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

JULY 28, 2019

Supermarket giant Kroger and online grocery retailer Ocado are joining forces to build the second of 20 planned automated warehouse facilities. Kroger is excited to enter Florida to redefine the customer experience through our industry-leading partnership with Ocado,” said Rodney McMullen, Kroger’s chairman and CEO.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Items available for sale will range from the Air Force 1 drops to The Ten Collection — items that Nike said in an online post are “specific to Atlanta’s vibe.” Beyond the pop-up shop, the retailer is opening a “Studio of Dreams” Super Bowl Content Studio on the same block. It makes that purchasing much easier.”

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

Financial institutions can keep customers safe by accurately determining when attempted transactions are legitimate versus when they are being made by fraudsters who have stolen customers’ cards or taken over accounts. States are now enabling some brick-and-mortar retailers to reopen, which is causing another major shift in buying habits.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Though not expected to be as damaging as the hurricane run that ripped through Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico last year, Hurricane Florence is expected to deal $700 million worth of net negative impact on the U.S. A bad one — bad enough, in fact, to be this week’s biggest fizzle. in West Chester, Pennsylvania, said in reference to Florence.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

As the company’s chief digital officer, Sethia and his team have built what is arguably the most valuable loyalty program in retail with more than 33 million members. It announced this week that it is piloting Fuel Loyalty at participating 7-Eleven stores in North and South Orlando, Florida; North Texas; and Woodbridge, Virginia.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

The company has said that it is the first bank in Puerto Rico to offer digital services, ranging from business credit cards to working capital loans to SBA loans. Verticals within the SMB realm that may be receptive to online lending, he said, include manufacturing and retail.

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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. In terms of Walmart’s other efforts, the retailer is also focusing on features such as grocery pickup.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The feature is also available for debit, small business and prepaid card users, according to the announcement. Instacart, a San Francisco-based startup, partners with more than 400 retailer chains to offer delivery and pickup of groceries from more than 30,000 stores across 5,500 cities in the U.S. Florida; and Texas.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Shoppers can pick out a gift box to send to a relative in Florida, for example. Consumers can use credit cards, Apple Pay, PayPal, Google Pay or Amazon Pay for their purchases. In addition to selling online, Mitten Crate also launched a retail storefront at the historic Eastern Market in March, which Wright said has been well-received.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

The needs of children are a driving force for online and mobile innovation and disruption. It’s not exactly unusual these days, of course, to find multiple eyeglass options online for both adults and children – the purchase of glasses was traditionally an expensive and friction-filled process before the spread of online sales.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

But, for consumers with more cash on hand or cards with higher spending limits, more luxurious items, including caviar and cars, can also be purchased through specialized vending machines. Take online vehicle marketplace Carvana, which recently installed its first car vending machine in Florida. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

Looking at the past several weeks of PYMNTS consumer survey data, four times more consumers are buying groceries online instead of going into the grocery store these days. Smith suffers from a chronic medical condition affecting her connective tissue and laments the fact that she can’t use her SNAP to easily shop online.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2017

Online shopping is nothing new, but with heavy promotion and low prices among sporting goods companies, just having an online presence likely i sn’t enough to pull out a victory, especially if and when the competition somehow goes into extra innings. Big-box stores are losing ground to online warehouses like Amazon.

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FICO

APRIL 8, 2021

As it turns out, money isn’t the only thing that can be muled — merchandise bought with stolen credit card information can be “laundered” through unsuspecting victims, too. My latest fraud video captures my recent conversation with Jesse Gossman , a South Florida police detective and president of Bottom Line Fraud Consulting.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

What eventually becomes cutting-edge in retail and payments often originates in places that are dedicated to security, not commerce. Those efforts come as voice-assistant and voice-activated technologies — different, of course, from voice-print biometrics — are having a moment in the retail spotlight. Voice-Print Efforts.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

A little more than a year ago, PYMNTS started tracking the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck between the two retail behemoths that have been expanding their respective ecosystems in the process: Amazon and Walmart. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S., percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S., population.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

As online shopping is showing no signs of slowing down, it has affected shopping malls greatly resulting in less foot traffic alongside less dollars spent in brick-and-mortar locations. Are shopping malls doomed to fall by the wayside along with retail trends of the past? Not quite yet. They’re evolving and frankly, they’re packed.’.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

It’s one of the ideals of payments and commerce, a vision that drives so much research and experimentation: Making it through a store checkout lane without fishing for a card or waving a mobile phone, or even checking into a hotel after an exhausting flight without producing a driver’s license and credit card to gain access to the room.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

Well, that’s a problem that Miami, Florida-based shoe startup Flat Out of Heels is hoping to solve. In a recent interview, company founder Dawn Dickson discussed how Flat Out of Heels and the unattended retail sector as a whole have each evolved since their inception. Simple Beginnings. Last Name*. Work Email*. About the Report.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

For example, in an insight that will likely shock the world, four out of five trending city destinations for spring break this year will be in Florida. Sephora’s New Cards. Beauty retailer Sephora announced this week that it will release two new credit cards: the Sephora Visa® credit card and Sephora Visa Signature® credit card.

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NCR

MARCH 29, 2016

EMV chip cards made their debut in the U.S. last fall, and some retailers are still struggling to get the technology implemented in their stores. The switch from magnetic-stripe cards has meant not just new cards, but new payment processes, as well, which some folks have found frustrating. Online & Over the Phone.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Despite Chris Rock’s old adage that people “don’t sell drugs, drugs sell themselves,” being in the legal — or at least legal-ish — business of cannabis retail is surprisingly difficult and friction-filled work. The problem is not in moving the supply. A very wide path.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

You’re a retailer, beset by the twin problems of brick-and-mortar and fickle U.S. Picture 625 million wallets, ready to open for the right retail experience. Many of these retailers, he said, did not perform as well as might have been expected on Black Friday or even Cyber Monday. consumer spending. as well.”. “If

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

Consumers may have moved to mobile apps when ordering pizzas on their iPhones, but when it comes to a broken fridge, or an online account that won’t let them log in, they still tend to pick up the phone and dial a company’s hotline. Calls made to contact centers today aren’t just getting more complicated. Securing the Call.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2017

“I would not want to be a merchant responsible for managing fraud today,” Spear told Karen Webster in a live online discussion on the topic held last week with an audience of online retailers. “It Online jewelry sales are on the increase, but the category has a higher decline rate than any other. percent in Q1 2017.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2017

Reports in The Wall Street Journal last week indicate that Wells had to overhaul its credit card processing business after an internal inquiry turned up evidence that employees were falsely reporting customers’ sales and steering small businesses into contracts that were expensive and confusing. Merchant processors earned $18.15

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

People on social media will engage in online debate for almost any reason — sometimes no reason at all. Florida was the unique regional exception — by the numbers, the state is solidly Burger King country. So, the brand redesigned the payments section to make it easier to either “Pay with credit card” or “Pay with Chick-fil-A One.”.

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PopularBank

MAY 1, 2020

This program allows financial relief options for our customers who have been directly or indirectly affected by recent events and need assistance with existing loans, lines of credit, credit cards, and mortgages. At this time, we have strengthened our retail banking controls and are taking every precaution within each of our branches.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

To bring the concept of the farmers’ market to the world of eCommerce, online marketplaces are connecting local producers with consumers hungry for fresh food. And, in the winter, it works with farms in Florida and California when “it can be quite cold and quite dark in the Northeast,” Robinov said.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. How will we shop in 2020?

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FICO

APRIL 28, 2020

Debt Management Swisscard AECS GmbH , a leading credit card company in Switzerland, has optimized its early collections, leading to a 50 percent increase in revenue from billable collection expenses, a 40 percent reduction in net credit losses and a 30 percent reduction in account terminations. Fraud & Security. by Nikhil Behl.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2018

The program is getting off the ground in Florida, and is on track for expansion to other Whole Foods stores as soon as summer 2018. based online grocery firm Ocado , which will see the firm become Kroger’s exclusive partner in the U.S. based retailers. market, though Ocado plans to have talks with other U.S.-based

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FICO

MAY 27, 2021

OCBC , a multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Singapore, launched an online 60-minute mortgage approval service for Singaporeans using FICO® Origination Manager. Credit checks that used to take three days are now done in seconds. Read the full Volvo story here. Customer Onboarding & Management.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2020

When the fast-spreading coronavirus forced restaurants to close seating areas, Zukku Sushi was in a bind because its three locations in Florida and North Carolina were based in food halls. Jap said that one of the reasons Zukku picked Paytronix as its online ordering platform was because of its integration with the Focus POS system. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2016

Miller, who’s a general contractor and the owner-operator of The Screen Depot, based out of Boynton Beach, Florida, found dealing with out-of-state client payments to be a hassle for both parties. First not knowing whether they were going to use a credit card and then, which card they might end up using.”.

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