Tandym adds retailers for rewards programs
Payments Dive
MARCH 27, 2023
The private label digital credit card company is stacking up online retail customers, with plans to add debit options and in-store clients this year.
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PYMNTS
AUGUST 17, 2020
India’s Reliance Industries is in talks to buy online furniture retailer Urban Ladder in a transaction valued at as much as $30 million, the Times of India reported on Monday (Aug. The paper said Reliance has been on a buying spree of late, and is also in talks to buy a company called Milkbasket that delivers to homes.
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PYMNTS
DECEMBER 29, 2020
parent company of luxury online retailer Mytheresa , announced that it's filed a registration statement with the SEC for an initial public offering (IPO), according to a press release. Bloomberg wrote earlier this year that those with knowledge of the matter said the company was looking at a valuations of $1 billion to $1.5
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 17, 2020
In today’s top retail news, StockX has landed $275 million in a Series E funding round, while Rite Aid Corporation reported as part of its fiscal 2021 third quarter results that revenues rose by 12 percent. Fashion Retailer rue21 Strikes Deal To Retire Debt. Clothing retailer rue21 (r21 Holdings, Inc.) million members.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 7, 2020
Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy are using the court protection to end long-term lease agreements early and close thousands of stores, reported Bloomberg. If this becomes a tsunami of retailers rejecting their leases, it’s going to trigger another part of the sea change — the mortgages held by the landlords.”.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 20, 2021
In today’s top retail news, Birkenstock is said to be in discussions for a sale to CVC Capital Partners, while Cognira has released its AI Promotion Solution. The European shoe company could reportedly be valued at more than 4 billion euros (roughly $4.8 Cognira Rolls Out AI Promotion Suite For Retailers.
Payments Dive
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
The retailer brought the automated platforms to 2,200 stores across North America, and 40% of in-store payments at these sites run through them, CEO Brian Hannasch said.
Bank Innovation
JUNE 20, 2019
For the second consecutive year, Navy Federal Credit Union and USAA topped Forrester’s Customer Experience Index across industries, ahead of retailers like Lexus, QVC, Zappos and Amazon. Although banks are not known for exceptional customer service, a Forrester Research survey released this week shows they’re making progress.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 18, 2021
Every year for the last 110 years , members of the retail trade group, known as the National Retail Federation (NRF), have assembled to discuss the slate of issues pertinent to its members. COVID-19, of course, didn’t cause physical retail’s steep decline — it just accelerated it. Retail is now about logistics and the last mile.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 28, 2020
Discount supermarket retailer Save A Lot unveiled the sale of 51 retail locations run by the company in the Tampa, Florida market to existing Save A Lot Retail Partner licensee Fresh Encounter. The latter company will keep running the retail locations with the Save A Lot name, according to a Monday (Dec.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 24, 2020
When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. These are companies like Adore Me (lingerie), Green Goo (personal care), Shift (used cars) and Misfits Market (produce). The numbers speak for themselves.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
These are the top stories in retail for Tuesday (Nov. The automotive market is surging during the pandemic, and companies like Carvana are reaping the benefits. The company reported a stellar third quarter as used cars and contactless delivery are driving the market. SA Company Takes The COVID Pivot Outside — Literally.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
When he first came up with the idea for an eCommerce technology company, Co-founder and CEO Finbarr Taylor was in the process of plowing through this story of medieval Japan. He needed a name for the company and liked the book. It enables companies like Leesa to import their product data during an expansion to a new region.
PYMNTS
APRIL 28, 2020
Reinventing retail in the wake of COVID-19 may mean reinventing retail formats. It’s also likely that retailers will see more men in-store than women, and they should consider adjusting inventory to target these shoppers.”. Inventory adjustments will only be part of the post-COVID retail order.
PYMNTS
MARCH 13, 2020
After it was forced to shutter its retail locations in China because of the spread of COVID-19, Apple Inc. The closures were one of the main reasons the tech company cited for removing its March quarter sales outlook, Bloomberg reported. China is the third-largest market for the tech company.
PYMNTS
APRIL 21, 2020
The retail bankruptcy watch intensified Tuesday (April 21) as the department store sector was hit by reports of yet another major player looking at that option. Lord & Taylor, now joining Neiman Marcus, is considering a bankruptcy filing as the COVID-19 lockdown continues to decimate non-essential retail. billion in sales.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 9, 2020
“We are essentially taking glass doors that were probably underutilized and not asking the retailer for any additional physical space.”. From a business standpoint, we believe that things like sales lift are obviously a really important metric,” Dravenstott said, “and you don't hear that much in brick and mortar retail.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 20, 2021
Google Cloud is rolling out Product Discovery Solutions for Retail, a new suite of services that will use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to help eCommerce firms deliver personalized consumer experiences during a shopping journey’s initial phase. "As
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
retail sales grew in September at their fastest rate in 18 months, Yahoo! The CBI surveys 123 companies, including 56 retailers. that “the data highlights that there have been clear winners and losers within the retail sector as spending habits have changed.” This allowed the company to recoup some of its lockdown losses.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Rakuten , a Japanese tech company specializing in digital eCommerce solutions for retailers, is introducing a new subsidiary to bolster physical stores. Tentatively called Rakuten DX, the new unit will launch schemes for digital transformation at retailers’ physical shops, Rakuten said in a statement on Monday (Nov.
PYMNTS
JUNE 25, 2020
Or maybe they’re both as several types and sizes of retailers step up to sell non-medical face masks. The retail face mask efforts range from small to big companies. MaskClub is owned by Trevco, a licensing company with over 800 licensed brands. To date, MaskClub has donated 100,000 medical masks to first responders.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 31, 2020
There’s a storm brewing in the Indian retail scene, with Amazon at its center. Over the weekend, Reliance Industries – the company owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani – purchased Future Group ’s 2,000 retail stores and the Big Bazaar grocery chain. Whole Foods has 497 stores. billion consumers. “At
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 10, 2020
The David’s Bridal application was built by Vertebrae , a tech company that specializes in bringing real-world applications to retailing. Vince Cacace , CEO of Vertebrae, told PYMNTS that AR in 3D has become a high-demand technology for all kinds of products and retailers. “We How does it work on me? What are the details?
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
retailers during the holiday shopping season, the Financial Times (FT) reported. The shortages come from an unexpected surge of customer demand, which took retailers by surprise after they had cut orders for new merchandise in the spring as countrywide lockdowns were starting and the job market was bottoming out. in the spring.
PYMNTS
OCTOBER 19, 2020
Silicon Valley checkout-free, autonomous retail startup AiFi has secured a new round of funding, bringing its total raised to $30 million, the company said in a press release on Monday (Oct.
PYMNTS
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
But in other ways, it was business as usual, as the two biggest retailers in the world – Walmart and Amazon – posted stellar earnings numbers and competed in more muted ways for the U.S. percent of total consumer spending in Q2 (spanning all categories, including retail) and 9 percent of total retail spending. That’s up from 9.6
PYMNTS
JUNE 26, 2020
McNicoll said the quick gains aren’t surprising, as physical retail stores essentially closed down worldwide for months. He said companies will have to incorporate many of the lessons of the past few months into their next iteration of online offerings. One issue is how to finance a pivot, a challenge the luggage company faced.
PYMNTS
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
This in a week that has seen news reports that the world’s largest retailer has terminated its contract — and a 3-year-old automated shelf-stocking experiment — with San Francisco’s Bossa Nova Robotics , having found that existing “human” employees were able to do the same work just as well. The COVID Effect. Not Just Walmart.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 27, 2020
Retail keeps embracing numerous new technologies, and biometrics is not only one of them, but an area of recent growth and development, including via some of the biggest names in commerce. Take Amazon, which continues to expand its brick-and-mortar retail footprint, and the technology underlying those stores. Larger Trends.
PYMNTS
MAY 21, 2020
As eCommerce revenue has risen, so has the need for consumers to return their purchases, sometimes surprising retailers that might not have seen the order scale they’ve seen for April and May. The company combines expertise in eCommerce, supply chain management and customer service to amplify the all-important customer experience. “The
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
As Chinese companies and American companies doing business in China grapple with quarantines and proliferation the disease, U.S. retailers are concerned about a supply chain problem. companies with operations in Shanghai on Feb. Sixty percent of those companies are planning a work-from-home policy for their staff.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 11, 2021
retail rents falling in many locales by percentages even greater than those seen in or after the 2007-08 Great Recession. These decreases are historic,” the Real Estate Board of New York wrote in a new report showing that average Manhattan retail asking rents fell in all of the island’s 17 retail corridors during autumn.
PYMNTS
JULY 14, 2020
As the United States experiences a coin shortage due to the pandemic, some brick-and-mortar retailers are forcing consumers to tell cashiers to “keep the change.”. “The Federal Reserve is experiencing a significant coin shortage that is impacting our store operations and ability to provide change,” the company wrote on Twitter.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 21, 2021
In brick-and-mortar, retailers are overestimating demand for buy online, pick up in-store (BOPIS) , but they are underestimating demand for delivery. 3 : Number of elements included in Google’s new ‘Product Discovery Solutions for Retail’ suite.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 7, 2020
For retailers, it’s better to be hot in 2020 than top. The National Retail Federation (NRF) said on its blog this week that the Hot 100 Retailers, while vulnerable to mergers and acquisitions, as a group is more stable than the Top 100 Retailers ranking, as stores are impacted by the unpredictability of COVID-19.
PYMNTS
APRIL 9, 2020
said it plans to put many of its retail staffers on leave. The company said the temporary furlough is effective on April 19. All furloughed staffers who are in company benefit plans will stay enrolled, according to an announcement. . The retailer noted that customers can continue shopping through its website or app.
PYMNTS
JUNE 24, 2020
Vitamin store chain GNC Holdings filed a “prepackaged” Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan, saying it has an offer to sell the company for $760 million and has backing from some 90 percent of its creditors, according to a statement. The retailer, along with Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Holding Co.,
PYMNTS
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Retailers are facing a personalization paradox. Fifty-three percent of consumers want retailers to respect their anonymity in 2020; at the same time 61 percent want more personalization in marketing, messaging and promotions. Companies are facing a digital experience paradox,” said Alex Atzberger, CEO of Episerver.
PYMNTS
AUGUST 18, 2020
Reliance Industries has acquired a major stake in Vitalic Health and subsidiary Netmeds , through the Reliance Retail Ventures Limited arm, CNBC TV-18 reports. Isha Ambani , director of Reliance Retail Ventures Limited, said the move was a step toward helping to digitize the way people can deal with pharmaceutical issues.
PYMNTS
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Digital sports entertainment and gaming industry platform DraftKings — known for its top-rated daily fantasy sports and mobile sports betting apps — today announced an agreement with InComm Payments , a global leading payments technology company, to launch an industry-first retail gift card. . DraftKings reported on Friday (Nov.
PYMNTS
JUNE 9, 2020
Physical brick-and-mortar retail was suffering long before the pandemic. Highlights include grocery, retail and contactless, he said. In addition, retailers are searching for more flexible fulfillment options spanning online pickup in store, pickup curbside, and a number of variants of that continuum of reaching end customers.
PYMNTS
MAY 5, 2020
Retail reopening events continued to draw light foot traffic on Monday, as Florida joined Texas in allowing non-essential stores to reopen. percent of consumers shop for retail goods online more often than they did on March 6, the first day of our study, and that continues to climb — up 10.5 percent from 35.5
PYMNTS
JUNE 10, 2020
Direct-to-consumer (DTC) medical device company Lumen seeks to have Americans look to metabolism as an important factor in weight loss and nutrition. The company brought its app and device to market just two weeks ago. And in tech, the future of retail may include mobile scanning. All this, Today in Data.
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