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APRIL 12, 2016

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. That’s the mantra of innovators everywhere.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

As the run-up to retail’s big season is getting ready to get underway, the nation’s retailers have a big, big problem at the ports. In addition, some Hanjin ships have been seized by creditors or barred from shipping cargo from Busan, South Korea’s main port. The problem is not American in origin.

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JULY 23, 2019

The country recently announced that it will no longer process checks on its national payment system. Truckers play an important role in shuttling deliveries across country to retailers and merchants, handling 71 percent of the freight tonnage moved in America in 2017. Find all the latest headlines in the Tracker.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

But Bulk Nation had a radical idea about fixing that problem. “We have more than 3,000 items available on our shelves,” Bulk Nation President Clay Donato noted, “and we mean it when we say customers can buy whatever they want. There is a container, and that’s what the customer buys. You can buy just a pound.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

and five other nations identified 100 million potentially fraudulent transactions between March 11 and April 28, for example. The health crisis is also dramatically altering merchants’ approaches to customer engagement and interaction, leading many to shut down brick-and-mortar channels and devote their resources to online operations.

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JULY 28, 2020

Chief Operating Officer Ro Bhatia told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Brands that are either expanding existing DTC operations or have only sold through a marketplace can use channels like Amazon without creating potential conflicts in their path to selling directly to consumers. Going DTC Without Creating Conflict .

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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). And that’s what Chipotle, like many of its competitors, is betting on.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

Saving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral. Main Streets will have to change to receive the social proof and vibe that made them so successful. And, beginning next year, they will be able to spend their crypto collections with any of the 26 million retailers currently taking PayPal. Where does Apple Pay stand today?

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APRIL 2, 2020

Consumers are staying at home more, buying less and saving what they can, while retailers and their vendors are enacting their own measures to slow the spread of contagion. How are the businesses of Main Street U.S.A. percent have laid off at least some employees to help reduce operational costs. citizens and the economy.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

After Halloween comes the lucrative holiday shopping season — sorry, Thanksgiving, but you’re only a speed bump — but there are serious questions about how happy the fourth quarter will be for some big eCommerce operators. retail websites. Overall holiday retail sales, by contrast, will increase 4.8 Amazon’s Problem. Apple Woes.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

CVS Health, the drugstore chain operator, announced Tuesday (Jan. 15) that Walmart has chosen to leave the CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management (PBM) commercial and Managed Medicaid retail pharmacy networks. CVS Caremark said the main focus now is ensuring an orderly transition for plan members.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

Retailers that mainly depended on brick-and-mortar foot traffic had to quickly mobilize distribution services to get their goods to customers. The nation was never truly in danger of running out, yet it took time for manufacturers to reconfigure their supply chains for the increased demand. Geocoding's Accuracy And Insights.

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APRIL 17, 2020

Can Main Street SMBs Cross The PPP Cash Chasm? Main Street USA: 58 Percent Of Main Street SMB Retailers Say They May Not Survive The Pandemic. Main Street USA: 58 Percent Of Main Street SMB Retailers Say They May Not Survive The Pandemic. NEW DATA: Five Ways Social Distancing Is Transforming Retail .

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Delivering funds smoothly to employees in different nations is therefore essential, and it may require firms to migrate from paper checks to digital tools, especially those that suit the needs of employees who do not have bank accounts. How Mobile Apps Are Easing Retail Payments In India. Check out the Tracker ® to read more.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Retailers’ main concern is that there is millions of dollars’ worth of merchandise that needs to be on store shelves that could be impacted by this,” National Retail Federation Vice President for Supply Chain and Customs Policy Jonathan Gold said in a statement earlier this month. “It

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In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. To improve the quality of their earnings, banks need their number one focus to be on making their operations more efficient. To the extent projects improve operating leverage and the total experience, so much the better.

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JULY 2, 2019

That’s the story told in a new PYMNTS interview with Jason Hardy, chief operating officer at AgeChecker.Net. a national push is afoot to raise the minimum age throughout the country to 21 for tobacco purchases. Retailers are trying to stay ahead of the curve, and are sometimes on their own raising the minimum age to 21.

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MARCH 9, 2020

The coronavirus could have wide-reaching effects on medical facilities, eCommerce retailers, technology and the economy as a whole. The eCommerce retailer told employees Sunday (March 8) that it would not count unpaid time off if they have to use it this month. All of the nation’s schools were previously shuttered until mid-March.

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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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JUNE 19, 2016

And according the the Atlanta-based building supplies retailer, that flaw is putting both customers and retailers at risk. It’s the latest large retailer to raise the security concerns, with a lawsuit filed this week in U.S. Retailers pay more on signature transactions than they do for PIN payments — roughly $.05

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

When the going gets tough — say, because Amazon is about to take on the pharmacy industry with its vertical-slaying eCommerce retail machine — the tough get going. If approved, the acquisition would merge the largest pharmacy benefits manager and operator in the nation with one of the country’s longest-living health insurance firms.

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JULY 24, 2020

Creating secure, convenient experiences for sellers and buyers alike is critical to eCommerce marketplaces looking to serve the retail sectors’ new needs and to help platforms appeal to more users. Beauty retailer Sephora , meanwhile, is renewing emphasis on China by deploying a localized eCommerce presence. Read more in the Report.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. percent of all retail sales. consumers — 47.2 Share of U.S.

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AUGUST 5, 2020

billion write-down related to its African operations, and Heineken took a 550 million ($654.3 alcohol sales shot up 55 percent in late March, just as stay-at home orders were going into effect across the nation. Are people in other nations less likely to try to drown their pandemic-related sorrows in booze?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Amazon really has no close competitors in the space: Even the marketplace operated by retail rival Walmart does not offer any such services. New Orleans artist Stephanie Kauffman, who operates a customizable candle business called Mose Mary and Me , is engaged in a debate with herself about whether to employ FBA.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As PYMNTS reported in the recent fourth annual installment of How We Will Pay , a Visa collaboration, “[the] share of consumers who report shopping and paying for retail purchases from home has doubled over the last 12 months, and the share of grocery shopping from home has tripled.

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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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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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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

For Amazon , the encouragement includes $1.525 billion in performance-based direct incentives — part of the package that led to the eCommerce operator deciding to base one of its headquarters in Long Island City. A reported 238 locations competed to land Amazon’s new headquarters.

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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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JUNE 1, 2020

Many Main Street SMBs, local restaurants and designer boutiques are doing it for the first time. Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. Gas stations are encouraging it. Uber and Starbucks pioneered it.

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MAY 1, 2020

It’s understandably an anxious time for Main Street businesses , even as downtowns prepare to reopen. But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? EforAll began operating in Holyoke in 2018 and in Roxbury in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

It was a long, windy and oftentimes bumpy road of bankruptcy that beleaguered teen retailer Aéropostale had to trod. But a consortium of retail property landlords, including Simon Property Group Inc., But a consortium of retail property landlords, including Simon Property Group Inc., General Growth Properties Inc.,

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AUGUST 21, 2020

When Walmart announced Q2 earnings earlier this week, the nation’s largest retailer announced twin blowout performances in both its eCommerce and same-store sales. The companies are testing the service in four California and Oklahoma markets, with an eye toward a national launch in 2021. Same-store sales rose 9.3

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JUNE 23, 2018

National Selfie Day has passed into the history books once again. The founding hero of National Selfie Day — not that he receives his full recognition among the selfie masses — is a U.S. Retailers are also relying more on selfies — or at least experimenting with the form. We are now in the golden age of the selfie.

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MARCH 26, 2019

“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. The company is targeting both regional and national businesses with a minimum of 10 locations.

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