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AUGUST 9, 2019

Outdoor apparel retailers are reinventing their brick-and-mortar spaces to connect with customers by making stores into destinations that offer experiences. In the updated retail space, the company said, customers will “immediately feel The North Face heritage and experience the brand’s values.”

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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. Especially if you live in New Jersey.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

The retailer has already tested the technology at a store in New Jersey. With this technology — which as undergone a trial period at three of its locations in New Jersey, New York and Florida — customers can experiment with moving items around a virtual room through a tablet in the retailer’s stores.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The Vitamin Shoppe, a nutrition product retailer, has teamed up with LA Fitness to open shops inside the fitness centers, according to a release. So far, the health retailer has opened nine locations inside LA Fitness chains. The company has 700 retail locations around the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The Vitamin Shoppe, a nutrition product retailer, has teamed up with LA Fitness to open shops inside the fitness centers, according to a release. So far, the health retailer has opened nine locations inside LA Fitness chains. The company has 700 retail locations around the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

The new law will take effect in July and would require most retail outlets to accept physical currency. New Jersey recently passed a similar law and New York City is on the path to doing so as well. Massachusetts already requires businesses to accept cash. .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Activewear brand Fabletics , which was co-founded by Kate Hudson in 2013, announced plans for a retail expansion across the U.S. The once pure play eCommerce business will open 12 new physical locations next year, adding to the 18 existing Fabletics locations that began launching in the Fall of 2015.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

In other cashless payment news, Philadelphia recently passed a ban on cashless stores – the first big U.S. With the new law, most retail outlets would have to accept physical currency. New Jersey recently passed similar legislation, and New York City is on the same path as well. city to do so, per reports.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Emma Waddell will join the company as vice president of financial services compliance, while Joe Rodriguez will serve as lead counsel of financial services, per news from the retailer. “As Waddell will report to Chris Cyrenne, senior vice president of global regulatory compliance, and will begin her new role on Sept.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There’s arguably no more polarizing macroeconomic issue in the retail world than the fate of the American mall. The problems start with how retailers view and serve the customer. The entire process, cradle to grave, has failed to evolve and innovate with the customer in mind.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2017

Retailer Kohl’s will boost both its brick-and-mortar and eCommerce capabilities this year by adding four small-format, brick-and-mortar locations to its roster of stores and a fifth eCommerce fulfillment center. 2017 will be located in Rhode Island, Ohio, New Jersey and California.

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APRIL 10, 2019

Cashless retail, to a point, and then cashless and cash, too. Reports came Wednesday (April 10) across a variety of financial news conduits, among them CNBC , that Amazon will add “additional payment mechanisms” to its Go stores – and among those would be cash.

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PopularBank

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The new investment vehicle aims to economically empower Black and Latinx business owners throughout the City of Newark. NWK FAM Fund Seeks to Narrow the Wealth Gap in New Jersey. Popular Bank will serve as an initial corporate partner alongside organizations including AT&T, Panasonic and New Jersey Community Capital.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Payments Innovation. And you can bet (sorry) that this fall, more of that money is going through not only mobile channels, but via more prepaid cards and other innovative methods. Indeed, the rise of online and mobile (legal) gambling is providing benefits to reloadable and store-value cards and is driving innovation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

Small but mighty, German discount grocer Lidl — a brand known for not only its low prices, but also its innovative store layouts and private labels, including clothing — has already gobbled up 3 percent of local market share since the chain came to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in June 2017. jobs in the next year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

“Following an assessment of our operational structure in light of this progress, we identified an opportunity to further optimize our processes by transferring a substantial portion of our production volume from our Arlington, Texas facility to our largest and most efficient facility in Linden, New Jersey.”.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

Among those partners are names such as Expedia, Wayfair, Motorola, Dà-Jiāng Innovations (DJI), Casper and Cole Haan. New product launches will also be in the offing, extending beyond an extant point of sale credit that is done in tandem with the Affirm app.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

-based Niantic , the company behind the mobile and augmented reality gaming behemoth Pokémon Go, is touting its growing role in the global tourism industry (which, as PYMNTS readers know , is undergoing its own digitally-fuel period of innovation and disruption). The gaming part of the mall will reside alongside some 200 retail stores there.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

In New Jersey and Mississippi, DraftKings Sportsbook mobile and retail allows players to bet for major U.S. “We look forward to collaborating with Caesars Entertainment on creating the most innovative and engaging sports and entertainment products, and events, for our customers.” and Australia.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Lease-to-own services are making a comeback with eCommerce retailers. The option, provided by Progressive Leasing , allows customers to lease products for as long as a year and is available for over three million products on the retailer’s website. Progressive Leasing, a division of Aaron’s Inc. , Modern Takes On Lease-To-Own.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

While most of JD.com’s technologies are still in their testing phase, the company’s head of technology believes it can start to capitalize on these innovations when it can do things at scale. “If If there is no scale, there is saving,” Chen Zhang told a group of reporters in Beijing on Tuesday (November 6). “If

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

To help build customer loyalty, eCommerce and brick-and-mortar retailers have a myriad of tools on hand: Cashiers can sign customers up for loyalty cards at brick-and-mortar stores, and eCommerce sites can send customers special offers and coupons by email. We love shrinking down, and bringing the design and technology a whole new flavor.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Attending to the unattended retail space: USA Technologies buys Cantaloupe Systems , boosting cloud and mobile functionality for vending. Amazon (not so) Fresh in the ‘burbs: It’s a rare misstep for the eCommerce giant, which stated that it is phasing out grocery service in some markets, ranging from New Jersey to Virginia.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2018

The retail chain originally launched LEASE IT in 2012, aimed at providing an affordable solution to those who do not have credit or cannot benefit from layaway because they need the product immediately. There is also an online estimator tool to help members estimate their payment with different payment schedules and lease amounts.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

For retailers, it’s the Hunger Games. This year’s newest innovation? The move comes as Amazon is making changes in other areas of its sprawling retail business. For consumers, the holiday shopping season is the most wonderful time of year. Seasonal sales, twinkling lights and Santas for photo-ops everywhere you turn.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

As competition makes it challenging for retailers to retain customers, Walmart has created a new position of chief customer officer, which will be responsible for its in-store and eCommerce offerings. While Whiteside will be based in Jet ’s home state of New Jersey, Messing will work out of Walmart’s hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

From ticketing platforms such as Gametime to payments companies such as Visa , innovators are harnessing the power of mobile. In New Jersey, for instance, mobile sports betting is growing to the point where the state is reportedly near topping Las Vegas as the country’s biggest market.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2018

cities this year, with big brands testing retail concepts “in real life” with temporary spaces. And, in some cases, brick-and-mortar retailers brought these concepts to their sales floors with their own takes on pop-up shops. Pop-up shops welcomed consumers in malls and major U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

In 2002, the New Jersey Technology Council named him “CFO of the Year.” Karen Webster is one of the world’s leading experts on payments, commerce and retail innovation, and a strategic advisor to CEOs and Boards of multinational players in those sectors. Ed received his B.S. in accounting from Lehigh University.

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MARCH 6, 2018

His concept would become Spirit Halloween Superstores , which he later sold to New Jersey-based Spencer Gifts. Everyone sells Halloween costumes, from Walgreens to Walmart , but among the specialty retailers, they’ve been winning share.”. There’s so much creative stuff going on with new ideas and new concepts.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2019

While it is easy to imagine the path of progress is ever forward, often in the innovation game it is a bit more like the Paula Abdul hit song from the late ’80s — two steps forward, one step back. A similar law recently passed in New Jersey, and it seems New York is on the way to following suit. Cashless Coup.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. When the discount department store exploded on the market in the 1990s, three decades after its inception by Sam Walton, it played a major role in shaping the retail market for many years to follow.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

All in, the expansion will see the service enter 1,000 new ZIP codes and over 100 new stores. Markets included in Instacart’s larger footprint will include New Jersey, Indianapolis and Houston, among others, according to the company.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Headlines are filled with news of a “revolutionary” product that will change the fortunes of merchants and unlock countless benefits for consumers when using it. And what was the product? No, not the iPhone, but that would be a good guess. It’s the decoupled debit card. Merchants paid less when they accepted those cards.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Mall developer James Rouse was known for many innovations, but his best known might have arguably been the food court. But, in 1974, he opened a successful food court in New Jersey at the Paramus Park Mall. He added, “We all have to continue to adapt; when you have an innovative mind-set new ideas come to light.”.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hats off to Thomas Shara at Lakeland and Tony Labozzetta of Provident for architecting the new $25 billion super-community bank in New Jersey. Let’s see how this new scale allows for big investments in future innovation. Goes to New England Federal Credit Union and Vermont State Credit Union.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2018

Customers in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, Miami and Washington D.C. To find out more about digital innovation by restaurants, read the PYMNTS’ index here. Inspired by tweets from customers hungry for delivery, Popeyes has teamed up with Uber Eats in select markets.

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