PYMNTS

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. There are also digital price tags for every item, and Prime members can pay the discounted online price for their selections at the store. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Even with a great customer journey – with smooth onboarding, a well-merchandised online shopping experience and a seamless checkout process – none of it really matters if the consumer can’t actually get the goods they want into their hands. Last-mile delivery is like satisfaction Death Valley,” said Bond co-founder and CEO Asaf Hachmon.

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APRIL 10, 2019

metros, with plans to expand further this year. Prime Now delivery and pickup continues to be a hit with our customers, and we’re excited to introduce the service to even more Prime members across the country,” said Christina Minardi, Whole Foods Market executive vice president of operations, in the press release. Sources told Yahoo!

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Russia’s biggest technology firm, Yandex NV, launched an online service that uses bike couriers to bring groceries to Moscow residents in 15 minutes, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (Jan. The free service, called Lavka, stocks roughly 2,000 items and plans to operate as a digital convenience market for items like toothpaste and condoms.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

continue to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations — same day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said — as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. To get an online store running on Alibaba reportedly will cost U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In addition to investing in technology startups, Alibaba has also set its sight on the physical retail market. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that the company was interested in acquiring a stake in the Chinese wholesale operations of Metro AG , the German operator of cash and carry stores.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

continues to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations – same-day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said – as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. To get an online store running on Alibaba will reportedly cost U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

Online brands continue their march into the offline world as Shopify and Warby Parker announce plans to open brick-and-mortar locations in the coming months. For Shopify, a Canadian eCommerce platform that helps artisans and other small merchants do business online, this will mark its first foray from the virtual world into the real one.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

14) that German retailer Metro AG is looking to offload its Real hypermarkets via sale, and the firm, said Reuters , “remains confident” of a transaction. Metro has said it wants to train its sights on its wholesale business. Metro said it has had interest from a number of parties, Reuters reported Friday.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Digitally native brands often test the retail waters with pop-up shops, and, after some offline success, they may expand their concepts with permanent locations. In preparation for the holiday season this year, the retailer has updated its website and also plans to have a larger array of electronics, toys and fashion products.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Bank of the West recently added 143 ATMs across the Denver and Sacramento metro areas through an agreement with ATM operator Cardtronics. One target? Millennials, actually.

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JUNE 29, 2020

revved a little higher Monday (June 29) as online car sales platform Shift announced it will go public in the third quarter via a complicated reverse merger arrangement. A spokesperson for Shift indicated that the company expects the move will make online auto sales a three-horse race between Shift, Vroom and Carvana.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

We’ve been investing in our online grocery business by quickly expanding our Grocery Pickup and Delivery services. Delivery Unlimited is the next step in that journey,” Tom Ward, senior vice president, digital operations, Walmart U.S., said in the announcement. “By

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Walmart has announced it is adding four delivery companies to its team to help expand its online grocery delivery option. 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. said in a press release.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Senior Vice President of Digital Operations Tom Ward said in a blog post , “Through it, w e aim to learn more about how we can take advantage of self-driving vehicles to deliver fresh groceries – hand-picked by our personal shoppers – to customers.”. households. Walmart U.S.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

In the longer run, the service will grow over the next several months to the grocer’s 570 retail locations throughout California, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Florida. According to Amazon, the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a massive move to online grocery shopping, home delivery and curbside pickup. Everybody Loves Walmart .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

Retailers are turning to voice assistants to make it easier for customers to shop for groceries amid strong competition. Even so, 55 percent of consumers studied by PYMNTS said they use both online and offline channels to purchase groceries. The feature allows consumers to use voice commands to shop for groceries. households.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2017

David is taking on Goliath as Shipt, an online grocery delivery startup based in Birmingham, Ala., The Alabama startup eliminates grocery store trips for 20 million families in 47 metro areas. goes up against San Francisco’s grocery delivery champion Instacart, as well as AmazonFresh and Google Express, to become the U.S.’

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APRIL 12, 2016

I don’t see the new policy as a problem,” Tao Yuan, eCommerce director of Germany-based Metro AG’s China division told Internet Retailer. Instead, it will wipe out those companies that were only seeking a policy loophole and operating in a gray zone.”. The new rules also close a loophole that waives taxes on purchases of $7.73

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2016

Shipt , the online grocery ordering and delivery service, has announced that it has secured $20.1 million in Series A funding that the company plans to use to expand into new markets and further compete with well-heeled online food delivery giants, like Amazon, Google and Instacart.

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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

MAY 11, 2020

Data compiled by Bloomberg show that in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, morning traffic is at levels higher than what was seen in 2019, and volume on various metro systems is down as much as 53 percent, as measured in Beijing and elsewhere. Vroom has stakes in car dealerships, as well as in the wholesale market and online.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

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. Alipay Online In the U.S. retail feather in cap of Ant Financial-owned Alipay, it seems thousands of U.S. Let the video commerce wars commence. With Walgreens.

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PYMNTS

JULY 25, 2017

Rolling out mobile order-ahead can involve big operational changes, and the road to innovation — or convenience, as it were — isn’t always clearly marked. Of course, smaller merchants are looking to get in on the action, but can they re-think their operations to accommodate new consumer demands? That figure tripled in 2016 to 180,000.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

So what does a better than expected result look like for an eCommerce player trying to own a niche of digital retail outside the Amazon orbit? Operating expenses increased 30 percent. In major metro areas, small package delivery is down to two days and large package deliver clocks in at 14 days. “We By The Numbers .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Still, the investment isn’t much of a surprise, considering Deloitte and SETL partnered last month to develop a contactless payment card for Metro Bank using SETL’s distributed ledger platform. B2B eCommerce. The Asia-Pacific region scored again with Tjaara’s funding worth $1.2 million , announced Thursday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

expansion, the market stateside in bike-sharing is still largely dominated by dock-based solutions — from metro Boston’s Hubway service to Los Angeles’ Metro Bike Share. The city pays nothing — in fact, in some cases Spin pays them a fee to operate. And while both Ofo and Mobike are eyeing U.S.

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JUNE 14, 2017

You arrive, you see the [contactless] logo you recognize — in the same way you would see the logo at a retailer or a point of sale — and you tap it and you get access to … the journey, and you tap out again,” he said. On its face, the tap-and-pay process is a simple one, said Judge. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

Despite the nearly continuous drumbeat of doom and gloom from the world of physical retail, there is, according to Affirm CRO Rob Pfeifer, something of a curious side phenomenon unfolding at the same time: Online brands – famous and famously successful online brands – are branching out into physical retail.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2016

Regardless of the company, its industry, its customers or location, online fraud remains top of mind. In an interview with PYMNTS, Bradley Wiskirchen, CEO of fraud protection tech firm Kount, detailed the landscape of online fraud, where it is going, and the challenges and opportunities that confront innovative fraud detection.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Metro authorities in India are planning to launch automatic fare collection (AFC) gates that will work with the country’s National Common Mobility Card (NCMC) that was introduced in March by the Ministry of Finance , according to reports on Thursday (Jan. Right now, the smart card lets commuters skip the lines to buy metro tickets.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

Friction bedevils all types of retail — and that holds true for transactions inside stores or via eCommerce sites. LISNR is taking part in the METRO Target Retail Accelerator , certified by Techstars. Not only that, but history, in a sense, is catching up with retail. Solving For Friction.

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 23, 2017

In our SBA business, we added a team with a national market focus and completed major improvements to our operating processes that will significantly improve productivity and efficiency. Online Account Opening, when fully introduced, will give us another way to be accessible and user friendly.

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MARCH 2, 2020

After an earnings performance that, despite showing growth across the board, was a disappointment to investors and analysts, Walmart is entering 2020 in redesign mode — particularly when it comes to digital operations. The first was the news that the retailer is bringing together its store and eCommerce product-buying teams.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

The pop-ups are still part of the business, springing up in major metros throughout the year. But the brand’s focus has shifted to its permanent brick-and-mortar boutiques and large online business.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

The pop-ups are still part of the business, springing up in major metros throughout the year. But the brand’s focus has shifted to its permanent brick-and-mortar boutiques and large online business.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

online grocery sales since 2017, the largest share of any single retailer and double its closest competitor. Acceptance of SNAP/EBT online : Amazon is one of several retailers, including Walmart, selected by the USDA to pilot the use of SNAP/EBT online to buy groceries. District 2: Walmart.

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