PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

To reportedly build a licensing empire with the Sports Illustrated name, Authentic Brands Group LLC has agreed to buy the storied magazine from Meredith Corp. The move comes over a year after it was put on the block and Meredith will still manage its website and publish its print magazine, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2020

An initial explosion of online orders left Amazon overwhelmed, forcing the company to temporarily reprioritize its operation toward mostly delivering key household items. That includes unrestricted access to more than a million titles, and a fairly large bundle of popular magazines and audiobooks.

Retail 158

Retail Online Video Branding 158

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Studio808 will be a public gallery, lounge and workshop space, created in partnership with lifestyle magazine Monster Children. The experiential retailer b8ta is also launching a new community-driven store, this one aimed at fashion and lifestyle apparel. The company started in 2018, calling its concept “retail as a service” (RaaS).

Los Angeles 141

Los Angeles Community Branding social media 141

PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2019

Walmart , the world’s biggest retailer, is gearing up to bring on 2,000 technology professionals during 2019 to support its operations in stores and online. Bloomberg , citing comments Walmart CTO Jeremy King made in a Bloomberg TV interview, said the hiring would increase the retailer’s IT staff by more than one fourth.

Arlington 137

Arlington Virginia Retail California 137

PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2020

Despite trimming jobs and minimizing operations as COVID-19 spread earlier this year, large U.S. The London-based, international sandwich shop chain is just one of many retailers and service delivery providers that once considered the impacts of the pandemic to be temporary. companies now say that’s not enough.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

It’s hard to find a retail fashion category that’s reliably successful these days. It wasn’t just a move toward affordable luxury that brought her to the venture – it was what she saw as a lack of service from other retailers. Other retailers had the quality, but charged twice the price of her daughters’ cello lessons for a dress.

North Carolina 238

North Carolina New York City Charlotte Retail 238

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

writers in the humble view of the PYMNTS New Orleans Bureau, a man who is an essayist and writer for The Atlantic magazine and whose debut novel was just released.). The company is aiming to compete directly with Amazon , which launched its online Brazilian operations in 2012. And then there’s the Oprah factor.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In a recent column featured in Forbes , the thinking goes that online retail has managed to disrupt the lives of many a brick-and-mortar retailer. There’s another existential threat here, as online retailers must grapple with other online retailers. Some numbers belie the pressures at hand.

Retail 100

Retail Bitcoin Taxes Online 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

QSR magazine and other analysts point to a direct link between delivery and the consumer experience and consumer satisfaction. In fact, QSR magazine says the disruption potential of home delivery is similar to the disruption felt when eCommerce gained critical mass in 2008. percent of large operations.

Customer Experience 146

Customer Experience Operations Millennials Online 146

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

writers in the humble view of the PYMNTS New Orleans Bureau, a man who is an essayist and writer for The Atlantic magazine and whose debut novel was just released.). The company is aiming to compete directly with Amazon , which launched its online Brazilian operations in 2012. And then there’s the Oprah factor.

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Apple eBook Online United States 108

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

That is, the store might cost $50,000 a month to fully operate when launch, build out, staff, ongoing maintenance and other costs are factored into the equation. Pop-Up Retail Trends. Los Angeles is not as dense as New York, but Nejati said the city has always had great neighborhoods for retail. Pop-Up Shop Design.

Los Angeles 144

Los Angeles New York Branding Retail 144

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Grocery store operators — no matter if it is that small store on the corner or that sprawling location near the strip mall — are engaged in an existential fight that is certain to intensify in the coming years. That’s why [the] brick-and-mortar retailer isn’t going anywhere. Grocery Trends. You cannot replace that experience (online).”

Retail 101

Retail Technology Operations Innovation 101

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Online magazines. Restrictions on shopping in places where businesses are still shuttered may have spurred the great pivot toward subscriptions — moving beyond, say, content (such as magazine and newspaper subscriptions) and toward everyday items like toilet paper and mascara. Mascara delivered to the door for those endless Zoom calls.

Apple 184

Apple Branding Online Payments 184

Jeff For Banks

AUGUST 22, 2014

Bank Investment Consultant magazine recently published the results of a bank/credit union investment sales benchmarking report from Kehrer Bielan Research and Consulting. Little is the operative word here. it is reasonable to expect a retail investment sales program to generate $360,000 in revenue for every $1 billion in deposits.

Retail 89

Retail Tools Management Taxes 89

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Magazine and newspaper subscriptions are popular services that have been around for decades, making them a favorite for bad actors as well. New York officials, however, recently delivered good news to victims of a magazine scam that Orbital Publishing Group oversaw.

New York 130

New York Oregon social media Trends 130

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Cloud-based inventory software offers restaurants several advantages in operational efficiency, including real-time tracking. Most retailers can reduce their upcoming shipments and sell excess inventory before restocking, but restaurants do not have this luxury due to food spoilage. Keeping QSRs on Top of Inventory.

Management 130

Management Software Tools Massachusetts 130

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Named GH Lab, the 2,800-square-foot shop will be a monument to experimental retail, designed to resemble a real home complete with dining and living room areas. And in the spirit of Christmas miracles come early, a mall operator actually has something good to say about Amazon in 2018.

America 100

America Branding Training Retail 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Consumers can slip the Galaxy Fold out of their pockets “for one-handed calls, texts and more, and open for endless multitasking and higher-quality viewing on our largest mobile display for presentations, digital magazines, movies and AR content.”. Suggested retail price for Galaxy Fold in the U.S. starts at $1,980.”

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Samsung Apple California Mobile 122

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Data may be king — as they say — but many retailers may find themselves feeling like an innocent pawn among all that data. Wiland operates one of the largest consumer databases, tracking more than $220 billion in transactional, SKU-level data — transactional and behavioral — for over 235 million Americans.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2018

A year after General Growth Properties’ (GGP) Providence Place opened in 1999, the mall boasted 120 tenants, including a slew of upmarket retailers, seven restaurants and two cinemas. million square feet of space — and quickly became a hot retail destination. billion in annual sales, according to REIT Magazine. billion deal.

Hawaii 102

Hawaii Retail Connecticut Miami 102

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

To be successful, restaurant operators will look to strike the perfect formula of on- and off-premises for their business as consumers strive for convenience, but continue to look to the social escape that restaurants provide. That explains why Seamless and Door Dash are investing in logistics and operational costs.

Rhode Island 151

Rhode Island National social media Arizona 151

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Over 80 percent of restaurant operators agree that the use of technology in a restaurant provides a competitive advantage and nearly four in 10 plan to invest more in expanding their off-premises business in 2019. Not to be outdone by the competition, Grubhub is working with food magazine Bon Appétit on a new delivery-only restaurant model.

Los Angeles 129

Los Angeles Branding Chicago User Experience 129

PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2018

cities, such as New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago, PC Magazine reported. Farnsworth said many movie theater operators are interested in partnering with MoviePass — but not AMC. MoviePass has dropped a few AMC Theatres from its popular movie ticket subscription service. He said that equates to $34.4

Los Angeles 110

Los Angeles Boston Chicago New York 110

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

According to Good Audience , hundreds of thousands of retailers currently accept cryptocurrency. State Treasurer Robert Sprague spoke at the Ohio State Associated Press forum earlier this month, reports in Bitcoin Magazine said last week, where he offered new details on adoption of business crypto tax payments.

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Taxes Ohio cryptocurrency Payments 145

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2018

Location has always mattered in business, but the concept is taking on new meaning in online retail. consumers to paint a landscape picture of the retail trend. Buying a dress worn by a celebrity in a picture featured on a magazine or social media site qualifies. A deeper dive into what contextual commerce means might be useful.

User Experience 100

User Experience UX social media Retail 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Amazon spokesperson Jay Carney was the latest in Amazon’s upper ranks to once again dispute the idea that Amazon is an all-controlling monolith slowly but surely taking over all of retail. At a tech conference this week, Carney said Amazon accounts for a scant 4 percent of retail in the U.S. and less than 1 percent globally.

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Leadership Apple Branding Retail 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Discogs operates as an online, crowdsourced avenue through which individuals can list their popular and rare audio recordings for sale. Forbes reports that Discogs owes its success to the vinyl resurgence and, though some millennials may not want to admit it, to big corporate retailers as well. Who is being underserved?

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Millennials Retail Google Apple 109

PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2016

Subscriptions started life as the business model of magazines and, later, book-of-the-month clubs. In 2014, subscription commerce grew to be a $5 billion segment within the retail space alone and has shown no signs of slowing. The predictability of revenue has drawn more than just traditional retailers to subscription commerce.

San Francisco 100

San Francisco Software Guidelines Retail 100

PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

“A lot of the smaller niche brands that you’d buy, because you’d seen [them] while browsing in Toys R Us, are going to be hit very hard,” said Jackie Breyer, editor-in-chief of industry magazine The Toy Book , according to Reuters. As for opening a retail store — a toy store no less — just as the biggest toy store in America is going down?

US 101

US Retail Branding New York City 101

Gonzobanker

AUGUST 10, 2023

This summer in strategic planning meetings across the country, bankers will need to deal with some critical realities: Reality #1: There’s no turning back from the hybrid workplace According to Build Remote, 77% of the Fortune 100 companies are operated under a hybrid working model.

Leadership 147

Leadership Training Meeting Michigan 147

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

14 days is the typical payment term for Tesco Ireland suppliers, but the grocery chain has reportedly vowed to pay select small vendors immediately upon receiving an invoice, reports in European Supermarket Magazine said. PYMNTS rounds up the latest data in late B2B payments news below. ”

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Industry Payments Policies Ohio 153

PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2020

Taco Bell has come up with a new store design to encourage consumers to order their meals ahead of their arrival — making it the latest quick-service restaurant (QSR) chain to rethink its entire operational structure in response to consumers’ surging use of drive-thru lanes and order-head capabilities amid the pandemic.

Mobile 130

Mobile Branding Examples Operations 130

PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2019

The possible IPO of the Vision Fund will take place after the vehicle is fully invested, and might result in a creation of a publicly-listed company similar to Berkshire Hathaway (and of course accessible to retail investors, now able to ostensibly act as venture capital investors) with a decidedly tech company focus. SoftBank Activity.

America 123

America Company Course Technology 123

FICO

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Armando has worked as a lead consultant on transformation projects across private, retail and wholesale banking. Sibulelo Ncamani, head of operational risk and governance at Absa Bank (previous winner). Sibulelo is responsible for operational risk management, valuations strategy, management assurance and governance at Absa Bank.

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Meeting Analytics Risk Management Management 52

PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

It is the juxtaposition of social networking and entertainment and sports all combined,” said Glen Calvert , chief operating officer of Fnatic , a London-based eSports outfit that hires professional gamers, runs tournaments and sells branded gaming apparel and gear. It's not just a video game.

Video 197

Video Branding Comparison Industry 197

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

“With Self-Delivery, we set out to build a product that would enable Jimmy John’s, and other restaurants, to reach DoorDash’s customer base while complementing their own existing delivery operations,” said Sanjay Kotte, head of strategic partnerships at DoorDash.

Branding 157

Branding Atlanta Survey US 157

PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

Chip Wilson – the man behind the progenitor of the athleisure trend Lulumelon – said as much last May and he is far from alone, Women’s Wear Daily and New York magazine both agreed that the bubble is beginning to look perilous.

Branding 100

Branding Trends New York Data 100