PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2020

To enable businesses to more easily list their merchandise on its social media platforms, Facebook has unveiled Facebook Shops. The social media company had allowed companies to list items on Instagram and Facebook in the past. That of course means there’ll be higher conversions and more sales for small businesses.”

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JUNE 14, 2019

In a new PYMNTS interview, Chavez talked about bringing more online efficiencies to pet ownership. Pet retail is among the fiercest battlefields for both brick-and-mortar merchants and eCommerce operators. The retail chain is rolling out an online pet pharmacy and opening additional veterinary clinics.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are attempting to square away increasing consumer use of online channels with their privacy and banking standards. Why Pandemic-Driven Online Payment Spikes Are Pushing Middle Eastern Regulators To Confront Privacy Questions.

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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.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

Brick-and-mortar retailers are teaming up with social media platforms to curate labels for their stores and their websites. Kohl’s , for instance, will bring emerging brands to over 50 physical retail locations and online starting in the fall through Curated By Kohl’s. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Keeping your money in a bank is common sense at this point, but online banking is – unfortunately – not something many people have grown accustomed to, yet. There are many benefits to explore in this area, and it’s not a bad idea to check out what some online banking services can do for you […].

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. Just under half — or 45.9

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Change came from various areas for retail in 2019. Retail merchandising was, at best, a hit-or-miss system in its heyday, Nextail CEO and Co-Founder Joaquin Villalba told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. Analytics, too, was another hot spot for retail change in 2019 and will continue to be for the 2020s. Role of Data.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In today’s top retail news, Spiceology aims to shake up the D2C realm, and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face decisions of how — or whether — to compete with Amazon’s October Prime Day event. 13 and 14 in this year of unpredictable and unprecedented retail happenings. Spiceology Shakes Up The D2C Status Quo. Big Lots, Inc.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2020

As retailers contend with the continuing COVID-19 crisis and the inevitable resettling of the business, one of the most popular pieces of advice has been to reformat existing stores. The brands then help to promote the event, which helps to boost their sales while benefiting the entire pop-up operation.

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PYMNTS

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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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2019

operations. A January 16 tweet announcing “new digital enhancements to online and mobile banking” was followed by a slew of customer complaints that spilled over into subsequent […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2020

And retail and commerce-related payments are certainly a big part of that trend. It’s not just the direct selling of products to consumers that matters when it comes to cross-border retail. Several retail and retail-related trends are at play with this funding announcement. Importance of Logistics and Payments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2017

It’s nearly impossible to find a day where money isn’t flowing between retailers and consumers. The retail industry is in the nascent stages of seeing the impact of what’s been dubbed “chat commerce.” The digital storefront has a lot of different paths for customers and how they connect to retailers.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Consumers might feel creeped out by all those hyper-precise and personalized ads on social media, but how many would mind – really mind – if, because of predictive eCommerce technology, their stocks of toilet paper never ran out? Amazon is not the only operation interested in this area of retail. Other Players.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The event is part of the social media company’s Season of Support to offer complimentary resources, education and instruction to assist companies throughout the globe, according to a company blog post. Sandberg announced the launch of Facebook Business Suite in a September blog post.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

IBM has purchased Expertus Technologies, which is based in Canada, according to an announcement, in an effort to strengthen its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure in addition to its online payment strategies. Gojek Debuts POS System for Indonesian Merchants That Accepts Cashless Payments.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The iZettle Food & Drink debut in PayPal promises a simplified POS solution designed to provide hospitality businesses with ways to operate and grow their business. The remote payments app allows merchants to charge customers by sending a payment link via SMS, Whatsapp, email or social media.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Alibaba and Tencent , which are locked in a battle to win over consumers, have invested more than $10 billion in retailers since the beginning of 2017. As a result, retailers are taking sides, CNBC reported. By working with Alibaba and Tencent, merchants can access payment systems and logistics services — as well as Big Data.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2019

The feature reportedly aimed to connect the gap between socializing and online shopping, Mashable reported. The outlet, however, reported that the eCommerce retailer “clearly still hopes shoppers will broadcast the things they buy” through a function dubbed #FoundItOnAmazon.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2017

The digital retail revolution is well underway. Fusing technology into in-store experiences has officially gone mainstream, and retailers are looking for ways to go beyond the traditional mobile app. How much has AI affected the digital retail revolution and what’s next for it?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The pandemic seems to have had a strong positive impact on participation in the entire sport of running,” Fleet Feet’s Director of Retail Experience Matt Werder told PYMNTS. While stores were closed, Fleet Feet saw tremendous growth in its online business.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Group Seeks to Block Maryland Online Advertising Tax. At issue is the eCommerce retailer’s parallel responsibility to third-party merchants as an online shopping ecosystem and to itself as a competitor on the platform with rival products. Maryland legislators ratified the tax earlier in 2020, but Gov.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 1, 2020

While it is the only option for many retailers, eCommerce is running into its own limitations under the pressure of the COVID-19 crisis. The most concerning news about those limitations comes as retailers get a handle on how and why eCommerce orders have spiked since stores started closing at the end of February.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

BigCommerce , which works in software for online business operations, saw its value rise by 292 percent after an initial public offering (IPO) for $216 million was priced above a target range, according to a report by Bloomberg. exchange for a company raising at least $100 million, according to Bloomberg’s data. 4) for $24 each.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Social-Commerce-as-a-Service app PowerBuy has rolled out its Multi Product PowerBuy group buying functionality, which is now available via the Shopify app store. Retailers on Shopify can now add social group purchasing to their eCommerce storefronts, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 21) announcement.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

How that will affect merchants’ online promotional activity hangs in the balance. As we know, mostly anonymous corporations have been collecting consumer data online for years, usually without explicit permission, selling it or using it for ad retargeting and personalization. That’s a bad moon rising for some Big Data operators.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

Now while Facebook initially launched its Messenger chat service in 2011, it wasn’t a major hit right away and the social media giant continued to refine its offering. She said, “Our Facebook Messenger virtual agent experience is faster than any website or mobile app and easier to use than any online form.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

It costs merchants nothing to join or remain on Sky.Garden; all they provide is their shop name, MPesa phone number and a few personal and business details (such as operating hours). What the Sky.Garden platform does differently is allow sellers to manage online inventory just as they would in a brick-and-mortar setting.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Citing people familiar with the matter, Cheddar reported that the device, which is the social media giant’s first major entrance into the hardware market, is being marketed as a way for friends and families to connect via video chat and social features, rather than a voice-controlled speaker. ”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online Resale. Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2019

s robust marketing strategy for its retail bank has paid off, as the bank today reported that half of its new retail customers were millennials. Of Ally Financial’s 230,000 new retail deposit customers via its retail side, Ally Bank, 126,500 were millennials, according to bank’s earnings report released today.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

“One million active users is a huge operational achievement, and a testament to the value our users see in our product. Sezzle’s payments platform expedites quick, safe and simple payments among consumers and retailers. It gives user the freedom to shop online and spread four equal payments across six weeks. .

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2019

BMO Harris Bank did itself a favor by being responsive to questions and criticism on social media from customers locked out of their digital accounts with the bank this past week, according to Adrenaline, an experience design company.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2017

Loyalty is the Holy Grail of retail, with happy customers retained and spending all the while on goods flying off brick-and-mortar shelves. Karam said that the changes happening in retail are similar to what is going in software. In retail, a similar shift also has been transpiring, from transactional relationships to relational.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 12, 2018

That according to new documents released yesterday by Congress that contain written responses from the social media company on its data and privacy […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

An IPO from an Alibaba -backed online platform is fueled by those connections, and also serves as an example of the rise of contextual commerce, even if that debut has not gone as expected. Contextual commerce is a retail practice centered around discovery. Social, as one can imagine, is a big part of contextual commerce.

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