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APRIL 4, 2019

As far as made-up, non-holiday holidays go, you could probably do worse than National Burrito Day , which takes place on Thursday (April 4). Even so, 62 percent of customers said innovations would make them more inclined to visit QSRs in the future, according to the latest PYMNTS Restaurant Readiness Index. Chipotle’s Digital Gains.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Out of the haze of uncertainty emerged a new mobile network, and from the new mobile network came new retail applications and experiences, all taking advantage of the faster speed of the technology, and the potential to reduce friction. 5G Retail Deal. 5G Retail Deal. VR Retail Growth. A new report also says the U.S.

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JULY 6, 2020

If your business touches retail in any way, it might pay to follow a few important breadcrumbs. Worse yet, some analysts fear the triggering of break-lease clauses for retailers in malls if anchor stores leave. All of this will only make malls an even tougher sell to consumers, and to retailers that want consumers to buy their stuff.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the one thing that might work is taking a page from the innovation playbook that Netflix seems to have written and followed over the last 22 years. A combination of forces — Netflix’s own content and technology innovations and advances in hardware and software — helped them consistently attract more eyeballs.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

He said retailers and service providers need to address such anxieties as they sketch out their digital and omnicommerce strategies and think about what new tech to put in place. As long as retailers focus on creating such safe spaces, he said, “the future is bright.”. And that is where a lot of stress is created.”. Gauthier said.

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Abrigo

APRIL 28, 2016

Small Business Administration What creates two out of three net new American jobs; produces close to half of our nation’s goods and services (nonfarm private GDP); and can be found, coast to coast, in every small town, big city and rural enclave? Counseling: SBA provides free consultation and advice to help Main Street succeed.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

That’s because cameras are playing a much bigger role in retail, a trend that will keep gaining steam in the new decade. The Associated Press reports that cameras are, at least somewhat quietly, making inroads into a number of retail outlets in a bid to, well, get to know you. Security cameras are another area of innovation. “We

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

According to the National Turkey Federation (which really does exist) roughly 85 percent of Americans plan to eat turkey for Thanksgiving. Turkey didn’t become standard fare on the Thanksgiving table until Abraham Lincoln officially declared it a national holiday in the 1860s. So is this innovation worth investigation?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In the meantime, the digital, mobile, delivery and other innovations that are taking place in this sector are also promising to impact retailers and the consumers who shop not only with mom-and-pop stores but with the bigger chains. The latest example of that comes from one of the biggest retail chains out there — Walmart.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2020

All possible joking aside, going into the national day of giving thanks is going to be especially hard on some people this year, simply because of how very little the year has given them to be grateful for. So it’s good to see some major retailers giving back for the holiday. That would cut 7.3

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

“We are kind of the red-headed stepchild of the alcohol world,” Rowe told INC , noting that despite its outside status, the sales of off-premise mead (mead that’s sold through retailers instead of a meadery) have shot up around 30 percent in the last five years. Last year, the off-premise mead industry generated $9.3

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

But a study from the National Restaurant Association found that just 18 percent of restaurants offer mobile ordering via their own apps, while 43 percent of consumers want such methods. Even so, innovators from third-party apps to restaurant chains themselves are offering mobile options that extend beyond delivery.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

The reopening of retail is bound to portend changes for businesses as well as consumers. The National Retail Federation (NRF) and other groups have released guidelines for store operation and design today (May 22) as members begin to come back from the economic devastation of the pandemic. It also recommends changes to kiosks.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

That’s the mantra of innovators everywhere. It’s what’s turned the retail word upside down as consumers with their mobile devices have decided they’d rather buy from their couch with their mobile phone than schlep to the mall. In other words, kick the door wide open to remote retail. Meeting the consumer where they are.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

FIS surveyed 25 markets in which real-time payments programs are operational, rating their innovative qualities on a scale from 1 to 5. Singapore’s Fast and Secure Transfers (FAST) scheme also received a 4 score on the innovation scale, which focuses on accelerated inter-bank transfers as well as direct debits.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. In the modern digital era of QSR, it is almost impossible not to mention Starbucks and its myriad contributions to innovation — including the first really successful launch of a mobile wallet product in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2019

Santa: The Original Experiential Retail Strategy. Santa showing up in retail marketing, as far as historians can tell, dates back to the 1840s when some stores went as far as putting up life-sized models of jolly old St. And while much has changed in retail, Santa’s popularity has not. In fact, it is growing.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Almost half, 45 percent, have shifted digital to shop for retail products, and one in five to shop for groceries and order food from restaurants.

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OCTOBER 7, 2016

Customers visiting OXXO’s 14,000 locations can receive their funds by completing their payout information independently via one of three options — calling a national hotline in advance or using dedicated in-store phones and digital devices. The self-service feature allows faster and efficient funds collection at checkout.

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MAY 21, 2020

A central entity may maintain exclusive rights to create or destroy currency in a region such as a nation. However, a retail CBDC accessible to all would be a game-changer. So a retail CBDC is now [the ECB’s] main focus.”. Mersch added that a retail CBDC could be based on deposit accounts with the central bank.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

The Commerce Department released July’s retail sales last week, showing an increase in seasonally adjusted retail spending – up 1.2 Analysts reported that physical retail sales, seasonally adjusted, were up 2.7 And what we also see is only one part of the retail sales story. percent growth in June.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In a world reliant on smartphone apps, bank branches may no longer be Main Street mainstays, with red velvet ropes between brass stanchions herding customers to tellers behind wickets.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Payments Innovation Leads the Way . As Mastercard EVP of Products and Innovation Jess Turner recently told PYMNTS, “consumers want cards, they want them quickly, and they want those cards [delivered] in a digital way.”. consumers, as well as the behavior of a sample of Main Street business owners.”.

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JUNE 4, 2016

Some believe the rest of the nation should be following that example. Some, like Walmart, think the argument has a forgone conclusion — and the retailer has already begun overhauling its business to meet that standard well in advance. Which leaves retailers with one of two choices. Which leaves retailers with one of two choices.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

What we do know, however, is that efficiency-driving innovation will have its place, come whatever market environment,” Joshua Kempf, cofounder and CEO of online B2B industrial products distributor Gaveteiro.com.br , explained in his TechCrunch piece. Canada and Brazil. It looks like it’s no harm, no foul for Apple.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Mostly, this means getting innovative with deposit and payment products. Sectors like office, retail, and hospitality, are even worse. Develop a more innovative process. Despite all the talk about innovation, banks remain slow with their time to market for new products. Why is this so important? Conclusion.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Global payment marketplace APEXX has brought its solution to Russia to enable payment processing with the national Mir system, according to reports. Bareksa CEO Karaniya Dharmasaputra said, according to the report, “Our main goal is to improve financial literacy in Indonesia, especially to increase awareness of the importance of investing.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2020

We’ve witnessed a truly breathtaking amount of innovation amid the pandemic, as firms of all descriptions found themselves diving toward digital commerce in an attempt to keep at least some of the economy’s lights on. retailers, found that pants purchases fell 13 percent in April. Bra sales declined 12 percent, too.). Rural Chic .

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AUGUST 3, 2020

A large chunk of Google’s ad revenue comes from the sectors that were hardest-hit by the pandemic — travel, hospitality and retail — and some analysts seem concerned about the longer-term hit to that piece of Google’s business as those sectors struggle to rebound. So do innovators with new tech and big ideas to help improve the experience.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

To help hockey players stay up to date on the latest sports equipment, eCommerce innovator the PenaltyBox offers subscription boxes comprised of a myriad of hockey essentials, from well-known brands to up-and-coming companies the PenaltyBox team tests themselves. For the future, the PenaltyBox is dabbling in the retail market.

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MAY 27, 2020

For the small shops and independently owned restaurants that line America’s Main Streets from coast to coast, the past eight weeks have been a difficult time leading toward an incredibly uncertain future. The MSBIA is an advocacy group that represents Main Street businesses in Santa Monica, California.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR space is not only an area of payments and commerce where massive innovation and disruption is taking place — much of it centered around mobile and loyalty — but a place of fierce competition. The main driver of all that? There is little room for laggards or unforced errors. It’s the anticipatory effect.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) reported results that beat on the bottom line, and missed Wall Street expectations slightly on the top line, driven by banks’ continuing need to modernize their payments infrastructure and embrace digital offerings. Adjusted Q4 earnings of $1.60 bested consensus by 2 pennies; revenues of $2.17

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MARCH 30, 2017

This year’s Retail Banking conference took place at the Trump National Doral in Miami March 22-24. The following two days focused on both banking and credit unions with sessions on regulations, revenue strategies, innovations, digital banking and branch banking. A session of note was “Building Your Branch Transformation Plan.”

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AUGUST 24, 2019

As new PYMNTS research documents, over the past year, 18 Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) arenas have deployed biometric solutions by CLEAR. we can also expect more voice-assistant retail as part of the games.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

Innovators are seeing the potential to shape the way consumers place their orders at quick-service restaurants (QSRs) through digital technology. That’s kind of … the future that we see as well,” Xiao said, adding he believes that, in addition to online and app ordering, voice ordering will be one of the main drivers.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

When asked, fear of crowds surfaced as consumers’ primary reason for preferring to carry on with digital-first experiences when it comes to shopping for groceries (57 percent), purchasing retail products (52 percent) and even ordering food from restaurants (45 percent). The SMB Pinch. between March 1 and Sept.

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