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

MARCH 22, 2019

Online brands are stepping into the world of brick-and-mortar, opening their own physical locations to help consumers experience their concepts in real life with the help of digital technology. and Bethesda, Maryland, that will work to mirror the company’s online experience. Starbucks Coffee.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

According to The Seattle Times , a company spokesperson confirmed that employees received an email notification and apology from Co-president Blake Nordstrom last week regarding the breach. The retailer isn’t the first to be hit with a breach.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

It’s the latest effort by the Seattle-based online retailer with a headquarters in Bengaluru, the center of India's high-tech industry, to intensify the competition in the mostly cash-based economy. Four years ago, Amazon introduced its Amazon Pay digital wallet to increase online payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Customers in Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C. All stores will be open on Christmas Eve for online order pickup, the company said. will have a wider merchandise selection for same-day and next-day pickup. .

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2020

The the world’s largest retailer paid about $200 million for the Seattle-based tech startup. New Data: Why 75 Pct Of Consumers Want More From Card Apps Than They’re Getting. Ride-Hailing Firm Grab Cuts Staff. Sam’s Club COO: What We Learned During The Pandemic’s Lockdowns.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

the FBI recently issued a warning for holiday shoppers of a new scam called eSkimming , in which cyber criminals hack into legitimate online retailer websites to steal shoppers’ credit and debit card details. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

The pilot will be introduced in the Seattle, Washington area, the company said, and will let customers use their mobile phones to pay in a seamless manner. Grocery chain Kroger is rolling out a new contactless pay solution at its Quality Food Centers (QFC) locations, according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

“The ubiquity of mobile and credit card payments is enabling us to begin an exploration of cashless stores in the U.S,” Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson said during a recent earnings report. “By Already, a cashless store concept is already up and running in a Seattle pilot. Taco Bell’s $9.8 Market Differentiation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“ Membership has its privileges ” was the nine-year ad campaign launched by American Express in 1987 to persuade consumers that it was worth it to pay an annual fee for one of its charge card products. As the slogan implied, being an American Express card member was the only way to unlock those benefits.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 22, 2019

Bank Innovation Ignite, March 11-12 in Seattle, offers high-level discussions and networking around the future of what’s next in banking. IBM, one of the world’s largest technology companies, has agreed to sponsor Bank Innovation Ignite, which explores new ideas and technologies needed to push banking forward. The […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Our fully compliant solution allows businesses to feature a state-of-the-art retail customer experience for both in-store and delivery, while also providing in-depth business analytics and increased revenues for businesses.”. billion by 2020 — the industry is largely cash-based.

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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. When it comes to the battle between Bentonville and Seattle, Amazon is taking the lion’s share of this category, according to an exclusive PYMNTS data analysis.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 24, 2019

Previously, only INV Fintech members were permitted to attend Demo Day on March 11 in Seattle. INV Fintech, the technology accelerator run in partnership with Fiserv, has opened its Demo Day event to financial institution executives attending Bank Innovation Ignite.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

Nadji said that in COVID-wracked Seattle and New York City, more than 60 percent of millennials have reached their 30s and are embracing life changes like marriage and having children. However, the CEO said an eventual rebound seems in the cards for central business districts given U.S. There’s also a demographic tailwind at work here.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Gray will discuss corporate banking and blockchains on March 1 in Seattle with JP Jolly of Citigroup and Deva Annamalai of Fiserv. Bank Innovation is pleased to welcome Marley Gray, Microsoft’s director of technology strategy for blockchain and financial services, to our speaker faculty.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Whether it be a personal loan or accounts receivable from credit cards, to get your money faster and control of your destiny means a ton,” he said. He cited American Express’s acquisition three months ago of online lender Kabbage as an example. Credit is phenomenal — it’s a lifeline when you don’t have [money],” he said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

According to Vox Media’s Recode , Walmart is close to unveiling the service, but it’s unclear whether the retailer has set a new deadline for the subscription program. As Amazon continues to keep its Prime Day cards close, its decision to launch the event in India has come under scrutiny. Walmart could be waiting for its Aug.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Traditional retail is getting an upgrade. Despite the rise of e-commerce and mobile, the physical channel still plays an important role in consumer experience — and retailers are increasingly leveraging technologies to stay afloat. Get the entire 54-page retail report. Why Are retailers are pivoting towards cashier-less retail?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The company announced plans for a mobile-only ordering store in its Seattle headquarters in 2017, and now it’s bumped it up another notch. Starbucks and Chase announced in February that they were rolling out a Starbuck Rewards Visa Card, a co-branded credit card integrated with the Starbucks Rewards loyalty program.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 4, 2016

SEATTLE — The Silicon Valley model for its startups is well-known. Heck, there’s a Wikipedia for it. It centers on a simple principle: build a business that scales, no matter the initial profitability. And then scale it like mad. Or, in technical terms, build a business that has the potential Read More.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 8, 2016

SEATTLE — LendingTree will “buy the clicks” previously pointing to Google Compare, now that the search giant is shuttering the service, a top LendingTree official said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

As of the first day of August 1994 more people had walked on the surface of the moon than had bought things online, because online shopping did not yet exist. That changed on the 11th day of the month that year, when the first internet purchase in history was made by a Philadelphia resident with a Visa card. It was a Sting CD.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

After a difficult deliberation, 10 early-stage fintech companies were selected by a team of judges to compete in this year’s DEMOvation Challenge, to take place in Seattle on March 1. Many applied, few were chosen.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Amazon India has introduced a way for customers to pay their credit card bills through Amazon Pay , the eCommerce company’s payments arm. The feature allows making payments for any credit card bill via UPI or internet banking. “As Four years ago, Amazon introduced its Amazon Pay digital wallet to increase online payments.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Today, Amazon Pay has evolved to include a digital wallet for customers and a payments network for both online and brick-and-mortar merchants. Bill Me Later was one of the earliest fintech payment platforms on the market and gave big retailers the ability to offer flexible financing programs.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2017

Consumers, Karen Webster noted, weren’t looking to use smartphones as a new payment form factor in stores, because cards were and are already doing a largely acceptable job when it comes to lining up at a point of sale and paying. And, bonus, he even tacks on an order of banana bread if he feels so moved. Giving Customers What They Want.

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

This week, digital poster child Square jumped into the plastic gift card market. Unlike many of its new endeavors, old-school cards were met with a decided lack of enthusiasm in the tech press (and my Twitter feed). Many recalled the company''s failed efforts with virtual gift cards (which I liked then, and still do).

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

German-based discount-supermarket giant ALDI announced a great leap forward into the world of digital sales this week with word that it will be piloting a new “click-and-collect” online grocery ordering program at a single U.K. Amazon this week introduced the latest piece of in-store retail tech: the human hand.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

From creating checkout-free retail stores to eliminating concert tickets, here are 16 industries that are starting to transform with facial recognition technology. Linking facial recognition to personalization for shoppers presents a big opportunity in retail. Law Enforcement.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Sure, activities like shopping online, getting food delivered, catching a cab or finding a gig are some of the most front-and-center examples. The Seattle Mariners also launched a mobile-only promotion in March that encouraged users to purchase a Ballpark Pass, a ticket that grants standing-room access to all home games for $99 a month.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Sondhi said that, when looking at omnichannel in practice today, it consists of consumers researching an item online, then going into a store and talking to salespeople, or just using their smartphones in the store to research the item there. Omnichannel is still clunky,” Sondhi told PYMNTS. Use Cases In Different Places.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Contactless launched in New York City, retail earnings season was an ongoing rollercoaster, Facebook decided to digitally mint its own currency, the iPhone lost its dominant footing, Prime Day made all the money and Elon Musk and Jack Ma debated whether AI will be humanity’s future or the end of us all. Brian Cornell, CEO of Target.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

The Prime Day countdown clock is ticking down, and with all the media reports about what Amazon is doing to prepare (and what everyone else in retail is doing to prepare for those preparations), it might be hard to believe that there is news to be had outside of the Amazon-invented shopping holiday. So where were the highlights?

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Developer tools for mobile card acceptance . HQ: Seattle, Washington. Tool to automatically find refund opportunities from retail purchases. Online payments & collections platform. Tags: Credit cards, processing, SMB, merchants, developers, API, Finovate/FinDEVr alum. Source: Crunchbase. CardFlight. MoneySmart.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2018

Here’s IBM’s chairman minimizing how Amazon might transform retail and internet sales all the way back in 1999. “Amazon.com is a very interesting retail concept, but wait till you see what Wal-Mart is gearing up to do,” he said [IBM Chairman, Louis V. It’s a house of cards.” Gerstner Jr.].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The firm also announced another major retail play: It will be opening pop-up shops within select Macy’s locations across the U.S. The new shops will feature 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores, and will be housed in The Market @ Macy’s.

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