PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

As the company’s chief digital officer, Sethia and his team have built what is arguably the most valuable loyalty program in retail with more than 33 million members. It announced this week that it is piloting Fuel Loyalty at participating 7-Eleven stores in North and South Orlando, Florida; North Texas; and Woodbridge, Virginia.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Online retail business is booming during the COVID-19 pandemic as consumers increase their use of contactless digital channels to shop safely from home instead of returning to brick-and-mortar stores. Free marketing support is one of the most valuable benefits of being a BNPL member,” Tillman said. Recent data revealed that U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

They are sold in major retailers such as Wegmans and Whole Foods Market in Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia, as well as online. Mama Biscuit’s Gourmet Biscuits (MBGB) produces flavored gourmet biscuits that “bridge the gap between” sweet cupcakes and savory tasting treats.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

This year, retailers from Kroger to Whole Foods Market brought new offerings ranging from cashierless checkout to personal shopping services to their stores. In August, Amazon and Whole Foods Market announced the rollout of a curbside pickup service for groceries in Virginia Beach and Sacramento. pick up at 5:30 p.m.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Increasingly everything is online these days, up to and including consumer identity. Data: $10 billion: Current value of the global digital identity market. 217 percent: The increase in searches for home listings in Crystal City, Virginia since Amazon officially announced it as one of two HQ2 locations. percent: Share of U.S.

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JUNE 24, 2016

But Facebook got the jump on the news cycle this week with the big news that it was opening up Facebook Canvas for retailers and other marketers on the site, as opposed to just advertis e rs. So, providing retailers with a new storefront in an ecosystem of 1.5 Online lending . billion people a month who visit it.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

The Cleveland-based firm says that it is “reviewing strategic alternatives for its retail portfolio.” According to Chain Store Age , this could mean shifting or significantly reducing its investment in the mall and retail center industry to instead focus on apartments and office buildings.

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MAY 31, 2018

The paper reported that, in May, the online retailer “added two directors to its 11-member board that were nominated by activist investor Starboard Capital. The service said it attracts some 19 million unique monthly visitors to its online automotive marketplace. and autoscout24.de.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

“We’re happy to bring our customers in San Francisco and Atlanta the convenience of free two-hour delivery through Prime Now and access to thousands of natural and organic groceries and locally sourced favorites,” John Mackey, Whole Foods Market co-founder and CEO, said in a statement. throughout 2018.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2020

Looking at the past several weeks of PYMNTS consumer survey data, four times more consumers are buying groceries online instead of going into the grocery store these days. Smith suffers from a chronic medical condition affecting her connective tissue and laments the fact that she can’t use her SNAP to easily shop online.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In a press release , the company said the Federal Court in the Eastern District of Virginia granted it a temporary restraining order and froze the PayPal accounts of the entities that were selling fake products without regulatory oversight or the age verification processes JUUL employs.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The net impact of Amazon’s decision translates to Bear Down Logistics’ facilities shutting down in Ohio, Virginia and Illinois in April — with 280 positions lost. Yet, in a competitive market, pay may matter. Postmates said its overall Delivery-as-a-Service has leapt by more than 300 percent year over year across retailers.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

Standing one’s ground in an Amazon -dominated retail market doesn’t happen by accident. The retailer has announced that it will be adding more than 1,000 new employees to its technology teams this year, increasing the size of its tech department by more than a third. The company is investing $3.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2018

But, following Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, Amazon started offering its own two-hour delivery from stores in Austin, Cincinnati, Dallas and Virginia Beach in February. ALDI tested the service in three markets — Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles — in August, Chain Store Age reported.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2018

In Richmond, Virginia, for example, Chop Chop allows diners to choose from a menu of 50 to 60 restaurants for delivery. In sum, “we’re there to market for them to help them grow,” Chop Chop Owner Chris Chandler told PYMNTS.com in an interview. on customer service, local knowledge and restaurant fees.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

The biggest story this week in grocery came, as it often does, care of the new Whole Foods Market as operated by Amazon. Curbside delivery is coming to the grocery chain, starting with two test runs — one in Virginia Beach one in Sacramento. Walmart wasn’t the only retailer trumpeting its efficacy in its last earnings report.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

That growth will be driven by a generally healthy consumer spend and tight labor market. Accelerating trends in technology and consumer demand will lead to more “cloud kitchens” and “virtual restaurants” — restaurants that exist only online or via an app,” the report says. New chains could quickly emerge regionally or nationally.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The Seattle-based eCommerce operator and cloud computing provider decided to build in both Crystal City, an urban area in North Virginia near Washington, D.C., Redfin also said that “online views of homes currently for sale in Crystal City and Long Island City on Redfin.com have skyrocketed. 13) on its new headquarters. Alexa Apology.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

The dominant — and pretty much only — name in the smartphone market was Blackberry, and it was mostly for the uptight professional who could only be truly happy when reading their work emails. The App Store and Android Market (Google Play’s previous iteration) were both three years away, and Siri was seven years away.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Amazon confirmed that it will instead move forward with plans for Northern Virginia and Nashville, and continue to hire and grow across its “17 corporate offices and tech hubs in the U.S. In the meantime, amid growing competition in the subscription market, it is retooling its offerings and business model. and Canada.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

It delivers to homes and businesses in 24 metro markets and has more than 200 pickup locations. The beauty of online grocery shopping is that you can add to your order throughout the week and at the very moment you remember that you need something,” said Cat de Merode, Peapod’s vice president of product.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

legal sports betting market following a 2018 Supreme Court Decision to legalize such activities is $150 billion. In New Jersey, for instance, mobile sports betting is growing to the point where the state is reportedly near topping Las Vegas as the country’s biggest market. Approximately 80 percent of gamblers are now betting online.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

In the fourth quarter, Kroger introduced a “seamless digital shopping experience” to integrate the company’s ClickList service — the grocer’s order online/pickup in-store option — into its other digital offerings, such as coupons, recipes and rewards, among others. And households that transact with us online spend even more.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When Jesse moved to California and Ross went to the University of Virginia, they were connected in the sense that they posted on one another’s Facebook walls or liked each other’s photos. The Market. But they didn’t talk on the phone much and they only saw each other once or twice a year around the holidays.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

According to McKinsey , if you take the approximate value of all the sleep swag on the market as of 2018 –think luxury pajamas , high-end bed linens , cuddling robots , DTC mattresses and odd gadgets – it generates somewhere between $30 billion and $45 billion annually in revenue worldwide. billion globally by 2020.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

While the technology is still developing, many companies (including Amazon) are banking on it as a disruptive force in a myriad of markets. From creating checkout-free retail stores to eliminating concert tickets, here are 16 industries that are starting to transform with facial recognition technology. Marketing & Advertising.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The Paris-headquartered retail chain of personal care and beauty stores has more than 400 shops across North America that feature nearly 3,000 brands, along with its own private label. to offer same-day deliveries across a few select markets in the U.S., 24) a partnership with Sephora to offer same-day delivery from most of its stores.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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JUNE 1, 2016

The “tech startup from New York” as it called itself during its Finovate debut this spring is the choice of China’s Fujian Rural Credit (FJRC) , which is enhancing its online and cloud-based banking offerings. Virginia M. Pictured: Rob Stanich (Global Wealth Management Offering Manager) and Alex Baghdjian (Sr.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The Crystal City, Virginia HQ2 plans are still underway, as are plans for a new operations hub in Nashville. The coin will not be for retail customers, and is currently being tested for internal use by institutional customers looking to move large sums of money. Has Apple come to save online journalism – or to bury it?

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AUGUST 31, 2018

Amazon/Whole Foods is the newest district in the Grocery Hunger games – the combination of two smaller efforts (Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods Market) made possible by Amazon’s $13.7 online grocery sales since 2017, the largest share of any single retailer and double its closest competitor. District 1: Amazon/Whole Foods.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The retailer noted that the holiday sales season had started well but fell off in mid-December. 26), the firm managed to beat expectations on sales and earnings (though same-store sales missed) and investors were happier for the good news — sending the brand’s stock up 4 percent in pre-market trading. percent to 2.5 billion or $4.38

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. in Australia and South Africa before taking up various roles with online city guide business CitySearch in 1996. Education: University of Virginia (JD), Harvard College (BA). BRIAN SINGERMAN. JEREMY LIEW.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Virginia-based CarLotz is an omnichannel site for pre-owned cars that sells vehicles through the web and an expanding network of U.S. CarLotz struck a deal in October to go public through a combination with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), and will start trading on the Nasdaq Global Market starting Friday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Or, if reports are correct, the IRS has actually outsourced that process to a Virginia company for $1.7 Alibaba’s Singles’ Day : A sizzle as the eCommerce retailer beat its previous record and logged $30.8 card network to gain access into this huge market, in tandem with Chinese JV partner LianLian Group. As much as $1.4

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Pixelon: Online video vaporware. LendingClub was one of many online lending services founded in the mid-2000s as entrepreneurs eyed the Byzantine financial sector as an area ripe for disruption. Founded by Renaud Laplanche in 2006, LendingClub quickly became one of the largest online lenders in the US. Total Funding: $1.1B.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. If making money on operations was a near impossibility, Kozmo seemed perpetually on the precipice of tapping into the public equity markets. via Forbes.

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