PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Some geographies are coping with the upheaval in retail better than others, as vacancies in U.S. The Reis data monitors 77 metro areas and indicates that 9.4 However, the retail vacancy rate was under 7 percent in 17 cities, with San Francisco taking the lead at 4.1 But retail vacancies increased by 2.4

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

IAC will change its name to Shift as the transaction proceeds and the Shift management team of CEO and Co-Founder George Arison and Co-CEO Toby Russell will stay in place. “We Investors are excited by the prospect of an entirely new market for online players to displace traditional sellers,” says the WSJ.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

What are hiring managers doing, and how is it reflective of the broader economy? Retailers, health care and technology consultants enjoyed the largest employment gains, said analysts, while manufacturers saw a 4,000 cut in jobs last month. presidential election. 59% of U.S. According to CBIZ, there was a 0.82 percent.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

Yes, last week, customers in many major metro areas — and the pedestrians on the streets outside their locations — were treated to the site of Lush employees stripped down to their skin but for their tastefully placed black aprons emblazoned with Lush’s equally subtle slogan: Get Naked!

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

While he and his friends were attending their final semester at the Yale School of Management , they had a plan. The product and marketing plan were locked early in the year. The original business model for Onda was to launch at retail. Any sales must be routed through a distributor and eventually a retailer.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Delivery companies Point Pickup , Skipcart , AxleHire and Roadie will make deliveries in metro areas across four states, with further expansion planned in the coming weeks. Walmart has announced it is adding four delivery companies to its team to help expand its online grocery delivery option. Customers love our Grocery Delivery service.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

According to the blog post, the retailer currently has grocery delivery available in almost 100 metro regions and “is continuing to innovate to find new ways to serve customers – better, faster and easier.”. households. Walmart U.S. So, we are on a mission to do more than keep a little extra money in their pockets.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Ratelt operates as a real-time customer experience management platform, according to reports. The company has expanded from Australia to southeast Asia and clients include Lego, Metro, Pandora and others. The company’s platform connects retailers and suppliers across groceries and supply chains, among other sectors. ShopKirana.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The players are many — but in the last year and a half, Walmart, Amazon and Kroger have managed to pull ahead in the earliest rounds of the race in terms of the breadth and depth of their enhanced offerings for consumers. has an updated look and a new focus: the shopping needs of major metro consumers, particularly around grocery.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2020

12) that it is partnering with Instacart in four test markets. As such, it is a highly synergistic partnership that will benefit both companies once extended to a larger selection of markets. It is evident, though, that the launch will be regional, maybe even limited to specific metros where Walmart has strong grocery and delivery.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

is a tough market – and getting tougher. food and consumer-product market, according to Nielsen. Now playing catch-up, Kroger has budgeted $4 billion for investments, including warehouses managed by robots, a meal-kit company and digitally LED enabled shelves that market directly to customers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

21) that it is rolling out a platform to enable shippers to tap into the company’s network and manage shipments from a personal computer. In August, the company announced it was expanding Uber Freight into new markets across the country, as well as introducing personalized load matching.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The new concept, according to reports, is called Roll by Goodyear, and it’s a very different concept for retail than what has been typical of the 132-year-old tire company’s MO thus far. metro area (in Maryland) as the first phase of a pilot program.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

At the time, the move was written off to timing pressure — Amazon wants to get its products to the global market faster than it can conceivably teach Alexa to speak every human language. We connect webinars and training stations at shared workspaces, in major metros, institutes and beyond,” Dilip R.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

s two resident retail superpowers’ race for the consumer’s whole paycheck this week. The world’s largest physical retailer, Walmart, spent much of its earnings call with analysts discussing its digital commerce victories and expansion. Big Play of the Week: The Power of Prime Day to Move Markets .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

“VCs used 2016 to manage costs, set priorities and valuations,” explained Rahul Khanna, managing partner at Trifecta Capital, in an interview with Business Standard published Wednesday (Dec. They need to manage the burn, drift and cut losses.”. Procure-To-Pay. Tradeshift. According to reports Wednesday (Dec. B2B eCommerce.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

And yet, with the release of its latest earnings report, Wayfair continues to perform admirably under the strain; with better than expected results and a big jump in its stock price (at least at first) to market it. In major metro areas, small package delivery is down to two days and large package deliver clocks in at 14 days. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

And last week’s events managed to qualify it for “thrill-a-minute” status between the lofty and ambitious projects started, stopped and debated that made the headlines. The move puts Amazon in more direct competition with QVC and its parent brand, Qurate Retail Group, which in addition to QVC owns HSN, Zulily and five other brands.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

Robotics and automation were areas of focus for both retailers this week as they seek to upgrade their operations in an effort to capture more consumer spend. The move comes as cities and states are passing bans on cashless retail establishments, on the argument that such retail discriminates against unbanked consumers.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2019

In more recent memory, soy milk began taking modern markets by storm in the early 1970s, growing steadily in sales and peaking in 2008 with annual sales of $1.2 metro for the last two years – the alternative milk of the moment is oat. What changed the game for Oatly specifically, and oat milk in general, was a different go-to market.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

Entrepreneurs sometimes see a need in the market for a new service due to their personal experiences: WEach Seats Co-Founder Matthew Weaver was inspired to help start his company, which turns underutilized areas of restaurants into coworking spaces because he found himself working from coffee shops and home. metro area and Chicago.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

In the last twelve months alone, China has seen over 30 dockless bike-sharing startups enter the fray — though that particular market is currently dominated by two large competitors in the space — Ofo and Mobike. We came into the market right when their existing station-based bikes had folded,” Poon said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

metros that time can extend to a decade and beyond. On average apartment rent rates have gone up about 36 percent in the last decade according to retail data firm Yardi Matrix , and in particularly desirable marketplaces like Denver, Austin and Seattle rents have gone up by more than 70 percent. But in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

GOLO provides a very secure environment, with all the benefits we’ve come to expect of online markets, at a very low cost.”. GOLO is currently operational in a number of Canadian metro areas, including Toronto, Quebec City and Montreal. The market for online ordering from restaurants alone is growing quickly.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2019

That lost library book we had almost managed to convince ourselves no longer existed. This week, Chicago became the largest metro area to officially say no to library fines – joining St. It has happened to all but the most organized among us. The first being Amazon, of course.). “I Bistritz-Balkan, spokeswoman for Equifax.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 23, 2017

Chairmen and CEOs alike spout undifferentiated bromides that tells me their strategy in their markets must be low cost. Disciplined execution on our strategic priorities resulted in exceptional growth in organic loans and core deposits, which combined with effective expense management, collectively yielded net income of $xx million.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Offered in conjunction with Postmates, the service will be available in the 40 metro markets in which Postmates currently operates. It’s all hands on deck,” Chapin Hansen, Lyft’s Twin Cities market manager, said. “We The team at Amazon retailer CreepyParty recently had a creepy experience of their own.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2020

A reorientation that could prove to be a bit of a challenge, since the COVID-19 outbreak that is spreading around the world seems to have infected the stock market, sending shares crashing through the ground as Wall Street put in its worst performance since the dawn of the Great Recession. Let’s dive in…. Walmart’s Many Resets .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing that you have introduced into the market and what value did it deliver to the stakeholder group that was its target? The effectiveness of this process is very clear — as Kount has consistently been the first to market with most of the key technologies used in fraud identification and prevention today.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

The 2020 Census quantified the growth many residents were already sensing: Austin grew by 33% between 2010 and 2020, earning it the rank of fastest-growing large metro. The Houston metro took the 10th spot with a 20.3% increase, while the San Antonio metro, up 19.4%, ranked 12th. Capitalizing on an area’s growing popularity.

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Gonzobanker

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

There were a handful of female executives, but they were few and far between and most I encountered were directors, not bank management. were going to continue to drive consolidation in the market and that the threshold to be competitive is quickly creeping up to the $5 billion in assets mark. to $5 billion. All deals are good deals.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

Heal accepts all the major forms of insurance in the markets in which they operate, which today is 70 percent of California, Washington, D.C. If 10 years ago, I had told you retail was going to fully reset and all these brands were going to disappear, you wouldn’t have believed me,” Desai said. and Northern Virginia. What’s Next.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Offered in conjunction with Postmates, the service will be available in the 40 metro markets that Postmates operates in. “It’s all hands on deck,” Chapin Hansen, Lyft’s Twin Cities market manager. Amazon retailer Creepy Party toy recently had a creepy experience of their own.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 8, 2017

Seven years ago, the first new retail bank in almost a century got its licence to open: Metro Bank. The Spectator has just written an interesting piece about this: In 2013, Graeme Hartop left his job as managing director of the banking arm of the Scottish Widows investment group. Or are they?

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. billion of assets under management. This was a terrific combination of two education-focused cooperatives across both Southern and Northern California markets. ConnectOne Bancorp, Inc.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Unlike one once stalwart retail banking industry event in the US, RBR’s attendance has been on a multi-year growth trajectory. Sure, there are and will be digital banks that enjoy a profitable business serving niche markets of digitally-driven customers. Banks don’t serve homogeneous markets. It’s Complicated.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

MARCH 5, 2015

I was genuinely surprised to see the massive line to get in as I strolled down to the session, which was led by the GSMA’s Senior Financial Services Manager, Claire Maslen, and she kicked it off with a terrific panel discussion covering Apple Pay. It looks as if the interest in mobile payments is still growing.

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