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MARCH 4, 2020

Embedded finance, or the concept of payments and banking being appended to other consumer use cases, is quickly evolving beyond retail and e-commerce, industry executives said at the Bank Innovation Ignite forum in Seattle this week.

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MAY 21, 2020

Seattle-based Amazon is ramping up its operations in India’s growing market by launching Amazon Food, which will deliver prepared meals. could see a permanent market restructuring that has $158 billion in brick-and-mortar sales moving to online shopping. The company already offers grocery delivery in many Indian cities.

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MARCH 31, 2020

High-level market intelligence about the $18 billion expected to be invested over the next three years is a major focus of the March 2020 Automated Retail Tracker™ from PYMNTS , which serves as a bimonthly breakdown of developments in this rapidly growing business sector. Amazon Go’ Cashless.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Cashierless stores aren’t just for mega retailers like Amazon to sell prepared food from their kitchens or products from other producers: Beverage brands, among other companies, are getting into the action and choosing this checkout experience for stores that showcase their own products IRL (“in real life”) as a marketing tool.

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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. Three years after it paid $13.4 And it’s not stopping there.

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MARCH 16, 2018

A lot of market data. A lot of brands are having a hard time keeping up with the pace of consumer changes,” StyleSage ’s Director of Marketing and Digital Strategy Elizabeth Shobert told PYMNTS in an interview. Historically, large retailers tend to move more slowly. Historically, large retailers tend to move more slowly.

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JUNE 3, 2019

Online retail has had a tremendous impact on logistics, further evidence of which emerged on Monday (June 3). and other retailers to fulfill orders from online shoppers.” As PYMNTS has covered , it’s a good time in America to have a retail space ready to rent out, as eCommerce merchants are on the hunt and signing large contracts.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Apparel used to be mostly a brick-and-mortar retail experience, but that has changed drastically over the last few years – and has been one of the main innovations when it comes to commerce related to the clothes we wear. But at this point, it is also mostly table stakes in the race to bring apparel retail online.

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Bank Innovation

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The business of banking is reaching a critical inflection point as ‘challengers’ take market share and incumbents implement strategies to accelerate their digital transformation efforts to enhance customer journeys.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In today’s top retail news, holiday spending is expected to be flat this year, Bed Bath & Beyond rolls out same-day delivery and Target goes up against Amazon Prime Day with “Deal Days.” And the digital-first economy will drive the difference between success and failure for many retailers. But these are the easy points.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Among the hottest battles for eCommerce market share involves private label products, with a recent move from Walmart among the latest developments in that particular arena. But the growing use of those brands to attract sales is also leading to more focus on potential challenges for online, private label retail over the next few years.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

By some accounts, the 2018 holiday season is going to be a bang-up year for retailers. retailers are expected to increase 4.8 percent this year, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF) — well above the 3.9 percent growth seen by the retail market one year ago. Holiday sales for U.S.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

A new survey of Black Friday shoppers from PYMNTS showed the Seattle retailing giant dominated its rivals in the traditional post-Thanksgiving holiday season kickoff. When PYMNTS last measured Amazon’s take of the total eCommerce business it found that it touched just north of 50 percent for Q1 2020 in eCommerce market share (51.2

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MARCH 17, 2020

retail economy is unprecedented. What are some of the retailing changes that could last beyond the end of the coronavirus crisis? Contactless payments, however, will fit nicely into what will be a need to have low-touch or no-touch retailing experiences. The partial shutdown of the U.S. So what sticks? They want convenience.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

With the opening of Amazon Go in Seattle in January , Amazon arguably popularized the cashierless store concept. Since then, the eCommerce retailer has brought the store to other locations in the city and Chicago as well as one location on the way in Lower Manhattan. The Market.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

But the store’s selection will differ from traditional retail stores that carry multiple choices for, say, lipstick: It will only offer one product per category and that option will come with the magazine’s famous seal of approval. Earlier this year, Amazon launched its first Amazon Go store in Seattle.

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DECEMBER 10, 2018

The eCommerce retailer is said to be on the hunt for a space in the Oxford Circus district of London for its cashierless C-store concept, Business Insider reported. According to the report, the retailer is seeking a location with 3,000 to 5,000 square feet in the neighborhood that was described as “the busiest shopping area in London.”

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MAY 12, 2017

Seattle startup FLEXE looks to enable online retailers to compete against Amazon’s logistics capabilities. The company boasts more than 500 warehouses across all major North American markets. While Amazon does have a faster shipping option with Prime Now , its reach is limited to Prime members in major urban markets.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Shoe brand Allbirds , in particular, has brought a large retail space in New York City. Beyond the Big Apple, which is the brand’s biggest market , Allbirds has its eyes on other U.S. For Allbirds, a brick-and-mortar presence can provide a bit of a marketing boost. In Other Brick-And-Mortar News.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. A data team from the eCommerce retailer determines what is sold at the locations, Amazon Physical Stores Director Drew Sheriff told MetroWest Daily News.

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MAY 2, 2019

” According to Fortune , the company will test the service in 18 markets: Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Ft. Convenience store operator 7-Eleven is launching beer and cider delivery in select U.S. Customers can place their beer orders via the 7Now app. Louis, Missouri; and Tampa, Florida.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

Brick-and-mortar retailers have closed flagship locations in recent times, but sometimes these landmark stores make a comeback. The new store, which will be located at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, will feature multiple experiential retail components. The store will also offer magic shows and a grocery shopping experience designed for kids.

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APRIL 15, 2020

That competition has also extended to high-end furniture market, which is starting to show some new activity with Crate & Barrell, CB2, West Elm and now a direct-to-consumer (D2C) Canadian brand called Article gaining momentum. In terms of the general online furniture market, Wayfair and Amazon dominate. percent market share.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Big retailers are opening smaller-format stores in major U.S. Already, the retailer has opened a Planning Studio across the pond in London in October. In the announcement, IKEA Retail U.S. As it stands, Amazon Go stores in Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco use the cashierless technology.

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AUGUST 16, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are teaming up with social media platforms to curate labels for their stores and their websites. Kohl’s , for instance, will bring emerging brands to over 50 physical retail locations and online starting in the fall through Curated By Kohl’s. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Reliance , the global Mumbai-headquartered conglomerate specializing in everything from retail to telecommunications, will move ahead with a $3.4 The deal came with a provision letting it buy into Future Retail, the company's flagship, after around three to 10 years.

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MARCH 11, 2020

A Newark Airport store will start using Amazon’s Just Walk Out cashierless technology on March 16, just days after the company announced it was licensing the platform to retailers, according to reports on Wednesday (March 11). . with new openings scheduled for New York, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco on the agenda for his year.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 21, 2019

Rapid prototyping and an innovation-oriented mindset are two characteristics that make a bank a good fintech partner, according to panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference in Seattle last week.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are expanding their efforts to provide customers with health and wellness services while taking steps to train their employees for healthcare roles. said in the announcement about the offering, “Walmart aims to be the market leader in providing retail workers a path to careers in growing fields like healthcare.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

After Ali Ahmed founded Dispatch , a service that allowed consumers to have goods delivered from retail stores through a text message, he noticed that customers would not buy fresh fruits and vegetables. Armed with this knowledge, Ahmed developed a mobile retail store concept that he calls the Robomart. Groceries and Beyond.

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MARCH 10, 2020

In response to the COVID-19 outbreak, three Seattle entrepreneurs have created a wristband that vibrates when the person wearing it goes to touch their face, artificial intelligence (AI) startup Immutouch announced on Tuesday (March 10). It typically takes over a year to bring a product to market. Immutouch took 1/50th of that time.”.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

Talha Sattar , founder and CEO of Nimble, said it was “critical that people get their medications safely and efficiently, and over the last several months, we have seen a significant increase in demand for prescription delivery from both consumers and retail pharmacies.”

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OCTOBER 16, 2017

And, speaking of making moves, this week’s Data Dive is dedicated to the retailers who have decided to start angling for poll position now, as holiday 2017 is still in the pre-show phase. Reports indicate that Amazon, if and when it enters the market, will expand its senior team with drug supply chain experts.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Retail stores are rarely built by accident, particularly in the real world, if for no other reason than retail is sort of an intentional thing. But Recology CleanScapes — an operating company under Recology — is different from most of what is out there in retail. What does one buy at a Recology CleanScapes store?

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AUGUST 9, 2019

Outdoor apparel retailers are reinventing their brick-and-mortar spaces to connect with customers by making stores into destinations that offer experiences. In the updated retail space, the company said, customers will “immediately feel The North Face heritage and experience the brand’s values.”

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MARCH 22, 2019

The coffee chain, which operates in 78 global markets, opened its first store in Seattle in the 1970s. Amazon Prime members will also receive free same-day delivery to a store without a minimum order, but all customers of the eCommerce retailer can use physical locations for pickup and drop-offs. Starbucks Coffee.

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