Rebound. Retail has had a rough couple of years, as most players that aren’t Amazon have struggled to cross the digital, omnichannel chasm. On the whole, with some notable exceptions, retail has landed on our Fizzle list more often than the Sizzle list in recent memory. Retail sales are up 5.9

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Restaurant management platform Toast unveiled a $400 million Series F funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, Greenoaks Capital, Tiger Global Management and TPG. Also participating were TCV, Durable Capital Partners LP, G Squared, Light Street Capital, Alta Park Capital, funds and accounts advised by T.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

Of course, voting is a bit of popularity contest, and as retail investors (and some institutional ones) crowd into a stock, they can quickly bid its price up — as is happening these days with payments processor Square. Wall Street has famously been called “both voting machine and weighing machine.”. Monday’s closing price of $118.97

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

The retailer said it has received new financing commitments that will offer enough liquidity to fund it until the sale’s closing, according to an announcement. In addition, the retailer said new Authentic Brands Group LLC subsidiary ABG-Lucky LLC will buy all of its intellectual property assets. Houlihan Lokey Capital, Inc.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2016

The news from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) last week that the retail industry added 48,000 new jobs in March — bringing the increase to 378,000 new jobs over the past 12 months — appears to be positive on a number of fronts. And while the number of retail jobs in the U.S. While it’s reasonable to presume that any U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Only halfway in, 2020 feels, of course, like a decade’s been packed into six months. consumer — and by extension, retailers. The Business Roundtable’s CEO Economic Outlook Survey — which in part measures plans for capital spending and hiring through the next six months — fell to 34.3, Retail added a bit more than 700,000 jobs.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2017

Between automated checkout lines, online grocery ordering and meal kit services, it seems like the inexorable tide of progress is determined to wipe out millions of jobs across the retail and grocery sectors. Financial services firm Cornerstone Capital Group projected that robots will capture between 6 million and 7.5

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

The company has raised funds from China Growth Capital – one institutional investor – as of its founding nine years ago. China Growth Capital Managing Partner Wu Haiyan said, according to the report, “For an internet startup to keep attracting talent, it needs to have a transparent corporate structure and an employee stock ownership plan.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Retailers] are seeing double-digit higher conversion rates when an extended warranty is shown – not on the extended warranty, but conversion rates on the product itself,” Levin said. “I Meritech Capital led the funding round, with participation from existing investors Great Point Ventures and Shah Capital Partners.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

The round was led by Kharis Capital and Venturi Partners, and new investors EDBI of Singapore and FFP, along with existing investors Ingka Investments, which controls IKEA, TPG Growth, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., But something fundamentally changed in internet retail businesses in the last four months, and we see demand coming back.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

As it moves into the business of cannabis retail and hangs out its shingle in the industry, High Times is opening its own brick-and-mortar stores this year. announced it would be bringing a flagship retail store to Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Hightimes Holding Corp. Simon continued, “It is time for us to start participating.”.

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In two days, you can hear from Chase, US Bank, Capital One, BMO, M&T, PNC, Citizens, Truist, Huntington, and more, a feat that can only be done at a conference of this caliber. Many banks expressed frustration over keeping small business banking housed within the retail bank channel. However, this was the most common structure.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Anecdotes abound, of course, in the popular music industry of artists who had huge hits — and rarely saw much cash flow, as royalties were siphoned off by others, or simply never made it into the right accounts. That’s, of course, not the case today. And we felt that we could create an offering to give them access to more capital.”.

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FICO

APRIL 29, 2022

There’s a lot going on in the retail payments space – defined as transactions between two consumers, between consumers and businesses, or between two businesses. Some of the changes are related to new digital payments methods like P2P apps, tap-to-pay, and cryptocurrency, which are all growing options in retail environments.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Tech helps, of course, but innovation alone won’t solve corporates’ problems. Looking at Working Capital – and Security. Beyond the examination and revamping of internal flows, Gavrity maintained that companies must acknowledge that working capital management is more important than ever.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

15), Lore said his dream pursuit is to create “a city of the future” built on a framework that envisions “a reformed version of capitalism.”. Lore joined Walmart after selling his startup Jet.com to the retail giant for $3 billion in 2016. In an interview with Recode on Friday (Jan. He officially leaves his post on Jan.

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MAY 30, 2016

If brick-and-mortar merchants can claim anything sacred from the total encroachment of online retail on its turf, it’s the highest echelon of uber-luxurious commerce. The first pieces of evidence come from recent earnings reports from two of the biggest tentpoles in the dollar retail category: Dollar General and Dollar Tree.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In short, it’s a world where access to capital and legal advice is welcome. In mid-August, the company announced that it will infuse $100 million in capital into the Amazon seller system, along with legal and marketing advice. Of course, the Nikes and Under Armours have legal teams and vast amounts of capital.

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MARCH 13, 2024

CRE is now arguably the riskiest asset class due to a perfect storm of: Systemic changes in the way we utilize real estate (not just office, but retail, housing, and other sectors). Unprecedented increases in interest rates from an abnormally historic low-rate environment. Inflationary impacts on costs of various inputs.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

LendingClub management said on the conference call that buying Radius provides access to capital beyond the traditional institutional investors that have helped fund the loans. Double-digit growth in eCommerce is expected to continue, as the retailer sees 30 percent gains in the current fiscal year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The eBay Seller School is an online learning platform that offers a varied level of courses to help sellers accelerate and expand their businesses. Up & Running is part of eBay’s Retail Revival program. Small businesses are the backbone of eBay, as well as the engine of jobs, progress and prosperity for communities across the U.S.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 23, 2023

This data is critical for pricing, capital allocation, and marketing. ” The reality is that banks should be much more granular than that to allocate capital more efficiently. With the average loan loss and lease allowance (ALLL) at 1.25%, including retail, the majority of banks are currently underserved.

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JULY 3, 2020

At a time when retail revenue is precious and the shift to Digital 3.0 CEO Dirk Van de Put said at the 2020 RBC Capital Markets’ Consumer & Retail Conference that by placing ads that are “very relevant to the moment” for numerous brands – such as Oreo and Cadbury – the company is reflecting evolving consumer habits.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

In addition, retail jobs were also down, off by 11,100 positions, extending a multi-month decline. The manufacturing and retail numbers presage a couple of longer-term trends, perhaps troubling ones. As noted in this space in recent months, inventories have been on the rise, and shipments for core capital goods have declined.

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