PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Is the store register on its way out in favor of other retail and payments innovation? In case you didn’t hear, Target faced a register outage that lasted for about 90 minutes on Sunday (June 16), which meant the retail chain couldn’t process cards or other forms of payment.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In today’s top retail news, holiday spending is expected to be flat this year, Bed Bath & Beyond rolls out same-day delivery and Target goes up against Amazon Prime Day with “Deal Days.” Q4 Outlook: Consumer Mindset Is The Wild Card. Also, J2 Global has agreed to buy RetailMeNot. But these are the easy points. 29) announcement.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

It’s not exactly high time for legal online gambling yet – that comes in early 2020, with the Super Bowl and then the NCAA college basketball tournament – but the betting season is certainly heating up on more ways than one. And that new fuel comes as the legal online and mobile gambling industry in the U.S. College and U.S.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

The Apple event, heavy on subscription commerce offerings, took place at time when the company is trying to find more revenue from services given recent stumbles with iPhone sales — a move that seems to be pleasing at least some investors lately. Online Gaming. Magazine Subscriptions. billion gamers across the globe [spent] $137.9

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

A new report has revealed that Amazon’s Prime Day — along with promotions by other retailers — led to a boost in July retail sales. economics, told CNBC that she expects retail sales — excluding autos — to have risen by 0.6 percent, with about half coming from Prime Day and other promotions by rival retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

We have deep dives into virtual card adoption and self-service technology, as well as a report on Kobe Bryant’s legacy. Bank Is Doing to Drive Virtual Card Adoption. Accounts payable (AP) professionals and vendors still have reservations about adopting virtual cards despite their many benefits. FICO’s Take on Debit Security.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

liquor industry), who has combined the ongoing consumer desire for online subscription retail with the rise of craft distilleries. Along the way, he learned more about the power of brick-and-mortar retail in this increasingly online world. We had to buy a retail store to fulfill this dream. Stock explained.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In an organized retail crime (ORC) survey, the National Retail Federation found that 92 percent of respondents were victims of the practice in the past year. These criminals find new ways to expand their networks and manipulate the retail supply chain every day.”. And shoppers can be even more negligent at self-checkouts.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.” — John Collison.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

In what appears to be an unprecedented move, an industry trade association is stepping in to help restart a retail community hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will be a series of virtual market weeks to help businesses connect with customers at a time when in-person events are impossible to hold. 17 to 23 and Sept.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Capturing and then enabling card-on-file payments when consumers buy the products or services they consume in the physical world. Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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Perficient

JULY 11, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a type of point-of-sale installment loan that partners with retailers to allow consumers to pay for their purchases in multiple equal payments. When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

And while the weather is not usually our beat here at PYMNTS, weather this big and this forecasted to be a festival of destruction is more than a meteorological event — it’s also an event in commerce. A bad one — bad enough, in fact, to be this week’s biggest fizzle. According to Planalytics, roughly $2.75

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

Prodege is giving Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) more than $700 million in cash and free gift cards. In return, Groupon will provide Prodege with card-linked content supporting local restaurants and other merchants, Groupon said in a statement. Consumers can then load offers directly to an eligible payment card.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2019

To let shoppers experience their products in person, brands are opening brick-in-mortar stores in major shopping destinations, even as major retailers are closing stores across the country. At the same time, DePasquale said Tivoli has been fortunate to work with some retailers in certain parts of the world to create a “shop within a shop.”

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PYMNTS

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. She likened the transition to click-to-pay as a “button flip.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

17) the launch of Stripe Terminal, a product that will enable online businesses and platforms to accept in-person payments with Stripe. The question is: can we make the offline world as simple as the online world?” Retailers that are using Stripe for in-store and online payments include Warby Parker and Glossier.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Digital greeting card and gifting company Givingli has chosen Blackhawk Network to provide its app users with digital gift card selections. Blackhawk allows for eGift sales through Givingli’s app, with the inclusion of cards that can be used at travel, food and beverage, and health and beauty brands. 14) announcement. “We

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PYMNTS

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. In a highly unusual event for Amazon, its site was actually down for a brief part of Thursday (May 28). The retailer had been negotiating with ThredUp for about a year.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The two brothers ended up co-founding Scribe , an eCommerce website that sells paper greeting cards. The company lets consumers connect offline — through greeting cards that help them celebrate events with handwritten messages. The platform would then suggest that a user choose a card for her through the site.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

. — And almost as many restaurants — 72 percent — offer in-store events. For example, when Chopt opened a new restaurant in Nashville, it held an in-store charity event called Chopt Gives Day. Their system offers credit card processing, gift card capabilities, loyalty program integration and report and data functions.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2018

In the early 1900s, department stores came up with a novel idea to help their customers pay for their purchases: Customers could use metal plates — that looked like dog tags or tokens — at retailers such as Gimbels that tracked their spending. These gas cards became more important during the oil embargo in the 1970s.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Some were more visual – a marketing magazine online – but none were interactive. For example, Event Horizons BBS was grossing more than $3.2 Jim Maxey, who ran Event Horizons, employed ten people simply to scan photographs, format them, and put them online for download. million dollars a year by 1993.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2020

Consumers are going online for commerce consistently, and they will not come back to previous, pre-pandemic behaviors. Fear: Consumers are scared, and that fear is driving them to shop for retail goods online. percent of consumers grocery shopping online and 16.1 percent who order from restaurants online.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Traditional retail locations, ranging from fashion and home furnishings to hardware and department stores, have been forced to make significant changes in the face of heightened competition from eCommerce giants like Amazon and omnichannel powerhouses, like Walmart and its online unit, Jet.com.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

Shopify , an eCommerce company, hosted its first virtual event for members of its global community, the Canadian firm announced Wednesday (May 20). This is a difficult time to be an entrepreneur — the retail landscape is shifting under our feet, and the old way of doing things no longer works,” Shopify said in a statement.

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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. The beloved, bankrupt retailer has announced the cancellation of all in-store events, such as its annual Easter Egg Hunt and Geoffrey the Giraffe birthday parties.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2018

Put a bit more simply: Retailers face both a data problem and a time problem. In an interview with PYMNTS, Nathan Trueblood, VP of Product Management at DataTorrent , said customer expectations of retailers are changing — adding both challenge and opportunity to that data/time conundrum. Data is useful only when it’s fully utilized.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Co-chief Information Officer George Lee said onstage during an event Wednesday (Feb. The bank’s tech needs range from new products such as the Apple Card to its growing dependency on cloud infrastructure. Apple Card? customers had $736 million in loan balances after September.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

Her typical shopping journey has changed in a way that is increasingly looking like a permanent shift, as opposed to a transient event in response to unusual circumstances. And they’re also “the most likely to say they will keep shopping online once daily life returns to normal.”. How She Sees Herself. Our shopper has a career.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Small to medium-sized retailers, the denizens of Main Street , are facing an existential crisis in the face of the pandemic. SMBs – and any other retailer, for that matter – recognizes the urgent call to embrace the digital shift. SMBs – and any other retailer, for that matter – recognizes the urgent call to embrace the digital shift.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2019

Mobile checkout is getting a boost from one of the largest retailers, further evidence of the technology’s continuous move deeper into the consumer mainstream. The new frictionless shopping experience is integrated into the 7Rewards loyalty program in the convenience retailer’s mobile app.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2019

To help event organizers distribute tickets, online platforms are creating environments that efficiently work for buyers and sellers. Our focus is all about enabling the best experience for both the event organizer and the attendee,” Ticketbud CEO Kayhan Ahmadi told PYMNTS in an interview.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

13 and 14 in this year of unpredictable and unprecedented retail happenings. 13, Target and Walmart have countered with their own events. While the bigger retailers can draft some momentum from the event, the issue of how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can compete has never been more urgent.

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Celent Banking

MARCH 16, 2015

This last week the American Banker Retail Banking Conference 2015 was going on in Austin, TX. There were a couple of overarching themes throughout the event. The retailer combines the in-store and app experience to enhance the customer buying process. Competitive pressures on smaller institutions were top of many bankers´ minds.

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Perficient

AUGUST 9, 2020

It’s merely a lull, a period of maintenance before the next symptoms or life events trigger the journey to resume. No matter what symptoms or diagnosis – and whether in-person or virtual, primary or specialty care – the journey goes something like this: Before treatment: Deciding to act – new symptoms or a life event prompts action.

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