PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

To help merchants and other service providers convert more consumers at the point of sale, LendingPoint has unveiled LendingPoint Merchant Solutions, a platform that will provide fully integrated one-stop retail financing, the company said in an announcement. The move comes after the company acquired LoanHero in Dec.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are expanding their efforts to provide customers with health and wellness services while taking steps to train their employees for healthcare roles. said in the announcement about the offering, “Walmart aims to be the market leader in providing retail workers a path to careers in growing fields like healthcare.

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2020

began to get its early actual data (as opposed to theoretical predictions) as Alaska, Georgia, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas and all began lifting some of the stricter parts of the social distancing regulations to allow slightly more social mobility, according to CNN. Retail President Leo Wiener told Bisnow. “I’ve

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PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2020

The tech company, which has 271 retail shops in the United States, has recently closed 47 stores again, CNBC reported. Locations in California, Alabama, Idaho, Georgia, Oklahoma, Nevada and Louisiana are set to shutter on Thursday, while shops in Mississippi, Texas, Florida and Utah were shuttered as of Wednesday (July 1).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

When the pandemic first took hold of the retail industry in March and April, the phrase “it’s hard to forecast during a pandemic” was heard in most every executive interview or earnings call. Now that the holiday sales season is imminent, the operative phrase is … well … “let’s try to forecast during a pandemic.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The initiative will start rolling out over the next several weeks in Aldi’s 60 Georgia locations. In the longer run, the service will grow over the next several months to the grocer’s 570 retail locations throughout California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida. percent of the population. Whole Foods’ New One-Hour Pickups .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2018

National used car retailer CarMax has announced the launch of a new omnichannel buying experience that will be made available first in Atlanta, Georgia. CarMax is the nation’s largest retailer of used cars and operates nearly 200 stores in 41 states.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The team will be tasked with offering programming and promotions, “operational excellence,” category analysis, online content and performance management in eCommerce throughout channels and with digital merchants and beverage alcohol delivery platforms. states in addition to the District of Columbia and Canada.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Pet goods retail chain PetSmart announced Thursday it had opened 28 new brick-and-mortar storefronts in North America during the quarter that ended Nov. Canada and Puerto Rico, and the company operates another 207 in-store PetSmart PetsHotel dog and cat boarding facilities. The 1,600 stores are located in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

One of those places is just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, though what’s stored inside won’t be hard to spot. Amazon announced on Wednesday (June 22) that it had finalized plans to open a new fulfillment center in Braselton, Georgia.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2019

The retailer is adding more than a dozen new states that will receive the service, including in parts of Florida, Georgia, Illinois and Wisconsin. The retailer also hopes that next-day delivery will boost its eCommerce sales. digital operation is estimated to lose more this year than it did in 2018. However, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

David Goldhill , the CEO of healthcare marketplace operator Sesame , recently told Karen Webster that of all of medicine’s systemic flaws that the pandemic has exposed, none are more apparent than the shortcomings of the current business model. Cost-Saving Is Promoting Adoption As Well . Walmart Has Joined The Fray .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

Retailers are aiming to help consumers manage chronic diseases as well as their overall health and wellness through new brick-and-mortar experiences. Through HealthHUBs, consumers are at the center of an unmatched retail health experience. CVS Health, however, is not the only retailer to bolster its health offerings.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

In his role, he will lead the company’s technology strategy, in addition to spearheading the teams that build the company’s eCommerce experience — among other functions, retail news source Chain Store Age reported. “We Before working for Home Depot, Krishna oversaw Target ’s web technology and operations.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

In its oversubscribed series A funding round, OnPay , a Georgia-based payroll software startup, secured $6 million, the company said this week. The firm, based in South Africa, said it will use the funding to scale operations across Southern Africa, the U.S. Flutterwave. million euros (nearly $75 million) in fresh funding for the firm.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

The venerable automaker has agreed to sell its own vehicle subscription operation to Fair, a startup in this space. Fair reportedly will buy Ford’s Canvas operation, though terms remain undisclosed. Early this year, it launched KINTO, a company to manage and operate its car subscription service. One factor?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The retailer said that around 23,500 of the seasonal positions will be based in facilities that support online sales, an increase of 5,500 positions compared to 2017. Net income for the second quarter was $166 million, or 53 cents a share, while comparable sales — retail’s most-watched metric — were up 0.5

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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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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Startups targeting retail and commercial banking have been emerging globally, spurred by favorable tech regulations, an uptick in mobile adoption, and shifting customer demographics. One of the biggest challenges these companies face is that many operate without a bank charter or license. why profitability won’t come easy.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

First up is AutoNation , the nation’s largest retailer with 325 locations. The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) has been collaborating with Ford Motor Company, which has committed to making all cars connected by 2022. Governments are also stepping up to connect technology with auto safety.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Walmart is looking to take its expertise at building retail supercenters and driving down costs and apply that to healthcare. The retail giant has been slowly wading into healthcare services, operating about two dozen low-cost clinics in Georgia, South Carolina and Texas. We’re not in retail healthcare,” he said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

The ground zero, of course, was Wayfair , the 2018 case in which the Supreme Court ruled online retailers could be mandated to collect sales tax — and taxes could be levied by states on firms that do not have physical presence in those states. They have to have something powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline operations.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Walmart probably managed to make the biggest splash in the retail segment this week with the announcement that it will no longer be selling certain types of ammunition to customers, and that it will discourage the open carrying of weapons in its stores. Which leads us to … Walmart . Big Play of the Week: A Farewell To Arms .

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South State Correspondent

MAY 23, 2023

The operative question is when commercial PODs will show a spike. In terms of absolute probabilities of default, Arizona, Texas, and Georgia are the three riskiest states in terms of likelihood of default. With the average loan loss and lease allowance (ALLL) at 1.25%, including retail, the majority of banks are currently underserved.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

“Policymakers may have simply shifted operating firms from one industry to another, having no real effect on market conduct,” Ramirez writes. In its press releases, the firm seems to much prefer the term “specialty financial services and retail company.”. Not that Smart Financial ever refers to itself as a pawn shop.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

Companies like American Tile & Stone and Premier Packaging have already begun using Uber Freight to improve their shipping operations, and we’re excited to now roll out the platform widely to our freight community,” the company wrote in the blog post.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2018

Though most testing takes place in California, those operations also are conducted in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Michigan and Washington State. .” According to Waymo CEO John Krafcik , vehicles powered by Waymo technology are logging 250,000 miles per day. The technology has undergone five billion hours of simulations, he said.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

There’s little doubt that the [spirits] industry will feel the impact of the largest online retailer expanding into grocery,” Coors wrote in a blog post following the news announcement of the Amazon/Whole Foods merger. operations from 2010 to 2014, joined Drizly’s board of directors earlier this week.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

The paper reported that, in May, the online retailer “added two directors to its 11-member board that were nominated by activist investor Starboard Capital. A Walmart representative said locations will open in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana and Virginia soon, as well as on a microsite on Walmart.com.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

Saladworks also plans to plant corporate stores in key markets in Atlanta, Georgia and Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas over the next six to 12 months. Furthermore, the corporate stores will serve as a trial run for new ideas in restaurant technology and operational flow to increase efficiency.

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Independent Banker

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

One of the key problems we’ve seen until now is partnering with a fintech company only to find that, once operational, they changed their focus—potentially adding significantly to their risk profile,” Dick says, adding that it’s much less likely to happen with Avenu. It already supports blockchain if required by a fintech. in Rockland, Mass.,

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

“Amazon is always looking for the best and brightest software engineers to join our team,” said Dave Glick, VP of operations technology for Amazon. The commitment to education, growth of the local high-tech industry, and caliber of technical talent in Minneapolis make it an ideal place for our expansion.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2020

Both of the nation’s mega-retail players have spent the week strategizing how to strike a balance between three goals — protecting their thousands of employees, serving their massive customer bases and keeping supply chains operating at as close to normal as imaginable given the highly abnormal circumstances.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Now that Fyle has officially launched operations, the company said it would deploy the funding to focus on product innovation and global growth and to invest in sales and marketing efforts. MaxAB targets informal food and grocery retailers and suppliers, connecting them on a digital platform to conduct trade. SaaSOptics.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Most of what was released was a new version of something the market had seen before — an upgraded Echo Dot with a clock embedded under its fabric cover, a souped-up version of a home speaker called the Echo Studio that will retail for $199 and compete more directly with Apple’s Home Pod product.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

With traditional retail, it takes a long time to get beer from overseas, and you have strict shelf sets. Heineken, for its part, hopes to increase its eCommerce appeal by seeking help from experienced digital operators. Additionally, each state regulates alcohol differently, adding further logistics challenges.”

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William Mills

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Approximately 1,300 attendees (including bankers, credit union executives, industry analysts and media representatives American Banker , Banking Exchange and BIG Media ) joined 30 sponsor companies to immerse themselves in all things retail banking at BAI Beacon 2017, held at the Georgia World Congress Center October 4-5.

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