PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2017

From 2000 to 2013 (the last time period there is data for), prices on the things that most poor people buy disproportionately, such as food and sundries, and pay, such as rent and utilities, have risen steadily for 139 of 168 months, according to the Chicago Federal Reserve. SNAP online . All in, prices increased 3.2

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MARCH 30, 2018

While lockers are often associated with Amazon and Whole Foods , Macy’s has been using lockers for a buy-online-pickup-in-store program. The retailer is continuing to test the lockers through an installation at a New Jersey store per a tweet from a Fortune writer, industry news source Chain Store Age reported.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Magazines have been testing the waters of brick-and-mortar retail by opening temporary stores in major cities, and New York Magazine is no exception. The Strategist is not the only media brand to wade into brick-and-mortar retail. Earlier this year, the eCommerce retailer launched its first checkout-free convenience store in Seattle.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Turkey didn’t become standard fare on the Thanksgiving table for over another 200 years when Abraham Lincoln officially declared it a national holiday in the 1860s. A Banner Year For Buying A Turkey, Especially Online . Consumers are also increasingly pushing their thanksgiving shopping online, as COVID-19 case counts continue to rise.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2020

When the coronavirus pandemic struck the nation two months ago, panicked customers stockpiled paper goods, shelf-stable foods and other essentials as states shut down. Sales of store brands, so-called private labels, which are priced lower than national brands, have surged during the pandemic. But that’s all changed.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In a twist on contemporary retail trends toward online channels, consumers still largely prefer to return in-store. One logistics technology startup is working to solve the problem of physical returns for digital retailers. If all’s well, Happy Returns signals the retailer to refund the customer. “We’re

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2018

For its report, inMarket looked at nearly 100 Whole Foods stores in markets such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth and San Francisco metropolitan areas. The retailer could also provide fast payment options, such as self-checkout, Stewart Samuel, program director for IGD Services , told Reuters. billion last year.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2018

In 2014, Amazon ’s Whole Foods became Instacart’s first national partner. For grocers, Amazon’s ventures into online groceries bring big competition, but delivery platforms such as Instacart can help grocers compete with the threat of eCommerce and delivery.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

Currently, Amazon hopes to take advantage of recently loosened restrictions on foreign retailers in India by expanding its online grocery venture into the nation of some 1.3 Over the past few years, Amazon has invested billions of dollars in establishing a presence in India’s fast-growing online retail market.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. By 2022, the projected value of the online delivery market is projected to reach $55 billion. The Whole Pie. That’s where Slice comes in.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

The ubiquitous (well, at least in the Northeast) coffee chain has announced a partnership with DoorDash , the online delivery app that promises food and other “goods” delivered to your doorstep in 45 minutes or less, that will see it offer an on-demand delivery service in select parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan. “The

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

Just ask Carvana, the leading online automotive seller and a major force in changing the way people buy cars. billion, on an 82 percent increase in retail sales. That is the most organic growth of any automotive retailer ever in the U.S. Wall Street is a tough master, especially for eCommerce companies. Ontario (L.A.),

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Cloud kitchens, sometimes called KaaS (kitchens as a service) or ghost kitchens have emerged as a new model, driven by the rise of online ordering and delivery services. Recent data indicates that consumers increased their spending on online food delivery in 2019 by almost 15 percent year over year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

The deal, announced earlier this week, is not just a partnership between two companies with heft in the digital economy — Alibaba is among the main symbols of Chinese eCommerce, and Starbucks is a leader in mobile ordering and payments — but also represents the latest development for online food and beverage delivery. Both Starbucks and Ele.me

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Cohen owns a national distribution network and deals with some of the nation’s biggest retailers. His aim is to change the way that the thousands of cases of retail goods are stored, handled and hauled. But it’s not just the retailers trying to cut costs who are embracing technology. In 2016, 5 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

That honor fell to Ray Kroc — who made the idea famous when he opened the first McDonald’s franchise in Chicago eight years later. That’s why they’re asking guests to order a Whopper meal based on however they might be feeling,” an online release stated Wednesday (May 1).

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

John Beale , longtime CIO of City National Bank. For more than 20 years, John has helped City National grow its niched commercial and private banking businesses with strategic technologies. The Experience Award Goes to BCU , Chicago. Kudos to blazing new trails that many institutions are taking on in 2020.

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JANUARY 25, 2018

Today the service is online in 10 cities — New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are reportedly its three most popular hubs — though users can also tap into small group instruction offerings in other locations. Will it usher in a new era of fitness for a nation of people avoiding the gym? Probably not.

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JULY 14, 2018

Here at PYMNTS, we see it all, often in the form of press releases – most of which claim to be the next big thing in retail, commerce and financial services. For reference, a top-of-the-line pair of Neuticals retails for $469. At the Stay Dog Hotel in Chicago, four-legged guests have riverfront suites and a lap pool.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Grocery is the biggest category in consumer spending, and it is the next retail segment for the powerhouse to dominate following books, electronics and clothes. This startup is based in Chicago, and its users can view menus and compare prices among available restaurants. Competitors Walmart and Kroger have already taken similar steps.

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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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APRIL 17, 2018

Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. in Australia and South Africa before taking up various roles with online city guide business CitySearch in 1996. Education: Stanford University (MBA), Australian National University (BA/BSC). BRIAN SINGERMAN. JEREMY LIEW.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2017

But then again, New Yorkers take pizza unusually seriously, a fact former Daily Show host — and proud New York style pizza fan — Jon Stewart proved during 3:32 minutes of pure unadulterated hatred for Chicago-style pizza. How appetizing. Domino’s last quarterly earnings reports saw the chain logging $1.48 percent growth. “We

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

NFC penetration at launch was 15 large retailers’ stores and some 200k merchant locations. A hungry party of 4 in Austin didn’t really care if a great restaurant in Chicago had a few tables available on Saturday night at 7. Today, Apple says that number is north of 2 million worldwide, some 1 million in the U.S. (Of

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JUNE 30, 2022

American Bank, National Association. Classic Bank, National Association. The First National Bank In Sioux Falls. Dakota Community Bank & Trust, National Association. The Miners National Bank of Eveleth. The National Iron Bank. The First National Bank of Gilbert. Ag Lender Score. Mason City.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. So, what does this all have to do with retail? Here’s a question: Does the U.S. Here’s an answer. We have both.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Heck, in my recent travels to Vancouver and Chicago, words of admiration and wonder accompanied each mention of its growth story. For the past few years, we’ve seen digitally native consumers spending an increasing amount of time socializing, playing, and purchasing online (source: ARK Invest 2022 Research).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2016

Naturally, where there’s alcohol, there’s bound to be bad decisions, and while friends should already know not to let friends drive drunk, much fewer know about the dangers of letting a friend shop online after he’s had a few too many brews. Millions of Americans wake up the day after St.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Today, the bots are still being used across industries like fintech, healthcare, sales and CRM, retail, and even law — and they’re having important, though quiet, effects. Retail & e-commerce: Convenient shopping & scheduling. Customer journey: Using chat to get people from online to brick-and-mortar.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

A healthy culture of dissent may have helped the company focus on its product issues before they became a national scandal, but workers who raised red flags were ignored and, if they persisted, asked to leave the company. With lower costs and a bigger market to sell to, a new crop of online pet supplies retailers eventually emerged.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. One popular explanation for this is that millennials are simply shopping less in physical locations in general, preferring to do their shopping online. Not all in-store retailers have fallen out of favor with millennials the way department stores have. The way we shop is changing.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Over the last seven months, those devices and apps have given a much less on-the-go consumer two new superpowers: the chance to save time by moving physical routines online, and the ability to shift the days of the week once allocated to doing them. This national study of 10,000 U.S. 15 and Aug. Image Source: [link].

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Indeed, co-founder Alejandro Resnik, the CEO, told the WSJ in 2015 that it was looking to raise a “monster round” of $300 million at a $2 billion valuation to fuel its national expansion. via Chicago Tribune. Meanwhile, it floated other plans, like starting a print catalogue and delivering for local retailers. via MDDI Online.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Popeil set up shop in New York in 1937 and then later in Chicago in 1941, where he invented a slew of household gadgets — like potato peelers and cheese slicers. The Home Shopping Network (HSN) went national in 1985, and its competitor, QVC , went live a year later. And who tend to operate in national, and often regional, footprints.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Since Richman and about 100 other bankers from LaSalle Bank in Chicago joined PrivateBancorp nearly a decade ago, the bank has grown to an $18 billion solid niche player with $10 billion in assets under management. Mergerama Region of the Year – The Midwest: Huntington-First Merit, Chemical-Talmer, Old National-Anchor … the list goes on.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Since Richman and about 100 other bankers from LaSalle Bank in Chicago joined PrivateBancorp nearly a decade ago, the bank has grown to an $18 billion solid niche player with $10 billion in assets under management. Mergerama Region of the Year – The Midwest: Huntington-First Merit, Chemical-Talmer, Old National-Anchor … the list goes on.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

We are confident that to truly have the long-term impact we want to make, we need to focus on finding an acquirer with an existing national fresh food supply chain who can carry forward the Juicero mission. Markafoni was an online shopping destination for Turkish consumers, specialising in clothing and fashion accessories.

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