PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

Unattended retail is having a moment – a bad moment, as it turns out, in China, according to reports. The challenges there come as kiosks and other forms of unattended retail continue to develop globally. For one, selling fresh groceries via unattended retail is not an easy business. Unattended Failure. Global Growth.

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FICO

JUNE 14, 2021

Our latest UK Credit Market Report on card trends for April 2021 shows the impact of the opening up of hospitality and retail on April 12. The figures include a 12 percent rise in card spend and more customers exceeding their card limit. This is the largest monthly increase in spend for over two years.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

It appears that more and more consumers are getting better connected with loyalty programs by linking their cards to them. “Card-linking has a network effect, and it is accelerating,” stated Silvio Tavares, CardLinx president and CEO, in a press release.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are changing the way they manage their workforces in the age of Amazon: Walmart , for instance, is testing multiple versions of a new team structure called the “Great Workplace” in some of its locations. billion for its stores in comparison to $1.63 billion in the year prior. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2019

About a fifth, by comparison, had used Venmo for gambling. The report noted that “one interesting point is that any and all transactions made on Venmo will be on file, like a payment made with a credit card. Anyone with a bank account and debit card can use Venmo, a likely factor in its P2P reach.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2020

By comparison, Square made $306 million in bitcoin revenue for Q1. When customers buy bitcoin through Cash App, we only apply a small margin to the market cost of bitcoin, which tends to be volatile and outside our control. Cash App launched bitcoin deposits in June 2019.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

On the positive side is the retailing trade group the National Retail Federation ( NRF ). Neil Saunders, managing director of research firm GlobalData PLC’s retail division, projects $26.4 It’s retailers’ first big test. It’s retailers’ first big test. There are two wild cards. percent from last year.

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

In the retail industry, like many other sectors, the maxim ‘innovate or die’ seems to be growing in authority and relevance by the day. Bricks-and-mortar-only retailers, by comparison, have experienced a decline of 0.41 ‘Digital dinosaurs’ at risk of extinction? percent on average in the past year.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2019

Globally, tapping to pay with contactless cards has taken off remarkably, and the U.S., nearly half of all Visa transactions at physical points of sale happen via contactless card tap. Asia Pacific lags behind the global average somewhat, with one-third of all in-person transactions happening via contactless card.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

consumers, who made almost 73 billion non-prepaid debit card transactions in 2018 – and the final 2019 number is bound to be bigger. Card networks attract merchants with promises of faster, more accurate debit routing, and merchants pay handsomely to transact across these networks. Debit has never been more popular with U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

It was the wild card category for back-to-school, and it will be the wild card category for the holidays. percent of all consumer retail spend. The MacBook Air, by comparison, sells for $999 on Amazon as well as in the Apple Store. consumer’s whole paycheck. Census research team. That accounts for 2.3

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

percent of retail spend. By way of comparison, Amazon’s total sales for its highest spend category – electronics and appliances – were $71.6 By the way, Walmart , the standard comparison for Amazon results, couldn’t hang on the clothes rack, either. First, the data from the PYMNTS Whole Paycheck tracker. In 2016, it logged $20.5

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

When customers can apply for the Apple Card, for example , and receive approval and begin using it in minutes, patience with financial institutions that take longer will wear thin. How integrated are marketing and digital? Retail customer acquisition in a physical, siloed world costs an average of $280.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

Among the more interesting storylines of this era of digital commerce and payments is the maturation of vending machines — sorry, “unattended retail.” Retailers are paying more attention to vending machines, a trend that is all but certain to continue into the 2020s. Vending Machine Trends.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

Apexx founders’ claim the service can save merchants as much as 15 percent on the cost associated with processing credit cards or debit card payments and alternative payments. Keenan previously was in charge of Zapp, the VocaLink-backed mobile payments startup that Mastercard purchased earlier this year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

As a result, banks are investing in and engaging with FinTech startups to grow their customer base and their market share. Functioning properly, contract workers can reportedly be paid “within minutes” directly to a debit card. percent — of payments executives are focused on price comparison tools. A whopping 42.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The retailer is inviting specialty and national brands alike to offer items online, CNBC reported. By comparison, the hurdles to become a third-party seller are lower on Amazon and Walmart; on those sites, sellers ask for approval to sell through an application.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

The Apple Watch is the most beloved wearable in human history, the iPhone X is the best-selling iPhone on the market and Apple products, broadly, are bringing all of mankind together in love and harmony. As a data point, that might be correct, but in context, it misses the bigger picture of what comparisons are most relevant.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

For smaller nonprofits such as those served by Stewardship, technology investment may be relatively lacking in comparison to retail, restaurants and other verticals where resources are less constrained. Stewardship has been in the nonprofit space for 10 years, said Cohen, offering customizable features. “By

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Cash back programs are nothing new for financial institutions (FIs), but the banking industry may be well-served to take a few cues from the masters of rewards: retailers. Despite incentives, a new study found debit cards appear to be more popular than credit cards, especially among younger customers. Think like a retailer.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

After a brief dip in consumer spending early in the year, consumer enthusiasm for shopping seems to have returned as sales numbers in retail have been stronger than expected of late. household debt could hit $4 trillion primarily in the form of credit cards and auto loans, which have been steadily climbing. household indebtedness.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2018

Merchants can capitalize on word-of-mouth marketing through cash back platforms such as DOSH that encourage social media sharing. These platforms reach consumers by reinforcing a behavior that consumers already exhibit — shopping with their credit and debit cards — while giving merchants valuable data.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

The company integrated GO-PAY into the GO-JEK app, which lets customers store money on their mobile phones, much like a digital debit card. billion – of funds were lost to card fraud in 2018, up from $1.4 Smartphones contributed one trillion dollars to overall retail sales in the United States during 2018. billion in 2017.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Consumers use — and merchants offer — far more features when shopping using digital channels, with everything from product reviews to price comparisons to the all-important inventory status. percent) or pay with contactless cards or digital wallets (at 20.4 The reason is rather obvious in retrospect.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. According to issuer Goldman Sachs , they have opened up about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple Card. Of that $10 billion, Apple Card?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2018

Another year, another chance for mobile wallet players to convince consumers to give up their plastic cards and utilize the phone as a payments form factor. In comparison to a market like China’s, it’s glacial. trillion — compared to the $112 billion market in the U.S., It hasn’t been easy. percent to be exact).

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FICO

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Reflecting on the ever-changing market over the past year, many key indicators in the macro economy vary. Bureau of Economic Analysis showed the market economy grew at an annual pace of 2.6% How will this impact credit scores and the credit card industry? Inflation takes hold, bankcards delinquencies surpass pre-pandemic levels.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2016

That conclusion was the result of a PayPal-initiated global survey of retailers around the world to better understand how their customers are using mobile devices in physical stores today — and how they would like to be using those mobile devices in the future. Participants included senior leaders across technology, finance and marketing.

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FICO

AUGUST 16, 2022

The following credit card performance figures represent a national sample of approximately 130 million accounts that comprise FICO® Advisors’ Risk Benchmarking solution. The solution offers a variety of account management metrics, along with month-over-month and year-over-year comparisons, as well as 25-month trends. This is only a 3.6%

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

As a result, Instacart is getting into the business of developing apps for grocery retailers. In fact, consumers gave grocery retailers an average score of 30.2 The old method of consumer retail savings is meeting the new in Target’s shopping app , Cartwheel , for example. Essentially, the program works like a rebate.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Digital orders for local pizzerias is a largely untapped market. By comparison, Sela said 60 percent of the big pizza chains’ business is digital, leaving room for small pizzerias to grow their digital order base. The payments system is flexible, allowing customers to pay by cash or credit card. The Delivery Business.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Overall, merchants in the $1 trillion accommodation and food services market see digital innovation as key for staying competitive in the space. Nearly 60 percent of players in the industry say innovation is critical to their survival, according to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Contactless payment methods were always in the wings for credit card companies, but the pandemic pushed them front and center. That reflects itself in preferences for contactless payment options, with 26 percent of consumers reporting a desire for merchants to accept contactless cards. Contactless. Nearly one in 10 consumers (9.6

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

It’s hardly competing with Amazon yet, but Target has shown more digital momentum than any major retailer during the pandemic. By a strict look at the macro numbers, Target still pales in comparison. And when attention turns to loyalty programs, the comparison is even more dramatic. Stores: Walmart, 11,500; Target, 1,868.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2018

But he wanted to test out the idea before bringing it to market, so he built a splash page with a minimum viable product (MVP) and posted it on a local mom group page on Facebook. While there are other services geared toward providing lunches to kids, such as Yumble , Cooper said the company has the first-to-market advantage.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Campers can make a reservation instantly and pay by credit card through Stripe ; however, the camper and host can chat, and if it isn’t a good match, they can cancel the reservation. And, by using marketplaces like Pitched, they gain a marketing channel. “We We do all the marketing and communications for them,” Dunn said. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. Millennials and Gen Z are driving the growth of the secondhand market and eCommerce, generally. Online Resale. Social Media.

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