PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are creating next-generation stores that incorporate interactive features into their designs with the help of technology. These analytics will be leveraged to improve the customer experience across all channels,” according to the retailer. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News. Dollar General Corp.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 4, 2019

Digitally native retailers are opening stores to bring their virtual experiences into the real world, and Zola is one of the latest merchants to test out the brick-and-mortar waters. The wedding retailer opened a store in New York City’s Flatiron District that is billed as a “one-stop-shop for wedding planning.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

It’s been a week of experimentation in retail, with many big names opening new types of stores to — as the saying goes — see what sticks. It seems more likely that these brands will uncover their key rather than some universal master retail key that can solve the brick-and-mortar challenge across the board.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Companies which have helped to provide a bridge to some semblance of normalcy, principally in technology, have seen increased demand for their services,” Mark Hamrick, senior economic analyst with Bankrate.com, said in a statement. For the week ending Sept. Department of Labor (DOL) reported on Thursday (Sept. 29 totaled just over 29.7

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The eCommerce retailer is also reportedly eyeing grocery spaces in New Jersey, Connecticut and the New York metro region. It’s also eyeing the potential to bring the technology to concession stands at baseball games. . Those locations could open as soon as the end of 2019. .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Retail continues to migrate toward eCommerce, but warehouse space is not designed to keep up with the increasing pace of online orders. Construction of new warehouses is occurring in areas such as California, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Atlanta. are in areas such as New Jersey, Boston, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

A popular eCommerce retailer, which has been called the “Costco for millennials,” is attracting potential investors, according to The New York Post. With warehouses in New Jersey, Dallas, Las Vegas and Atlanta, Boxed offers bulk-sized products similar to those found at big warehouse retailers like Costco Wholesale.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Grubhub’s point-of-sale (POS) technology complemented Chowly’s domain services and provided owners with a streamlined process for order-taking and fulfillment. Grubhub teamed up with the restaurant services platform Chowly in October to onboard mutual restaurant clients.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2019

To help tell consumers about less expensive alternative offerings, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey is teaming with Price.com. That picture is then sent to the service, which analyzes the material via machine learning technology and provides an opinion about the item’s authenticity.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

JD.com is teaming up with two schools to study distributed ledger technology’s (DLT) implications on business, Cryptovest reported. In other news, Bizkey is celebrating the 10 th birthday of cryptocurrency with an event called Token Day in Singapore, Cryptovest reported.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

After testing out pop-up shops last year, digital furniture retailer Wayfair plans to open the doors to an outlet store in Kentucky. As it stands, Appriss Retail data indicates that merchandise returns have led to $351 billion in lost sales.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Emma Waddell will join the company as vice president of financial services compliance, while Joe Rodriguez will serve as lead counsel of financial services, per news from the retailer. “As The executive comes to the retailer from Capital One , where he most recently served as vice president of compliance. Department of Justice.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

A recent deal that expands Instacart ’s same-day grocery delivery for Sam’s Club members stands as more than good news for the delivery service. This is the latest example of how the digital and physical are merging in retail — and also shows just how far consumer convenience has developed over the last few decades. Instacart Benefits.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

China’s JD.com ’s quest to expand into technologies such as artificial intelligence and automation is causing its expenses to soar, with the company seeing its Q2 technology costs go up over 70 percent year over year for the third consecutive quarter. According to TechCrunch , the company spent 2.8

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

The retailer is testing the new strategy at a warehouse in New Jersey. The news comes a few months after Target announced in December that it had completed a $550 million cash acquisition of Shipt , an online same-day delivery platform that is growing in popularity.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2017

Retailer Kohl’s will boost both its brick-and-mortar and eCommerce capabilities this year by adding four small-format, brick-and-mortar locations to its roster of stores and a fifth eCommerce fulfillment center. 2017 will be located in Rhode Island, Ohio, New Jersey and California.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

buttressed by the adoption of EMV technology, is now leaving behind its status as the global outlier where contactless is concerned. 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. More notably, the U.S., Several U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

The retail giant is working on developing smart shopping carts that are capable of helping customers look for items on their shopping list. Walmart is reportedly working with Five Elements Robotics , a New Jersey-based company to develop the new variety of carts. The company reportedly spent $10.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2017

While much has been made in the past few months about Amazon’s grocery store of the future, Amazon Go isn’t the online retailer’s only brick-and-mortar play — and a new move indicates that Amazon looks to continue expanding its physical retail presence outside of the grocery space. That’s not all.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

To help build customer loyalty, eCommerce and brick-and-mortar retailers have a myriad of tools on hand: Cashiers can sign customers up for loyalty cards at brick-and-mortar stores, and eCommerce sites can send customers special offers and coupons by email. We love shrinking down, and bringing the design and technology a whole new flavor.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Most of the industry still relies on 1970s era technology like mainframes and COBOL, he said. In October , Deserve partnered with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to offer a branded card to its student body and alumni. “We It then expanded to people having an insufficient credit history. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

“Amazon Key gives customers peace of mind knowing their orders have been safely delivered to their homes and are waiting for them when they walk through their doors,” said Peter Larsen, vice president of delivery technology for Amazon. Not really. As it turns out, this is not peace of mind that Amazon Prime customers were actually seeking.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

Upright Labs allows secondhand retailers to streamline and bolster their online commerce operations while listing inventory on multiple eCommerce marketplaces. Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey, for instance, teamed with Price.com. for sellers and buyers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Lease-to-own services are making a comeback with eCommerce retailers. The option, provided by Progressive Leasing , allows customers to lease products for as long as a year and is available for over three million products on the retailer’s website. Progressive Leasing, a division of Aaron’s Inc. , Modern Takes On Lease-To-Own.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In April, Affirm reported it had processed more than 1 million consumer installment loans made by Teaneck, New Jersey-based community financial institution Cross River Bank. The mobile app, which launched two months ago, is available through both the Apple iOS App Store and Android’s Google Play.

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JANUARY 22, 2020

retail and culture, but which these days are often clinging to life thanks to the rise of eCommerce and other factors (including the rise of at-home retail activities and connected commerce, both a recent and ongoing focus of PYMNTS research ). The gaming part of the mall will reside alongside some 200 retail stores there.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

ShopRite and Amazon will service the New York City area, while Walmart will cover upstate locations. Reports indicate other retailers will join the program next month. The pilot itself will also extend beyond New York’s borders: Alabama, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington are all slated for tests.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2018

Newark, New Jersey. New York City, New York. Higher paying technology-focused employment positions mean higher demand for higher-priced homes and retail, too — and also potential changes in the political standings of whomever green lights an Amazon deal. Columbus, Ohio. Dallas, Texas. Denver, Colorado.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The first quarter of 2020 should have been business as usual — especially for the payments processors and financial services technology companies — the firms that keep commerce humming across offline and online channels. Eventually retail and restaurants stabilized at 30 percent volume declines year over year in April.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

The ubiquity of new technology has reset customer expectations, creating a new standard for speed of service and user experience. Thanks to Netflix, which was quick to adopt this new technology, customers expect an intuitive user interface and around-the-clock availability with zero tolerance for errors.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The pizza chain has been rolling out new products, opening new locations, and providing quicker delivery to combat rivalry from mom-and-pop shops, competing with pizzerias, and third-party aggregators like Grubhub, Postmates and Uber Eats. Over Cyber Monday week, Domino’s offered half off menu-priced pizzas for eCommerce orders.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2017

They say robots could replace as many as 38 percent of retail workers in the next 10 years, starting with cashiers. Looking ahead,” said President and CEO Doug McMillon , “we will compete with technology, but win with people. Not so for Walmart employees. We will be people-led and tech-empowered.”.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Not only did the chain’s Piece of the Pie loyalty program contribute “meaningfully to our traffic gains” during the period, according to CFO Jeff Lawrence, that program is now being fortified by artificial technology — a move that demonstrates the technological progress being made in the QSR world. Domino’s Misses. million, up 21.4

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The partnership would apply Goldman’s lending technology to SMB loans on Amazon’s underwriting platform, according to unnamed sources. Amazon is easily less than halfway through transforming retail by exploiting deep fulfillment moats established over many years,” said Canaccord Genuity Analyst Michael Graham.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

In remarks to analysts, however, new Domino’s CEO Rich Allison said the company’s U.S. He noted that strong retail sales growth was driven by a “solid balance” of same-store sales and unit growth. Internationally, the chain had 173 net new stores, with 192 stores opening and 19 stores closing. Same-store internationally grew 3.3

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