PYMNTS

MARCH 12, 2019

Instacart, the online grocery company, announced Tuesday (March 12) it has expanded alcohol delivery for customers across the U.S. can now have alcohol delivered in as soon as an hour from national, regional and local grocers as well as wine and liquor stores. and is available from one-third of its 300-plus retail partners.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The 2020 outlook report from the National Restaurant Association was released today and it paints a picture of an industry dealing with the countercurrents of solid consumer spending and disruptive technology. In fact, by 2030, the National Restaurant Association expects that technology could completely change the face of dining.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Macy’s announced it is hiring 80,000 temporary workers for the holiday season, as well as adding more employees to handle online orders. The retailer said that around 23,500 of the seasonal positions will be based in facilities that support online sales, an increase of 5,500 positions compared to 2017. Macy’s, Inc.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Some families pay more in taxes on diapers in a year than a month’s supply actually costs, Phillip Vander Klay, director of policy and government relations for the National Diaper Bank Network , noted in a recent discussion with PYMNTS. Tax law changes can hit retailers hard if states do not carefully announce and implement them.

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PYMNTS

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 to offline coming to Walmart near you, and we mean that sincerely.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2018

In 2014, Amazon ’s Whole Foods became Instacart’s first national partner. 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. In March , it rolled out the service to Atlanta and San Francisco.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

One of the more long-grumbled complaints in retail is that Amazon and other eCommerce players are able to exploit a loophole that allowed them to mostly avoid charging sales tax. Would collecting sales tax 100 percent of the time take a bit out of Amazon’s bottom line? Recent data suggests — probably not.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2021

And this week, it seems, the delays are continuing to compound — and retailers of all kinds are reporting bumps in their distribution processes. According to Brookings, patients looking for vaccinations find themselves wandering “a bewildering maze of online sites — some from counties, others from hospitals — that has sprung up.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But somehow, we are a nation of chronically under-rested people. The pods set up shop in places where the nap-needing tend to gather – university campuses and office spaces being their two main sweet spots – and offer the chance to book a 20-minute to two-hour nap online or on mobile with a few clicks or taps.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

From creating checkout-free retail stores to eliminating concert tickets, here are 16 industries that are starting to transform with facial recognition technology. Linking facial recognition to personalization for shoppers presents a big opportunity in retail. Law Enforcement.

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CB Insights

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. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and National Governors Association (NGA) convened in 1999 to seek methods of making state tax systems easier for interstate businesses to comply with and understand. The court did cite South Dakota’s SSUTA membership when allowing South Dakota’s online sales tax law to stand.

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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: Stanford University (MBA), Australian National University (BA/BSC). BRIAN SINGERMAN. JEREMY LIEW.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2018

Once the 24 competitors (tributes) get to the games, they then battle to the death for a national audience that is required by law to watch the games. online grocery sales since 2017, the largest share of any single retailer and double its closest competitor. According to the Harris Poll, Amazon is the most trusted U.S.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Indeed, co-founder Alejandro Resnik, the CEO, told the WSJ in 2015 that it was looking to raise a “monster round” of $300 million at a $2 billion valuation to fuel its national expansion. The bet was risky because it required large geographies — indeed, entire nations — to adopt the technology in order for it to scale successfully.

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