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DECEMBER 5, 2018

Retailers are turning to accelerators to drive innovation, and Target is taking its program to the international stage: It is teaming up with Germany’s wholesale and food specialist METRO AG for its cohort this year. The program, which is in its fourth year, is open to startups from the U.S. as well as other countries.

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MARCH 10, 2020

In today’s top payment news, retail remains a bright spot in the markets, Ant Financial has rolled out a strategy for digital evolution in China, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a suit against a Cincinnati-based bank. Payments Stocks Plummet While Retail Remains A Bright Spot. and EU.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

For a glimpse at how innovation is playing out in the retail world, it always helps to take a look at recent developments in the world of quick-service restaurants, or QSRs. Brands, the owner of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, reported an overall year-to-year revenue gain in the second quarter of 2019 of about 10 percent, to $1.31

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JUNE 27, 2019

That sense of hope is a big part of childhood, and it applies as well to retail aimed as children, as least going by current developments involving Toys R Us. That news is another recent development in the world of children’s retail, where innovation continues. stores, Bloomberg reported, citing unnamed sources.

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. This is only part of the innovation trend stemming from video games. In-store sales, notably, is where the retailer needs to see growth. percent, it wasn’t as much as the retailer wanted to see. Larger Trends. More Money.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online.

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JUNE 20, 2019

No, that doesn’t mean that PYMNTS takes sides in the struggle for retail supremacy, but only that we like to note when someone or some organization mounts a challenge to the eCommerce and logistical behemoth. High-End Retail. The battle for Amazon retail supremacy also involves pets. Retail Challenge.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

No matter how innovative they are, companies still need to get paid. And not many companies this year have combined business model creativity with payments innovation more than Beautycounter. We’ve listened to our community and their requests for different payment options – more and more retailers are offering this as an option.

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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. The latest research shows 40 percent of surveyed shoppers report doing fewer activities in stores and more activities online — this is up from the 12 percent who reported doing so on March 6.

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MAY 13, 2019

In the unattended retail space, vending operators are also becoming more aware of the shifting behaviors of their shoppers and the need for swift and digital payment options. The estimated value of the global intelligent vending machine market by 2025 is $15 billion. And digital disruptors are putting a new spin on vending machines.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Legal marijuana may have a massive payments problem, but that’s not stopping retail innovation in perhaps the newest area of legitimate commerce in the U.S. Credit card statements will show that a purchase was made at the “Midgrun Eats LLC food truck, not at the Blüm Marijuana Dispensary ,” the Reno Gazette-Journal reports.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers, as well as online merchants, are offering consumers all sorts of products and services through the subscription business model, from movies to tea. At the same time, the Tracker pointed out that approximately two-thirds – or 67 percent – of respondents reported higher revenue.

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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.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

One recent study found that 29 percent of customers would stop shopping with retailers that they felt offered inadequate public health or safety measures, for example. Merchants are used to keeping up with shifting trends and adjusting their products and marketing to engage consumers chasing after new items and experiences.

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JANUARY 11, 2021

India-based Goldiam International has completed the soft launch of its B2B website after the acquisition of Eco-Friendly Diamonds , a successful CVD diamond growing company, a report from Business-Standard says. retail jewelry industry. On Friday, Goldiam's stocks were trading in the green, an India Infoline report said.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Key Takeaways Trepp's head of Commercial Real Estate Finance outlined the current CRE market and looked at the future of CRE during Abrigo's recent ThinkBIG conference. This post by Hayley Collier , Trepp's Marketing Communication Specialist, was originally published on Trepp's blog and can be found here. The pandemic's impact on CRE.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

The sale of shoes online has come a long way since the dawn of eCommerce – and footwear continues to help drive innovation in the retail space. The importance of this area of retail was recently underscored by a move involving a Google veteran. 14, Reuters reported about a week ago. The Right Fit. Nike and Voice.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As 2020 unfolds, the retail business has been dramatically altered. But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. So, what constitutes experiential marketing for retailers? Wine and cheese for the shoppers?

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

Shoppers had new opportunities to buy groceries without having to walk through the aisles of their local supermarkets or wait in line at checkout counters this year, as grocers rolled out digital innovations in shopping and payments. It allows them to fully immerse themselves into the retail space with convenience and efficiency.”

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PYMNTS

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. A new report also says the U.S. 5G Retail Deal. A new report also says the U.S.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

In today’s top retail news, FedEx Corp. concluded its previously announced purchase of ShopRunner, while Save A Lot unveiled the sale of 51 stores run by the company in the Tampa, Florida market to Fresh Encounter. The service connects more than 100 brands and retailers to shoppers. Retail 2020: Looking Back On D2C Brands.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual reality could have more retailers reach more consumers in the coming few years — in large part by upping the consumer experience. Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports. and Europe by 2022. But anybody can do this.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Peer-to-peer (P2P) payment apps have become particularly appealing to consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic, with P2P app Zelle reporting rises in the number of transactions and transactions’ values in recent months. PYMNTS’ data revealed that many consumers are now seeking real-time access to their funds, with 35.2 About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

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. The growing popularity of DVD rentals in the early 2000s introduced more competition into the market, making them more affordable for more consumers. I Don’t Want To, But I Have To’.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Luxury style and quality brands, offered at a more middle-class price point and sold directly to consumers, is increasingly crowded terrain in apparel retail. Or, perhaps more accurately, through tactics that are so traditional they are surprising to see in a modern retail context.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Restaurants that are driving food innovation with carefully chosen ingredients focused on health are seeking funding to help power their growth. True Food Kitchen , in one case, has created its menu around recipes that Dr. Andrew Weil inspired with anti-inflammatory ingredients and is mulling raising new private capital, Bloomberg reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

And, in retail, wellness innovators are personalizing vitamin subscriptions for better self-care, while disruptors are aiming to replace heavy parking structures with automated towers. . $18 billion: Projected value of the automated parking system market by the end of this year. 18 billion: Amount U.S.

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MAY 27, 2020

retail reopening. With all 50 states now in some phase of loosening lockdown restrictions, there were only scattered reports of large crowds or binge-buying that would compare to some of the behaviors seen in China as it reopened. Most reports of mall reopenings and other retail post-pandemic debuts in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

Coffee retailers are tapping into digital technology that helps them grow their reach beyond their stores, especially in China, where competition has been brewing between Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee and Starbucks. Luckin is hardly the only retailer tapping into the potential of vending machines. And a strong economy in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Those who work in and around high tech and innovation are lulled into a narrative about progress being on a march ever forward, rarely slowing, never stopping and certainly never turning around and marching in the wrong direction. . Once one gets outside of the top 25 banks in the U.S., Once one gets outside of the top 25 banks in the U.S.,

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MARCH 2, 2020

A trillion-dollar market cap later, it’s hard to argue Amazon’s effectiveness, quote attribution notwithstanding. It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless. UR Making Me Laugh.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

Retail is getting more visual, and that stands to be the case for locally-focused merchants as they compete for attention and consumer dollars with the likes of Amazon and Walmart. Indeed, augmented reality is among the tools that local retailers look ready to adopt for further use. Contextualizing Commerce.

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MAY 23, 2019

When it comes to innovation, go to the source. has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. QSR Innovation. The PepsiCo innovation effort comes at a time of significant technology development in the world of restaurants, including quick service restaurants (QSRs). In other words, PepsiCo Inc.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2019

From CVS to T-Mobile , retailers and technology providers are catering to the trend of contactless payment acceptance with new solutions and methods of handling cards from customers. CVS, for instance, brought support for the Apple Pay mobile wallet to stores across the country, per reports in October. locations, per reports last year.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

Fitness and wellness are helping to change the face of retail in 2020. Innovation is also taking place within retail brick-and-mortar pharmacies. Not only that, but a study from The American Journal of Medicine indicates that market pressures in the industry are pulling doctors away from primary care and into sub-specialties.

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MARCH 2, 2020

To help consumers conveniently access their favorite products, retailers are offering a wide array of merchandise through automated retail technology. According to The Future of Unattended Retail Report from PYMNTS, “Unattended retail touchpoints populate a broad and diverse set of locations, and have taken various shapes and forms.”

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