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MAY 21, 2020

But as anyone that has tried to catch up with the suddenly online consumer will attest, what goes out must sometimes come back. 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.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Some retailers are just excellent about telling stories about themselves and about the products that they're selling,” Taylor told PYMNTS. If brands want to get online, and you want to have something that looks bespoke, that’s typically going to mean paying a developer or paying an agency quite a bit of money.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to modify ideas around how we shop and pay, consumers and B2B buyers are also making choices about where to shop: online or in-store? Now there are signals that a physical retail rebound is forming up. Another example is Amazon, whose touchless retail concepts give a good look at in-store experiences to come. “Of

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Perficient

OCTOBER 23, 2020

It goes without saying that this year will be different in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, and you already know the impact the pandemic has had on consumers and how they purchase, with many turning to online channels for items that they typically may have purchased in-store. Transparency, Transparency, Transparency.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Corporate buyers are quickly shifting their purchasing habits online, and seeking more efficient experiences from product sourcing through to checkout. With B2B eCommerce proliferating, the market is rapidly evolving to make way for new business and payment models in response to customer demand. An Emerging Necessity.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2018

That means thwarting fraudsters who call in, masquerading as legitimate customers, or who hack into a cell center, as well as blocking any dishonest agents within the center from stealing customer information. They also need to leverage a full set of tools to help them quickly and accurately handle customer requests.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

Retail apocalypse? Whatever you want to call the decline of brick-and-mortar retail – and it’s getting worse, according to a few recent reports – it’s not good. merchants this year already have said they will shutter nearly 6,000 physical retail locations – that’s more than the nearly 5,900 closings for the entire year of 2018.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

These are tough times to be tangible — as in brick-and-mortar, in retailing at least. The physical retailer is constrained by square footage, the hybrid retailer joining on an eCommerce platform less so, especially with the drop shipping. The upshot is that, through the drop-ship model, they do not need to hold more inventory.

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Banking Exchange

JUNE 10, 2021

Banks are having to reconsider the role physical branches play in a world of digitized customer experiences Retail Banking Financial Trends Feature Technology Customers People Performance Revenue Feature3 Tech Management Mobile Online.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Amid the great digital shift , retailers and financial institutions (FIs) must walk the fine line between challenging transactions and letting the consumer journey proceed frictionless. And then, after the transaction is made, there’s the task of understanding the byzantine codes and data that are tied to online statements.

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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. That’s the message from a company called LISNR, at least.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Iconic brick-and-mortar retailers are sometimes reinvented, and return to the world of retail with smaller-format concepts. Tru Kids has entered into a joint venture with the software-powered experiential retailer b8ta to offer a new store experience with curated toys in “highly immersive, smaller-format spaces.”.

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Perficient

OCTOBER 20, 2020

With the increase of online shopping due to COVID-19, the need to fulfill against extreme demand becomes more important than ever. As a result, the customer experience improved and our client saw record sales numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Businesses Must Shift to Automated and Intelligent Technology.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Online marketplaces for everything from retail goods to travel services to hospitality need to ensure a quick and easy way for both buyers and sellers to transact with each other— or risk losing both sides to a waiting host of competitors. An AI-Powered Visual Shopping Experience For Millennials, Gen Z.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Investments and attention are focusing less on trends like electric vehicles or hybrids and more on car-buying at a suitable social distance, with app-like convenience taking much of the traditional hassle out of the dreaded car lot visit. Many people who previously would not have considered buying a car online are giving it a second thought.

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JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). This QR code can lead to a more expensive transaction and a less seamless experience compared to NFC.”.

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MAY 25, 2020

While it’s clear that the digital shift will stick in the retail ecosystem, other elements of the landscape are harder to predict. The reason cuts right through Amazon’s strikezone: The company has always been about the customer experience and customer satisfaction. For instance, it will not buy JCPenney. Be Like Nike.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2018

What’s the key to a great customer experience? For a growing group of online and mobile platforms, the answer lies in the pursuit of seamless payments. To read more on these stories and other headlines from around the space, check out the Tracker’s News and Trends section. How Platform Payments Help The Game Go On.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Digital fraud is a long-running problem for merchants, retailers, banks and businesses of all types. United Kingdom retailers saw the equivalent of €706 million ($827 million) in card fraud losses in 2019, for example, and the pandemic is expected to add to these woes as it pushes more retail shopping online.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Online home goods and furniture retailer Wayfair has seen its shares go up and down in the wake of earnings reported earlier this week, according to Thursday (Nov. 2) reports from retail news site Retail Dive. Within the numbers, online shopping trends shone. million users. and Germany.

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Banking Exchange

JUNE 19, 2019

Retail banks need creative ways to excite their workforce and train them for the new banking experience Retail Banking Financial Trends Technology Customers Human Resources Feature Management Feature3 Fintech Mobile Online Tech Management Community Banking.

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JULY 3, 2019

That stands as one of the small, but potentially appealing uses of omnichannel technology and processes outside of retail — a growing trend as the digital economy continues to encompass even more products and services, and as consumers come to expect seamless experiences everywhere and depend more heavily on their mobile devices.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

Brian Billingsley, CEO North America at Klarna , joined Karen Webster to discuss those partnerships and the benefits that it believes its more streamlined financing options can bring to the consumer purchasing experience. The Revolving Difference.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

For retailers, nothing really ever comes easy — and things aren’t getting any easier, at least when it involves gaining and retaining customers. And what they want and expect are what’s going to drive so much of retail and payments in the coming years and decades. Shift Intensity. Trust Issues.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led consumers to try digital tools for grocery shopping, and the total number of online grocery orders in the U.S. That month saw 40 million customers head online to shop for groceries, and these customers are expecting their preferred chains to keep up with that shift. . reached a record 62.5

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This is the third article in a weekly series highlighting trends and themes from Celent’s Model Bank submission process. Customer experience initiatives are typically the most numerous. Digital banking subsidiaries : Many banks are finding that existing systems are too rigid to accommodate a truly digital experience.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

This year has been big for retail — big on change, innovation and some surprises along the way. Consumers flocked to online and mobile commerce , robots rose in food and consumer goods , and brick-and-mortar stayed relevant with retail experimentation — pop – ups , flash sales , store-in-store and showrooms.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

According to Will Byrne, CEO of Worldnet Payments , the kiosks and smart shelves that are gaining traction across any number of commerce and retail settings may even shift the employment picture a bit. This has become an irreversible trend,” he said. The Changing Retail Footprint. For example, in the U.K., percent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2017

For years, the retail industry has added more and more locations to help feed the hungry consumer, but the main issue now is whether this has backfired on retailers. One company speaking to this is clothing retailer Urban Outfitters. One company speaking to this is clothing retailer Urban Outfitters.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Facing a downturn in customer foot traffic and fierce competition from major online players like Amazon, some physical retailers are now turning to Payments-as-a-Service solutions as a way to level the playing field by improving the customer experience.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In data that will likely surprise anyone who has avidly watched retail over the last few years, the market is trending strongly toward same-day delivery. After all, 51 percent of retailers say they offer same-day delivery, a massive jump from the 16 percent offering it only a year ago. As of today (Sept. As of today (Sept.

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AUGUST 23, 2019

Online furniture retailers are stepping further into the world of physical retail with permanent brick-and-mortar stores. Wayfair , for instance, opened a store at the Natick Mall in suburban Boston, where consumers can experience products firsthand before making a purchase, after debuting a pop-up shop there last year.

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MARCH 14, 2017

While brick-and-mortar retail can’t always compete with the flexibility and relative ease that eCommerce experiences can offer, some retailers are beginning to bring back lost foot traffic with improved in-store experiences with a focus on customization and personalization. Here are some of the key findings.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2021

The year 2020 meant big changes for retailers that had primarily defined themselves by physical interaction as brick-and-mortar merchants were forced to adapt to an eCommerce-focused world as their best option for holding on to their now homebound customer base. percent for online and 1.4 percent for online and 1.4

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The future of retail is playing out in multiple places, not the least of which is the open road. Santiago Chamorro, GM’s vice president for global connected customer experience, said the car company decided on the move after doing some customer research. That’s where the connected vehicle ecosystem is being built.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

To serve travelers from China who want to shop in-store and online, retailers thousands of miles away from Asia are accepting Alipay in brick-and-mortar stores and on the web. Amid this trend, brick-and-mortar and eCommerce merchants in North America are adopting Alipay as a payment option for their consumers.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2021

consumers have shifted to digital channels for retail product purchases since COVID-19 hit, and close to 16% currently own or have previously owned some form of cryptocurrency, according to PYMNTS.com. Dive into payments trends. Central bank digital currency (CBDC). In fact, 45% of U.S. Kathy Strasser, IncredibleBank. “To

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