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If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Worse yet, some analysts fear the triggering of break-lease clauses for retailers in malls if anchor stores leave. All of this will only make malls an even tougher sell to consumers, and to retailers that want consumers to buy their stuff.

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MARCH 27, 2020

You’ve seen that principle at work on days when markets plunged 10 percent. Of course, companies hedge their bets a bit when it comes to guidance, offering a broad range for many data points. That may portend a bit of bumpiness for retailers like Target. But what comes next? Just check your inbox.

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JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). That experience is one that is hard to gain as a vendor with new and exciting retail technology in the market.”.

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DECEMBER 20, 2017

That’s a quote from department store maven John Wanamaker, illustrating a conundrum for retailers (and merchants in general): Namely, you’ve got to reach out to consumers if you are going to convince them to buy your wares. It is equally important to measure and iterate as the retailer continues to engage with its target audience.

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APRIL 7, 2020

market for retail credit was largely occupied by store-branded cards and revolving credit accounts. But as millennials’ and Gen Z consumers’ enthusiasm for store cards has cooled, a host of startups have stepped into the market to offer installment financing at the point of sale (POS) as an alternative product.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Retailers often need additional coverage during peak holiday shopping periods, hospitals may need substitutes for nurses on paternity leave and construction companies might need to increase staff for sizable projects. The United States’ tight labor market exacerbates competitive tensions for such agencies, though. rose from 3.1

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Retail spending may be helping to spur freight volumes, and to push already lofty pricing higher. That’s because consumer demand is picking up, but retail inventories are relatively low. Against that backdrop, spot markets, which comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of volumes, have been tight. million in funding.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Retail spending may be helping to spur freight volumes, and to push already lofty pricing higher. That’s because consumer demand is picking up, but retail inventories are relatively low. Against that backdrop, spot markets, which comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of volumes, have been tight. million in funding.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

Census Bureau reported that retail eCommerce sales for the second quarter, on an unadjusted basis, stood at $200.7 That jump comes at total retail sales were $1.3 percent of the total tally, and the overall decrease (in aggregated sales) comes as, of course, the lingering impacts of lockdown and staggered re-openings continued.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

But before we shut the door on 2019, it bears taking a moment to note how much the world of retail has changed in the last year, a fitting capstone on a decade that has seen retail as the American consumer commonly knew it taken to the ground and rebuilt nearly from the foundations. More growth, of course.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The rise of unattended retail – from yesterday’s vending machines full of candy and soda to today’s upscale self-service conduits where one can get kiosk champagne at a hotel (it’s true!) – all started with digital payments. That growth came as vending and unattended retail firms struggled to compete with big-box retailers.

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MAY 21, 2019

retailer Iceland has seen encouraging results from a mobile wallet technology pilot during a marketing campaign. Retail categories that saw the highest transaction share included restaurants, apparel, gas, grocery and specialty retail. Users who reside in Belgium, the U.K., And in the U.K.,

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JUNE 20, 2019

In a way, watching the emergence of legal retail marijuana in North America is like watching someone grow up. Not really a toddler or baby — even black-market sale of recreational and medicinal pot took on many traits of legitimate retail — but more like a once gawky teenager growing into a graceful, confident person.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The costs of using some cards is going on the incline, as news is breaking that the nation’s two largest card networks, Visa and Mastercard, are preparing to up the fees charged to merchants to accept network-branded cards. It’s a fact that merchants, of course, do not love.

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JULY 25, 2018

The Payments Systems Regulator (PSR), Britain’s official payment watchdog group, has announced it will be reviewing banks that process card transactions on merchants’ behalf to evaluate whether customers are getting the best deal. “Card payments are critical to the smooth running of the U.K. s GDP,” UK Finance said. “It

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Over the course of his 97 years, Galbraith penned 48 books and thousands of essays on a variety of topics. Of course, the Amazon/Walmart rivalry has always made for good media sport. Johnson to kickstart the now-controversial “War on Poverty” program in the 1960s — a series of programs intended to end poverty and racial injustice.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

RuPay accounts for more than half of India’s one billion debit and credit cards, and yet Mastercard and Visa still process the majority of the tens of billions of dollars in payments transactions logged monthly, and where the figure was $51 billion in August. Jaitley noted that the total transaction value for RuPay was $1.1

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Shouldn’t it hold weight for payments, too – specifically, credit cards? Consider the news this week of the Apple Card’s debut , allowing holders to make purchases and earn cash back, among other features (and, of course, launched jointly with Goldman in a bid to spur the bank’s push into consumer-focused financial services).

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

Following a formidable start for its “ buy now, pay later ” service in the United States, Klarna intends to roll out in Australia and other markets next year. The course has been popular with millennials who have a preference for debit cards over credit cards. But there’s also other things like, where’s my package?

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Help yourself: Unattended retail just got more seamless and widespread with USA Technologies ’ acquisition of Cantaloupe Systems, Inc. USA Technologies powers cashless and mobile payments in self-service retail settings – think Starbucks kiosks and Home Depot key-cutting machines, for example. Its existing customer base in the U.S.,

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APRIL 13, 2018

It was a record-breaking first quarter for retailers in the U.S. According to a report issued by Moody’s earlier this week, the retail sector managed to notch a record number of defaults during Q1 2013, with nine retailers defaulting on their debt. As a result of the series of retail fails, the default rate of high-risk U.S.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

The great digital shift, along with the pandemic, has brought all manner of activities into the virtual realm — most notably, of course, commerce itself. In the current environment, of course, the pandemic decimated foot traffic across any number of verticals — restaurants and retailers come to mind, of course.

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JULY 3, 2017

In our latest Topic TBD, Bob Legters, SVP and chief product officer of Global Retail Payments at FIS , told Karen Webster that the big picture of loyalty amid a changing retail landscape is colored by small considerations, calibrations, speed and, of course, data.

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MAY 11, 2018

Apple and Goldman Sachs Group are in the midst of bringing a joint Apple Pay-designated credit card to market. After nearly 40 months on the market, adoption of Apple Pay has been essentially flat. Of course, it’s possible that at 40 months the blip upward in Dec. But Apple Pay’s adoption “curve?” percent in Dec.

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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. Surprise dolls. The CEO of L.O.L.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It’s the big stage for retailers, the holiday shopping season – when all the consumer world is watching (and, merchants and payments providers hope, buying more than they did last year). Put the finishing touches on those late-year marketing plans. An estimated 9 percent of the country’s retail market experienced the crashes.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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JANUARY 20, 2017

19) the addition of UnionPay , one of the largest card networks in the world, to its range of accepted credit and debit cards. In a press release , iZettle said its card reader, iZettle Reader, is one of the first to accept UnionPay in 10markets in Europe.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

As detailed by NPR, though at least some verticals, such as grocery stores, accept card transactions (and thus see at some volume of contactless payments), a significant number of smaller businesses rely on cash to keep revenues coming in. Roughly 55 percent said that cash, of course, is a widely accepted means of payment.

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JULY 21, 2017

So started Affirm’s Co-Founder and CEO Max Levchin ’s remarks at his firm’s first-ever AFFIRMation conference for its retail partners in San Francisco yesterday. His best-known effort — and a very clear entry into the “win” column — is, of course, as part of the founding team at PayPal. Broken by the Numbers.

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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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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.”.

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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. In fact, in various global markets, high-end luxury items can be purchased from both ATMs and unattended machines. And, yes, the machine also dispenses caviar for pets — of course.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

While the barriers to reaching an international consumer base are low thanks to innovations in eCommerce, online retailers and merchants still struggle to provide their global consumers with the same payments experience their domestic ones have. Visa recently announced a new policy to help shoppers alleviate this pain point.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

But that doesn’t mean other types of apps aren’t finding increasing use among consumers — one of the changes going on that relate to the future earning and marketing power of apps and app stores. Recently, Feelunique , an online retailer of cosmetics and related products, joined the WeChat mini program world. Russia Rising. and Brazil.

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JUNE 25, 2019

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. The Zelle network is used by an upward of 5,391 financial institutions (FIs), either through a mobile banking app or by registering a debit card with Zelle’s app.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Click-to-pay has been billed as a simpler, more secure way to shop online – especially for guest checkouts – as it requires consumers to enter card details just one time, rather than on a per-transaction basis, or through setting up accounts with individual merchants. and then move into international markets through the course of 2020.

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