PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Digital sports entertainment and gaming industry platform DraftKings — known for its top-rated daily fantasy sports and mobile sports betting apps — today announced an agreement with InComm Payments , a global leading payments technology company, to launch an industry-first retail gift card. . DraftKings reported on Friday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2020

There’s a storm brewing in the Indian retail scene, with Amazon at its center. Over the weekend, Reliance Industries – the company owned by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani – purchased Future Group ’s 2,000 retail stores and the Big Bazaar grocery chain. Whole Foods has 497 stores. billion consumers. “At

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

’Tis the season for … looking back at 2019 holiday sales trends, and figuring out what they mean for payments and commerce so far. Data from Fiserv supports that point: Brick-and-mortar retail growth during the 2019 holiday season stood at 1.4 Total retail growth was 3.8 percent, trailing the 8.1 Apparel Questions.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Give a deep and welcoming hello to the newest form of window shopping — a consumer behavior that will help to shape retail in 2019 and beyond, and a trend that stands as an increasing part of shopping, one that promises to impact brick-and-mortar merchants as they decide how to innovate. That’s not to say physical retail is dying.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In a roundup of today’s top retail stories: The automotive market continues its comeback with a digital spin, conversational commerce is the next big pandemic-fueled trend, and Tiffany said that its preliminary sales results for August and September 2020 are positive. Conversational Commerce Finds Its Voice in Digital Retail.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

For retailers, it’s better to be hot in 2020 than top. The National Retail Federation (NRF) said on its blog this week that the Hot 100 Retailers, while vulnerable to mergers and acquisitions, as a group is more stable than the Top 100 Retailers ranking, as stores are impacted by the unpredictability of COVID-19.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 26, 2019

Customer satisfaction in the overall retail banking industry has improved over the last twelve months, but ever so slightly, according to J.D. Power's 2019 U.S. Retail Banking Satisfaction Study. Based on this report, released Thursday, the industry scored 807 on a 1,000-point scale, up just by one point from the 2018 report.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Foxtrot , a small company out of Chicago, is reinventing convenience store retail and taking it uptown. The retailer features gifts as well as standard convenience store necessities, and shoppers can also order products through its app or eCommerce site to be delivered within an hour. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

The headlines may seem to gravitate toward Amazon Go and the cashless store debate, but automated retail efforts are seen across any number of vendors and settings – from vending machines to big box stores to delivery services. Data: 13: Number of Amazon Go stores in operation. 25 percent: Share of vending machines in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As its gross merchandise volume (GMV) topped $1 billion for 2019, The RealReal Inc. In a call with analysts, CEO and Founder Julie Wainwright noted that the company generated a GMV of $1.008 billion for the full year 2019. reported a contribution profit per order of $19.72 and buyer acquisition cost (BAC) of $114 for the year.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 15, 2019

Customer demand is driving FIs to move to a realtime payments system, and quickly, according to panelists at the Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 conference in Seattle this week. The need for speed is here to stay. The payment systems that we all run today, they've worked and they've been rock-solid," said Matt Wilcox, SVP of […].

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

It became the first brick-and-mortar retailer to earn the majority of its revenue from eCommerce as 54 percent of its third-quarter take came from digital channels. “We Dubious because the company operates and pays leases on 350 stores and on the flip side of the coin, it only generated 46 percent of its revenue from them.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Looking past the cheerful numbers tied to holiday shopping and the tens of billions of dollars spent on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and into Christmas, the decline of retail, at least the traditional retail model, continues into the new year, and across oceans. The retail sector is among the largest employers in the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Iconic brick-and-mortar retailers are sometimes reinvented, and return to the world of retail with smaller-format concepts. The parent of the Toys R Us brand, Tru Kids , plans to bring stores under the legendary name to the United States for the 2019 holiday season. In Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2019

Indochino , the digitally-native made-to-measure menswear brand, has plans to expand in 2019. Vancouver-based Indochino, which currently operates 38 showrooms , said six locations will open this year in the Northeast, including Brooklyn, N.Y.; Greenwich, Conn.; Manhasset, N.Y.; and Paramus, N.J.; Brooklyn will launch first on Jan.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Despite the fact that many retailers are creating their own versions of Black Friday, the traditional one that happens the day after Thanksgiving will still occur as a retail event. That’s the take from Edited , a retail tracking platform that advises brands on pricing and merchandising strategies.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 12, 2019

Identity proofing and verification startup Diro Labs won the DEMOvation Challenge today at Bank Innovation Ignite 2019 in Seattle. In addition to bragging rights, the company will receive admission to the INV Fintech Accelerator and an advertising package on Bank Innovation.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

said that preliminary results for August and September 2020 are positive, even as its “worldwide net sales for the two-month period declined slightly from the comparable period in 2019,” according to a news release. Tiffany & Co. The company said that “positive sales trends are continuing in October.”.

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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. Millennials to the Rescue.

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PYMNTS

MAY 21, 2020

Shortly after Macy’s warned investors Thursday (May 21) of a probable $1 billion first-quarter operating loss , Jeff Gennette, the iconic store’s chief executive officer, spoke with J.P. Morgan Analyst Matt Boss about the future of retail. Mattresses have been strong.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2019

Death, taxes and data breaches – those are perhaps the only sure things in life, and new evidence is emerging that hackers are finding increasing profit in targeting online retailers. The news comes amid yet another online retail cyberattack, this one targeting Japan’s Fast Retailing, the company that owns the Uniqlo retail chain.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2019

A little more than a year ago, PYMNTS started tracking the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck between the two retail behemoths that have been expanding their respective ecosystems in the process: Amazon and Walmart. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S., percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S., population.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a “great accelerator” in driving Kohl’s to embrace eCommerce and make other changes in its operations faster than planned, the retail giant’s Chief Executive Michelle Gass said on Monday (June 22).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2020

As retailers look for a way out of an unprecedented cash flow crunch, many are slashing prices online and offering free shipping. The move is good for consumers, but for the retailers involved discounting is a double-edged sword. It’s the age-old argument for retail. retailers is down 64 percent over 2019.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

The latest to report, Wine.com – which bills itself as the nation’s leading online wine retailer – earned $165 million in revenue and saw 25 percent growth for fiscal 2020, ending March 31. The $33 million revenue increase over fiscal 2019 is the biggest in the company’s 15-year history. With sales of $3.2

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 3, 2019

Bank, will participate in a fireside chat at Bank Innovation Build 2019, this blog’s event on best practices in banking innovation. Dominic Venturo, executive vice president and chief innovation officer at U.S. Bank Innovation Build will take place November 6-7 at Atlanta’s W Hotel Downtown. Register here.)

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2020

Federal workers, through partnerships with several online retailers, will now be able to purchase equipment like desks or office supplies through an eCommerce network for the first time, The Washington Post reports. Leaders at Overstock said the new GSA initiative would help them with their retail operation.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And, in some cases, brick-and-mortar retailers brought these concepts to their own brands with original takes on clothing rental. In 2019, some online marketplaces took a page out of the sharing economy playbook for clothing. In 2019, a clothing subscription service also bought a brick-and-mortar retailer.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

Automated retail might conjure up images of robot cashiers, but beyond a few convenience stores in Japan and Korea, that sci-fi development hasn’t yet become reality for the wider world. The latest Automated Retail Tracker explores these trends and new developments in the unattended retail space. smartphone users.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The rise of eCommerce has been an inexorable one, and the retail landscape has shifted for retailers. In a statement earlier in the week, Macy’s CEO Jeff Gennette said there is a “clear vision” moving forward, as Macy’s seeks to “fit into retail today.” billion in 2019. On Tuesday (Feb. billion in 2018 to $3.3

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Top-tier malls in the country, once thought to be impervious to the changing retail landscape, have been struggling lately, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. Landlords at popular malls are warning that income is going to continue to slow down as more people continue to shop online instead of at brick-and-mortar locations. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

As it does during the first week of every month of the pandemic, attention turns to retail leases. This week found that one of the crisis’ most troubled retailers — Nordstrom — will only pay half of its rent for the balance of 2020. Retail Properties of America, Inc. percent of Q2 2020 rent as of the end of June.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Dynamic pricing promises to keep making strides in 2019, with vendors updating their repricing software (“repricing” is another term for “dynamic pricing”), and online sellers engaging in increasingly fierce competition to win the buy box. Amazon now accounts for 2.1 More Pricing Changes. For instance, Informed.co

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2020

In 2019, 5.4 But after that initial download, retailers and purchase aggregators pretty much let users run the course of their screens, never thinking that advanced applications would someday become important. When a retailer has to deliver on time, that location becomes essential to the customer experience.

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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.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

According to Will Byrne, CEO of Worldnet Payments , the kiosks and smart shelves that are gaining traction across any number of commerce and retail settings may even shift the employment picture a bit. The Changing Retail Footprint. As unattended retail notches an increasing footprint, said Byrne, other use cases will also emerge.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Despite COVID-19, we are encouraged by the increases we are seeing in shopper traffic, retailer sales and tenant rent collections across our portfolio,” CEO David Simon said in a statement. “We billion, versus 2019’s $1.42 The company also announced that its portfolio net operating income for the period declined 22.4

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