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Deep Dive: Why Retailers Are Merging Online, In-Store Shopping For The Omnichannel Age

PYMNTS

Consumers have shopped online, via mobile devices and at brick-and-mortar stores in various capacities for years, but the pandemic is dramatically expanding the connections between these channels. percent of respondents in an early March survey said they were using their mobile devices to shop more often.

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Barclays online, mobile banking down 2 hours today

BankInovation

Barclays online and mobile banking systems were down for two hours today, with the London-based bank’s clients were unable to access their accounts, the bank said on X, formerly known as Twitter. During the outage, $1.9

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Scandit: The Future Of Retail Will Include Mobile Scanning

PYMNTS

Physical brick-and-mortar retail was suffering long before the pandemic. Consider the findings of a PYMNTS consumer survey , where 42 percent of consumers are engaging in even the most routine activities online, and as much as $158 billion in brick-and-mortar sales are moving to digital channels.

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Retail Data Shows Online Dominance, Gift Card Momentum For Holiday Spending

PYMNTS

And when they do spend, consumers will do so online – some of them exclusively. percent said they would do all of their shopping online. The conduit to that spend is split between desktop and mobile devices. Seventy-four percent of holiday shoppers will do so via mobile device; 91.3 A stunning 96.5

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Retailers tap the power of mobile apps during holiday season

Payments Dive

Here's a reason for retailers to be "appy" this holiday season: Purchases made on mobile apps more than doubled in 2015, to nearly $50 billion. We look at holiday-specific shopper apps and how retailers can parlay these concepts into direct spending online and in the store.

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The Need for Speed: A Product Approach for Mobile Apps

Perficient

As consumers rely on their mobile devices now more than ever, mobile device and mobile app usage is surging. . eMarketer predict ed US adults spent over three and a half hours per day on mobile apps this year and expect this number to rise in 2021. . Shifting Gears to a Mobile Product Approach .

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Digital Technologies Drive Innovation In Retail, Payments

PYMNTS

Target crushed online commerce and reported decent in-store sales volume for the holidays, while Urban Outfitters and Nordstrom had weak in-store traffic that even fairly positive online volume couldn’t surmount. And in digital innovation, mobile payments are bridging the cash and digital divide in Pakistan.