PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

Blackbird customers will have access to an online pre-pay option for ordering items for delivery or curbside pickup. AeroPay CEO and founder Daniel Muller said the partnership came about because both companies want "to give cannabis businesses the ability to operate in the same manner as any other business would," the release says.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

The pressure on cash-strapped retailers is intense and potentially consequential. At stake are the early returns on some issues that will determine the nature of consumer behavior and spending patterns, which are the lifeblood of retail for any season. Larger retailers may need to look at reformatting as a reinvention strategy.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Brick-and-mortar commerce has rebounded in recent months, but consumers are still heading online for many of their purchases, maintaining trends set in the early months of the pandemic. trillion opportunity for eCommerce retailers. trillion opportunity for eCommerce retailers. Around The Next-Gen Debit World.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The hot new thing in “Big Retail” is offering in-house advertising on your website to your vendors – because why get paid only once on a purchase if you can get paid twice? In short, retailers get paid to place the ad, and then get paid again when the merchandise is sold. The Digital Embrace.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. Video game manufacturers operated a different model of sorts: Create great games to get consumers to buy the hardware, then keep cranking out great games that would keep consumers on board and upgrading those devices.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

Retailers seeking to provide rapid deliveries face an ever-moving target as consumers’ definition of speed evolves. A significant share of Generation Z consumers — those aged 18 to 25 — are turning to buy online, pick up in store ( BOPIS ) purchasing models to meet their speed needs. Quick Access and Impulses.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2020

Consumers shopping in droves via eCommerce channels is hardly a piece of breaking news — for the better part of a decade, that has been obvious to anyone watching the retail space. They are, Fiserv Senior Vice President of Retail Solutions John Nicola told Karen Webster in a recent conversation — and in great numbers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a noted effect on how several industries can operate and interact with their customers during this time including retail stores, movie theaters and casinos. There is one sticking point online casinos need to fix, however, and that is the speed at which consumers receive their winnings.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2020

Gourab Basu , vice president of global network processing at Visa, tells PYMNTS how deep learning keeps card (and card not present) transactions flowing. New Report: Helping Retail Treasurers Navigate The Digital D2C Shift (“How To” Playbook). Chipotle’s Chief Restaurant Officer On What’s Next For Restaurants. Trackers and Reports.

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

When Indochino launched in 2007, the company wasn’t out to create a new template for the entire retail sector, just a better product with better prices and a better buying experience. We don’t require dozens of people at our store to have an operating four-wall showroom,” CEO Drew Green told Karen Webster in a recent conversation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

That network, in combination with Equifax, will use advanced technologies to connect data “signals” that stem from 32 billion online interactions, five billion annual transactions and 17 billion unique devices across the globe, as the company said in its announcement tied to the acquisition. The deal is anticipated to close in Q1 of 2021.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2019

Well, digital commerce and payments present a new opportunity for such stories and memories – and new challenges and dangers for beer, wine and liquor merchants looking to grow and thrive. First, he wants people to know what the growth of online alcohol sales really means, so no one carries around misconceptions. reached $1.7

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Card-skimming devices hidden on gas station card readers or carefully integrated into ATMs used to be especially troubling for merchants and consumers, but retailers and financial institutions (FIs) have stepped up their measures to protect physical card readers in recent years. Safeguarding Card Details. Responding Rapidly.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

The online marketplace has disrupted any number of verticals, changing the way we shop and spend, and where we grab must-have items — from books to rugs to lamps, and sometimes from across international borders. We operate the only truly global luxury digital marketplace at scale, seamlessly connecting brands, retailers and consumers.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

The shift to digital commerce is more urgent than ever — and so are some of the potential pitfalls as fraudsters recalibrate their attacks and eye card-not-present transactions as a new way to make off with ill-gotten gains. And, she added, for merchants that already had an online presence, there’s been a marked volume swing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

Not only is it a big time for retail but, in a sense, a kind of dress rehearsal for the upcoming all all-important holiday shopping season. Retail back-to-school spending for families will hit an average of $696.70 last year, according to the National Retail Federation , a trade group. this year, up from $684.79 Amazon Effort.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2019

Starbucks China Retail Chief Operating Officer and President Leo Tsoi said in the announcement about the new express retail concept, “The Starbucks Now store is a testament to our unwavering commitment to delivering innovative customer experiences through new retail formats. China’s Digital Coffee Market.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). That experience is one that is hard to gain as a vendor with new and exciting retail technology in the market.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Retailers, too, have higher education on their minds. After all, college is not only a place where many young men and women learn who they really are, but where operators of commerce, big and small, often find their next lucrative ideas. Another hot retail trend that is also being honed on campuses is subscription retail.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from cool concept toward everyday consumer reality, and signs of that innovation are increasingly appearing in the retail space. Take the issue of retail security as one example. Retail Trust and AI. Reducing network demands, the technology works even if cloud connection is lost.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2020

With personal interactions under scrutiny due to the COVID-19 disruption, it’s a good time for retailers to take stock of their mobile and online commerce capabilities and technologies. The company announced this week that it has signed high-end fashion retailer Anine Bing. The first is Perfect.

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JANUARY 20, 2020

New evidence of that — part of the broader trend of the existential changes in the world of brick-and-mortar retail, changes that are gaining more focus this month — comes from reports that stationery chain Papyrus is closing up shop. The chain had since expanded to some 260 or so retail locations. Total retail growth was 3.8

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

The rise of video games, both online and mobile, is helping to drive innovation in retail. The move is one of several Tilly’s has been pursuing recently to draw additional foot traffic in an era when, like many youth-focused retailers, it is seeing its sales constantly shifting online. Larger Trends. More Money.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2020

What makes the story stand out among the reams of local retail crime reporting is that the crime was actually committed. Botched crimes in local retail are common. Organized Crime’s Physical Retail Expansion . Brown rejected suggestions that it could be a current or past employee, telling local news affiliates, “It was a pro.”.

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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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Lexus , in one case, is testing a program that it says will provide customers with greater control over how they buy their vehicles, more clarity into present inventory and live pricing, and the “flexibility to shop when and how they want,” according to a Monday (Feb. 1) announcement. 1) announcement.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The feature allows customers to use iOS mobile device cameras to preview how retail products would look in their homes or offices. The AR View feature represents a digital enhancement similar to Apple’s shoppable AR stickers, a cartoon-like version of the virtual reality present. Amazon’s AR app is not the first rollout of its kind.

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MARCH 20, 2019

Koopman and Karen Webster recently engaged in a discussion about how those gaps apply to a very specific but lucrative part of the retail landscape: the health and beauty product space. That is a major gap, and speaks to the potential — and very real — lack of progress when it comes to innovating in a typically revenue-rewarding retail task.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2016

It’s what’s turned the retail word upside down as consumers with their mobile devices have decided they’d rather buy from their couch with their mobile phone than schlep to the mall. In other words, kick the door wide open to remote retail. Meeting the consumer where they are. That’s the mantra of innovators everywhere.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

You can count on at least one thing for retail in 2020: Things will get much more personal. There, Dynamic Yield , the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personalization platform operator, is being absorbed by fast-food chain McDonald’s. What else can it do, though, especially for online marketplaces? Sonic Move.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

According to Ashish Jhina , co-founder and chief operating officer of B2B eCommerce platform Jumbotail , there is a significant opportunity to digitize India's food and grocery supply chains, and for these small retailers to embrace online commerce. The retailer has to go to a large wholesale market.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Managing inventory, B2B payments and a plethora of food and beverage vendors can be a headache for any kind of restaurant, bar or retailer. Retailers that sell alcohol must be able to understand exactly which products they have in stock, and which products are generating the most revenue for the business.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Retailers looking to grow their online sales and offer customers more variety may need to look no further than their own brick-and-mortar stores. Shoe retailer Mephisto is solving that problem with a ship-from-store initiative from Kibo that has boosted online sales 40 percent.

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MARCH 15, 2019

Connected commerce is among the hottest trends in retail, and not just for streaming or ridesharing or online gaming services, but for subscription purchases, too. For those online transactions that rely on cards on file to complete recurring payments, however, that figure tends to drop to the 60 percent range on average, he said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The store’s concept, dubbed Nike NYC, is to blend the online and offline worlds with the help of smartphones. The retailer also offers a Shop The Look service in the store that allows customers to scan a quick-response (QR) code to find out the size and available colors of the items displayed on a mannequin.

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JUNE 11, 2018

In news that might please frat boys, fans of European beer and owners of man caves, Heineken has started online sales of its home tap machines and the two-liter kegs that work with it. But this is not Heineken’s first foray into online beer sales. Online alcohol sales in the United States reached $1.7

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