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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Some retailers are just excellent about telling stories about themselves and about the products that they're selling,” Taylor told PYMNTS. If brands want to get online, and you want to have something that looks bespoke, that’s typically going to mean paying a developer or paying an agency quite a bit of money.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For most of us, a stroll down the chilled or frozen food aisle in the supermarket is essentially an in-store version of window shopping. From a business standpoint, we believe that things like sales lift are obviously a really important metric,” Dravenstott said, “and you don't hear that much in brick and mortar retail.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Even with the liquidation of Toys R Us operations in the U.S., consumers can engage with Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us again this holiday season.” consumers can engage with Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us again this holiday season.” and Solus Alternative Asset Management own Tru Kids. Australia and the U.K.,

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 2, 2020

Robinhood Markets Inc.’s s brokerage website experienced technical issues Monday with some customers unable to make trades on a day when the market was rebounding from last week’s rout. A system-wide failure began as the U.S. markets opened and continued through midday. At 11:18 a.m.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

Weaker-than-expected holiday spending has led to concerns that it’s the start of a retail slowdown, leading Wall Street to slash profit estimates. retailers saw their estimates reduced during the past three months, with estimates only increasing for 16. In December retail sales dipped 1.6

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Although the installment concept is hardly new, Afterpay’s platform and growing catalog of retailers has brought fame and fortune to the company and its founders. There aren’t many online payment providers that have successfully gone offline. The most used word in our App Store review is ‘love,’” Molnar boasts. million U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

Dozens of retailers, from Dick’s Sporting Goods to Walmart , have added contactless shopping services, and it’s caught on. The number of orders placed online and picked up at stores surged 208 percent between April 1 and April 20 compared to a year ago, according to Adobe Analytics, CNBC reported. Last week, Texas Gov.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2022

ITMs and VTMs are popular retail banking innovations among community banks. What’s on the horizon for retail banking? According to a new report from PwC titled “Retail Banking 2025 and Beyond” (see sidebar), the retail banking industry is undergoing tremendous change—but, of course, community bankers already know that.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2021

The National Retail Federation ’s annual convention may have come and gone but the sentiments, strategies and lessons learned from facing nearly a year of pandemic-led changes by some of the world’s largest merchants are going nowhere fast — especially when it comes to their embrace of increased digitalization. Stores As Social Centers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Major retailers are stepping in to fill the void left by Toys R Us: Walmart , in particular, is growing its toy assortment by 30 percent in its brick-and-mortar stores, and by 40 percent online. To that end, the retailer is rolling out “thousands” of additional items to give customers more options.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 2, 2020

Robinhood Markets Inc.’s s brokerage website experienced technical issues Monday with some customers unable to make trades on a day when the market was rebounding from last week’s rout. A system-wide failure began as the U.S. markets opened and continued through midday. At 11:18 a.m.

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Banking Exchange

JULY 7, 2021

The online payments giant has brought its European product, Zettle, to the US Payments Retail Banking Feature3 Fintech Feature Online Mobile Tech Management Branch Technology/ATMs People Covid19.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

The results reversed a trend from last quarter, where the chain was one of many physical retailers facing a tepid holiday season that missed analyst expectations for sales, comparable-sales growth and earnings across the board. But things have reversed dramatically for the retailer amid the COVID-19 pandemic. percent to $134.6

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

While Toys R Us has disappeared from the United States, it is going strong in Asia, which plans to open 60 new stores throughout the region this year. We are cautiously optimistic,” said Jo Hall, Toys R Us chief commercial officer for Greater China and Southeast Asia. “We This follows Toys R Us shuttering all of its U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2019

Bebe, eCommerce, online store, loyalty program, clubbebe, website, online shopping, women’s fashion, women’s clothing, retail, news. The retailer bebe has launched a new online store and an enhanced customer loyalty program, partnering with Branded Online on both projects.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

billion for Whole Foods , the online retail giant is planning to open its second automated-checkout grocery store in Seattle’s Eastside neighborhood and is hiring managers for a third store in the city’s Capitol Hill district, The Seattle Times reported. Amazon must like the supermarket business. billion, up 7.7

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Since 1992, when eCommerce was still in its infancy, online retailers have not had to collect sales tax. consumers are expected to be shopping online by 2021. Will this increasingly regulated online sales tax environment affect this growth? Online Sales Tax and Marketplaces. Online Sales Tax and SMBs.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

It remains difficult for online businesses to get access to capital. Stripe Capital helped us expand our global footprint,” said Richard Blakely, Xirsys CEO and co-founder. “We We used the funding to set up servers in China, India and Japan, allowing us to reach customers all over the world.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

Seattle startup FLEXE looks to enable online retailers to compete against Amazon’s logistics capabilities. ” FLEXE said that its next-day delivery solution enables eCommerce brands to reach 98 percent of the US population via next-day ground shipping. It will be interesting to see if and how Amazon reacts.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

Beleaguered toy retailer Toys R Us is in the midst of prepping plans to liquidate its U.S. Toys R Us’ situation is in flux, but reports say liquidation seems a likelihood amid dashed hopes that a buyer will come to keep the (toy) trains running, so to speak, or that the debt will be repackaged.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2021

In today’s top retail news, Dollar Shave Club (DSC)’s board of directors have named a new CEO for the brand, while Albertsons Companies registered a digital sales growth spike in its third quarter fiscal 2020 results. Plus, Salesforce has revealed a new loyalty management platform for companies. Gross margin increased to 29.3

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As COVID-19 drives a surge in digital traffic and online consumption, merchants and manufacturers alike are racing to upgrade and adjust their platforms to capture as much of the consumer shift as possible this holiday shopping season. Retailers Are Customers, Too.

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Banking Exchange

MAY 12, 2021

Nearly two thirds believe their bank to be in a strong position, survey shows Risk Management Retail Banking Technology Feature3 Financial Research Feature Financial Trends The Economy Covid19 PPP Online Mobile.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

But mounting concerns about health and safety amid the pandemic have motivated a consistently rising share of shoppers to try ordering their groceries online for delivery. percent of consumers that PYMNTS surveyed had switched to grocery shopping online as of early March, 14.8 Whereas only 3.9 Whereas only 3.9 We found that 38.1

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Perficient

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The payments industry is no different, and we’re quickly approaching a new intersection point due to the Real-time Payments’ movement into the US. These days, as the US prepares to embrace real-time payments in 2023, the intersection of real-time payments and automation has become a key point of discussion.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

When Indochino launched in 2007, the company wasn’t out to create a new template for the entire retail sector, just a better product with better prices and a better buying experience. The pandemic pushed Indochino to add virtual shopping guides to its online channel, something the chain’s data revealed customers really wanted.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

But top industry experts told Karen Webster during PYMNTS’ latest “On The Agenda” panel that the hurdles for retailers are only beginning. He said the shipping infrastructure nearly buckled earlier this year, and retailers are now being highly conservative when it comes to managing deliveries. “We

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

Consumers were already changing their retail preferences before anyone had heard of COVID-19, let alone had their life utterly upended by it. This vastly accelerated retail realignment presents challenges — and opportunities — for retailers of all kinds, particularly those dealing in luxury goods, Molnar said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2020

Online wealth management platform Lufax is the latest to file plans for an IPO in the United States as Chinese firms rush to go public before tough new federal disclosure rules go into effect. investors gives us confidence to proceed with the IPO plan despite the impending crackdown by U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Plus, Walmart+ gets a closer look after the retail giant’s third-quarter earnings call. US Consumers Pay Down $10B in Credit Card Debt In Q3. Amazon Pharmacy’s self-serve platform gives users the ability to create a profile with insurance information and payments and the ability to manage their medications and refills.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2020

ChargeAfter , the buy now, pay later (BNPL) technology company, has partnered with Visa to integrate its Cybersource payment management platform, the company announced on Wednesday (July 15). As a result of the collaboration, Visa’s Cybersource digital platform can offer payment management capabilities to merchants in more than 190 countries.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 25, 2017

Starbucks is planning to permanently shut down operations for its online store, effective Oct. In addition, Starbucks aims to stay in contact with its most loyal online shoppers to apprise them of product inventory information and which items are sold out, Starbucks’ spokesperson Maggie Jantzen told Business Insider.

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Banking Exchange

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Envel, an AI powered bank, launches crowd funder after SEC increases regulation cap Retail Banking Technology Feature Financial Trends Mobile Online Tech Management Feature3 Fintech.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Toys“R”Us has just managed to secure $3.1 billion in financing, a big vote of investor confidence for the toy and game retail brand which had recently declared bankruptcy. Toys“R”Us officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Sept.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

Cafe closures during the coronavirus pandemic have reduced retail opportunities for tea brands, but consumers are still ordering their favorites online or loading up on them at grocery stores. They must also carefully manage their revenues and purchasing to get ahead. Three-Way Invoice Matching. Forry asked. What happened?’”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

To look into smart retail solutions with the Internet of Things (IoT), JD.com and Intel have teamed up to start the Digitized Retail Joint Lab. The eCommerce retailer noted that the effort indicates an “extension” of a partnership that already exists between the company and Intel.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

The last several weeks have certainly made for unexpected and unprecedented times for consumers and all players in the retail ecosystem and left a lot of businesses standing at a crossroads as they face the back half of 2020 and questions about what to do next. For us, the part that we have to keep always in sight is the human component.

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