PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

For quite some time, office supplies retailer Staples has been struggling to stay afloat. In the office supply retailer’s latest effort to save face, it has made the move to shake up its marketing strategy. ” Staples’ chief marketing officer, Frank Bifulco, commented on this new approach.

Marketing Strategies 100

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2018

On the surface, a financial services marketing strategy is not completely different than a marketing strategy for any other industry. A financial services marketing strategy must be more rigorous and well-thought-out in order to be successful.

Marketing Strategies 170

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

A day in the life of a strategy officer involves a great deal of communication with and listening to the concerns and interests of industry analysts, media and customers (along with a healthy dose of strategizing, of course). PYMNTS: What does a day in the life of a chief strategy officer look like? SW: It’s never the same day twice.

Strategy 100

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

There’s a storm brewing in the Indian retail scene, with Amazon at its center. Over the weekend, Reliance Industries – the company owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani – purchased Future Group ’s 2,000 retail stores and the Big Bazaar grocery chain. Whole Foods has 497 stores. billion consumers. “At

Retail 263

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

Swedish furniture company IKEA now has a second online-only store in India, this one in Pune. The rollout furthers IKEA’s strategy to connect with Indian consumers, and accelerate the sale of its traditional home furniture products. Our online shop has over 7,000 products, of which more than 800 products are [priced] below ?

Online 131

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

When it’s said and done there was only one story that mattered in the retail universe this year and it was the rise of the digital-first economy. More consumers are going online to shop and pay as the pandemic progresses. The numbers speak for themselves. It was the catalyst for most every business dynamic in the category.

Retail 295

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2021

The process of B2B procurement between diamond vendors and jewelry retailers is often stuck on legacy processes like phone calls, emails and paper check payments, creating the same kinds of bottlenecks and inefficiencies that plague other markets. A B2B eCommerce Evolution.

Industry 204

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Chuck Huang, founder and CEO of Citcon , explores how the pandemic has prompted retailers to capitalize on the surge in demand for contactless, digital payments. "As Progressive retailers have paved the way for this with email collection at registers, enabling them to connect their customers’ behavior in-store with them online.

Retail 211

Retail Payments Online Marketing Strategies 211

PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2020

Many businesses today see selling products in new markets as a growth opportunity. Expanding into a new market — even one as geographically close as Mexico, for example — would present a number of logistical hurdles that many businesses may not be equipped to handle. Appealing to a wider array of customers within the U.S.

Strategy 230

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The pandemic is proving to be a tough loyalty test for retailers, as they are competing for customers’ attention in an environment where competition is still present in both online and in stores. Retailers must, therefore, assess what type of shopping experiences consumers are searching for, as well as how to provide swift payments.

Online 241

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to modify ideas around how we shop and pay, consumers and B2B buyers are also making choices about where to shop: online or in-store? Now there are signals that a physical retail rebound is forming up. Another example is Amazon, whose touchless retail concepts give a good look at in-store experiences to come. “Of

Retail 261

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 31, 2021

As social media platforms tinker with their algorithms, marketing experts say one trend is clear: Paid social campaigns are becoming increasingly necessary to cut through the noise and reach customers. Although posting organically is an authentic way to build customer relationships, it requires time and patience to reach marketing goals.

Marketing Strategies 91

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The B2B commerce arena is moving online at record speed as more business buyers seek to procure products and services the way they do in their personal lives. The furniture industry, for example, can be especially difficult to migrate to online platforms. A Hybrid Approach.

Marketing 170

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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.

Community 269

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

Retailers and direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands that are now seeing their eCommerce sales take flight would be remiss to ignore the data being generated by the digital shift and the potential marketing opportunities. Testing has generally been reserved for bigger and luxury retail brands. percent from 35.5

Retail 130

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

As 2020 unfolds, the retail business has been dramatically altered. But with consumer spending holding steady, it’s important for retailers to grasp the opportunity to create innovative ways to get, keep and grow customers. And retailers that deploy experiential tactics drive repeat purchases at rates nearly twice those who don’t.

Retail 210

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

As retailers look for a way out of an unprecedented cash flow crunch, many are slashing prices online and offering free shipping. The move is good for consumers, but for the retailers involved discounting is a double-edged sword. It’s the age-old argument for retail. retailers is down 64 percent over 2019.

Retail 146

Retail Strategy Branding Analysis 146

PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis and the digital shift that it accelerated are making five lessons clear that tradition brick-and-mortar retailers must heed if they want to survive, according to Karen Webster. The key lesson traditional merchants must learn is that “retail’s competition is the marketplace, not other category competitors,” Webster wrote.

Retail 179

Retail Branding Analysis Online 179

PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

The retail bankruptcy watch intensified Tuesday (April 21) as the department store sector was hit by reports of yet another major player looking at that option. Lord & Taylor, now joining Neiman Marcus, is considering a bankruptcy filing as the COVID-19 lockdown continues to decimate non-essential retail. billion in sales.

Retail 220

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

In Toronto, a new service called DMS ShopHERE , powered by the Schulich School of Business, aims to help small companies and artists move their businesses online. The aim of the program is to help build 3,000 online stores by the end of August.

Maine 240

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Unprecedented surges in online shopping volume has meant consumers are shifting their buying and payment habits in a big — and likely permanent — way. For many merchants, particularly smaller ones, the most immediate priority is to ensure that these businesses can accept payments online. Shifting Financial Strategies.

Data 184

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

A new advocacy group dedicated to direct-to-consumer retail was announced this week with representation from Google and several major retailers including QVC, Brooks Brothers and Lane Bryant. It foresees a short-term evolution of retailing to an all-DTC world. The group is ambitious at the outset.

Google 150

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Virtual reality could have more retailers reach more consumers in the coming few years — in large part by upping the consumer experience. billion for retail and marketing in the year 2022, with revenues from VR initiatives expected to increase by 3,000 percent over the next four years. and Europe by 2022. Amazon VR Push.

Retail 192

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

Flexibility will be essential to survival, and the pressure is on for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and financial service providers to migrate online as their customers continue social distancing. But for many businesses, that presents a new chance to pivot or adjust business strategies. Pinpointing the Opportunity.

Online 174

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South State Correspondent

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In the olden days, if you wanted to market deposits, the head of Retail would come to Marketing and say something like – “We need to raise deposits.” ” Marketing would then put together some ideas for a print or digital campaign; Retail would sign off on it, and then they would roll it out.

Marketing 195

Marketing Data Groups Analysis 195

PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2020

The retail industry is facing its first sales event of the pandemic with the coming of back-to-school sales. The projections were led by the National Retail Federation (NRF) this week, as it foresees record sales for back to school. At the very least, retailers need to depend on eCommerce sales in the states where the virus is raging.

Retail 186

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Traditional retail locations, ranging from fashion and home furnishings to hardware and department stores, have been forced to make significant changes in the face of heightened competition from eCommerce giants like Amazon and omnichannel powerhouses, like Walmart and its online unit, Jet.com.

Digital Strategies 104

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2020

Brick-and-mortar is instead rapidly changing to accommodate the needs of consumers who have come to expect the same speed and convenience from purchasing through online and mobile environments. Retailers thus cannot shrug off the brick-and-mortar shopping experience as a lost cause. Visual Search: The Next Retail Battlegrou nd.

Strategy 179

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

The pandemic has driven consumers to make the bulk of their purchases online, leading many businesses and retailers to struggle with securing their digital infrastructures and payments processes while managing floods of orders. retailers have digital oversights that leave them vulnerable to attacks. Debit And The Fraud Catch .

Fraud 148

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2020

Corporates cannot expect to weather the economic and social changes taking place by virtue of their market clout and mastery of traditional supply chains and distribution channels. This environment requires enterprise-scale companies to forge new digital paths to market and form more direct relationships with consumers and end-users.

Retail 216

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Perficient

JANUARY 13, 2021

B2B firms want to invest in effective methods to strategize and market products, serve new and existing customers through the digital purchasing experience and focus more on e-channels as means of significantly gaining business revenue. Tailoring a Specialized Marketplace Strategy. Would you put up the same signs? Probably not.”.

Report 495

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

s robust marketing strategy for its retail bank has paid off, as the bank today reported that half of its new retail customers were millennials. Of Ally Financial’s 230,000 new retail deposit customers via its retail side, Ally Bank, 126,500 were millennials, according to bank’s earnings report released today.

Retail 170

Retail Millennials Marketing Strategies Strategy 170

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Consumers are now getting everything online and that’s going to shape their behavior for good. online or offline, safely or not). That’s why Shift has seen better performance from most OEMs, new retailers and traditional brick-and-mortar retailers who don’t have this formula set up to respond to this scenario.”.

Online 130

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Online firms and their banking partners have both the means and motives to stop fraudsters from accessing personal information, but today’s connected economy encompasses markets and customer service channels around the world. No anti-fraud strategy is completely effective across channels, however, and therein lies the issue.

Fraud 130

Fraud Strategy Tools Security 130

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In restaurant technology, cloud kitchens have emerged as a new model driven by the rise of online ordering. And, in digital banking, banks are innovating with their strategies for fraud protection and anti-money laundering (AML). 96 percent: Share of retail banks that plan to develop services focused on real-time payments by 2020.

Trends 122

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2017

After a full year in service, Goldman Sachs Bank USA is celebrating its first full year in retail and its online deposit platform’s success. Since its inception a year ago, the online deposit platform, which Goldman Sachs purchased from GE Capital Bank, has garnered $4 billion deposits without a major marketing push.

Online 100

Online Retail Tools Strategy 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2016

After nine months and 10,000 data points examining data on the 650 merchants that drive 70 percent of online spend in the U.S., one thing is abundantly clear: big merchants lack an online checkout strategy. That’s where their lack of a checkout strategy is apparent. Checkout Strategy? What Checkout Strategy? .

Strategy 103

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